Top Cop Turned Author honoured at Cape Times Business Breakfast
RESPECTED: Major General Jeremy Veary was the keynote speaker at the Cape Times Business Breakfast this week
Thursday, 26 July 2018
One of the most famous policemen in Cape Town was the guest of honour at the Cape Times Business Breakfast hosted at the Cape Town Hotel School Restaurant yesterday.
While his crime-busting skills may be what he is most famous for these days, Major General Jeremy Veary was addressing the gathering in his capacity as a newly published author after his book Jeremy Vannie Elsies recently hit bookstands.
Written in Afrikaans, the biography chronicles his early years growing up in Elsies River where he morphed from a gangster to a Robben Island detainee and later a policeman in the Nelson Mandela detail.
Addressing the gathering, Veary says writing in Afrikaans was an obvious and authentic choice because it was the language of the people in that area at that time.
“My mother never spoke English unless she was absolutely forced to,” he says.
“To truly capture the essence of that time and place I had to write in Afrikaans.”
The book is expected to be translated into English at a later stage but Veary admits this will be a tough task.
“I do not envy the person who will have that task and I hope that the essence of the story will remain, even through translation,” he says.
The event was attended by a number of high-profile guests including Judge Siraj Desai, Cape Times editor Anees Salie and other anti-apartheid struggle stalwarts.
The Cape Times Business Breakfast is hosted in conjunction with the Cape Town Hotel School Restaurant on CPUT’s Granger Bay Campus and is the second in a series of five planned. The first speaker was Mayor Patricia De Lille.
Written by Lauren Kansley
Tel: +27 21 953 8646
Email: kansleyl@cput.ac.za
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