Settler Stories in Habari: A Guide to the Friends of East Africa Newsletter
Compiled for the Wonders of Sergoit Hills archive, October 2026. Habari is the newsletter of the Friends of East Africa (Vriende van Oos-Afrika), the association of Afrikaner and other families who once lived in Kenya and Tanzania. Since 1979 its members have written down their memories of the Uasin Gishu Plateau, Eldoret, Sergoit, Moiben, Kaptagat and the farms around them. Every issue is free to read on the Friends of East Africa website . This page is a guide to the settler stories of our area that appear in those issues, with a short note on what each one tells us, so that readers can go to the original. The stories belong to their authors and to the Friends of East Africa. Many are written in Afrikaans. The first trekkers and the founding of the settlement The beginnings of the settlement (Habari, first issue, pages 1 to 4, Afrikaans). An early account of how the settlement began with the three Van Breda brothers in 1902. Piet van Breda surveyed most of the farms on the Plat...