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Leghoya Village, Waterval, Sandrivierhoogte, Ventersburg District

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Post date: 07/08/2012
Site Comments:

This village, which dates from the seventeenth century with its characteristic corbelled huts and stone kraals, is an excellent example of the architecture and way of life of the Leghoya in the Free State.

Visual Description: The corbelled huts was built of rocks. The rock walls that was built around the huts was two metres

Condition: Fair
Construction Date: 17th Century

Admin Comments:
Archive Import Bibliography archive: Walton, J Early Ghoya Settlement in the Orange Free State, Nationlal Museum, Bloemfontein, 1965. Stow, G W, The Native Races of South Africa, Londen, 1905.
 
 

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