NAMAQUALAND AND ITS PEOPLE
Young people perform the Namastap and Riel dance an ancient dance form. Jolene Martin visits a farm near Komaggas and spend an evening with storytellers around a fire in a “kookskerm” (a cooking hut). We are treated to a traditional meal and a medicine man from Komaggas shares some of his knowledge. In Leliefontein, local historian, Florence Filton, relates the tragedy of the massacre of local people at the hands of Boer soldiers.
We also visit Steinkopf and we pay tribute to the remarkable Khoe woman Zara Schmelen, wife of a German missionary, who translated the Bible into Nama. IN Steinkopf Jolene spends time with Ouma Sara Balie who is the great granddaughter of Oorlam Kaptein Vigeland.
