Land values around Cango Cave, South Africa, in the 19th century

The conditions surrounding the land tenure around South Africaʹs Cango show cave and the responsibilities for the Cave, beginning in the early nineteenth century, are discussed briefly. Details of local land prices, derived from historical documents, give a clear indication of the value of the cave, and confirm that minor government officials and the land owners must have made a very good living from the Cave until their monopoly was terminated by the Colonial Government in 1891.