Belongings

Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa

An Exploration of Frontiers, 1725–c. 1830

Laura J. Mitchell

 

Fig. 5.1. Van der Merwe Monument at Boplaas

This family monument, on the farm Boplaas in the Koue Bokkeveld, commemorates the unbroken chain of Van der Merwe forebears who have owned this farm since Isaac van der Merwe's claim in the 1730s.

L. J. Mitchell

This family monument, on the farm Boplaas in the Koue Bokkeveld, commemorates the unbroken chain of Van der Merwe forebears who have owned this farm since Isaac van der Merwe's claim in the 1730s.