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portion went to Dr. Cyril Godfrey Hall. It is said to have been purchased but at the same time
may have been granted to Hall by the Kallis’ in lieu of legal fees for representing them in
their negotiations with the Divisional Council. Whatever the case, Hall sold his share to
Council that same year for £1,500, retaining 16 morgen as a life usufruct for his son in the
Olifantsbos / Matroosdam valley. Eventually Hall would sell even this usufruct to Council in
1972 while the holiday home he built on this site became the Skaife Environmental Education
Centre in later years (121) .

In that same year of 1947 Council was prompted to transfer the entire area south of Platbank
(essentially the entire area south of the present Cape Point car-park) to the South African
Railways and Harbours authority “for the more efficient security of the lighthouse area” (122) .

In 1953 another small piece of Government land below Scarborough (38.3956 morgen in
extent) and known as Lot Schuster was granted to the Divisional Council (123) . Then in 1955
the Divisional Council was able to acquire the easternmost section of Red Hill Farm which
was rechristened with the historical name for this area ‘Perdekloof’. This land and the
attendant historical homestead were purchased for £4,750 (124) .

Following this, two small triangular plots of remaining government land, known as Thee A
and Thee B, were purchased the next year for £4,050 (125) . Then in 1961, and apparently
under the threat of expropriation, C. K. Friedlander sold the remaining section of Red Hill
Farm (between Lot Schuster and the Scarborough Township boundary) for R5,728.82 (126) .

Turning eastward, with the death of Mrs. Joseph Francis Minicki in 1963 her daughter, Miss
Josephine Ethel Minicki, sold the remaining ‘Portion 2’ of the Farm Klaasjagers (36.1093
morgen in extent) to Council for R1,400 except for the small (3.3285 morgen) ‘Portion 3’,
still occupied by the buildings of the former Klaasjagersberg Training Ground and Barracks
and now abandoned by the military since 1948. With ownership reverting back to Miss
Minicki there had been talk of various uses for this property, when a series of brush fires
destroyed the buildings in 1963. Accordingly, Miss Minicki donated the land to Council in
1964 (127) .

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