Bokkie the Grysbok

  
If you have spent any time in Cape Town or Western Cape, this face should be familiar to you.

This is Bokkie, a Grysbok, a type of deer endemic to the Western Cape http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Grysbok

The signs have changed over the years with different "Bokkie Says" messages but pretty much always depicting a grysbok with a tear in his eye.

He is reminding us how we messed up his life chucking stompies out the car windows, not putting out our braais properly or illegally making fires.

 

 

This is Bokkies story :

I urge you to read and relate this story to your children so they are reminded of it whenever they see Bokkie. Don't let Bokkie be just another fire warning sign on the side of the road & Help stop the scourge of veld fires that plague the western cape every summer.

 

 

 

 
   

This publication first came out in 1962, a free booklet or pamphlet form. There was both English & Afrikaans versions.

Credits go to the following:

Dorothy Gordon Bagnall for the story.

Hettie Louw & E.P Gregoire for the pictures.

Cape Times for the free publication.

Dep of Nature Conservation of the Cape Provincial Administration & Cape Peninsula Fire Protection Committee.

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