40 pieces Argent and Sable. In layman's terms, the shield was divided horizontally into red and gold, the upper half depicting a Griqua hunter holding a slain buck and a rifle and facing a lion, and the lower half a yoke above an upright black cannon barrel, the whole design surrounded by a border divided into forty sections alternately silver and black. The crest was a cock's head issuing from a golden eastern crown, and the motto was Pro rege lege et grege. Literature Alan George Sumner Gibson: Eight Years in Kaffraria, 1882–1890. Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. 1891. Reprinted by Negro University Press, New York City 1969, . Notable people associated with Kokstad Ebbo Bastard, South Africa national rugby union team player Robert Dower, cricketer Trevor Fancutt, tennis player Rosa Hope, artist Khaya Majola, rugby union player Ivan Mitford-Barberton Dick Muir, rugby union player Wilfrid Napier, Roman Catholic archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, Anglican Bishop of Kimberley, Kuruman and Archbishop of Cape Town. Kelly Seymour, cricketer Zanele Situ, paralympian athlete Sir Walter Stanford, colonial-era magistrate References External links The Greater Kokstad Municipality 1863 establishments in Africa 1863 in South Africa Griqualand East Populated places in the Greater Kokstad Local Municipality