Granny Flora

Creased forehead and rosy cheeks appear so clearly on Granny Flora’s wrinkled face. At 105 years old, she is fairly mentally young.

Among the endless riddled stories of her days when Victorian dresses and tight corsets were the in the thing for the ladies, Granny Flora seems more awakened  when opening up about her imprisoned days in the English concentration camp during the 1902 Boer War.

‘Dirty linen, lumpy, earth smelling soup and seeing many people around me suffering from extreme hunger pangs and other deadly viruses is what I will always remember when thinking about the camps’ she says absent minded.

For a minute, Granny Flora’s tired eyes get glassy as she digs deeper in her memory to re-call those grueling seven months. ‘My parents were strong but as a child, you never question their decisions. There were days where people hardly smiled and that upset me.” Granny clearly has not dealt with that chapter of her life and has had to find comfort in a house she’s called home for the past 75years.