REPORTS FROM THE DORSLAND, and other pioneering regions

487pp., 4to., illus., maps, paperback, No Place, 2020

Compiled and translated by Margaretha Schäfer. Final edit by Franz Schäfer.

Foreword by Hermann Giliomee.

Includes more than 200 magazine and newspaper articles on the Northwest region of South Africa, originally written in Afrikaans and published in Die Burger, Die Huisgenoot, Die Landbouweekblad and Sarie Marais. 

Professor PJ van der Merwe (1912 - 1977) taught history at Stellenbosch University from 1939 until his retirement. His books include Die Trekker in die Geskiedenis van die Kaapkolonie, 1657-1842, Trek. Studies oor die mobiliteit van die pioniersbevolking aan die Kaap and Pioniers van die Dorsland.