BLOOD OF THE HUGUENOT – Part 5: The Red Wedding
One faith. One name. One man.This is the Huguenot path—from the fires of France to the light of the Cape….
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BECOMING KUIPER – Part 7: Behind The Walls
Grietje Alberts Kuiper, her partner Christiaan Geerts Swaak and their son Marten ended up in the penal colony of Ommerschans….
BECOMING KUIPER – Part 4: The Second Asylum
Discovering documents of my maternal ancestors, learning they’d been in the penal colonies of the nineteenth century, and discovering an…
THE DORSLAND TREK – Part 5: Into the Wild
The camp was quiet, the wagons huddled close together in a rough circle. Night had fallen, and the fire flickered…
THE DORSLAND TREK – Part 4: Trails of Sorrow
The fires in Ghanzi were dying out. For a few short weeks, the limestone wells had given us rest. Our…
THE DORSLAND TREK – Part 3: Die Dors
The Sixth Dorsland Trek In January 1893, Pieter Jacobus Vorster and his wife, Cecilia Johanna Steyn, left their home in…
THE DORSLAND TREK – Part 1: Whispers of the North
In the second half of the nineteenth century, many Boer families in the South African Republic (Transvaal) stood at a…