Wilkie's daughter Susie began performing when she was three and her brother, Robert, was the youngest person to become a circus director and manager.
[2] In 1924 Boswell’s Circus undertook a tour that took them through Southern and Northern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), Mozambique, and up into the Belgian Congo for the first time.
[2] They also allowed unemployed people to sleep in the tent and they put on a performance for 1000 poor children and the elderly.
[citation needed] In 1953, the Boswell family entered into an agreement with the African Consolidated Theatres Organization.
[2] In November 1963, Jim and Syd Boswell sold the rest of their shares to the African Theatres.
After difficult economic times in South Africa, the circus announced that the touring side would stop.