Published date
27 May 1820
Robert Moffat, Scottish missionary of the London Missionary Society (LMS), arrived at Maruping, ten km from present day Kuruman, to assist with missionary work, which the LMS started in 1816 under the Bechuana society of Chief Mothibi. Moffat was accompanied by his wife Mary, whom he had married in Cape Town at the end of 1819. In 1824, the mission station was moved to Seodin, in the valley of the Kuruman River, where Moffat built a church, once the largest building on the high veld.
References
Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 7, p. 228.|Visit Kuruman, Moffat Mission, from Visit Kuruman, [online], Available at visitkuruman.co.za [Accessed: 26 May 2014]