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On the big screen: Krotoa
Starring: Crystal-Donna Roberts, Armand Aucamp, Jacques Bessenger, Brendon Daniels, Deon Lotz, Ernest St. Claire, Roeline Daneel and Marcel van Heerden.
Director: Roberta Durrant.
Krotoa, a feisty, bright, young 11-year-old girl, is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan van Riebeeck, her uncle’s trading partner.
She is brought into the first fort established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652.
There, she grows into a visionary young woman who assimilates into the Dutch language and culture so well, that she rises to become an influential interpreter for van Riebeeck.
While van Riebeeck became the first governor of the Cape Colony, Krotoa was both rejected by her own Khoi people and destroyed by the Dutch when she tried to find the middle road between the two cultures.
