![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The fifth son, Christiaan, was a lawyer and politician who fought in the Second Boer War against the British. The van der Posts had a total of 13 children, with Laurens being the 13th. His father, Christiaan Willem Hendrik van der Post (1856–1914), a Hollander from Leiden, had emigrated to South Africa with his parents and married Johanna Lubbe in 1889. Van der Post was born in the small town of Philippolis in the Orange River Colony, the post- Boer War British name for what had previously been the Afrikaner Orange Free State in what is today South Africa. After his death, there was controversy over claims that he had exaggerated many aspects of his life, as well as his sexual abuse and impregnation of a 14-year-old girl. ![]() He was noted for his interest in Jungianism and the Kalahari Bushmen, his experiences during World War II, as well as his relationships with notable figures such as the future King Charles III and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Sir Laurens Jan van der Post, CBE (13 December 1906 – 15 December 1996) was a South African Afrikaner writer, farmer, soldier, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer and conservationist. ![]()
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