Swartskraal (Rhemhoogte No. 125 Ptn 5)

5/125 on the cadastre · 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
On the cadastre: 5/125, portionregistered as RHEMHOOGTE
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.

parcel Cut out of Rhemhoogte No. 125
parcel Consolidated out of Rhemhoogte No. 125
parcel Consolidated out of Rhemhoogte No. 125 Ptn 1
parcel Ground cut out of this farm: Swartskraal (Rhemhoogte No. 125 Ptn 6)
…and 2 more, listed in full further down this page.

What the record holds, in order

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

Nine diagram sheets named in the model that no longer exist on disk priority 2 · LEAD-0095
Re-pull nine Surveyor-General sheets whose archive references this model records but whose images were never kept. What do their versos carry?

What would settle it Re-pulling the nine files. Each then gets its OWN DOC- row per 8, never a second filename on an existing row.

What the record is missing

Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Swartskraal (Rhemhoogte No. 125 Ptn 5) is in the model and drawn on the map, 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.