Wolskaapboerdery kry voet aan die Kaap

1830 · regional

By 1830 wool farming is established in the western and south-western Cape; from 1834 the flocks spread through the country. The Oosthuizens reach the Koup at exactly the moment the Karoo is being converted from a cattle-and-fat-tail frontier into a wool economy - and the 1841 grants turn grazing into property that a wool cheque can pay off.

Bronne

• Merino sheep and the ostrich feather boom in the Cape merinosa.co.za; southafrica.co.za (Oudtshoorn ostrich industry)

Vertel in

• mentioned Een-en-tagtig duisend morg