Colonial history of Polokwane
… Afrikaner settlement in Ohrigstad in 1845, some distance from Pietersburg, Later, in 1848, he led a group that settled … March 1852. Meanwhile, the Volksraad, acting on a request from Potgieter, founded a town in Makapanspoort called … which was called Pietersburg. The site, the property of BJ Vorster and Gert Emmenis, was bought by the government on 29 …