gemeente

Note 68: The Drakenstein gemeente of the Dutch Reformed Church was established at Paarl in 1691. back

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

The Church did not establish any new gemeente during the period of transitional governments.

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

Note 46: D.A. Kotzé, Van Roodezand tot Gariep: Die 150 jarige bestaan van die NGK gemeente Clanwilliam 1826 – 1976 (Goodwood: Nasionale Boekdrukkery, 1981). back

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

The Cedarberg became a place that both needed and could sustain a magistrate's office and an NGK gemeente.

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

In some ways, the creation of new NGK gemeente mirrored the creation of new landdrost districts, dividing both congregations and constituencies into manageable sizes in terms of geography and population.

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

Unlike secular administrative districts that next spread eastward, the Church created two new gemeentes to the north of the village of Stellenbosch, but still in the Stellenbosch district, establishing the Roodezand (modern Tulbagh) congregation in 1743 and the Swartland gemeente in 1745, half a decade before the Church created a ward in Swellendam in 1798.43

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

The Bible is significant, described in the inventory as "big," the kind of imposing tome from which the patriarch would have read to the rest of the household as part of regular devotional practice. 57 The Dutch Reformed Church did not establish a gemeente (congregation) in the Cedarberg until 1826, so evidence of religious devotion at home was an important part of claiming membership in a wider settler community.

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

The records have yet to be fully processed, but, according to archivist Diederick Kortlang (an employee of the Dutch National Archives who has worked in the Indonesian National Archives in Jakarta), they will likely be catalogued as follows: the Indonesian National Archive, Archieven van de gereformeerde, lutherse en evangelische kerk te Batavia, gedeponeerde archieven, stukken afkomstig uit het archief van de gereformeerde gemeente van Taiwan, and ingekomen stukken van gereformeerde gemeenten in het octrooigebied.

How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

Ek het u daarmee hoor se dat u gemeente, en die Afrikaner-gemeenskap in die algemeen, volledig deel is van die nuwe politieke en maatskaplike bestel.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

Met die geskiedkundige eerste opening van ons demokraties-verkose parlement in Mei 1994, het u my uitgenooi om die ere-diens in u gemeente by te woon.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1999