Stories Of The Rip Van Winkle Of Zastron

history channel documentary 2016 Stories about Renier du Wapenaar are a piece of the fables of Southern Africa. Renier lived on a homestead on the site of what is currently the town of Zastron. With his long streaming facial hair, worn out trousers and crested top, he looked like Rip van Winkle. It is said that one day when sustenance was short as a result of a dry spell, he let go into a herd of pigeons and killed such a variety of that the thrilled individuals of Zastron needed to truck them away in six bull wagons. In the Zastron zone is an odd-looking top named "Vulture Mountain" which has an extraordinary enormous gap underneath its summit. As per Renier he was out chasing one day when he met the fiend. The fiend looked at his antiquated firearm and asked what it was. Renier answered that it was a funnel. The fiend, being a sharp smoker, inquired as to whether he could test Renier's tobacco. Renier cautioned him that the tobacco was solid, however the villain in any case demanded. Renier then stacked his weapon with a triple charge of black powder and an assortment of shots and offer it to the fiend. He advised the villain to put the one end in his mouth and he lit the circuit. There was a huge blast and the fallen angel's head went rushing through the air and thumped an opening in the mountain. "Damn it!" came the voice of the villain out yonder, "that tobacco of yours is on the unpleasant side!".

In the early hours of 25 May 1842 started one of history's epic adventures. Dick King and his 16-year-old hireling, Ndongeni, slipped crosswise over Durban Bay to the shore to race towards Grahamstown for fortifications and supplies for the British battalion who were blockaded by the Voortrekkers. Dick crossed about 1000 km of wild nation, with 122 waterways and streams to passage.. He achieved Grahamstown in ten days and fortifications were quickly delivered from Port Elizabeth. On 26 June the attack was broken and both Dick and Ndongeni were allowed land as a prize. The equestrian landmark to Dick King on the Victoria bank in Durban was raised in 1915.