Tokai School Site

The subject site used to form part of Dreyersdal Farm, which was granted in 1804 to William Duckitt (brought out from England by governor Sir George Yonge in 1801 to improve Cape farming). Dreyersdal had once been the upper part of the Company's Post called Baas Harmanskraal (possibly after Harmen van Marlo, who worked for Simon van der Stel); it lay next to Bergvliet. 
In 1807 Duckitt sold his land to Elisabeth Scholtz, widow of Hendrik Oostwald Eksteen of Bergvliet. In 1812 she transferred Bergvliet, and Duckitt's land too, to her son, also HO Eksteen, who went bankrupt some years later. Thomas Frederick Dreyer, a son of TF Dreyer of Alphen, bought the farm in 1831, together with over 20 morgen of quitrent land adjoining.  Fransen estimates that the Dryersdal house was built in 1835. In 1837 Dreyer sold it all again to his brother-in-law Johannes Albertus Munnik. (Fransen, 2004, p153)
It was acquired by Mary Rathfelder in 1885 and then by the Louw family in 1894. It still in Louw family’s ownership.
On the 1931 map and 1945 aerial photo, Dreyersdal Farm was still largely under vines. To the south-west of the subject site was a windmill. On the right, to the east of the Spaanschemat River, the first stage of development of Bergvliet Township can be seen.
On the 1945 and 1953 aerial photos, new windbreaks can be seen at the edges of the site. 
On the 1958 aerial photo new east-west windbreaks can be seen, amongst the vineyards.
The school site, Erf 1061 Bergvliet, was subdivided off and transferred in 1967. The vines were removed c1971.
The M3 Simon van der Stel Freeway was built between 1971 and 1973.
The residential neigbourhood to the north and east (Pekalmy Township, which forms part of Bergvliet) was developed between 1971 and 1981.
The east-west windbreaks on the site initially matured until the late 1980s, then rapidly declined. These low-growing, densely bushy Eucalyptus trees appear to be spider gums. Only scattered remnants of the east-west windbreaks are now in place, but the taller windbreak along the western boundary appears to be intact.