PHOTO OF DE BEER GRAVE YARD

Dirk De Beer, on the photo next to the Johannes Nicolaas De Beer (and wife's) grave on the farm Smitskraal told me the story how the De Beer family originally got the farm and later lost it due to uncertain reasons...Today, it belongs to a successful potato- and entrepreneurial farmer, Mr John Easby. Dirk sold his two farms nearby Smitskraal to his two sons, Stanley and Colin De Beer. They respectively operate two huge estates while Dirk, now 72, sort of retired on a part of their farms on the banks of the Vaal river near Christiana. Dirk's brother is also buried in this grave yard. Dirk's sister, Jackie, who lives in Christiana is employed by Colin while their younger brother settled in East London in the Eastern Cape.