Schoone Oordt
Schoone Oordt
Early travellers and explorers who visited the Cape in the 1500s traded with the Khoikhoi people who lived there. When the Dutch East India Company established a refreshment station at the Cape, trade continued as far inland as Swellendam, setting the foundations for an important travel centre that has continued for centuries.
After Cape Town and Stellenbosch, Swellendam was the third settlement to be founded in South Africa by the Dutch East India Company. In 1745 Swellendam was declared a magisterial district. The district was given its name in 1747 in honour of governor Hendrik Swellengrebel and his wife Helena Ten Damme. In 1795 the burghers of Swellendam rejected the increasingly incompetent rule of the Dutch East India Company and declared themselves an independent republic. This lasted only a few months until the British took over the Cape and re-instated the Landdrost.
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