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Cook’s count, quoted by the Free State study, put the 1960 district at 8,913 people (urban 4,647) and 1.3 people per square kilometre, the sparsest part of the Eastern Cape Karoo in that survey. The white population had already peaked around 1935. Source: UFS CDS Research Report 2006(3), citing Cook 1971 https://www.ufs.ac.za/docs/librariesprovider23/centre-for-development-support-documents/all-documents/led---research-report-2006(3)-83-eng.pdf