Manners Tusks Mystery PART 3
IN PART 2 of this series I gave a brief résumé of events des ed by Harry Manners in his book Kambaku. I broached que ti ns arising from Harry’s imp on that tusks in a photo in K akuwere from his bull, ‘Monarch of Murripa’, when they were actually those of a bull shot by Wally Johnson years earlier. Now I will discuss what Harry did not mention in his book, and endeavour to explain this strange deception.
Harry hid the fact that, for most of his ivory-hunting years described in Kambaku, he was married – despite his clear statement to the contrary (see Part 2). He and his wife lived a nomadic existence in the wilds of Mozambique and she shared most of his hunting adventures. Here is her story.
“…for truth is always strange; stranger than fiction” Lord Byron, 1819
Anya Mary Levy was born in Cape Town in 1924. Abandoned at the age of two, she grew up in a Benoni convent with nuns as foster parents. The convent girls learned to dance with each other, and Anya excelled at this. Aged 16, she moved to LM to work at the Casa casino as a dance-hostess – paid to dance with men frequenting the casino lounge. Calling herself Anne, she was
