- A ghost from the past recently paid a visit to the film
set of Olive Schreiner's masterpiece, Story of an Africa Farm.
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- The movie was being filmed on location near Matjiesfontein,
starring Richard E Grant.
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- Producer Bonnie Rodini started scouting for locations
in the area eight years ago on the farm Zoute Kloof.
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- At the time, she said yesterday, she saw the female ghost
for the first time and took a picture of her.
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- "I remember I saw this woman with a flowing white
dress and I took a picture of it. I still have the picture."
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- This year, when filming started, Rodini was reluctant
to tell cast members about it, but some said they immediately felt a presence
on the set.
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- Several security guards say they saw the same ghost and
video operator Marco Rinaldi moved out of his room to the Lord Milner Hotel
after "feeling" that somebody was watching him.
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- The ghost is said to be that of Louisa Margaret Green,
the wife of a civil commissioner, according to local historian Rose Willis.
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- Green fell ill with dystentry and died at Zoute Kloof
in the 1860s.
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