Menu
https://sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/article_image/san_painting.jpg
Published 21 July 2022Updated 12 July 2025

Calvinia was founded on the Farm-'Hoogekraal', in 1845. This property was purchased by the Dutch Reformed Church in order to establish a parish for the Town- Hantam, located in the Karoo. (The name Hantam; has its origins with the Khoi people and it is believed that the name refers to "the hill where the' red nut sedge' grows".)

Published 21 July 2022Updated 12 October 2023
Found in the Southern part of the Kaduna State, which is located in the middle belt of Nigeria. This old Railway Town of Kafanchan, owes much of its development to the Railway Corporation built in 1927. This line connects: Port Harcourt; Enugu; Kafanchan; Kuru; Bauchi and Maiduguri. In the Census taken in 2007, the population of Kafanchan was 83 092. Kafanchan is a commercial hub in the state and home to other tribes, but the Fantswam's, are the indigenous people of the Town.
Subscribe to