Colonial history of Polokwane
… Later, in 1848, he led a group that settled on the site Trichardt’s group had abandoned, just outside present … Petrus Jacobus (Piet) Joubert was appointed to find a site to compensate the Boers who had been forced to leave … Council in Pretoria and a land surveyor was appointed to map out the new town, which was called Pietersburg. The site, …