This was once a notorious spot for drivers, due to the narrow, sharp bend

The name Veldhoekdraai is an agglomeration of three words: veld = bush or savanna; hoek = hook; draai = corner. Somehow (possibly because of a simple mispronunciation) Veldhoekdraai became Veldbroeksdraai (broeks = pants).

Originally known as Veldhoekdraai

the meaning ofthe meaning ofthe name

“Ek Saag Stander het ook vroeer jare baie dieolifante tussen die Bakhuise (kruising van Rondebosrivier op pad na Ysternek omtrent 500m van die Bakhuise Noord) en die Poskassie by Diep-walle (waar die eerste pad wegswaai vanaf Veldbroeksdraai Suidekant) gekry terwyl ek hout vervoer het vanaf Buffelsnek na Ou Thesens Saagmeule op Knysna.”

“I, Saag Stander, often saw elephants in the early years - between Bakhuis (at the Rondebos River crossing on the road to Ysternek, about 500 metres from Bakhuis North) and the postbox at Diepwalle (where the first road swings off on the southern approach to Veldbroeksdraai) when I was transporting wood from Buffelsnek to the old Thesen’s Sawmill in Knysna.” (Saag Stander was a resident of Knysna)

the widening ofthe road

Originally known as Veldhoek-draai, this was a once notorious spot for drivers: very narrow, with a sharp bend that reminded one of a fish hook. To get anything but the smallest vehicle past the corner, you were forced to edge your way round it through a series of forwards-and-back-wards maneuvers.

translated as bush-pants-corner