This Day in History: 12 April 1887
Chief of the Lebelo clan of the Ndebele, Johannes Jane Tane Kekana, died on the farm Leeukraal, to the north of Hammanskraal and was buried at Wallmansthal. His son Seroto Karel Kekana succeeded him.
Shortly after the arrival of the Voortrekkers in the Transvaal, chief Lebelo Seroto, Kekana's father, broke away from the Ndebele in the area of the present-day Potgietersrus. He succeeded his father as captain and moved first to Wallmansthal missionary station, 27 km northeast of Pretoria, and then to the farm Leeuwkraal. At Leeuwkraal he tried to improve the education of his people, by inter alia appointing an African teacher and later obtaining the services of a teacher-evangelist. His desire for a small church at Leeuwkraal became reality in 1882.
