Anton Goosen, the South African songwriter and musician who wrote "Trompie", the theme song from the TV Series "Trompie en die Boksombende", was born 5 March 1946. He became a pivotal figure in Afrikaans music and is generally known as the father of Afrikaans Rock Music.
The fictional town of Kwaggaberg where Trompie lives, is based on Heidelberg, some 50 kilometers south-east of Johannesburg in what is now Gauteng, and the TV series was shot in Heidelberg and Johannesburg.
Shortly before the TV Series "Trompie en die Boksombende " aired, its director Jan Engelen warned that the series wasn't an exact version of the popular books by Topsy Smith, which had been originally published in the 1950s, but had been adapted and updated to suit its 1980 audience.
"Trompie en die Boksombende", the boys adventure series featuring Trompie Toerein and his gang, ran for one series of eleven episodes originally first aired on SABC (South African Broadcasting Corporation) in 1980.
Mathys Gerhadus Smith, aka Topsy Smith, the author of the boys adventure series "Trompie ", was a South African Afrikaner fictional author mostly known for youth literature, who wrote about 200 books. His first Trompie story first appeared in 1950. He also wrote the "Saartjie" series of girls books under the pseudonym of Bettie Naudé.