Johan du Toit

I am Johannes Viljoen du Toit, and as I reflect on my family history, one theme shines brightly: the name Francois du Toit passing like a torch through the generations. This series of posts will delve deep into the saga of our Du Toit family – from its Huguenot origins in 17th-century Europe to our lives in the 21st century. In telling this story, I write in my own voice – a voice shaped by a Reformed heritage in the spirit of Calvin, Kuyper, and Althusius, unapologetically traditional, and...

The month began in silence. Not an emptiness, but the deep breath before speech. October had been a field left resting after harvest. The soil was turned, but waiting. Out of that stillness rises a quieter current: Vox Vitae , the voice of life returning. This space, johandutoit.com , was never built for noise. It is a slow work of remembrance, of faith learning to speak again through the layers of history. Its pulse runs through Huguenot teachers, reformers, and wanderers who believed that...

Last night, strikes on energy infrastructure silenced much of the city. Generators hum faintly in the distance; the rest is still. Yet...