Graaff-Reinet

Note 16: For example, the Swellendam district was divided in 1785 with the creation of a new district at Graaff-Reinet, nearly six hundred kilometers east of Cape Town.

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

For Susan Newton-King, the frontier era in Graaff-Reinet ended with the quelling of a two-pronged rebellion against VOC authority from 1799 to 1801.9 In Nigel Penn's view, the northern frontier closed a decade later, marked by the formal subjugation of Khoisan labor with the Caledon Code and the careful administrative scrutiny recorded in the Collins Report, both in 1809.10

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

In 1785 the creation of the Graaff-Reinet district extended the eastern colonial boundary to the Great Fish River. 15

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

His daughter Aletta Sophia and her husband Alewijn Jacobus Burger had moved to Graaff-Reinet, a distance that precluded their return for the auction.

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

Consequently, the settler frontier economy was based on stock farming, in contrast to the lucrative wine and wheat farms of the better-watered regions. 16 Poorer and more sparsely populated, the northern frontier attracted less Anglophone scholarly attention than Swellendam and Graaff-Reinet.

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

Samuel Stern first opened a small shop in the Graaff-Reinet district of the Cape Colony but later became a successful farmer in Schweizer-Reneke, Transvaal where Irma was born in 1894.

Irma Stern. 2009

The Graaff-Reinet distillery brands its products "Agava".

South Africa exporting Tequila to Mexico? 2007

The worst hit areas include Graaff-Reinet, Aberdeen and Beaufort

ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

Another Graaff-Reinet farmer, Norman Kroon, said conditions were the worst he had seen since he started farming in the 1960s.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

Graaff-Reinet in the Eastern Cape are still on an ARV waiting list, a research body said on Wednesday.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2007