Saving Jakobus

Jakobus's Story.

Jakobus is my only son. And only child. I have no other. I love him very much even though I could not really be part of the last couple of years of his live. Jakobus is a gentle Giant like his dad and he couldn't hurt a fly. He is only 14 years old but already well over 6 feet.

Jakobus stays on a farm with his mom in South Africa near a small rural town called Vaalwater in the Waterberg region of the old Northern Transvaal or Limpopo as it is known now.

Jakobus unfortunately has experienced a lot of horrors in his short 14 years of live. Witnessing murders and torture and rape of neighboring farmers and their wife's and children and that has filled him with extreme terror and fear to the point where he sleeps in a barricaded room with a fire arm to protect himself and his mom. Things that no New Zealander could ever envisage or imagine.

My mission is to go back to South Africa and convince my son that live is worth living and bring him and possibly his mom back to New Zealand to experience what live could be like in a country that loves its people and that is loved by its people. I have already bought my ticket and will be flying out on the 4th of October 2020.