What makes the Swartland so beautiful and unique
is the different types of land use
that we see when driving the N7
the canola flowers, wheat....
and for me it is a good sign
of what you can expect from the Swartland.
I'd describe Moorreesburg as a small country town, it's a ..
small town where people are helpful and lend a hand where they can.
I am Terence Adonis, and I am from Moorreesburg.
Moorreesburg was laid out on the farm Hooikraal
and gets its name from Dominee J.C. le Febre Moorrees
he was a leading member of the Church in the area
and the town was named after him
My name is Anel Hanekom, I am the tourism official of Moorreesburg and Koringberg and we are of course part of Swartland Tourism.
Moorreesburg is a small farming community, it is situated..
an hour on the N7 on the way to Namibia from Cape Town
and in the old days the people used to say it's a "day by horse"
so if you ask me where Moorreesburg is, Ill tell you its a "day by horse" from Cape Town.
It is fantastic to live in a small town, because you know everyone
and it's not like a big city...
where you live and walk past people, here you say good morning and evening to each other as you pass by
this to me is a small town.
I am SP de Greeff, I live in Moorreesburg at Huis Moorrees.
Moorreesburg is a Swartland Farming town
"It is where they eat brown bread with thick jam and farmers biscuits" (rusks)
My name is Koos Josef, on the farm Hanekomshoop in the town of Moorreesburg
The people in the Swartland bry, we don't speak normally
like the rest of South Africa, everyone bry's
They great [ prounces G with bry and "normal" G ]
So this is who the people are in the Swartland.
I am Henri Warnich and I got my name from when I attended school,
my real name is Hendrik,
my sisters children call me Uncle Hennie,
so any of the Hennie names I'll answer too
and... that's who I am, but the Henri name ...
has carried through with me and it is the name I am best known as in the area.
I, someone said, bry.....
it is the correct way of speaking, according to me..
we have come from Holland, France,
Germany, most of those people bry...
So, I say, bry is actually the right way of speaking your dialect is not the correct way according to me.
I am Jan Bester, born on the 1st of the 8th. I went to school in Moorreesburg and finished completed school there.
I can't remember the words, I can just remember the intro lines, but it's a beautiful song
It's a .... we we are very proud. it was composed for our school, the Dirkie Uys High School .
"Op Moorreesburg, mooi Moorreesburg, Waar die grane golwend waai, en die saad van boer gesaai" I don't remember the rest
"Op Moorreesburg, mooi Moorreesburg, Waar die grane golwend waai,"
naa naa dee dee "die hand van bo gesaai" something like that...
This is a song that was written by the School Headmaster and it describes the region well.
As far as nicknames go, when they are too many people with the same name then they get given a nickname.
I was walking one day..
when Christo is walking across the road and he shouts "Oliepyp" ...
and there a team was walking...
on the other side of the road, and from there on that became my nickname
This is me Jan Carstens
but the most people know me as Jan Mikkes..
it's my nickname, and I got it..
when another guy knocked over a pot full of fat..
I gave him the name "vetpot" (fat pot) and he said..
your name is Jan Mikkes.
As a resident people are going to say you live in SAMOA
it is, how shall I call it, a saying, SAMOA, and when you speak to Malmesbury..
residents, and they ask you where you are from, and if you answer SAMOA, they will know exactly where it is.
SAMOA stands for South African Milling and Oats Association
it comes from the days when back in the day we had a factory
I am Daureen Cederas at the moment we are at the Wheat Industry Museum in Moorreesburg.
The only Wheat Industry Museum
in South Africa
The other one I know about is in Canada..
there were initially three
Switzerland, Canada and us, but the one in Switzerland closed.
So, this museum is special, and it is a big draw card for tourism and unique because it is ..
centrally located in the wheat district.
If I must compare the people of Moorreesburg
with the saxophone that's delivers different notes, you get high notes..
you get low notes, and what I mean by this ...life doesn't
always go so well, you get ups and downs, so the high notes of the saxophone
are when it is going well, and the low notes represent when it's not going so well
everyone has struggles, we all try and make the best of a bad situation , but a saxophone
that I am using as a metaphor to compare to the people of the town,
I can also use the flat notes and sharp notes on the saxophone
that is when all those sounds, the high and low notes are combined
when the flats and sharps on the saxophone, and if you put them together, then it gives you the most wonderful sound.
Moorreesburg is in the middle of the Swartland, we sit smack bang in the middle, we are the breadbasket of the country..
we have awesome people, outstanding meat, our sheep is organic..
we have plenty of stories, rich history, but when you visit you make your own history, it's the people that count.
Next time when you're eating bread, and the butter melts into that piece of bread, think of Moorreesburg.