The Story of an African Farm

Things change when the sinister, eccentric Bonaparte Blenkims (Richard E. Grant) with his bulbous nose and chimney pot hat arrives. This stranger believes that Tant Sannie is wealthy — after all, she owns a farm — and it's not long before he's thrown the narrow-minded, but simple woman into an amorous whirl. But his motives are all too obvious to the children and he makes enemies of them. And, worst of all, he connives to get Otto fired by lying to Tant Sannie. Defeated, Otto returns to his room where he dies of a broken heart.

While Tant Sannie's heart's awhirl, he's cruel to the children. He ransacks Otto's room looking for the pile of money he thinks he has stashed away. He creates a reason to give Waldo a thrashing within an inch of his life. He destroys the model of the sheep-shearing machine. However, Lyndall prepares for battle. She suggests that their cousin, Trana (Elriza Swanepoel) comes to visit. She sets a trap for Bonaparte. Bonaparte is under the impression that Trana is even wealthier that Tant Sannie. He plans her seduction in the front room, without knowing that Tant Sannie is within earshot. He's exposed as a fraud and has to make an undignified exit from the farm, chased by Tant Sannie, a delighted maid, Waldo's dog, and Oswald the ostrich who knew all the time that Bonaparte was a thoroughly bad egg!