Photojournalist Obie Oberholzer has written a unique history book by photographing towns in South Africa with Dutch names and then photographing towns or cities in the Netherlands that first had those names. | Supplied
This book is in no way a history book, but briefly illustrates the tremendous link and influence that the Dutch brought to South Africa, especially in its early beginnings. There are few instances in the histories of nations that are as filled with turmoil, wars, hardships and a kaleidoscope of contrasts than that of South Africa.
One of the icons in our rainbow of peoples is the three-legged pre-cast-iron pot, as it has the strength to hold a cauldron of potions from the country’s beginnings.
What was stirred into this broth when the Dutch East India Company (VOC) started a trading post for its merchant ships was and still remains to this day a matter of enormous complexity.
To the lingering words
