Ngonnemoa

The Piketberg rises above the plains north of the Cape, its mountain valleys once home to Khoekhoe and San communities. The Cochoqua found a stronghold among its heights, and San rock art survives in the surrounding mountains. Dutch, Huguenot and German families began farming in the district in the early eighteenth century. As colonial settlement spread, Khoekhoe and San resistance continued: in the 1730s, raids and guerrilla fighting troubled the farms around Piketberg.