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Dining hall, Victoria Manor Hotel, Cradock. Together with Buffelshoek Lodge, in the same town’s district, the Victoria Manor and its associated Tuishuise is headquarters and home to the Etienne van Heerden Veldsoirée.

Academics Helize van Vuuren and Ernst Kotzé before their presentations

With novelists Alexander Strachan and Lien Botha, Victoria Manor

Michausdal, Cradock

Cradock Moederkerk, where Coenie de Villiers performed

Coenie de Villiers, Moederkerk, Cradock

With HemelBesem and Coenie de Villiers at the Victoria Manor

Coenie de Villiers CD signing, with Christa du Plessis

Kirby van der Merwe, Marsha Barnes and Barney Barnes

Wilna Adriaanse and Lien Botha

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.

Architect and heritage expert Raymond Smith explains the architecture of Charlie Oeng’s shed to Kaia van Heerden.

At the Velskuur, the Hideshed. Where the Skin Trader from Die Wêreld van Charlie Oeng had his headquarters.

At Charlie Oeng’s shed

With organiser Darryl David. (Photo: Ruby Gouws van Heerden)

With Alexander Strachan

Between Graaff-Reinet and Cradock

The programme of the veldsoirée (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Cas Wepener (University of Pretoria) spoke about his book Die reis gaan inwaarts. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Helize van Vuuren (Nelson Mandela University) spoke about her book A necklace of springbok ears. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Alexander Strachan, Ernst Kotzé, Godfrey Meintjes and Kaia van Heerden (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Ernst Kotzé with novelists Alexander Strachan and Etienne van Heerden (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Examples from Ernst Kotzé’s dictionary (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Ernst Kotzé (Nelson Mandela University) spoke about his Afrikaans-Japanese dictionary. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Bernard Odendaal (North-West University) (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Darryl David and Godfrey Meintjes (Rhodes University) presented a lecture on intertextuality in Van Heerden’s work. (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)

Festival organiser Darryl David and Lisa Ker-Antrobus (Victoria Manor and Die Tuishuise) (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

More books from Fogarty’s (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Fogarty’s book shop, Port Elizabeth, presented a book table (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Buffelshoek Dirosie Lodge (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Clinton du Plessis launched his new poetry anthology Aantekeninge teen die skemeruur. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

HemelBesem (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Heather Costaras (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Wilna Adriaanse (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)

Lien Botha (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Irma de Klerk, winner of the Huisgenoot 100 love story competition. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Darryl David spoke about his book Church Tourism in South Africa (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Back to Buffelshoek Dirosie Game Lodge (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

The Fish River valley in the background (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

With organiser Darryl David and novelist Kirby van der Merwe (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Wilna Adriaanse, Etienne van Heerden and Lien Botha (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Visitors to the veldsoirée (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

The view (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Lien Botha and Raymond Smith on the way to Olive Schreiner’s grave (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Kirby van der Merwe, Etienne van Heerden, Marsha and Barney Barnes (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 discussed Van Heerden’s My Kubaan and his own radio drama Krokodil. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Ilze le Roux and Kirby van der Merwe (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Barry Pienaar, member of Fred van der Vyver’s legal team, spoke about his book Freddie Boy. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Architect and heritage expert Raymond Smith and Lien Botha (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Christa du Plessis presented a lecture on illness and disability in Van Heerden’s oeuvre. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Darryl David interviewed Etienne van Heerden. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Heather Costaras spoke about her book How Heather got her HAT’ness back. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Moederkerk, Cradock (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Coenie de Villiers performed in the Moederkerk, a church in Cradock (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Darryl David and Etienne van Heerden (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Raymond Smith, novelist Lien Botha and Ilse Reuter at the Cradock Four memorial (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

The Cradock Four memorial (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

The Cradock Four – Nelson Mandela: “They were the true heroes of the struggle.” (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Amos Mtetwa, an activist during the struggle, speaks about the Cradock Four. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Novelist and artist Kirby van der Merwe captured the Veldsoirée in a series of 30-second-sketches

Darryl David with his well-deserved Order of the Windmill

Front: Etienne van Heerden, Hanno and Luca Reuter. Back: Ingo, Sabine and Ilse Reuter (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Sherry and biltong, with Cradock in the distance (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Darryl David, Sheritha David, Raymond Smith and Etienne van Heerden (Photo: Lien Botha)

Sheritha David and Barry Pienaar

At novelist Olive Shreiner’s grave, Buffelskop, Cradock

At novelist Olive Shreiner’s grave, Buffelskop, Cradock

Lunch at Buffelshoek Dirosie Game Lodge

A sketch of a Cradock Karoo Cottage by Kirby van der Merwe

With Irma and Sampie de Klerk, winners of the Huisgenoot 100 love story competition. (Photo: Christa du Plessis)

With HemelBesem

With former colleague Godfrey Meintjes and Lisa Ker-Antrobus (Victoria Manor and Die Tuishuise).

With Christa du Plessis, who presented a lecture on Van Heerden’s work

Being interviewed by Darryl David

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.