This short travelogue follows the discovery of a set of images taken during a trip a relative took whilst on holiday in South Africa in 1957. His handwriting was even worse than mine, so I am unfortunately not able to identify specific locations or people. He traveled from Germany by boat, calling in at Cape Town, then disembarked at Durban and travelled by car into the interior. I wish he had kept a diary of this trip to give some insight into his and the locals’ interaction as I don’t expect many spoke German!
He was a landscape artist and sought inspiration from new vistas, worlds away from a continent re-building after the devastation of the Second World War.
This is a flavour of what he saw:
Mary Tebje 
Great photos! Imagine if everyone kept old photos like this …
I was very excited to receive them Francoise, but sadly many are damaged, so picked out these to give some sense of occasion.