Annex Uitkyk (Oudtshoorn, Cango East)
This parcel has no matched survey polygon, so it cannot be drawn on the map. That is a gap in the cadastre match, not an absence from the record.
Why this farm is here
In the model from the cadastre pull only, nothing in the record yet says who held this ground or why it belongs here. Not yet placed on the map.
What the record holds, in order
No dated record on this parcel yet. It is on the map because the Surveyor-General has a polygon for it; the history is not transcribed.
Research notes
Named on SG diagram 2920 of January 1911 as bounding UITKYK No. 12 (PAR-000285) to the north-east, in the FIELD CORNETCY OF CANGO EAST, Division of Oudtshoorn. That is the Cango valley above Oudtshoorn, the country SG 2440 OB of 1877-79 covers (SRC-493).
NO POLYGON, AND THAT IS A DECISION RATHER THAN A GAP. The name is read off SG diagram 2920 (SRC-496), which is a document; the LOCATION is not established. The Oudtshoorn cadastre extract holds no farm names at all - its P_FARMNAME column carries a numeric code, 6457 for Uitkyk itself - so the polygon cannot be found by name.
Adjacency was tried and does not settle it. Four modern farms share a boundary with Uitkyk No. 12: no. 11 to the W, no. 24 to the SW, no. 261 to the S and no. 13 to the E. The 1911 diagram names its neighbours NE, SE, SW and W-and-SW, so THE DIAGRAM'S NORTH-EAST NEIGHBOUR HAS NO MODERN COUNTERPART and its south-east is my south or east. A hundred and fourteen years of subdivision and renaming sits between the two, and a bearing to a centroid is crude on an irregular shape.
5: an unresolved place gets no pin, because a wrong pin is worse than a missing one. Same treatment as Drooge Kloof. [TO VERIFY]
'Annex' names a piece added to a parent farm, so this is very likely an annexe of Uitkyk itself and may since have been absorbed back into it - which would explain why nothing in the modern cadastre lies to Uitkyk's north-east.
[20 Aug 2026] NOT ON THE 1879 PLAN under this name. SG 2440 OB sheet 2 (SRC-493, DOC-0318), the 1879 Plan of the Division of Oudtshoorn, read 20 Aug 2026 after being filed unread on 19 Aug. It carries Uitkyk as No. 12 and Blauwpunt as No. 13 and nothing called Annex Uitkyk, which is what one would expect of an annexe: it is ground added to a farm later, so it postdates the plan. The 1911 vacant-farms plan (SRC-501) does not list it either. LEAD-0241.
The research behind this page, kept separate from it: dated working notes, open questions, and what is not yet settled.
Open questions
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Which cadastral polygons are Annex Uitkyk, Blaauwpunt, Voorzorg and Spitzkop?
priority 2 · LEAD-0241
SG diagram 2920 of 1911 names four farms bounding Uitkyk No. 12 in the Field Cornetcy of Cango East. All four are in the model as NO-POLYGON. Which modern farms are they?
What would settle it Any one of the four neighbours' own diagrams, or the 1879 regional sheet read at the Cango East.
What the record is missing
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Nobody is on record as ever having held this
third order · B8 never-held
Annex Uitkyk (Oudtshoorn, Cango East) is in the model, and carries no ownership record of any kind, not a grant, not a transfer, not an occupation.
What would settle it The Surveyor-General's diagram for the farm number names the grantee and the date; the deed reference on it opens the transfer chain.
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.