More than 350 years ago, in 1652, the Dutch East India Company decided to create a small colony at the Southern most tip of Africa. The colony was to supply the company's ship with fresh supplies on their long journeys to the Far East. Governor Jan van Riebeeck noticed the fertility of the African soil and planted vegetables and vines.
In early 1659 the first grapes were turned into wine. Between 1680 and 1694 the French Huguenots could find their long deserved freedom in their new home and could continue with one of their major passions: winemaking. It was during this time in history, in the Cape Colony, that the old and new world came together: European and African worked together and Ifula white and Bomvu red grew together. For well over three centuries the fertile slopes of the Cape have been cultivated with a deep passion for Africa...
Our passion for "Africa" is mostly driven by our compassion for her people in need.
The word compassion is derived from the Latin words pati and cum, which together mean "to suffer with". Africa, north of the fertile Cape winelands, is a suffering continent. Its people and land are suffering from wars, drought, famines, floods and other natural disasters.
Africa and its nations, beckons us, living in the fertile parts of this world, to be compassionate. Compassion is more than being good, kind and understanding: True compassion compels us to share in the suffering of those living in fear, hunger and brokenness. Compassion allows us to become fully human, and vulnerable. Such compassion makes it possible for us to cry with those in misery and weep with those in tears...
| page 2 of 2 | next >
In early 1659 the first grapes were turned into wine. Between 1680 and 1694 the French Huguenots could find their long deserved freedom in their new home and could continue with one of their major passions: winemaking. It was during this time in history, in the Cape Colony, that the old and new world came together: European and African worked together and Ifula white and Bomvu red grew together. For well over three centuries the fertile slopes of the Cape have been cultivated with a deep passion for Africa...
Our passion for "Africa" is mostly driven by our compassion for her people in need.
The word compassion is derived from the Latin words pati and cum, which together mean "to suffer with". Africa, north of the fertile Cape winelands, is a suffering continent. Its people and land are suffering from wars, drought, famines, floods and other natural disasters.
Africa and its nations, beckons us, living in the fertile parts of this world, to be compassionate. Compassion is more than being good, kind and understanding: True compassion compels us to share in the suffering of those living in fear, hunger and brokenness. Compassion allows us to become fully human, and vulnerable. Such compassion makes it possible for us to cry with those in misery and weep with those in tears...
| page 2 of 2 | next >
