Kloof

18Despite its limitations as a thoroughfare, the Kloof was the only means of traversing the imposing mountain range that divided the more developed districts of the Cape and Stellenbosch from the eastern frontier regions known generally as the "Overberg," or "over the mountain."

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

"Kloof" means simply cleft, and is the pass between the Table Mountain and the Lion's Head, The road first rises, rises, rises, until one seems half-way up the great mountain, and the little straight -- roofed white houses, the green velts or fields and the parallel lines of the vineyards have sunk below one's feet far, far away.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

'Kloof' between the mountains, and clambered up to the 'Venster

Letters from the Cape Lucie Duff Gordon 1845

"The reality of the matter is Gold Fields wished to move the 2050 workers from South Deep to some other operations such as Kloof and

ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

I once walked into a Kloof Street hairsalon to find out whether I could be one of their hair models.

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Wayne Du Plooy Writer Peter Wonacott descends an Ostrich Kloof waterfall ending in "The Fridge," a cold pool that seldom receives sunlight.

Up and Down Canyons 2011

Then he let me know he was breaking one of his cardinal rules in taking me up Ostrich Kloof: "We usually go with people we know."

Between a Rock and a Waterfall Peter Wonacott 2011

The naturalist Anders Sparrman described his crossing of the Kloof in 1776:

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

Putter would graze his small herd of 14 cattle and 60 sheep in the Piekeniers Kloof during the rainy winter months and move to the farm Halve Dorschvloer along the river for the hot, dry summer. 45

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

Colonial settlement in the Overberg increased from that time onward, and the Hottentots-Holland Kloof saw increasing traffic in farmers, frontiersmen, livestock, and communication between the Overberg on one side and the Cape and Stellenbosch districts on the other.

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