Schmidtsdrift is a town in Pixley ka Seme District Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

The history of Schmidtsdrift has been traced back to 1827 when it was declared Crown Trust Land, occupied by the Tswana-speaking Batlhaping and Griqua people.

The threat of relocation in the 1950s forced some of the Griqua families to identify as Batlhaping, becoming known as the Kleinfonteintjie community.

The South African Defence Force (SADF) Infantry Battalion acquired use of it in 1974, establishing a military training base.

[6] In 2003, most of the !Kung and Khwe community relocated to Platfontein outside Kimberley following the successful landclaim on Schmidtsdrift by the erstwhile Batlhaping inhabitants.