On 27 December 1868, special magistrate Maximillian Jackson and a police contingent were sent to act as a bulwark against the Griquas (also known as Koranna), who were in open conflict with colonial forces.

The Hartbees River, with its many sweet thorn trees, provides a green belt irrigated by the Rooiberg Dam.

This region contains very little vegetation, primarily very low shrubs and yellow grass among a rocky desert kind of landscape.

If you travel south from Kenhardt towards Brandvlei, you will pass through a huge landscape of yellow grass lands and rocky desert like ares for the next 145 km and more.

[4] A vast dry pan on which Sir Malcolm Campbell tried, in Bluebird 1, to set a new world land-speed record in 1929.