Helen Slabbert

Helen Slabbert was born on the 11th September 1898 as Helen Ruth van der Meulen, daughter of Rev. Rudolf Hendrik Theron van der Meulen and Isabella Helen Spiers Botha, of Vanrhynsdorp (South Africa). Her parents later moved to Bellville, near Cape Town. After school, Helen obtained her teaching certificate and subsequently taught at Swellendam and later at Malmesbury. It was at Malmesbury that she met Jan Daniel Slabber, her future husband, who was a local bank clerk. When they got …