WONDERWATER

299pp., paperback, Naledi, Gansbaai, 2026 

ISBN: 9781997476573

An Afrikaans novel about Doctor Farkie Hartwig and Poppetie, as well as Wonderwater, a clinic in Zandfontein at the foot of the Magaliesberg, which the Hartwig family of herbalists have run for generations.

Johannes Hamman was born in 1941 in Rustenburg. He was co-founder of Finansbank, the first independent Afrikaans merchant bank. In 1990, after Finansbank was acquired by Nedbank, he moved to Hermanus.