LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1.1: Views of Solms Delta, Franschhoek wine farm October 2014. ....................................... 1 Figure 1.2: Franschhoek valley April 2015 .................................................................................................... 9 Figure 1.3: Illustrated views of Franschhoek’s location ........................................................................ 10 Figure 1.4: Bastille Day........................................................................................................................................ 11 Figure 1.5: Foodie Franschhoek. ..................................................................................................................... 11 Figure 1.6: The Huguenot Monument ........................................................................................................... 14 Figure 2.1: Farm worker protests 2012/13 ............................................................................................... 22 Figure 3.1: Title deeds – Cape district and Stellenbosch and Drakenstein.................................... 56 Figure 3.2: Original grant for Zandvliet (Solms Delta) 15 October 1690. ...................................... 65 Figure 3.3: Local newspapers: worker unrest in the winelands ........................................................ 68 Figure 3.4: Visiting Museum van der Caab.................................................................................................. 69 Figure 3.5: Inventory 1830 ................................................................................................................................ 73 Figure 3.6: Lindsaye Tshabalala ...................................................................................................................... 74 Figure 3.7: Front page violence: an Ethiopian migrant ......................................................................... 74 Figure 4.1: Valley view: south east towards the Helshoogte ............................................................... 78 Figure 4.2: Steen grapes: 2014 harvest, Solms Delta. ............................................................................. 78 Figure 4.3: Lavender fields, Franschhoek.................................................................................................... 78 Figure 4.4: Latitude of wine producing regions of the world.............................................................. 80 Figure 4.5: Fynbos ecoregion ........................................................................................................................... 81 Figure 4.6: Fynbos, low, scrubby, flammable ............................................................................................. 81 Figure 4.7: Steenberg vineyards: fire March 2015 .................................................................................. 82 Figure 4.8: Cape Folds from the Helshoogte .............................................................................................. 84 Figure 4.9: New vineyard Solms Delta 2012 .............................................................................................. 85 Figure 4.10: Dutch map c1688-1695: Cape Town and Stellenbosch districts ............................ 90 Figure 4.11: Dutch map, Tirion: Cape of Good Hope showing Khoikhoi kraals ........................... 92 Figure 4.12: Dwelling outline: centralized in the werf........................................................................... 97 Figure 4.13: Marriage register: Anna de Koning to Olof Berg ............................................................. 98 Figure 4.14: Farmer and slave, J Lee, 1802 ...............................................................................................103 Figure 4.15: Horizontal view from Solms Delta’s werf 2015 ............................................................104 Figure 4.16: Aerial view of Solms’ Delta’s werf .......................................................................................106 Figure 5.1: Rhodes colossus ............................................................................................................................115 Figure 5.2: French Dutch farms 1700. ........................................................................................................115 Figure 5.3: Natives Land Act 1913 ...............................................................................................................115 Figure 5.4: Section of map: ‘Drakenstein en Het Land ‘t Waveren’.................................................120 Figure 5.5: Lekkerwijn 2014 ...........................................................................................................................128 Figure 5.6: View from Lekkerwijn’s werf 2013 ......................................................................................128 Figure 5.7: Rhodes bronze ...............................................................................................................................128 Figure 5.8: Demise: Rhodes statue at UCT ................................................................................................132 Figure 5.9: Cottages: Languedoc ...................................................................................................................137 Figure 5.10: Languedoc oaks April 2015 ...................................................................................................137 Figure 5.11: Sign, Languedoc entrance.......................................................................................................137 Figure 5.12: Workers’ housing Pickstone-Taylor ownership ...........................................................140 Figure 5.13: Same building Solms/Astor trusteeship ..........................................................................140 Figure 6.1: Zapiro cartoon, Cape Times 20/11/2012 ...........................................................................147 Figure 6.2: Lizzie van Zyl: farmer’s daughter ..........................................................................................154 Figure 6.3: Scorched earth: burying livestock .........................................................................................154 Figure 6.4: Farmer pours a dop .....................................................................................................................158 Figure 7.1: A box of Hiervandaan wine ......................................................................................................174 Figure 7.2: Slave name inscribed ..................................................................................................................181 Figure 7.3: Tasting room Solms Delta .........................................................................................................185 Figure 7.4: Music history wall ........................................................................................................................186 Figure 7.5: Instrument wall .............................................................................................................................186 Figure 7.6: Fyndraai lunch menu 2015 ......................................................................................................187 Figure 7.7: Dik Delta: culinary heritage garden ......................................................................................188 Figure 7.8: (1) Blik-kitaar (2) Dried springbok ears rattles ..............................................................190 Figure 7.9: Sanna .................................................................................................................................................193