Talk:Kroondal

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Kroondal is a village situated in North West Province of South Africa with a large German speaking community. It lies on the N4 road.

The village originated from a farm in existence since 1843, initially known as Kronendal on which a mission was established - one of 22 German Lutheran missions in Natal and the former Transvaal. By 1889 a settlement was surveyed and divided into plots.[2] The local school school dates from 1892. The local church congregation counts about 400 members, and is 80% German-speaking, with most of the rest being Afrikaans speakers.[2]

I deleted the following sentence because the content is not factual: »The local school counted amongst its pupils Louis Botha, who would become South Africa's first prime minister, and Afrikaans poet JD du Toit.«

Both would have been too old to have attended the Kroondal School which started up in 1892. Botha was then 30 years old and du Toit was at that time nearing his school career in the Cape Province. Both, however, are reputed to have attended schools established by missionaries of the Hermannsburg Mission Society - see below:

Louis Botha

»He was born in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) as one of 13 children born to Louis Botha Senior (26 March 1827 – 5 July 1883) and Salomina Adriana van Rooyen (31 March 1829 – 9 January 1886). He briefly attended the school at Hermannsburg before his family relocated to the Orange Free State.« []

J.D. du Toit / Totius]

»notes[1] in Afrikaans about Totius/du Toit. Du Toit began his education at the Huguenot Memorial School at Daljosafat in the Cape (1883–1885). He then moved to a German mission school named Morgensonne near Rustenburg from 1888 to 1890 before returning, between 1890 and 1894, to his original school at Daljosafat.« 

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