[2] The land was bought in 1886 by Lourens Geldenhuys for its mining rights as it was hoped that the Confidence Reef would extend into his farm but it did not.

[2] A hundred of these workers were then settled in 14 irrigated smallholdings on 145 morgens of the farm in what are now the suburbs of Emmarentia, Linden and Greenside where they grew fruits and vegetables with rent based on a third of the profits of the sale of the produce.

[3][6] In 1938, Emmarentia Geldenhuys died and was buried at the family cemetery in Hill Road.

The small cemetery still exists with 77 graves in the small cemetery with other names such as Swanepoel, Steyn, Ayres, Hopley and McGrath possibly the smallholding farmers Louw Geldenhuys had helped out.

In the same center of Emmarentia (A block of buildings ranging from 1-4 stories high, alongside Barry Herztorg, with restaurants and business's on street level and residential flats above.