Bosman, Herman Charles, 1905-1951

found: Complete Voorkamer stories, 2011:t.p. (Herman Charles Bosman) p. 464 (born near Cape Town in 1905; spent most of his life in Transvaal. In 1926 he was posted as a novice teacher to a farm school in the Marico District. After a period working as a journalist in London, he returned to South Africa in 1940 and was employed on various magazines and newspapers. Bosman died in 1951) p. 4 of cover (short story writer)

found: Human & Rousseau WWW site, Sept. 5, 2013Authors (Herman Charles Bosman was born in Kuilsrivier on February 3, 1905. He attended school in Johannesburg and studied at the University of the Witwatersrand; became a teacher in the Great Marico district. In 1926 he was sentenced to death after his stepbrother died in a shooting incident, but it was later mitigated to a prison sentence. He was released in 1930 and went to live in Johannesburg and later in England. When the Second World War broke out, he returned to South Africa. He worked as poet, writer and journalist. He died of a heart attack on October 14, 1951. Herman Charles Bosman is one of South Africa's finest storytellers) - http://www.humanrousseau.com/authors/2895

found: Dictionary of African Biography, accessed June 08, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Bosman, Herman Charles; essayist, newspaper editor/ publisher, print journalist, fiction writer; born in 1905 in Kuilis River, South Africa; launched short-lived periodicals, including The Touleier; contributed a stories and sketches for South African magazines, including In the Withaak's Shade, The Music Maker, and, perhaps most famous story, The Mafeking Road; became editor of a biweekly newspaper published in Pietersburg, in the then Northern Transvaal; produced some thirty Marico stories, the most famous three works - Jacaranda in the Night, Mafeking Road, and Cold Stone Jug, and eighty Voorkamer stories (1947, 1949); honors include, described as the best short story writer out of South Africa in a BBC program by the South African poet Roy Campbell (1954); died in 1951 in South Africa)