DEFENCE Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula will this week commemorate Krotoa‚ the Khoi woman who in the 1650s was instrumental in negotiating a truce between warring Dutch-Khoikhoi groups‚ by unveiling a monument in her honour in Cape Town.The event on Friday at the Castle of Good Hope was to promote national reconciliation and nation-building during women’s month‚ the South African National Defence Force said in a statement.Krotoa worked as a servant in the household of Dutch leader Jan Van Riebeeck from the age of 10, and is credited with reaching an accord that ended the first Dutch-Khoikhoi war.Krotoa knew several languages and established herself as a reliable interpreter between the Dutch and the Khoi tribes."Having foreseen the inevitability of change‚ following the arrival and settling of the Dutch in the Cape of Good Hope in 1652‚ Krotoa acted as facilitator between the Dutch and the Khoi‚ resulting in her being ostracised by the Khoi people."Also known as Eva‚ following her ...
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