Colonel Ignatius Philip Ferreira, CMG DSO (5 July 1840, Grahamstown, Cape Colony – 13 May 1921, Kranspoort, Louis Trichardt district, Transvaal) was a South African soldier, fortune hunter, miner and farmer of Portuguese descent.
[5] The British and Native force under the command of Colonel Baker Russell would attack the stronghold of the Pedi tribes leader, King Sekukune in the Sekhukhuneland.
[4]: 205 Ferreira arrived on the Witwatersrand in June 1886, and erected a reed hut on land on the farm Turffontein close to were the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court presently resides.
[2]: 21 [3]: 67 On 24 July 1886, George Harrison sent a letter, a sworn declaration, to the government in Pretoria, that he had found payable gold on Gert C. Oosthuizen's farm Langlaagte.
[2]: 13 Ferreira and 72 other prospectors, after viewing Harrison's outcrop, realized the reef lay on line east to west, petitioned the government on 26 July 1886 to have area proclaimed as a goldfield.
[2]: 7 [3]: 66 After playing an undistinguished role during the Second Boer War, he would settle on the farm Kranspoort, 56 km west of the town of Louis Trichardt, Northern Transvaal and died there in May 1921.