Jan Daniel LEONARD – bekyk sy stamboom hier – het op Dassieklip geboer en Fort Opperman, wat op ‘n heuwel op die aangrensende Opperman’s Kraal gebou is, kon van Dassieklip af gesien word.
Vandag staan die murasie van die fort eensaam en verwaarloos en so toegegroei met bome dat dit baie moeilik waarneembaar is indien jy nie van sy bestaan bewus is nie.
“One of the first blockhouses was erected at Opperman’s Kraal, thirteen miles north of Volksrust (to protect the nearby Sandspruit Railway Station). It was built of stone, two stories high, and was altogether on a much more expensive scale than the subsequent ones, which were principally made of corrugated iron with stone ballast between.
Barbed wire entanglements were stretched round and between the blockhouses. When the boers were hemmed between these barriers and a column, they were obliged either to break back through the column or attempt to cross our lines.”
