Amandelboom: The challenges of reclaiming forgotten histories of the 19th-century Northern Frontier
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During one of my first visits to the small Karoo town of Williston, Elsa van Schalkwyk, the local town historian, alerted me to a forgotten history of the Northern Cape frontier involving the “Basters” of mixed Khoi and European ancestry who lived at the…
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During one of my first visits to the small Karoo town of Williston, Elsa van Schalkwyk, the local town historian, alerted me to a forgotten history of the Northern Cape frontier involving the “Basters” of mixed Khoi and European ancestry who lived at the…
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