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Farm PAR-000143

Part of Rhemhoogte No. 125

Swartskraal (Rhemhoogte No. 125 Ptn 5)

· on record 1971–1989 · show on the map

The farm's own history, the grant, the original survey, sits on that page.

Farm number
No. 125
Portion
5
Also recorded as
SwartskraalSRC-436, 2023 valuation rollZwartkraal / Zwartskraalthe spelling of the nearby ground is an open question in this project and is not settled by a rates roll
District
Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it
10386,1161 hektaar
Modern surveyed area
11128.2 ha

The historic extent and the modern surveyed area are two separate measurements and are not presented here as confirming each other. The first is what a surveyor wrote on a diagram, usually in morgen. The second is what the modern cadastre draws.

Why this farm is here

A piece of a farm already in this model. 16 km from Klaarstroom.

What this farm became

From 1971 this ground stopped being one farm, and the story continues on the pieces cut from it. Its own record above ends there; what happened afterwards belongs to a portion, not to the whole.

What the record holds, in order

  1. 1971 boundary change consolidation: from Rhemhoogte No. 125
  2. 1971 boundary change consolidation: from Rhemhoogte No. 125 Ptn 1
  3. 1971 boundary change subdivision: becomes Swartskraal (Rhemhoogte No. 125 Ptn 6)
  4. December 1971 document SG diagram 11000/1971
    SVT 7836/72
  5. 1977 boundary change subdivision: becomes Rhemhoogte No. 125 Ptn 7
  6. 1989 document SG diagram verso 11000/1971 (verso)

Also bordered by, as the modern cadastre draws it

Ground that touches this farm on the Surveyor-General's current polygons and that none of the diagrams held here names. Derived from the geometry, not read off a document.

Documents

catalogued, no scan held
 Surveyor-General diagram, 11000/1971, December 1971
10TSWZ01 125 part 5.jpg
catalogued, no scan held
 Diagram verso, 11000/1971 (verso), 1989
10TSX101.jpg

Cadastre

Surveyor-General diagram index for this parcel

Surveyor-General diagram index for the whole farm, where the original survey of this ground sits.

Research notes

[3 Aug 2026, SRC-212] A 1971 consolidation of the REMAINDER OF RHEMHOOGTE and the REMAINDER OF PORTION 1 - so this single parcel is most of the original farm reassembled, ninety-two years after J and J A Oosthuysen were granted it. Portions 6, 7 and later 8 were then cut out of it (see PAR-000142). Its own components carry the grant diagram 876/1875 and Grondbrief P.A.Q. 2-20.

[13 Aug 2026, SRC-436] NAMED FROM THE 2023 VALUATION ROLL, which gives this portion as "Swartskraal" (5657.8720 ha). This row previously read "Rhemhoogte Portion 5 (No. 125 Ptn 5)", which was a farm-and-portion label rather than a name. The roll is a rates document and good evidence for what the ground is called now; it says nothing about what it was called when the portion was cut. THE EXTENT GAP IS A SUBDIVISION, NOT AN ERROR, AND IT CLOSES EXACTLY: this row's 10386.1 ha minus the roll's portion 6 (4728.2 ha, which our own row PAR-000144 also carries) is 5657.9 ha, which is the roll's portion 5 to the tenth of a hectare. Portion 6 was cut out of portion 5. Ours is the portion as first cut; the roll's is what remains.

The research behind this page, kept separate from it: dated working notes, open questions, and what is not yet settled.

Open questions

What the record is missing

Found by breaks.py reading the model against itself, not written by hand, each one is a shape of missing record, not a fault in the data. The whole set is on the questions page.