Kokstad is a town in the Harry Gwala District Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. Kokstad is named after the Griqua chief Adam Kok III who settled here in 1863. Kokstad is the capital town of the East Griqualand region, as it is also the biggest town in this region. It was built around Mount Currie, a local mountain range, by the city's founder Adam Kok III, for whom the town is named. Stad is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for "city".
Kokstad City Hall and Victorian Bandstand. Also visible is the Memorial to Cape Mounted Riflemen & Volunteers, East Griqualand.
St Patricks Catholic Cathedral
Griqua People also known as Griekwa, Chariqua, Korana or Koranna can be found in South Africa and Namibia, they are related to the Khoisan People.The name Griqua is of Khoekhoe origin. The kind
Griqua representative Thys Mentoor explained
the significance of the ethnonym in his mother tongue Afrikaans:
Adam Kok III The Captain of the Griqua people
Mixed-race "Afrikander" trek-boer nomads in the Cape Colony, ancestral people to the great Griqua migration.
An 1820 drawing of a street scene in Griquatown, Griqualand West.
David Arnot, a 19th-century Griqua lawyer and diplomat.
