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Built: 1941 Architect: Walgate and Elsworth Location: Cnr Andringa & Plein St, Stellenbosch. Style: Cape Dutch Revival, Neo-Classical View from south-west. Image source: Archistori Timeline Bernardus Fick acquired the land in 1758 and constructed a residence in 1762. Over time, successive expansions transformed the house into a T-shape featuring an elegant, late-18th-century gable. Having escaped the 1875 fire, the structure stood intact until the late 1930s; its exact internal floor plan was captured in a 1939 aerial photograph taken mid-demolition. The house was home to notable burghers. Following the 1875 disaster, property owners increasingly abandoned thatched roofing in favour of corrugated iron. Many surviving or rebuilt homes were remodeled with Victorian-style corrugated iron verandahs, ornate cast-iron filigree, and straight gables, giving streets like Dorp Street the mixed architectural heritage seen today. In 1838, coinciding with the final emancipation of enslaved ...

Built: 1990s Architect: Unidentified Location: Aan-de-wagenweg, Stellenbosch. View from south-west. Image source: Archistori View from west. Image source: Archistori Apartments next to the Eerste River. Locality map Sources  

Built: 1903 Architect: Karl Heyne Location:  Fatima Bhayat St (Kerk St), Rustenburg. Aerial view showing Derdepoort Monument in front of church. Image source: NG Moedergemeente Rustenburg on FB. Timeline The Reformed (Hervormde) and Dutch Reformed (NG) Church in the old Transvaal merged in 1885 to form the 'Dutch Reformed or Reformed Church' (Nederduits Hervormde of Gereformeerde Kerk), but barely seven years later, the new church split again. The court ordered the NG Church in Rustenburg to transfer its property to the Reformed (Hervormde) Church. Fortunately, the ZAR government donated 4 erven in the town to the impoverished NG congregation to help them get back on their feet. Following the runderpest (1896) and malaria (1897) epidemics, construction on the church began early in 1898. General Piet Joubert laid the cornerstone on 23 April 1898. The building was nearly completed when the Second Anglo-Boer War broke out in 1899, instantly halting any final completion or offici...

Aka: Derdepoort Gedenknaald Erected: 1920 Sculptor: Anton van Wouw Location: Fatima Bhayat St (Kerk St), Rustenburg. Image source: NG Moedergemeente Rustenburg on FB. Photo c.1969.¹ The memorial at the entrance of the NG Kerk Rustenburg was erected a number of years after the end of the Second Anglo-Boer War and commemorates the names of those killed and murdered at Derdepoort. In the neighbourhood of Mochudi the Marico River is the boundary between the Bechuanaland Protectorate and the Transvaal. On the British side of the river was a native town, Sekwane, and over against it, on the other side, was a Boer laager at a place called Derdepoort.² Derdepoort Massacre The Derdepoort attack took place on 25 November 1899, early in the Second Anglo-Boer War (also known as the South African War). It occurred at a location on the border of the ZAR with the British Bechuanaland Protectorate (in present-day North West Province, near the Botswana border, east of Gaborone). A small group of Bo...

Aka: Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk (Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa) Built: 1913 Architect: P. Westmaas Location: Cnr Charl Cillier & Kruger St, Bronkhorstspruit. Aerial view from west. Image source: NHK on FB (Zachrys Prinsloo). The congregation existed since 1869, but was officially established in 1911. It used to be known as  die Konsulentgemeente van Pretoria.² View from north-west.  Unidentified photographer.¹ Inauguration in 1913. Unidentified photographer. Locality map Sources Muller, J.J.P. (1970) Eeufeesviering van die Nederdeuitch Hervormde gemeente Bronkhorstspruit. Die Hervormer, Jan 1970. NH Gemeente Bronkhorstspruit on FB.  

Client  Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk (Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa) Built: 1970 Type: Retirement Home Architect: Taljaard Carter Building contractor: J. J. Gräbe Location: Observatory Ave, Johannesburg. Status: Unknown The home could accommodate 115 elderly people. Sources Herbst, R. (1970)  'n Nuwe Mylpaal uit Ons Tuis, Johannesburg. Die Hervormer, July 1970.

Aka: Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk (Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa) Messina Built: 1965 Architect: Bosman & Neethling (Pretoria) Building contractors: Hendrik van Wyk (foreman) Location: Cilliers Ave, Musina. View from south (2024). Google Street View. From 1920 until 1965, the old church (built 1920) was used by the Hervormers as well as by the other two sister churches, until they too were eventually able to build their own church. The new church building was dedicated on Saturday 5 June 1965. Elder Hendrik van Wyk was the construction foreman, while the architects Bosman and Neethling from Pretoria designed the church. The congregation built the church themselves. ¹ Locality map Sources n.a. (1970) Messina. Die Hervormer, Aug 1970.