Missionary Station

Considered one of the most interesting towns to visit in the region, along with Grahamstown, King Williams Town began it...

Zithulele Hospital is a 147 bed government-funded Hospital near Mqanduli, Eastern Cape. The Hospital serves a population...

Their ancestors were settled in these villages after the war of 1850 by the colonial authorities. The starvation and ha...

Pomeroy is a small Town in KwaZulu-Natal which is some 72 km North of Greytown and 56 km South-South-East of Dundee. It ...

Mariannhill lies in a densely green, intense Landscape swept by Forests and sheltered, leafy Neighborhoods outside Durba...

Elandslaagte was a mission station of the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, and was probably founded in about 1860....

"Suurbraak lies in what could easily be termed a little piece of heaven, and because it is not a commercial Centre is le...

An Anglican Mission in the Xuka River valley, 4 km East of Ngcobo. Established in 1860-61 by Rev. John Gordon, named thu...

Settlement West of Amanzimtoti and South of Durban, in the Umlazi district. Established in 1836, it was destroyed by Din...

It was at Botshabelo that the missionary R.F Güstav Trumpelmann, with the invaluable assistance of his erstwhile student...

The Village of Colesberg was founded in 1830 on the site of an abandoned station of the London Missionary Society, and w...

"Keilands Catholic Mission Station- Established 1886 along the banks of the Great Kei in a remote valley, between Cathca...

It was established by Bishop H P Halbeck in 1839 and named after Thomas Clarkson. Clarkson was a local hero. A red haire...

The Village of Clarkebury was established in 1830 as a station of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society. James Backh...

The District of Cathcart was created in January 1877, and it was raised to a fiscal divisional on 1 December 1879. Its e...

In 1721 the farm Langverwacht was allocated to Jean le Roux, a Huguenot settler. After a post office was opened on the s...

In 1859, the missionary and explorer David Livingstone found the Cape, and named it "Cape Maclear" after his friend, the...

The Van der Kemp Memorial Church is still very much the spiritual centre of Bethelsdorp. Nearby are the almshouses, buil...

Adams College is a public school situated in Adams Mission which is 8 km inland from Amanzimtoti and 35 km south of Durb...

Wesleyan Methodist Mission Station 2 km South-West of Middledrift. Established in 1853 for the Xhosa under Chief William...

Station of the Berlin Missionary Society in the Uniondale District. Named after the German Missionary- Schmidt.  Wh...

An old Mission Station that takes its name from the nearby stream. The name means 'black water', from Zulu. 

Original name being 'Willston', Afrikaans name for 'Almond tree'. These trees were found near the Rhenish Mission Statio...

To do in Zoar and Amalienstein: Drive into Amalienstein and visit the Church and its yellow-wood pews. The local coffee...

From one of South Africa’s oldest churches to the delight of wine tasting and delightful Cape cuisine, sample the best o...

Stendahl Mission is said to have existed for about 124 years. A Minister of the Berlin Mission Society, Gueldenpfennig, ...

Visitors flying into the city will cross the Buffalo River on their trip into the city from the East London Airport. Ho...

Butterworth is situated in the Eastern Cape of South Africa and is one of the oldest towns in the Eastern Cape's Wild Co...

Kroondal, situated on a farm, was one of 22 German Lutheran mission congregations established in the former Natal and Tr...

Three years after his arrival at the Cape, Superintendent of the London Missionary Society, Dr John Philip, paid a visit...

  In 1835, Captain Allan Gardiner retired from the navy and went to Natal to begin Missionary work amongst the Zul...

The Rhenish Missionary Society (Rhenish  – of the river Rhine) was one of the largest Missionary Societies in Germa...

The South African Missionary Society, established a ministry in Wagenmakers­vallei in 1796 and ministered to slaves and ...

In the mid-1880s a huge Cathedral was built in the Bushmanland desert oasis of Pella by French Missionaries who at first...

The village of Concordia was established in 1863 as a station of the Rhenish Missionary Society. It seems probable that ...

(prior to 1910) St Augustine's was established in 1865 by the Reverend Bransby Key as a station of the Society for the ...

(prior to 1910) Philipton was established in 1829 as a station of the London Missionary Society, and was named in honou...

Riverside was a trading station providing staple goods to a predominantly rural indigenous clientele. It was already wel...

(prior to 1910) Umxelo was established in 1839 by the Reverend Richard Birt as a station of the London Missionary Socie...

In 1828 the Wesleyan Missionary Society established a station at Amadola. A year later it was attacked and burnt down by...