HISTORICAL

CRITICALLY acclaimed Krotoa, Eva van de Kaap, which ends tonight, is set in present day South Africa and is presented by the Volksoperahuis in the Netherlands, in association with the Artscape Theatre. The show tells the story of a Dutch actor (played by Dutchman Kees Scholten) and a South African actress (played by South African Bianca Flanders) who meet on the set of the film Krotoa Eva. Scholten plays Jan van Riebeeck, the VOC merchant who established a refreshment station at the Cape in 1652. Flanders plays Krotoa, the young girl taken into his household. She became a key negotiator and translator between the Dutch and the locals. She was also the first Khoi woman to be baptised and the first to officially marry a European. | DAVID RITCHIE African News Agency (ANA)