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History: Tulbagh Mission Society was founded as early as 1797, though a missionary only arrived in 1811. He was Rev Arie Vos, who was attached to the London Missionary Society. He was later joined by the Rhenish missionary Gustav Zahn. In 1842 the mission was taken over by the Rhenish Mission Society. The modest chapel built in 1814 was ...
A Mission Station can be found at the foot of the Saronsberg in the Tulbagh district, about 20 km south of Porterville. The Mission Station was established by the Rhenish Missionary Society in 1848 by Johannes Heinrich Kulpmann; it was later taken over by the Dutch Reformed Church in 1945. The name, Afrikaans for Sharon, is of Biblical origin ...
In September 1969 the Boland area was hit by an earthquake that caused considerable damage to the town of Tulbagh. Many of the Church Street buildings were destroyed. The extent of the damage was aptly described by the Journal Bulletin of the Simon van der Stel Foundation in 1973: "A street that somehow captured the essential spirit of a unique culture looked as if it was in the throes of a ...
Christian Wilhelm Alheit also known as Christoph Wilhelm Alheit 13 November 1817 in Mühlhausen, Thüringen - 21 March 1882 in Steinthal, Tulbagh district, was a Rhenish missionary. Alheit arrived in South Africa in 1842 and worked at mission stations in Tulbagh (1842-7), Schietfontein (1847–64), Stellenbosch (1864–73) and Saron (1873-1882).
National Monument Type of site: Church Current use: Church : Dutch Reformed Mission. The church building of the D.R. Mission Church, Worcester, and the neighbouring parsonage and old school building, together with the other buildings in the so- called "Rhenish Church Complex", forms a unique historical and architectural group which has cl Worcester
Map of the Cape of Good Hope in 1885 (blue). The areas of Griqualand West and Griqualand East were annexed to the Cape Colony around 1880. The Cape Colony (Dutch: Kaapkolonie), also known as the Cape of Good Hope, was a British colony in present-day South Africa named after the Cape of Good Hope.
The Migrant Farmer in the History of the Cape Colony. P.J. Van Der Merwe, Roger B. Beck. Ohio University Press. 1995. 333 pages. ISBN 0-8214-1090-3. History of the Boers in South Africa; Or, the Wanderings and Wars of the Emigrant Farmers from Their Leaving the Cape Colony to the Acknowledgment of Their Independence by Great Britain. George ...
Reconnaissance missions became Theron's speciality. He was able to move through terrain without being detected. As the war progressed, Theron and his men were moved closer to the Western front. Boer forces, under the command of Piet Cronje, were constantly skirmishing with British forces, and the TVK gained a reputation for destroying railway ...