Plot
The show was based in the mining town of Orkney, near the city of Klerksdorp (and not too far from Johannesburg), and followed the exploits of an Afrikaner family named Van Tonder, a common Afrikaans surname.
The head of the household, Hendrik (played by Zack du Plessis), worked on the mines and his wife, Maggie (played by Annette Engelbrecht), was a housewife. They had four children (listed from oldest to youngest): Ouboet, Bennie, Hester and Wimpie. Neels (nicknamed Ouboet, played by Frank Opperman) was a car mechanic. He and his wife, Yolanda (nicknamed Yollie, played by Sally Campher), had a little baby of their own, named Hendrik after his grandfather. Hester (nicknamed Hess, played by Clara Joubert) and Wimpie (played by Anrich Herbst and called Wimps by his girlfriend) were both at school. The character of Bennie (played by Charl van Heyningen) was rarely seen as he joined the army in the first season of the series. Wimpie had an on and off relationship with a girl named Sonja (played by Carien Wandrag), and a best friend named Koert (played by Rinus van Niekerk).
From time to time other family members, such as grandfathers and grandmothers would stay with the family and cause all sorts of mischief. Later the family also adopted two orphans, a young Afrikaner girl named Riekie (played by Bernice Du Plessis) and a coloured boy named Neelsie (played by Eugene Martin).
Read more about this topic: Orkney Snork Nie
Famous quotes containing the word plot:
“The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative, which is perhaps why in our morally bewildered time novelists have often been timid about plot.”
—Jane Rule (b. 1931)
“There comes a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)