Among the first European settlers in South Africa (Cape Colony) the greatest number came from The Netherlands, France and Germany. Poles, alongside the British, Scandinavians and Portuguese were less numerous, but would also come into the area later on. Up to the end of the 18th century, the ancestors of such contemporary Afrikaner families as Drosky, Jankowitz, Knoop, Kroll, Kube, Troskie, Schonraad and Zowietsky had come in from Poland. Before the Cape Colony was formally transferred under British rule (in 1814), the aforementioned settlers had been joined by the founders of the Barensky, Beirowski, Jewaskiewitz, Kitshoff, Koleske, Latsky, Masureik and Valensky families. During the 19th century successive Poles settled there, giving the origins for dozens of new families (such as the Ankiewicz, Aproskie, Banas, Baransky, Czapiewski, Dobrowski, Dubiel, Gregorowski, Henfling, Hohowsky, Jacoby-Grabowski, Juritz, Lazarus, Liss, Litkie, Manthey, Neizel, Pachonick, Prozesky, Robeck, Schukala, Skorbinski, Skowronek, Waberski, Weimann and Woicichowsky families). These consecutive waves of migration increased the Polish contribution to the formation of the South African society.

Source:

• Kowalski, Mariusz: Polish Boer Families; the influence of early Polish immigration on Boer families. Familia, 43(2), 2006, pp. 38-46.
• Kowalski, Mariusz: Polish soldier-immigrants to South Africa in the period of French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars (1789-1815). Familia, 46(3), 2009, pp. 147-164.
• Kowalski, Mariusz: Immigrants from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the early stages of European colonization of the Cape Colony - Geographia Polonica 2012, 85 3 - s.55-76.
• Kowalski Mariusz, Imigranci z Rzeczpospolitej Obojga Narodów w początkowej fazie europejskiego osadnictwa w Kolonii Przylądkowej, (w:) Przegląd Geograficzny, 84, 2, 2012, s. 279-312
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• Kowalski Mariusz, Poles in the Dutch Cape Colony 1652-1814, Werkwinkel 10(1), 2015, pp. 65-96.
• Polscy osadnicy w Kolonii Przylądkowej (1652-1910), (in:) Wikipedia.
• Kowalski, Mariusz: Leon Pokrowski - polski bohater wony burskiej, NCz!, 15-16/2018
• Kowalski, Mariusz: Słowiańscy przodkowie Afrykanerów, NCz!, 31-32/2018

A. Old Cape Families (arrived before 1814)

A.1. First Fifty Years (1652-1707) - immigrants from Poland and Polish Prussia

Becker (Bekker) [arr. 1695]

Botkewitz (Potkiviet) [arr. 1676] (in: Polish Wikipedia)

Campher [arr. 1686]

Eysman [arr. 1704]

Grunwald (Groenewald) [arr. 1688]

Andresen de Jonker [arr. 1684]

Kneppel [arr. 1692] (in: First Fifty Years Project)

Kowalsky (Cowalsky) [arr. 1695] (in: Polish Wikipedia)

Liske (Lisky) [arr. 1656]

Malmer [arr. 1700]

Mecklenburg [arr. 1688]

Nachtigal [arr. 1687]

Petkau (Petkouw) [arr. 1652] (in: Polish Wikipedia)

Romejk [arr. 1693]

Constantia van der Stel (Abrahamsz) [arr. 1703]

A.2. Single men in the years 1707-1806

Cameijnske [arr. 1746]

Dirkze (Diksen) [arr. 1758]

Drosky (Drotsky) [arr. 1746]

Freislich [arr. 1759]

Gerens [arr. 1766]

Goor [arr. 1770]

Jankowitz [arr. 1783]

Kaltenbach [arr. 1769]

Knoop [arr. 1737]

Kroll [arr. 1750]

Krumholect (Kromhout, Cromhout) [arr. 1728]

Kube [arr. 1775]

Langenau [arr. 1763]

Meeding [arr. 1776]

Meyer [arr. 1748]

Müller (Mulder) [arr. 1771]

Pansegrau (Pansegrouw, Pansegrauw)

Reack [arr. 1721]

van Reenen

Roscheit [arr. befor 1806]

Zappel (Sappel) [arr. 1727]

Schickora [arr. 1756]

Schönrat (Schoonraad) [arr. 1792]

Seydler [arr. 1751]

Sowietsky (Zowietsky, Zowitsche) [arr. 1793]

Steen [arr. 1742]

Teszner (Tessenaar) [arr. 1738]

Tetz [arr. 1737]

Truschke (Troskie) [arr. 1784]

Werdetsky (Werredilsky) [arr. 1793]

Willer [arr. 1727]

Wotky (Wotsky) [arr. 1763]

Wotsky [arr. 1767]

Incomers from the Netherlands, probably of Polish origin

Blisefski [arr. 1781]

Magetski

Stredon (Strydom) [arr. 1678]

Fenter (Venter)

A.3. Discharged British soldiers, formerly in the army of Napoleon (arrived 1811-1814)

Bajersky [arr. 1811]

Barenski (Barensche) [arr. 1811]

Beirowski [arr. 1813 ?]

Chintzack [arr. 1811]

Jewaskiewitz (Jewaskowitz, Jewatzchewitz, Jowett ) [arr. 1813]

Kitschuck (Kitshoff) [arr. 1811] (in: Polish Wikipedia)

Kolesky (Coleske) [arr. 1811]

Laskosky [arr. 1811]

Latsky [arr. 1811] (in: Polish Wikipedia)

Mazureik (Mazuriek, Masuret, Massoret) [arr. 1811]

Schiskosky [arr. 1811]

Valensky [arr. 1811]

Less recognized:

Bankofsky, Jacob

Bernickky, Carl

Gordeck, Ignatius

Jablonsky, Jacob

Jakuloff, Ignatz

Jasheck, Joseph

Jourisky , Jacob

Kinski, Christian

Krobka, Matts.

Kusma, John

Lenezk, Paul

Litzack, Michael

Lucovitz, Jn'es

Markosky, John

Navaraty, Mathias

Nilesky, Albert

Mollack , Stephan

Nevosattic, F

Pedroff, John

Petrof, Michael

Procuskey, Mattew

Rodrilingsky, Joseph

Roscheck, Joseph

Roshneck, Anthony

Schalek, Ignatius

Schewerisky, John

Schoevensky, John

Schuska, Ignatz

Schastack, John

Senventy, Jacob

Sorofsko, Thomas

Stepinsky, John

Trabash, John

Tranowith, Francis

Washinaski,Joseph

Wierock, John

Wingolofsky, J.

Zewasinsky, Vincent

Zitzack, Michael

B. British Cape Colony (1815-1910)

B.1. British Kaffraria (1857-1877):

Ankiewicz [arr. 1877], Ankiewics in SA

Baransky [arr. 1878]

Dobrowski [arr. 6.12.1858] (in: eastlondon-labyrinth.com) (in: eGGSA library)

Dombrowsky [arr. 1877]

Grabowski (Jacobi von Grabowsky, Jacoby)

Grundmann [1877]

Hempfling (Henfling) [1860]

Krzenciessa [1858]

Kurtzahn [1878]

Lis (Liss) [arr. 1878]

Marmetschke [arr. 1857]

Mendelski [arr. 1877]

Piwecki [arr. 6.12.1858]

Promnitz [arr. 6.12.1858]

Roskosch [arr. 1857]

Schulz [arr. 13.01.1859]

Skowronek [arr. 1857]

Skorbinski (in: eGGSA library)

Szukała (Schukala) [arr. 6.12.1858]

Waberski [arr. 1877]

Weimann [arr. 6.12.1858]

Weisz (Weiss) [arr. 6.12.1858]

Wojciechowski (Woicichowski, Winter) [arr. 6.12.1858]

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Incomers from the Germany and German part of Silesia, probably of Polish origin

Gernetzky

Hannetzky [1858]

Kockjeu (Kockjen, Kockjoy, Koch)

Pachonick 1; Pachonick 2 [arr. 1877]

Repetzki

Rewitsky

Zuch [1858]

B.2. Single men (families) in the years 1815-1910

Aproskie-Bogotsky (Abokoski, Abagostus) (in: ancestry.co.uk)

Banas

Borkowski [arr. 1897] gavestone 1

Choromanski

Cuber [arr. 1887]

Czapiewski (von Czapiewski) (in: eGGSA library)

Czetwertynski

Dubiel (Du Biel)

Gregorowski [arr. 1834]

Hohowsky (Kokowsky) [arr. c. 1900] (in: eGGSA library)

Jamneck [arr. 1830]

Juritz [arr. 1825]

Kadach [arr. 1877]

Kahl

Koschowsky (von Koschowsky) [arr. 1887]

Kühl (Kuhl)

Lassak

Luck

Manthey

Minicki [arr. c. 1900]

Neizel

Lazarus

Litkie

Piasecki (Hearn) [arr. c. 1910]

Pokrowski

Poplawski

Prozesky 1, Prozesky 2

Richter

Robeck

Troskolanski (in: eGGSA library)