A rexión foi ocupada por colonos, principalmente neerlandeses e franceses, estes últimos, en gran parte exiliados hugonotes, que levaron con eles varias cepas de vide que se converteron a día de hoxe nunha gran fonte de riqueza para o país.
P. J. van der Merwe & Roger B. Beck (1995): The Migrant Farmer in the History of the Cape Colony. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0-8214-1090-5.
George McCall Theal (1970): History of the Boers in South Africa; Or, the Wanderings and Wars of the Emigrant Farmers from Their Leaving the Cape Colony to the Acknowledgment of Their Independence by Great Britain. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press Group. ISBN 0-8371-1661-9.