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Krotoa (Eva)

… Krotoa (known as Eva to the Dutch and English settlers) was the niece of Autshumao , a Khoi leader and interpreter to the Dutch (he was known as Harry/Herry first by the English and then by the Dutch). A young Krotoa, of about 10 or 11 years old, was taken in by Jan van Riebeeck during the first few days of Dutch settlement in the … As her command of the Dutch language and her familiarity with Dutch ways grew, so did her usefulness as an interpreter. Krotoa established herself as a staunch friend of the Dutch, negotiating a co-operative relationship between the fort and the …

Re-membering Krotoa and Autshumato by Deela Khan (poem)

… Divested of names and birthright Autshumato and Krotoa were ferried oor die see, oor die see, in die eiland stemertjie every time they incurred the wrath of their … he was not re-captured but his land had already slipped into Dutch hands. Robbed of her Khoikhoi identity at eight Krotoa, pygmalioned into a Dutch girl, was baptised and re-named Eva. Subtly programmed to manipulate and betray her people and to serve the Dutch East India Company Krotoa became the most spirited traitor-diplomat of her time. But when the Dutch had eventually grabbed all her political …

Krotoa remembered: a mother of unity, a mother of sorrows

A List of women involved in the women’s struggle in South Africa, 1900-1994

… Joseph K Eleanor Kasrils Baleka Kgositsile Ellen Khuzwayo Norma Kitson Thandi Klaasen Susanna Kok Linda Komape Antje Krog Krotoa L Constance Stuart Larrabee Cythna Lindenberg Letty Louise Latsky Jansie Lourens M Brigitte Mabandla Mafikeng …

Patric Tariq Mellet

… slave ancestors from Africa, India and Southeast Asia as well as locally born Creole slaves. He is also a descendant of Krotoa and three other indigene Khoena women. His ancestry further includes French, Dutch, British and other Europeans. Over … to that of ‘Coloured’ in expressing this part of his identity. Tariq is a direct descendent of his 9th great-grandmother Krotoa of that Camissa community. Tariq has a strong and proud sense of his Camissa sub-identity as a South African and is …

Early struggles, contact and conflict in the Cape Colony

… and killing the Dutch herdsman David Janz. Van Riebeeck arrested him, and after the intervention of Autshumato’s niece Krotoa, who was a domestic servant in van Riebeeck’s household, he was banished to Robben Island for two years. Autshumato …

Afrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent

… East India Company officials] shrewd tactics when it came to negotiating and bartering’. [46] Interpreters, for example Krotoa , Autshomao and Doman , thereby became significant negotiators. [47] From 1658, the incoming slaves imported Malay and …

13 notable women in Cape Town’s history, 6 August 2015

… Justice Coalition have memorialised her by naming their annual lecture series after her. 5. The Khoi mother of our nation: Krotoa Eva At a young age, the Khoi Krotoa(c 1643 – 29 July 1674) became a servant to Jan van Riebeeck, first Dutch commander of the Cape. In Van Riebeeck’s …

Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the Women’s Day Celebrations, Atlantic Park Stadium, Witbank, Mpumalanga, 9 August 2004

… we also pay homage to our heroines who were among the first prisoners on Robben Island in the 17th century like Krotoa and Catherine of Paliacatt. We salute too the pioneering entrepreneurship of freed slave women like Maria Everts and …

Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of 1956 Women’s March: Union Buildings, Tshwane, 9 August 2006

… slavery. We must also continue to draw inspiration from the first women prisoners on Robben Island, the Khoi women like Krotoa, the slave-worker for Jan van Riebeeck, whom he called Eva, as well as Catherine of Paliacatt and Susanna of …