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Fort Beaufort

Fort Beaufort

Find property for sale in Fort Beaufort, a town located in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa that has its roots in the historical frontier wars. During the fifth war between the Xhosa and the white settlers, the Xhosa were driven back over the Keiskamma River and the Cape government decided to maintain the area between here and the Great Fish River as a buffer zone. The properties for sale in Fort Beaufort range from residential houses and homes, to smallholdings and farms, as well as commercial property and vacant land to buy.

Fort Beaufort was one of the forts built to maintain peace in the area during the frontier wars and was built in the circular architectural style of a Martello Tower, most common in the coastal defence used in England and France at the time. Those who buy property here might be interested to know that it proved to be the most effective of the forts