SHORT HISTORY OF THE ONDER-BOKKEVELD

187pp., illus., maps, paperback, Reprint, Cape Town, (2009) 2020

Nigel Amschwand on the conditions in the Onder-Bokkeveld leading up to the colonisation of the area by the free-burghers of the Dutch East India Company and how they displaced the Khoisan inhabitants. The histories of three farms - Bokkefontein, Groenrivier and Papkuilsfontein -  are examined in detail.

Nigel Amschwand is the author of Nineteenth Century Houses at the Cape; 1847, dispossession and migration, population movement in the Northern Cape during the 19th century and The Early History of Loeriesfontein.