Saulspoort
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Saulspoort (also known as Moruleng)[2] is a village in South Africa, at the northern foot of the Pilanesberg, about 65 km north of Rustenburg. It was named after a former baKgatla chief, Tsheole, called Saul by the early settlers.[3]
It was established when Henri Gonin, a Swiss missionary with the Dutch Reformed Church preaching to the baKgatla tribe, moved to Saulspoort farm, which was owned by the later president Paul Kruger; Kruger eventually sold the farm to Gonin in 1869.[4] In 1895 the baKgatla purchased most of Saulspoort from Gonin.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d "Main Place Saulspoort". Census 2011.
- ^ "Pilane and Another v Pheto and Others". Southern African Legal Information Institute.
Moruleng and Saulspoort mean the same village and the names are frequently used interchangeably…
- ^ Raper, Peter E. (1987). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Internet Archive. p. 399. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
- ISBN 978-1-4918-3105-2.
- . Retrieved 29 August 2014.
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