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Field Cornet Andries Botha was an influential leader of the Khoi people of Kat River, Cape Colony. ==Early life== Little is known about his childhood. However, he was probably born at the end of the 1700s, and as a young man in the 1830s he was recorded as a powerful leader of the Gonaqua ("Gona") Khoi at the Kat River Settlements. In 1834, the Surveyor General of the Cape Colony, W.F.Hertzog, recorded him as having originally arrived at Kat River in 1829, among the followers of Khoi leader Kobus Boezak who had migrated from Theopolis. The young Andries Botha and his community immediately split from Boezak's group and settled on the banks of the Buxton River - a Kat River tributary - where Botha built his farming estate.〔E.L.Nel: ''An evaluation of community-driven economic development, land tenure, and sustainable environmental development in the Kat River Valley''. HSRC Press, 2000.〕 He was at one time the acknowledged civilian & military leader of the entire Kat River region. He had a troubled family life. He lost his first wife in 1841, in a background of family strife. He eventually remarried, to a widow with whom he was extremely happy. However he became estranged from the children of his first marriage. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andries Botha」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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