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Dietz, CF POHL and Piet RETIEF all worked as contractors as well as at other jobs in the Cape around 1820. Dietz arrived at the Cape in 1817, he was a farmer and trader who set up as a building contractor in the Grahamstown/Oudtshoorn area around 1820. According to Lewcock (1963:195) he built himself 'in 1818 a large single-storeyed Cape Dutch farmhouse dwelling and shop, with typical T-shaped plan' in Grahamstown, he favoured flat roofs, as did Retief and Pohl, and was apparently a more astute businessman than either of the others and successfully completed the prison building for the Albany District, designed by WO JONES (1823). (Lewcock 1963; Greig 1971:33)All truncated references not fully cited in 'References' are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon. References
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