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Fraserburg

Fraserburg

Find property for sale in Fraserburg, a town located in the Namaqua region of South Africa’s Northern Cape. Named after a Scottish cleric and immigrant, Reverend Colin Fraser and a church elder called Meyburg, it was founded in 1851 as part of the West Nuweveld. The properties for sale in Fraserburg include a range of smallholdings and farms, as well as residential houses and homes to buy.

Those who buy property in Fraserburg might like to know that the town’s first attorney, HWA Cooper began writing the culturally significant ‘Boerebrieven’ for Het Volksblad, using the nom de plume Samuel Zwaartman. The corbelled houses characteristic of the Karoo region are also found here and attest to the area’s cultural history.

On Schalkwyk Street lie the partial remains of a wall built in 1870 as protection for a possible attack by the Koranna and this was used during the Anglo-Boer