Terry and Uncle Loskie would have been great friends. As a kid when I visited the farm old Loskie would roll his own cigarettes. When I asked what type of tobacco he preferred he said he liked the stuff the bushman Koos sold him. Yeah he had a bushman friend who would come over and play the Banjo. I had just graduated with my degree in Chem Eng when I went to see Loskie for the last time. It was Decmber 1973. Old Koos was also on the stoep. Loskie turned to me and Koos and said that Koos was much smarter than me. I asked old Loskie why and he said that Koos could survive in the Kalahari without my degree and while I knew the chemistry of water I did not know how to find water. The next discussion was that he was safe on a farm in Banghoek Stellenbosch becuase the Russians would never nuke the place. We then shared one of his ?cigarettes? Wow the soviets are gone, Loskie and Koos are long gone and I still do not know how to find water in the Kalahari. It also turns out that I do not really know the chemistry of water as snow is just about the most complex chemical on the planet.
I remember my uncle Loskie once shot a bbomslang on the farm in Stellenbosh when I was visiting as a kid. Old Loskie smoked boom and had an Austin Healey and would drive me around with the top down. he had captured a baby bobejaan in the Heils Hoogte and kept it as a pet until he gave to Chris Barnaard to practice a heart transplant on before old Chris did his job on Louis in 1967. Louis was younger than us he was only 54.
One other point about old Loskie. In Matric he proved that oil and water do not mix. During the matric exams at Steelensoch Hoer Skoel ( uI have no idea how to spell in Afrikaans) old Loskie decided to add some engine oil to the ink in the ink wells of his entire class. This was back in 1933 when all used a dipping pen. Of course the exams had to be stopped and the ink wells had to be cleaned