Baviaanskloof Eastern Cape South Africa

In 1737 a young bachelor missionary George Schmidt was sent to the Cape. Schmidt settled on 23 April 1738 in Baviaan Kloof (Kloof of the Baboons) in the Riviersonderend Valley. Schmidt became acquainted with an impoverished and dispersed Khoi people who were practically on the threshold of complete extinction. He taught the Khoi to read and write, but when he began to baptise his converts there was great dissatisfaction among the Cape Reformed clergy. According to them, Schmidt was not an ordained minister and so was not permitted to administer the sacraments. Consequently he had to abandon his work, and in 1744, after seven years at Baviaans Kloof, he left the country.

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