Buysdorp is a rural coloured community in the Limpopo Province of South Africa, situated about 14 km from Vivo, on the R522 Regional Route to Louis Trichardt.
Buysdorp is part of the Makhado Local Municipality within the Vhembe District Municipality of the Limpopo Province.
Buysdorp was named after Coenraad de Buys, the “King of the Bastards” in Sarah Millin‘s fictional account of his life.
In 1888, President Paul Kruger granted 11,000 hectares of land to the Buys family for services rendered to the Transvaal Republic; they have retained this land ever since.
The community are relatively self-sufficient because of their independent water supply and subsistence farming, and they maintain their own roads; as a result, they have remained comparatively insular.
