At the end of the Boer War, women who had survived the concentration camp of Bethulie in the Orange Free State approached the then Prime Minister, General Jan Smuts, and asked that he introduce a new symbol of hope to the Afrikaner Nation.

This verse kept them strong in their time of incarceration and suffering; referencing the belief and conviction that to be downtrodden had no bearing on the value of their lives in the eyes of God.

Thus, in 1923, the request to have the “twee mossies” on the coin of the lowest value was granted - and they still appear; long after their origin has been somewhat forgotten.