Kwaggafontein
A farm with a school on it, and the whole of its correspondence with the government survives. Forty-eight files in TAB source OD, from 4 October 1897, when G.E. ter Haar of Kafferskraal asked for a teacher, to April 1900, when the teacher asked for his money to be sent to the landdrost and the war closed the file. The teacher was H. de Vries, fetched by wagon in December 1897. A JGL BOOYZEN is on eight of the forty-eight — the subsidy application, the book orders, all four quarterly returns, the explanation of a £61-6-0 deficit, and a letter of May 1899 arguing that £8 too little subsidy had been paid. He is the school's money man, and he is not identified.
The place
| Name | Kwaggafontein |
| Kind | Farm |
| Region | District Marico, Transvaal |
| Standing | Open |
Why it is here
A farm with a school on it, and the whole of its correspondence with the government survives. Forty-eight files in TAB source OD, from 4 October 1897, when G.E. ter Haar of Kafferskraal asked for a teacher, to April 1900, when the teacher asked for his money to be sent to the landdrost and the war closed the file. The teacher was H. de Vries, fetched by wagon in December 1897. A JGL BOOYZEN is on eight of the forty-eight — the subsidy application, the book orders, all four quarterly returns, the explanation of a £61-6-0 deficit, and a letter of May 1899 arguing that £8 too little subsidy had been paid. He is the school's money man, and he is not identified.
| When | What |
|---|---|
| 4 Oct 1897 | a teacher is asked for |
| 6 Dec 1897 | “wagon leaves Thursday to fetch teacher De Vries — is everything in order?” |
| Jan 1898 | JGL Booyzen and the teacher apply for the subsidy |
| 1 Jul 1898 | second-quarter returns, and a pupil has left the school |
| May 1899 | JGL Booysen tells the government it has paid £8 too little |
| Apr 1900 | the last file |