[1] He then married Hettie, a fellow mathematics teacher, and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala River.

In an interview, he stated, "Every Tuesday I crossed the wildest country and swam through rivers to get to the police post where I could hold court".

A highlight of the film includes a scene with elephants, warthogs, baboons, ostriches and other animals staggering around after eating rotten, fermented marula fruit.

[citation needed] Jamie Uys's most financially successful and well-known film is The Gods Must Be Crazy, a comedy first released in 1980.

Its plot concerns a Coca-Cola bottle that was thrown out of an airplane, fell into the Kalahari Desert and was found by a San tribe.

The sequel, Funny People II, was released in 1983, and features a young Arnold Vosloo who later found fame in Hollywood.

He at times would slip away to his favourite holiday retreat where he was seen collecting plant specimens, as a very keen amateur botanist who had his own herbarium.