View photos of the Etienne van Heerden Veld Soirée.
Fogarty’s book shop, Port Elizabeth, presented a book table (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Fogarty’s Bookshop, Port Elizabeth, had a book table there (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Festival organiser Darryl David and Lisa Ker-Antrobus (Victoria Manor and Die Tuishuise) (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Kaia van Heerden, Godfrey Meintjes, Etienne van Heerden, Sandra Antrobus (Victoria Manor and Die Tuishuise), Clinton du Plessis and Helize van Vuuren (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Darryl David with Godfrey Meintjes (Rhodes University) who presented a lecture on intertextuality in Van Heerden’s work. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Bernard Odendaal (North-West University) (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Ernst Kotzé (Nelson Mandela University) spoke about his Afrikaans-Japanese dictionary. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Examples from Ernst Kotzé’s Afrikaans-Japanese dictionary (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Ernst Kotzé with novelists Alexander Strachan and Etienne van Heerden (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Alexander Strachan, Ernst Kotzé, Godfrey Meintjes and Kaia van Heerden (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Helize van Vuuren (Nelson Mandela University) spoke about her book A necklace of springbok ears. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Cas Wepener (University of Pretoria) spoke about his book Die reis gaan inwaarts. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
The programme of the Veld Soirée (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Amos Mtetwa, an activist during the struggle, spoke about the Cradock Four. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
With organiser Darryl David. (Photo: Ruby Gouws van Heerden)
The Cradock Four. Nelson Mandela: “They were the true heroes of the struggle.” (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
The Cradock Four memorial (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Raymond Smith, novelist Lien Botha and Ilse Reuter at the Cradock Four memorial (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Darryl David and Etienne van Heerden (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Coenie de Villiers performed in the Moederkerk, a church in Cradock. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Moederkerk, Cradock (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Heather Costaras spoke about her book How Heather got her HAT’ness back. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Darryl David interviewed Etienne van Heerden. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Christa du Plessis presented a lecture on illness and disability in Etienne van Heerden’s oeuvre. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Architect and heritage expert Raymond Smith and Lien Botha (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Barry Pienaar, member of Fred van der Vyver’s legal team, spoke about his book Freddie Boy. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Ilze le Roux and Kirby van der Merwe (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Kirby van der Merwe discussed Van Heerden’s My Kubaan and his own radio drama, Krokodil. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Kaia van Heerden, Riekie Meintjes, Coenie de Villiers, Barry Pienaar, Wilna Adriaanse and Hanno Reuter (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Kirby van der Merwe, Etienne van Heerden, Marsha and Barney Barnes (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Lien Botha and Raymond Smith on the way to Olive Schreiner’s grave (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Front: Etienne van Heerden, Hanno and Luca Reuter. Back: Ingo, Sabine and Ilse Reuter (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
The view (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Visitors to the veld soirée (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Wilna Adriaanse, Etienne van Heerden and Lien Botha (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Wilna Adriaanse and Lien Botha
With organiser Darryl David and novelist Kirby van der Merwe (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
The Fish River valley in the background (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Back to Buffelshoek Dirosie Lodge (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Darryl David spoke about his book Church tourism in South Africa (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Irma de Klerk, winner of the Huisgenoot 100 love story competition. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Lien Botha (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Lien Botha presents Darryl David with the Order of the Windmill as recognition for his initiatives and hard work as organiser of many festivals around the country. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Wilna Adriaanse (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Heather Costaras (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
HemelBesem (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Clinton du Plessis launched his new poetry anthology, Aantekeninge teen die skemeruur. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Buffelshoek Dirosie Lodge (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Sherry and biltong, with Cradock in the distance (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
On bakkies at Buffelshoek (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Darryl David and Dirkie Visser, owner of the Buffelshoek Dirosie Lodge (Photo: Amy Coetzer)
Sheritha David and Barry Pienaar
At Olive Shreiner’s grave, Buffelskop, Cradock
At novelist Olive Schreiner’s grave, Buffelskop, Cradock
Darryl David, Sheritha David, Raymond Smith and Etienne van Heerden (Photo: Lien Botha)
Being interviewed by Darryl David
Lunch at Buffelshoek Dirosie Lodge, with Wilna Adriaanse, Pieter du Plessis, Christa du Plessis, Cas Wepener and HemelBesem
Lunch at Buffelshoek Dirosie Lodge
With Christa du Plessis, who presented a lecture on an interesting theme in Van Heerden’s work
With Irma and Sampie de Klerk, winners of the Huisgenoot 100 love story competition. (Photo: Christa du Plessis)
With former colleague Godfrey Meintjes and Lisa Ker-Antrobus (Victoria Manor and Die Tuishuise).
With HemelBesem
Darryl David with his well-deserved Order of the Windmill award
Novelist and artist Kirby van der Merwe captured the veld soirée in a series of 30-second-sketches
A sketch of a Cradock Karoo cottage by Kirby van der Merwe
Lien Botha presents Darryl David with the Order of the Windmill in recognition of his initiatives and hard work as organiser of many festivals around
Coenie de Villiers CD signing, with Christa du Plessis
With HemelBesem and Coenie de Villiers at Victoria Manor
With Alexander Strachan
Coenie de Villiers, Moederkerk, Cradock
Cradock Moederkerk, where Coenie de Villiers performed
Michausdal, Cradock
With novelists Alexander Strachan and Lien Botha, Victoria Manor
Academics Helize van Vuuren and Ernst Kotzé before their presentations
Dining hall, Victoria Manor Hotel, Cradock. Together with Buffelshoek Lodge in the same town’s district, Victoria Manor and its associated Tuishuise are headquarters and home to the Etienne van Heerden Veld Soirée.
Architect and heritage expert Raymond Smith explains the architecture of Charlie Oeng’s shed to Kaia van Heerden.
At the Velskuur (Hideshed), where the skin trader from Die wêreld van Charlie Oeng had his headquarters.
At Charlie Oeng’s shed.
Between Graaff-Reinet and Cradock
Looking at the fields where the Van Heerden family used to farm. The Fish River Valley.
Looking at the fields where the Van Heerden family used to farm. The Fish River Valley.