We are a family of three, my father Hannes, mother Machel and me Karlien. We enjoy our boerboels and share this wonderfull breed with friends and dog fanciers. Hannes was first introduced to a boerboel in 1948 when he was a small boy having a boerboel. My grandmother always told the following story that Hannes sometimes walked away from home to his Aunts shop that was situated opposite the Post Office and a block away from her home. Ou Vlek (see photo) always accompanied my father and pushed him from the road to the sidewalk in the right direction to the place where there was plenty of sweets. Years later he heard from a pigeon friend that a few breeders was looking into starting a Boerboel association. He joined the SABT and wanted to be member nr 55 but they were already passed number 58 and put his name for number 555 and said he would wait for more members to register. Today we are member nr 555. We are a small boerboel clan that started with our first boerboel in 1993 Boelie that was graded and got 78% which was very good at the time. We decided not to breed with him because he had too much bull mastiff in him. We then bought Ghani, Tinka and Yster and had a litter once a year. Later we heard that two boerboels were available from the Rustverwacht bloodline bred by Jan de Jager member nr 1 and bought Lulu and Yoyo.