Personality

Kind and gentle

Quotes from others about the person

• Gift from God

Interests

• Sport & Clubs

  Soccer , Olymbiakos

• Athletes

  Santoro

• Music & Bands

  Traditional Greek folk music

Connections

Basil was the permanent companion of his mother Stavroula after his father George Rockas died.

Basil was very close to his three sisters, Dimitra, Angelique and Georgina.

Had strong friendships with his cousins Nikos Kousiakis , and brothers Theo and Alekos Kousiakis

Father:

George Rockas

George Rockas was a highly respected member of the East Rand Greek community of Guateng. He was married to Stavroula (nee Kotsakis) and was father to Basil Rockas, Dimitra Rockas-Eftychis , Angelique Rockas and Georgina Rockas. He was responsible for saving family relatives from Artemision, and families from his wife`s village Kalamara , Messinia from poverty by bringng them to South Africa and offering them work and support.

Mother:

Stavroula Rockas

Stavroula Rockas was the well respected matriarch of the Rockas (Georgiou) clan in the East Rand Greek community Guateng, South Africa. Following her husband`s death she oversaw the management of the Rockas family property portfolio with a sturdy hand & business acumen aided by her eldest daughter Dimitra (Rockas) Eftychis an academic. On the domestic front she devoted her life to being the emotional support to her son Basil.

Sister:

Angelique Rockas

actress, producer and activist. Rockas founded Internationalist Theatre in the UK with patron Athol Fugard The company featured multi-racial and multi-national productions of great European classics starting in 1981 "a historic example of theatre work addressing representation in the most valuable manner. As an actress Rockas played roles that challenged casting cliches. https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp166709/angelique-rockas Angelique Rockas has been included in Britian`s National Portriat Gallery Angelique Rockas Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23893984

brother in law:

Eftychios Eftychis

Eftychios Eftychis is a well known South African Greek architect distinguished not only for realizing architecural works of great beauty but also for interior architectural design furniture design but also for creating artworks in ceramics

eldest sister:

Dimitra Rockas-Eftychis

Dimitra Rockas-Eftychis is not only a highly respected member of the Greek Pretoria community but is also a highly regarded academic c specializing in the research of the ancient and modern Greek language. She has lectured in Classics at the University of South Africa and in modern Greek at the University of Pretoria

youngest sister:

Georgina Rockas

Multi-faceted artist

Georgina Rockas is a much admired artist for her very fine and delicate depictions of Byzantine frescoes.

She has a considerable portfolio of artscapes in watercolours. Apart from developing the craft of decoupage to a masterly level, Georgina has also designed interiors , fabrics and tiles, and is now concentrating on paper art works.

nephew:

Emilio Eftychis

Emilio Eftychis is an award winning architect of the younger generation of South African architects. His polymorphous talents can be seen in his sculptures charcoal sketches furniture creations and musical compositions and of course in his ground-breaking architectural works

nephew:

Creon Eftychis

Creon Eftychis was born in Pretoria, South Africa into a Greek family of creative and intellectual talents. Father Eftychios is a highly respected architect and artist, as is his brother Emilio , his mother Dimitra Rockas-Eftychis is a respected academic , and his sister Veneta at a very young age is a partner at Price Waterhouse, Zurich. He himself has excelled in his field of information design, garnering Awards for his talent.

niece:

Veneta Eftychis

Veneta is married to Theo and has 2 sons Christophoros and Alexandros to whom Basil is uncle