282pp., paperback, Naledi, Gansbaai, 2025
ISBN: 9781067234898
A collection of stories and articles about family, friends, music, politics, and more, written over a lifetime. Some of these writings were originally published in Afrikaans newspapers under the name Koos van die Waterberge.
Koos van der Merwe was born in 1954 in Pretoria. A former journalist and news writer at the SABC, he later taught African politics at UNISA before working at the then State Development Service. In 1997 he settled on a family farm in the Waterberge.