Country South Africa District Vhembe Postal code (street) 0923 | Province Limpopo Municipality Makhado PO box 0923 | |
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Buysdorp is a village in Makhado Local Municipality in the Limpopo province of South Africa.
Map of Buysdorp, South Africa
A rural coloured community located 14 km from Vivo, on the R522 road to Louis Trichardt, Buysdorp was named after Coenraad de Buys, the “King of the Bastards” in Sarah Millin's fictional account of his life.
In 1888, Paul Kruger bequeathed the Buys family with 11,000 hectares of land for services rendered to the Transvaal Republic, and they have since retained this land. The community is relatively self-sufficient owing to its independent water supply, subsistence farming and maintaining their own roads; as a result, it has remained fairly insular.
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