Category: Family
Our Trekboer ancestors played a significant part in the ruin of ‘country’ – that of the San and Khoisan people[1], like the part colonists in the Australian colonies…
Dutch, and German views and attitudes, blended with Huguenot views of and attitudes towards society and religion defined our own Afrikaner culture and established a unique Afrikaner Cultural…
Our ancestors arrogantly believed that they were superior in most respects to other races. So, they had no qualms in the ownership of these people – as slaves…
‘The Longest Trek’ is the story of our family’s trek from South Africa to Australia and those that came before us. Those who came before us came from…
For a few years after arriving in Melbourne, a painful nostalgia, a feeling of terrible loss – loss of family, friends, community, and ‘country’, as the Aboriginal people…
One branch of my matriarchal family tree leads to the French Huguenot ship’s surgeon, Jean Prieur du Plessis. The Cape became a refuge for French Huguenots who fled…
I started to understand the Wurundjeri people’s love for ‘Country’ whilst my wife, Dedrie and our Chihuahua, Little B, walked along tracks by the Yarra River during late…
For a few years after arriving in Melbourne, a painful nostalgia, a feeling of terrible loss – loss of family, friends, community, and ‘Country’, as the Aboriginal people…