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  Sarah Baartman

  • Hankey,
  • Gamtoos

  Very little is known about the early years of this Khoekhoe girl. She was born around 1789 in the Eastern Cape, somewhere in the vicinity of the Gamtoos river. By 1806 she had moved to the Western Cape and stayed in rural...

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  Phillip's Graves and Irigation Tunnel

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  Dr John Philip head of the London Missionary Society in South Africa, started Hankey with the the purpose of the establishment of the village was to grow mielies and corn for the LMS main station at Bethelsdorp and also to carry...

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  Vergaderingskop and Sundial at Hankey

  • Hankey,
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  Mr Dirk Schellingerhout, resident of Hankey was the driving force behind the huge Hankey sundial.

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