

Extracted from Publication -
A history of the families of european descent who settled in the area of Enkeldoorn (renamed Chivu) Rhodesia. now Zimbabwe.
Author -- Sarel Van der Walt
Completed in approximately the year 2001
... and some GUTU RELATIVES 1880 TO 1980 All family details, dates, residences and occupations as far as could be ascertained. List not complete)
Joe prospected in the area and located gold at Umvuma, before pegging the claims he went to Northern Rhodesia and on return found the Falcon mine already peged. He left the area. His brother Edward worked on the mine from 1916 till 1944.
In 1926 Edward bought Sable Flats at the East end of Manese along the Umyati river, adjoining Inhoek, (Kirstein) from van Tonder, where he settled in 1935. The general farming was maize, sheep and cattle but he specialised in producing apples as a crop for sale with a large orchard admired by all visitors.
- Edith 29-5-33 x Eugene (Bob) Edwards. 13-3-28 / 1981 4c left area XX Arnoldus Mauritius Rinke (his XX) 0c
- Allen Schaller 13-11-38 x Barbara Ford (not local)
- Keron Joan 24-9-66 x William David Mickelthwite 10-3-66
- Rex Allen Vernon 26-2-68 x Laurelly Shea 10-9-74
- Glenda Barbara 26-7-69 Educated: Keron, local junior, Girls High School and Specis College. Rex, Allan Wilson Glenda Girls High School and Eaglesvale. Allen farmed with his father Edward, then bought Sableflats 1, 1 000 acres and later also Sableflats 2 and 3, each 1 000 acres. from Rhodesdale Estate, he also bought Foresthill and Edendale called Dangerendodi meaning Manure-kraal.
The son Jubilee James J. (1917) bought additional farms, eventually owning Kuduspoort, Sundown, Wasbank, Rietspruit and Swartfontein as well as Scotland. On his death in 1976 the farms were sold and Salomina and the family left for South Africa.
The farms were sold to Scotland/van As, Kuduspoort/van As, Sundown/Tom Ferreira (Malie) Rietspruit / Tom Ferreira, Swartfontein/Tom Ferreira, Wasbank/Japie J.L.) Smit of Felixburg.