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- Another of Piet "Italeni's" brothers, "Swart" (Black) Dirk Uys (1814-1910), played a leading role in Natal and Transvaal society in the second half of the 19th century.
"Swart" Dirk served on the General Staff of Commandant General Piet Joubert during the First Anglo-Boer War (1880-1881) and was one of the signatories of the Peace Treaty signed to end that war after the Boer victory at Majuba.
Dirk was also the founder of the town Wakkerstroom, which he had initially named Uysenburg.
"Swart" Dirk is considered to be the father of one of South Africa's indigenous cattle breeds that was known as the Uysbees (Uys cattle) until 1947 when the breed was officially renamed Drakensberger by the South African Ministry of Agricultur. Although the origins of the Uysbees / Drakensberger go back hundreds of years to when Friesland bulls (known as "Vaderlanders" at the Cape) and the black cattle of the Khoi (Hottentots) were interbred for the first time, it was "Swart" Dirk and his family who bred and improved the breed during the latter half of the 19th century and who subsequently saved the race from extinction after the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902).
Source: http://www.neiluys.com/index.php/uys-history/
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1814 - 1910 (96 years)