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Mariental Reformed Church (NGK)
The Mariental Reformed Church is the oldest congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (NGK) in Namibia and was founded in 1898 as the Gibeon Reformed Church. The Rev. E.J. Leonard, after whom the Leonard Reformed Church in Leonardville, Namibia, is named, was the first pastor of the congregation and for a number of years covered all of what was then South West Africa (SWA). After the foundation of the Moria Reformed Church, later known as the , the Mariental congregation still covered the whole southern half of Namibia. Keetmanshoop was the next to secede in 1924, but even after that separation, Mariental still covered an area as large as the entire Orange Free State. Three more congregations seceded in quick succession from 1944 onward: Leonard (1944), Maltahöhe Maltahöhe is a village in southern central Namibia close to the Swartrand escarpment, about 110 km west of Mariental in the Hardap Region. It has about 6,000 inhabitants and owns about 17,000 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Reformed Church In South Africa (NGK)
The Dutch Reformed Church (, abbreviated NGK) is a Reformed Christian denomination in South Africa. It also has a presence in neighbouring countries, such as Namibia, Eswatini, and parts of Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia.Map of NGK Synods . NGK official website. Accessed 9 July 2014. In 2013 it claimed 1.1 million members and 1,602 ordained ministers in 1,158 congregations.NGK official English website . Accessed 9 July 2014. The ''Nederduits'' in the denomination's Afrikaans name refers to the old nomenclature for the |
Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. Although it does not border Zimbabwe, less than 200 metres (660 feet) of the Botswanan right bank of the Zambezi River separates the two countries. Namibia gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990, following the Namibian War of Independence. Its capital and largest city is Windhoek. Namibia is a member state of the United Nations (UN), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU) and the Commonwealth of Nations. The driest country in sub-Saharan Africa, Namibia has been inhabited since pre-historic times by the San, Damara and Nama people. Around the 14th century, immigrating Bantu peoples arrived as part of the Bantu expansion. Since then, the Bantu groups, the largest being the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Reformed Church
The Leonardville Reformed Church (originally named Leonard) is a congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (NGK) in the town of Leonardville, Namibia. Leonard was founded on November 11, 1944, (the eleventh day of the eleventh month as it happened) as the eleventh congregation of the Cape Church in what was known at the time as South West Africa (SWA). Members agreed that it had to be named after the memorable pioneer of the NGK in SWA, the Rev. E.J. Leonard, who often ministered on donkey-cart journeys across the arid plains. The first full-time pastor was hired on January 6, 1945, and thus the Rev. and Mrs. C. van der Merwe arrived in the parish on April 13, 1945. They had to adapt to difficult circumstances upon arrival, living for a year in the consistory of the church hall in Pretorius. The congregation included 500 members inherited from the Gibeon congregation, after just eight years had already grown to over 1,000. The number had declined once more by 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonardville, Namibia
Leonardville is a village in Omaheke Region in eastern Namibia. It belongs to the Aminuis electoral constituency. The place normally receives an annual average rainfall of , although in the 2010/2011 rainy season were measured. Leonardville was the main settlement of the Khaiǁkhaun (Khauas Nama) subtribe of the Oorlam people until their military defeat against Imperial Germany's ''Schutztruppe'' soldiers in 1894 and 1896. History The area around Leonardville was inhabited by the Taa-speaking subtribe of the San people until the Khaiǁkhaun (Red Nation), who called the place ''Naosanabis'', occupied their land. Around 1840 the group around Amraal Lambert, first Kaptein of the Kaiǀkhauan Orlam, moved into the area. They had been granted residence and pasture in the land of the Red Nation against an annual fee. In 1843 the Wesleyan Missionary Society established a missionary station here; its first missionaries were Joseph Tindall and his son Henry. They named the settlemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South West Africa
South West Africa ( af, Suidwes-Afrika; german: Südwestafrika; nl, Zuidwest-Afrika) was a territory under South African administration from 1915 to 1990, after which it became modern-day Namibia. It bordered Angola ( Portuguese colony before 1975), Botswana ( Bechuanaland before 1966), South Africa, and Zambia (Northern Rhodesia before 1964). Previously the German colony of South West Africa from 1884–1915, it was made a League of Nations mandate of the Union of South Africa following Germany's defeat in the First World War. Although the mandate was abolished by the United Nations in 1966, South African control over the territory continued despite its illegality under international law. The territory was administered directly by the South African government from 1915 to 1978, when the Turnhalle Constitutional Conference laid the groundwork for semi-autonomous rule. During an interim period between 1978 and 1985, South Africa gradually granted South West Africa a limited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otjiwarongo Reformed Church (NGK)
The Dutch Reformed Church (, abbreviated NGK) is a Reformed Christian denomination in South Africa. It also has a presence in neighbouring countries, such as Namibia, Eswatini, and parts of Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia.Map of NGK Synods . NGK official website. Accessed 9 July 2014. In 2013 it claimed 1.1 million members and 1,602 ordained ministers in 1,158 congregations.NGK official English website . Accessed 9 July 2014. The ''Nederduits'' in the denomination's Afrikaans name refers to the old for the |
Keetmanshoop Reformed Church
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Orange Free State (province)
The Province of the Orange Free State ( af, Provinsie Oranje-Vrystaat), commonly referred to as the Orange Free State ( af, Oranje-Vrystaat), Free State ( af, Vrystaat) or by its abbreviation OFS, was one of the four provinces of South Africa from 1910 to 1994. After 27 April 1994 it was dissolved following the first non-racial election in South Africa. It is now called the Free State Province. Its predecessor was the Orange River Colony which in 1902 had replaced the Orange Free State, a Boer republic. Its ''outside'' borders were the same as those of the modern Free State Province; except for the bantustans ("homelands") of QwaQwa and one part of Bophuthatswana, which were contained on land ''inside'' of the provincial Orange Free State borders. Districts in 1991 Districts of the province and population at the 1991 census. * Zastron: 14,122 * Rouxville: 11,904 * Bethulie: 9,333 * Smithfield: 7,946 * Wepener: 12,964 * Dewetsdorp: 13,521 * Reddersburg: 6,070 * Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maltahöhe Reformed Church
The Maltahöhe Reformed Church is a congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (NGK) in Namibia. In 2010, the congregation had 143 confirmed members and was served jointly with the Bethanie Reformed Church (NGK) by the Rev. Gert Peens. In 2012, the membership had sharply declined to 96 and the Rev. Sarel Visser was helping out with services. The congregation seceded on October 26, 1946 from the mother church of all the NGK congregations in South West Africa, the Gibeon Reformed Church. Members of the Gibeon Ring Commission, into which the new congregation was classified, were present at the ceremony, including the Revs. S.H. van der Spuy, J.R. Holzapfel, and J.T. Potgieter. At its foundation, the congregation based at Maltahöhe Maltahöhe is a village in southern central Namibia close to the Swartrand escarpment, about 110 km west of Mariental in the Hardap Region. It has about 6,000 inhabitants and owns about 17,000 hectares of land. Maltahöhe has two sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gochas Reformed Church
The Gochas Reformed Church is a congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (NGK), located in Namibia with its capital in the city of Gochas, on the Auob River running through the Kalahari Desert. At first, the shores of the Auob were malaria-ridden, but people settled there nevertheless. Already in the 1950s, the area was heavily inhabited. There was a military outpost under German rule, given its central location in the Kalahari. The Gochas area started out as a district of the Gibeon Reformed Church, the mother congregation in Namibia that would later be known as Mariental. The Rev. E. J. Leonard had a demanding job covering the whole Southwest from Grootfontein to Warmbad. Later, he was named the pastor of the Gibeon church and therefore worked often in the Gochas district. Conditions were primitive and services were often held outdoors. From 1932, the old camel stable in Gochas, at the time used as a public school site, was used for services. The lack of a dedi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariental, Namibia
Mariental is a city of 10,000 inhabitants in south-central Namibia, lying on the B1 national road north of Keetmanshoop and southeast of Windhoek. It lies at an elevation of . Mariental is connected to the TransNamib railway line from Windhoek to Keetmanshoop. The town and the surrounding area are in a hot, arid region. Mariental is the administrative capital of the Hardap Region in an area which has long been a centre for the Nama people. It lies near the Hardap Dam, the largest reservoir in Namibia. History Named by local Rhenish (German Lutheran) missionaries, the town was founded in 1912 as a railway stop between Windhoek and Keetmanshoop and named after Maria, the wife of the first colonial settler of the area, Hermann Brandt. It is home to the oldest Dutch Reformed church congregation in Namibia, founded in 1898. It was proclaimed a town in 1920 and a municipality in 1946. Mariental is home to a large number of Nama-speaking people, descendants of the early Khoi inh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Of South Africa
The Union of South Africa ( nl, Unie van Zuid-Afrika; af, Unie van Suid-Afrika; ) was the historical predecessor to the present-day Republic of South Africa. It came into existence on 31 May 1910 with the unification of the Cape, Natal, Transvaal, and Orange River colonies. It included the territories that were formerly a part of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State. Following World War I, the Union of South Africa was a signatory of the Treaty of Versailles and became one of the founding members of the League of Nations. It was conferred the administration of South West Africa (now known as Namibia) as a League of Nations mandate. It became treated in most respects as another province of the Union, but it never was formally annexed. Like Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the Union of South Africa was a self-governing dominion of the British Empire. Its full sovereignty was confirmed with the Balfour Declaration of 1926 and the Statute of Westminst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
