Drought and depression together; the district's farms are camped

1939 · district

1939 brought drought and depression at once: wool at threepence a pound, the government adding threepence subsidy for sixpence in hand. In those years the district's farms were fenced into camps - 'wat die grootste redding vir die veeboer was'.

Who is on record here

• 1878 Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen

Everyone the record names at this occasion. Who stood together is the clearest surviving evidence of which families were close to which, if you know of others who were here, this is the page they belong on.

Sources

• 'Brokkies uit oupa Almero Oosthuizen se dagboek', Klaarstroom - Zeekoegat 1885/1933 - Die Oudtshoorn Courant Scans DOC-0348 (left), DOC-0349 (page), DOC-0350 (right); published verbatim as story STO-0048

Told in

• subject Brokkies uit oupa Almero Oosthuizen se dagboek