Jeremy Vearey

Wenner: Eunice Visser vir Die Kaapse slawe 1652–1838 (Protea Boekhuis) Commendatio: Jeremy Vearey Eunice Visser se kultuurhistoriese perspektief op die Kaapse slawe van 1652 tot 1838 is ’n rare werk van geskiedskrywing […]

Once upon a time in 1957, there lived a ten year old boy from the Bloemhof Flats in District Six called Stanford Godfrey Achilles.  One day his mother sent him […]

The Gazala frontline was in trouble. Swarms of enemy Stuka dive-bombers swooped down low, darting between allied anti-flak fire and sword-fighting searchlights to lay their incendiary eggs. Allied mortar and […]

In early 1942, somewhere in the open desert south of Benghazi, Private Johannes Stevens of 135 Motor Transport Company of the Cape Corps turned around the Bedford truck in which […]

Corporal William Cloete was a stretcher bearer of the First City/Cape Town Highlanders who ran the gauntlet of extracting his injured comrades while under heavy German mortar and machine-gun during […]

In 1941, Gunner William Loubser from Elsies River, a Cape Corps volunteer, was captured by Axis forces at the battle of Sidi Rezegh in North Africa. He was taken with […]

Private Jacob Rayners was a military police officer attached to the 2nd Provost Company of 1 SA Division of the Cape Corps in the World War 2. He was in […]

Sergeant Francis Tonkin of the 106 Motor Transport Company was in Libya in June 1942, when Field Marshal Rommel and his Afrika Corps broke through the Gazala Line of the […]

(Inspired by Seymour Trantraal) During my time with authors Nathan Ttrantraal and Ronelda Kampfer in Makhanda, the former often mentioned how I influenced the more visceral imagery of his daughter […]

Daa was altyd ‘n variety show ommie damstafel oppie Vearey djaart innie Tiervlei innie seventies en ons niewe ennie neighbours se kinnes wassie performers, onne die management van Uncle Entertainment. […]

The word was born to our use with Jan Mandoor on the wintry morning of Friday 16 June 1786 in the Cape Slave Quarters at the foot of Table Mountain.  […]

Die storie wat ek nou sny kô van eendag lank geleide innie eighties oppe smokkeldjaart innie Elsies. In daai tyd was daa nie resturante vi ôs mense nie soe djy […]

Dit was net na ek en my brasse ôs matric results in 1981 oppie posters tienie Cape Argus gebou innie Kaap gat kykit. Ek was nog diep babbelas vannie Party […]

Met Jeremy Vearey, Anzil Kulsen, Elvis Saal en Gerda Odendaal Van laaitie tot politieke kryger, bandiet tot generaal-majoor, ondergrondse operateur tot presidensiële lyfwag… Jeremy Vearey se lewe het talle onvoorspelbare […]

Ken djy vi Mossienes? Die timers vannie Elsies ennie Tiervlei raak stil as daa van hom gepraat word. Die wat hom gesien het is blind en die wat hom gehoor […]

Nourie annedag is ek innie Elsies, maa is ‘n hele anne Elsies vanne parallel universe. Amal praat Ingels! Nou die een laaitie wat wil wiet van Kaaps as oertaal virre […]

Een ding wattie twie issie, Boeta Langding wasse ledjint van moerse proporsies. Kyk hiesa, as daa nou van size gepraat wôd dan was hy vê praat ienagge djoepie se gold […]

Met ‘n kabaaiband om haar nek aan die dwaarsbalk van ‘n skaapstal omstrengel terwyl ‘n Kaapse bergwind ‘n sarong teen haar naakheid vertroetel, was Sara seker in die somer van […]

DIE skrikbeeld wat Jan Van Riebeeck en sy Kompanjie-amptenare een vroeë herfsoggend in 1658 vanaf die fort se wagtorings in Tafelbaai begroet het, moes seker insgelyks gevoelens van doodsangs en […]

Die land aan wie Soesoa van die Chainokwa in die sewentiende eeu behoort het, het geleef vanaf die Breederivier in die weste al langs die Sonderendrivier na die ooste tot […]

In Doman en Garabinga se krygskamp aan die voet van die Steenberge agter Tafelberg wag hulle nou al twee dae dat dit begin reën. Maar hulle woel nou al langer […]

Ek was al in baie tale deur vroue afgesê. Dié strek van hoogdrawende Engels tot boere Afrikaans en township Xhosa. Maar niks kom naby ‘n Elsies Rivier Afrikaapse afsê nie. […]

In die 6de uitgawe van die Handwoordeboek van die Afrrikaanse Taal (HAT), word die woord fokken grammatikaal vereer as byvoeglike naamwoord, bywoord en woordeel. Maar sy betekenis word hier leksikaal […]

Daar was ‘n tyd in die vroeë 1980’s in my studentjare by UWK toe Afrikaans meer radikaal as rewolusionêre omgangstaal, as Engels was. Jy kon in ‘n massavergadering gemaklik van […]