Editing Perdekop (section)

==History==
Formerly Paardekop, ‘horses hill’, from the practice of keeping horses there when horse-sickness prevailed in lower lying areas.<ref name=dsapn>{{cite web|title=Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)|url=https://archive.org/details/DictionaryOfSouthernAfricanPlaceNames|publisher=Human Science Research Council|page=363}}</ref>

The town was established during an [[equine]] sickness epidemic when farmers found that when they brought their [[horse]]s to the top of this hill they were protected from the sickness.<ref name="On01">{{cite book | title=On Route in South Africa: Explore South Africa region by region | publisher=Jonathan Ball Publishers | author=Erasmus, B.P.J. | year=2014 | pages=401 | isbn=9781920289805}}</ref>{{rp|303}} During the [[Second Boer War]] the [[United Kingdom|British]] operated a lookout balloon here to monitor [[Boer]] activities.