Belongings

Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa

An Exploration of Frontiers, 1725–c. 1830

Laura J. Mitchell

 

Fig. 10.2. Farm Ruin, Olifants River Valley

More prosperous—or at least more elaborately built—this farmhouse located along the Jan Dissels River is further evidence of settlers' longstanding efforts to re-shape the Cedarberg's landscape according to European-based, agriculturalist norms. This site is to the south of the Klein Valleij farm on the other side of the Jan Dissels River.

L. J. Mitchell

Fig. 3.4. Early Cedarberg Settler Farms