THE WILL OF ABRAHAM AND SEPTEMBER,ELIZABETH - THE STRUGGLE FOR LAND IN GORDONIA, 1898-1995

In 1882 there was granted to one Abraham September, formerly a slave, by the Committee of Management, a farm facing the Orange River and lyi ng about twelve miles above Upington. This old man discovered that the re was the possibility of leading out the water of a lateral branch of the river on to some alluvial soil on his farm. He set to work and su cceeded in getting a small stream on to a low-lying portion of his gro und.