In 2010 they decided to emigrate to the land of her birth, and settled in the small fishing village Lunenburg in Nova Scotia.
[2] The title of the book is derived from the Florisbad excavation site in the Free State.
Floris and his friend Saldanna refuse to blindly follow tradition and go on an adventure to experience new things.
In 1985 he was awarded the Sanlam Prize (Silwer) for Children's Literature for Floris Sapiens.
Die jokkie wat met perde kon praat was also aimed at children and is the story of a black boy, Letsie, who is unable to speak and is taken in by a white family, the parents of the narrator Billy.