Sheepmoor is a town situated near the N2 National Route between Piet Retief (officially eMkhondo) and Ermelo in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa.
Sheepmoor is part of the Msukaligwa Local Municipality in the Gert Sibande District of Mpumalanga province.
The town, as it is known today, used to be a farm that belonged to Mr. Stenekamp, who bought it from a farmer who originally bought it from the Swazi King. Mr. Stenekamp divided the farm up into small stands with a clause included in every title deed that no sales of alcohol would be allowed to be sold on this side of the train tracks, where the people lived and built houses.
Poor Afrikaans people could buy stands and build houses.
Three churches and a boarding school were built by the community, as well as a Boeresaal for meetings and functions by farmers in the area.
A post office, a telephone operator, a shop with a petrol station, and a train station. and an Indian shop – Sarang se winkel – was also built.
After 1994, Msukaligwa Municipality built Bee Maseko secondary school, a cemetery, and a clinic, as well as distributed stands to black people and built a community hall for the youth.
The small village of Sheepmoor is famously known for the case of Sandra Laing, who in 1966 was reclassified from white to coloured by the government.
