Buysdorp is a village in

Makhado Local Municipality Makhado Local Municipality is located in the Vhembe District Municipality of Limpopo province, South Africa. The seat of Makhado Local Municipality Louis Trichardt. Main places The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main pl ...

in the

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province of

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. A rural coloured community located 14 km from Vivo, on the R522 road to

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, Buysdorp was named after

Coenraad de Buys Coenraad De Buys (1761 – 1821) was described as "a remarkable figure" on the frontier of the Cape Colony. Travellers described him with awe. Their accounts mentioned that he was an impressive figure, nearly seven foot tall and with enormous ...

, the “King of the Bastards” in

Sarah Millin Sarah Gertrude Millin, née Liebson (19 March 1889 – 6 July 1968), was a South African author. Biography Millin was born in Žagarė, Kovno Governorate on 19 March 1889, was one of a family of seven children. Five months later her parents, I ...

's fictional account of his life. In 1888, President

Paul Kruger Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger (; 10 October 1825 – 14 July 1904) was a South African politician. He was one of the dominant political and military figures in 19th-century South African Republic, South Africa, and President of the So ...

granted 11,000 hectares of land to the Buys family for services rendered to the

Transvaal Republic The South African Republic ( nl, Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, abbreviated ZAR; af, Suid-Afrikaanse Republiek), also known as the Transvaal Republic, was an independent Boer Republic in Southern Africa which existed from 1852 to 1902, when it ...

; they have retained this land ever since. The community are relatively self-sufficient because of their independent water supply and subsistence farming, and they maintain their own roads; as a result, they have remained comparatively insular.

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Populated places in the Makhado Local Municipality {{Limpopo-geo-stub