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4 unusual facts about Kuruman


Constance Kgosiemang

He was related to chief Morwe, the Tswana leader from Kuruman (South Africa) who founded the Tswana minority in South-West Africa.

Inyati

Inyati was established as a mission station at the behest of the London Missionary Society (LMS) in December 1859 by Robert Moffat after successfully leading a column of ox-drawn carts from Kuruman in Bechuanaland (modern-day Botswana), reaching the kraal (and probably the headquarters) of Matebele king Mzilikazi at Emhlangeni in western Zimbabwe, in October, 1859.

Kuruman

Kuruman was a London Missionary Society mission station founded by Robert Moffat in 1821 and the place where David Livingstone arrived for his first position as a missionary in 1841.

Vryburg Airport

In February 1967 Interstate Air Services initiated an airline between Vryburg, Kuruman, Sishen and Silverstreams.


Diocese of Kimberley and Kuruman

It is presided over by the Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman, currently the Rt Revd Oswald Swartz.

Rudolf Marloth

Acting as a locum in Kimberley, he made collecting trips from 1885-1886 to the surrounding areas such as Kuruman in the Northern Cape and to South West Africa where he visited Aus, Lüderitz Bay, Walvis Bay, Usakos, Ubib, Karibib, Otjimbingwe and Okahandja.

Toto Makgolokwe

Most of the Batlharo tribe reside in and around Kuruman, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality.


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