Limpopo, BOLOBEDU district, Rural (farm cemeteries) / Limpopo, BOLOBEDU district, Medingen, Mission Station Cemetery / (1 of 4 images)
Cemetery information:- In 1881 a missionary named Rev Fritz Reuter (Friedrich Ludwig REUTER 1848-1940) set up shop in Bolobedu, in the north-eastern part of the Boer republic, Transvaal (now North Eastern Limpopo, South Africa). Reuter had been invited to Bolobedu through one of Rain-queen Modjadji's nobles, Kgashane Mamatlepa. Over time, Reuter proved to be a useful mediator between the Boer republic and Modjadji - mediating to avoid a war, as well as assisting Balobedu during the 1894 drought. With his newfound position, he was invited back to Bolobedu and given a piece of land just 15 km from Modjadji's capital. (source: http://www.apc.uct.ac.za/news/search-balobedu-research-trip-evangelisches-landeskirchliches-archiv-berlin) Album incomplete, we only have the overview pictures. Some photos donated by the GGSA Cemetery Project. eGGSA captions by: Riana le Roux & James Anderson Additional information available on the GGSA Cemetery DVD:- Cemetery ID: 2698 Number of names: 3 Information submitted by: Andy Bermingham Google Earth Project Information:- GPSID: 3253 GPS: -23 38.494, 30 14.486
1. Medingen mission station
contributed by: Andy Bermingham and John Schwartz
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