Hi Lucky, Beaufort West was established in 1818. It would have been a town in the Cape Colony at this time. The provincial names, like all political areas worldwide, is subject to manipulation and change (witness the British counties with their name changes and shifting boundaries). As best I can determine (hopefully someone will either back me up or correct me) the original area was called the Cape Colony and extended to the Fish River in the East. The area beyond this was known as Griequaland East. What we came to know as the Cape Province (I don't think that this name was ever officially recognised) was officially established as the Cape of Good Hope Province in 1910. This held until 1994 when this area was split up into Western, Eastern and Northern Cape. This comes up regularly because of the confusion it can cause in citing paces. I think most folk use the name in use at the time of the event. Zuurbekom was once a farm (your 'barren, unoccupied land') but was obviously incorporated into the expanding urban areas of Soweto and the like. Hope this helps, Paddy On 5 January 2014 09:23, Laquita Belinfante <[email protected]> wrote: > Good Morning all, > > > > If am man died in Feb 1983 in Zuurbekom, Transvaal, South Africa, where or > what would that be? I have looked on the map find it just the other side > of > SOWETO but it looks like barren, unoccupied land. Please help. > > > > Did Beaufort West exist in 1874 if not what would I put as place of death? > And would it be Cape of Good hope OR cape colony? > > > > I have no idea when South Africa changed from Cape of Good hope to Cape > Colony to Cape Province, to Eastern/Western Cape. Would someone kindly > enlighten me? > > > > Thanks as always, > > Lucky > > > > > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus > protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >