 Sir Antonie Viljoen, an Afrikaans medical doctor, bought a farm named "Oak Valley Estate" in the Elgin Valley in 1898.He spent much of the next few years under house arrest on his farm (he had signed up as a medical officer with the Boer army, during the war, and was soon captured by the British.His internment on "Oak Valley" was only granted on condition that he paid for the services of two British soldiers to guard him for the duration of the war!)