Hoekwil is a town in Garden Route District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

Subsistence farming, fishing in the lakes area and the harvesting of the indigenous wood were their main sources of income.

Jan Andries Beyers actively took the lead to change and improve the lives of many people, not only those from the lakes area.

The establishment of a church settlement at Olifantshoek where about 25 families were accommodated, is a monument of his love and commitment towards the poorest of the poor of his people.

Views from the pass are quite magical, revealing first the blue waters of the Indian Ocean at Wilderness with its surf-washed white beach, then the valley filled with rivers and lakes.