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The origins of the Aliwal North camps are unusually well documented. In August 1900 Major Kendal Pretyman Apthorp, a relative of General Pretyman, the Military Governor of the Orange River Colony, was appointed District Commissioner of the Smithfield district.
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By the time that Dr Kendal Franks visited the camp in late...
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They had originally come from the Cape Colony with the...
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There had been several desertions in the months before the...
- Vereeniging
Vereeniging was probably the most contented of all the...
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Acknowledgments: The project was funded by the Wellcome...
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Acknowledgments: The project was funded by the Wellcome...
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Volksrust camp was beautifully situated, in the shadow of...
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Wentworth. Wentworth camp was the third of the three Durban...
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Sep 20, 2016 · Aliwal North, Eastern Cape. Hertzog Bridge, Aliwal North, Viewed From the Orange River. Town on the banks of the Orange River, some 195 km from Bloemfontein, on the road to to East London. It was founded in 1849 and named by the Governor of the Cape Sir Henry Smith, 1847-1852.
Maletswai (previously Aliwal North) [2] is a town in central South Africa on the banks of the Orange River, Eastern Cape Province. It is a medium-sized commercial centre in the northernmost part of the Eastern Cape. The Dutch Reformed Church was built in 1855.
The town of Aliwal North was formerly founded in 1850, by Sir Harry Smith, the then Governor of the Cape Colony. He named the town in memory of his victory over the Sikhs at the Battle of Aliwal during the First Sikh War in India in 1846.
- How Did The Primitive Methodists Get to Aliwal North?
- The First Minister
- John Smith
- An Extract from John Smith’s Journal at That Time
- A New Building
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In 1867, J D Lindsay, a Wesleyan from Ireland, who had lived in South Africa for 27 years, moved to Aliwal. He was a local preacher, and finding that the Wesleyan missionaries could not meet what he saw as the ‘pressing needs of the people’, he wrote a letter on 29 September 1869 to the President of the PM Conference. He asked for a young minister ...
Rev Henry Buckenham volunteered to go, and left England on 5 October 1870, in the ‘Marsdin’, bound for Algoa Bay. The journey took him 9 weeks, reaching Aliwal on 16 December. In the meantime Mr Lindsay had moved to Aas-Vogel-Kop, a trading station in the district of Smithfield, Orange Free State. He wanted Buckenham to live with him for 12 months ...
The PM Missionary Committee decided to send John Smith, then a PM minister at Great Yarmouth, to replace Buckenham in Aliwal. He had been in the ministry for 15 years, all of them in the Norwich District. John Smith and his wife embarked at Southampton on 27 April 1874, and landed at Algoa Bay on 24 May, having a remarkably speedy voyage. He began ...
‘Sunday. – Opened the English school at 9 am, and the native at 9.30. Returned and closed Engish school at 10.30, and preached at 11. Opened English school at 2.30 pm and preached to natives at 3. Took the English service at 7. Monday. – Kept school from 9 to 2. Wrote letters for English mail. Held English class from 7 to 8. Decided texts for the f...
Another difficulty now arose as the congregation and the schools had outgrown the original premises. Smith’s requests for funds were refused on the grounds of the large debt that had been run up on the English church and manse. (It seems from John Smith’s account that there were separate services and schools for English and African congregations.) ...
John Smith, ‘Our South African Mission. First Paper’, Primitive Methodist Quarterly Review, 1882, pp 92-102
The anthology presents a view of the adversity experienced in the concentration camps of the Anglo-Boer War. This article focuses on an anthology that was kept by a Boer woman who was confined to the Aliwal North concentration camp for 14 months.
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About Aliwal North Museum. Aliwal North is situated in the Eastern Cape Provinc along the Orange River on an old strategic ford, now upgraded to a pontoon, used by the Voortrekkers and Bushmen and named Aliwal by the Governor of the Cape, Sir Harry Smith, to honor and remember the 1846 battle in which he defeated the Sikhs from India.
