Habari 2008 - My Dad ……. For reasons unknown to me - probably the great depression, boarded a German passenger ship from Lourenço Marques to Mombasa in January 1929, moved inland to Eldoret to become a road foreman in the Uasin Gishu. He was already engaged to my mom, Marie who followed him in 1930. They were married in Mombasa, a day after my mom's arrival, in front of an Indian magistrate with only 2 witnesses, both Indian. Immediately after they travelled to Eldoret my dad's new workplace. In 1933 Dad landed a job as Road Foreman with the Trans Nzoia District Council and moved to Kitale, our home up to 1956 when he died. My mom returned, all alone, to South Africa after 26 years in Kenya

Kitale cemetery - David Benjamin Snyman Van Emmenis - born 1906, died 22 May 1956

Kitale cemetery - Arno Van Emmenis - born 18 Apr 1931, died 22 Feb 1941 [S. Africa Death Notice says he died in Maia Carberry Nursing Home, Nairobi]