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About Jacoba Elizabeth Potgieter
It's been told too Dr Jordaan Potgieter (gx2 grandson) that Kotie build the house on Demilander herself, with the help of builders that was motivated with a whip. With the use of plummet (skietlood) she measured the levels of the wall. If it was not straight, it was simply demolished and the builders had to start over again.
The house was very neatly build, as she would not allow even one brick out of it's place. She sadly died during the Spanish flu during the 1918 epidemic
(Willa gx2 granddaughter)
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The 1918 epidemic
1918 - how this flu spread in SA There appeared to be two waves of Spanish flu during 1918 in South Africa - one mild and one severe.
1918 - why the flu spread so rapidly South Africa's many ports and harbours rendered it vulnerable to infections passed on by sailors.
1918 - South Africa's death toll South Africa was the fifth hardest hit country in the world. Almost as many South Africans died from the 1918 flu as did Americans.
1918 - who was affected by the flu? Unlike other outbreaks of flu, the 1918 epidemic decimated not the young and the old, but those between the ages of 15 - 38.
1918 flu - eyewitness accounts It is difficult for us to imagine what it must have been like in 1918, but these eyewitness accounts give us some idea.
1918 - symptoms of this killer flu The first wave of the flu followed typical flu symptoms consisting of a three-day fever, a cough and a runny nose, followed by a rapid convalescence.
1918 - where this flu came from This deadly flu spread rapidly across the world - often with soldiers returning home from the battlefronts.
Source : http://www.health24.com/Medical/Flu/The-1918-epidemic
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South Africa was country fifth hardest hit country in the world by the 1918 flu. Almost as many South Africans died from the 1918 flu as did Americans.
South Africa was the fifth hardest hit country in the world
The SA death toll was almost as high as the total for the USA Almost half a million people probably died from the flu epidemic in South Africa. 62 percent of those who died lived in the Cape 1,6 - 3 million people out of a population of almost 7 million were affected by the flu. Between 22,8 and 43,97 out of every thousand people in the country died from the flu (2 - 4 percent) 140 000 people died in seven weeks from September - October 1918
"The single most devastating episode in South Africa's demographic history," Professor Howard Phillips calls the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918. While the exact cause of the infection remains uncertain, its effects were not.
In South Africa, it is estimated that almost half a million people died. It is estimated that 20 million people died worldwide and the global mortality rate was approximately one in fifty. In India, four percent of the population died.
Why no definite figures? Exact figures are difficult to determine in South Africa, as legislation did not provide for the recording of death tolls amongst large sections of the black population - especially those living in rural areas.
Under normal circumstances recording of these details was sketchy, so it could be assumed to have been even less reliable during the crisis brought on by the epidemic in the last quarter of 1918, when even the recording of deaths amongst whites in urban areas was incomplete.
How did historians arrive at figures indicating official death tolls in South Africa? Prof Phillips speaks of having to rely on a well-informed estimate extrapolated from figures supplied by the government-appointed Influenza Epidemic Commission and the figures released for the May 1921 census.
The latter found that, based on expected population increase statistics, the total for the African, coloured and Indian populations was almost half a million short.
The Union Government, in their census report, concluded that this shortfall "was undoubtedly due to the enormous mortality during the devastating epidemic of influenza in the intercensal period, and corresponds almost exactly with the number of deaths estimated as having occurred during the epidemic."
The long-term effects of this killer disease on the development of South African society are difficult to determine, but they were obviously devastating and far-reaching.
Sources for the whole section on the 1918 epidemic in South Africa: SA Railways and Harbour Magazine, December 1918; Phillips, Howard. South Africa's worst Demographic Disaster: The Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918. (South African Historical Journal, (20), 1988.
Source : http://www.health24.com/Medical/Flu/The-1918-epidemic/1918-South-Af...
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- Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via son Johannes Theodorus (Jan) Potgieter by SmartCopy: Apr 25 2015, 6:46:58 UTC
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Jacoba Elizabeth Potgieter's Timeline
| 1873 |
November 5, 1873
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Lindley, Thabo Mofutsanyane, Free State, South Africa
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| 1893 |
January 22, 1893
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Plaas : Demilander, Petrus Steyn, Riemland, Free State, South Africa
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| 1894 |
June 26, 1894
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Plaas : Demilander, Petrus Steyn, Riemland, Free State, South Africa
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| 1896 |
May 8, 1896
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Demilander, Petrus Steyn, Thabo Mofutsanyane, Free State, South Africa
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| 1901 |
February 27, 1901
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Plaas : Demilander, Petrus Steyn, Riemland, Free State, South Africa
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| 1904 |
December 10, 1904
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Plaas : Demilander, Petrus Steyn, Riemland, Free State, South Africa
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| 1918 |
December 18, 1918
Age 45
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Demilander Farm, Petrus Steyn, Thabo Mofutsanyane, Free State, South Africa
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December 20, 1918
Age 45
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Demilander Farm, Petrus Steyn, Free State, South Africa
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