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ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… to the USA to further his studies in Theology at the Union Missionary Seminary in Brooklyn, in New York. August, Booker … Pixley, CW Kilbon, Mr Pugh and…
PlaceSarepta
… The Rhenish Missionary Society (Rhenish – of the river Rhine) was one of the largest Missionary Societies in Germany. Formed from smaller Missions … with…
PlaceEmfundisweni
… joint project of missionaries from the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society and the South African Missionary Society. Both missions had originally been…
PlaceEnon
… as Witterivier). Enon was formed in 1818 by the Moravian Missionary Society on request of the Area Landdrost Jacob … towns inside the Cape Colony. The land…
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
… to Alexandra and enrolled in Grade 1 at an Anglican Missionary School. The school was eventually closed when the …
PlaceEbenezer, Limpopo
… was established in 1831 as a station of the Rhenish Missionary Society . The 1875 census indicated that the … James Backhouse in March 1840, when he reported…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… settle at Bethanie in southern Namibia. 1805 The London Missionary Society begins to operate among the Nama in the … in southern Namibia under the auspices…
ArticleTimeline on the defacing of statues
… is defaced. He was the son of a Dutch Reformed Church missionary. 20 April, The bust of Stephanus Schoeman, the …
Chapter IX - Triumph of disunity (1)
… the Rev. John Campbell, visiting director of the London Missionary Society, and Dr. Philip, early recognised that … Griquatown became the recognised starting…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1980 - 1989
… 20 - 22, Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo attends a conference in Berlin on 'The joint struggle of the working class movement …
ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
… some of Cobbing's specific claims - particularly regarding missionary involvement in slave raiding - have been contested … In 1833, the first missionaries…
ArticleThe Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960
… Africa for the Africans. It was first expressed by a Xhosa missionary, Tiyo Siga, in the 19th century. Tension became …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter III - Dr. Philip - “Defender of the Hottentots”
… pictures of Dr. John Philip, Superintendent of the London Missionary Society (L.M.S.), who was sent to the Cape in 1819 … There is no doubt that this…
PlaceGwali Mission
… Reverend John Brownlee, as a station of for the Glasgow Missionary Society. The village which grew up about it was … chapel, used also as a school-room, the…
PlaceHermannsburg School and Mission Museum, (Greytown)
… was founded in 1854, by missionaries; of the Hermannsburg Missionary Society in Germany. They built the Mission house, … were: 'Herr Direktor Wickert; Her Dr…
PlaceSun Valley Estates, Ladysmith
… owned by Whites. The land initially formed part of the Berlin Mission’s land holdings. In 1924 this fragment of land … sold. The people, who occupied the…
PlacePhillipton
… was established in 1829 as a station of the London Missionary Society, and was named in honour of Dr John … and British colonial administrators. Philipton's…
PlaceClearwater, Now Known as Griquastad- in the Northern Cape
… William Anderson and Cornelius Kramer , of the London Missionary Society, established a Missionary Station, among the Griqua at Leeuwenkuil . The … too arid…
ArticlePrehistory of the Bloemfontein area
… Bloem II, the leader of a Griqua group. In about 1823, the missionary Rev Burchell hired armed Griqua to protect …
EventSouth African artist, Maggie Laubser, is born
… as an artist, Laubser worked with German Expressionists in Berlin, and soon after returning to South Africa she …
PlaceBethelsdorp, Algoa Bay -Eastern Cape
… Back in 1802, the establishment of a Missionary Village on a deserted farm near Algoa Bay, now … people by Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp of the London…
EventSir Benjamin D’Urban accepts the Mfengu as British subjects
… settlement had been established around the Methodist missionary station in Butterworth (Eastern Cape), where missionary John Ayliff was stationed. By 1835,…
EventA Xhosa film wins Golden Bear award
… to win the Golden Bear award as the best film at the 55th Berlin Film Festival in Germany. The film was shot in the …
ArticleAfrica, Portugal
… is Christian, mainly Catholic, as a result of Portuguese missionary activity in the area. The remainder of the … it was their duty to spread the Catholic…
EventEdenburg is founded
… and cattle farming. The oldest mission station of the Berlin Mission Society north of the Orange River is located …
EventFlorence Josephine Zerffi, SA still life and landscape painter, dies
… art in London and at the Arts and Crafts Academy in Berlin. In South African, Zerfifi joined the South African …
KwaMsiza - A Ndebele village: References/Bibliography
… aus dem Missionsleben in Transvaal, 1859-1882 . Berlin: Buchhandlung der Berliner Evangel …
ArticleBantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
… more African children attended school than under the old missionary system of education, albeit grossly deprived of …
The Cape Northern Frontier
… Spruit. Before 1820 John Campbell, from the London Missionary Society (LMS), travelled north of the Orange River …
PlaceAdams College, Amanzimtoti
… the Christian religion. In 1834 Dr Newton Adams, a medical missionary and his wife embarked upon their missionary endevour. They sailed from Boston, the head…