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Toggle navigation Jansenville Tourism. Jansenville Situated in the plains of the Camdeboo just north of the Klein Winterhoek mountains lie the small Karoo towns of Jansenville and Klipplaat. Bowls are played and visitors are always welcome.

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The earliest Angora flock in the Jansenville district was established from high quality imported stock by William Cary Hobson on the farm Martyrsford in In due course, Jansenville and the surrounding districts became the hub of the mohair industry in South Africa and to this day the primary industry is centred on Jansenville. In common with many of the smaller towns and villages of the Great Karoo the outbreak of the 2nd Anglo Boer War in pitted the many the Dutch speaking residents against their English speaking neighbours.

Despite the fact that a number of the Dutch inhabitants were loyal to the Colonial Administration the majority favoured the cause of the Boers, with the result that Martial Law was proclaimed, and the town and district came under military occupation under the command of a Captain Gould. The District was quiet for a while and in January a group of loyal volunteers who had formed themselves into a Town Guard decided to fortify the town against the growing threat of lightning raids by Boer Commandos.

Both of these Blockhouses have disappeared, however the substantial Jansenville Fort constructed from stone on top of the hill immediately to the north of the village remains to this day and has been recently restored.

The dimensions of the fort are approximately metres by metres and the outer walls survive in their full circuit to a height of approximately 2-metres, varying in thickness from 80 to centimetres.

The walls were constructed with tapered loopholes at intervals of between 1 and 1. The middle of the fort features a detached block, which forms two rooms or enclosures, both of which could be entered by several doorways, protected externally by curved screen walls, presumably to shield the occupants from possible stray bullets which could have passed through the loopholes in the outer walls.

These rooms served as officers' quarters or as shelters in wet weather. A survey trigonometrical beacon has subsequently been erected in the west room.

Another interesting feature is that, before commencing construction of the fort, the builders levelled the hilltop to form a flat platform which projects some 2-metres beyond the outer walls and is edged with larger stones.

This is a sophistication which is generally found only with blockhouses constructed under the supervision of the Royal Engineers at the time.

The Jansenville Fort did not see much action during the war however the District was contested by the Boer Commandos. In a skirmish between the British and the Boers at Blaauwkrantz, twenty kilometres north of Jansenville on 21 March , three British soldiers were killed and a Boer Commando was wounded.

Sadly those days have passed and Klipplaat has become a quiet little place with the station in a derelict state. The Jansenville area offers visitors a typical Karoo experience - clear skies with the brightest stars at night, clean air, wide open spaces, a rich history, comfortable guest houses, succulent Karoo cuisine , prehistoric fossils, guest farm activities, hunting opportunities for local and foreign hunters.

Jansenville also offers several small town events worth attending. Sid Fourie, a true son of Jansenville, was born in of an Afrikaans father of Huguenot descent and an English mother.

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