Danielskuil town

Danielskuil town

Title: Danielskuil town
Indigenous Name: tn Tlakalatlou; kqu Chaub; kqu Xaub
Location Type: town
Nearby Town: Danielskuil
District Municipality: ZF Mgcawu
Local Municipality: Kgatelopele
Province: Northern Cape
Toponomy: The seTswana name was Tlakalalou, meaning "elephant in the reeds". The Koranna name was Chaub or Xaub, meaning "cast-offs" or "discarded", possibly a description of the remnants of San residents here (G. S. Nienaber; P. E. Raper, Toponymica Hottentotica, vol. 1, page 284).
History: As the village grew in the late 1800s, the white residents built an NG Church, in 1896 while the local LMS congregation under Rev SS Loabile, built their own church in 1898. Both buildings still stand (PHR Snyman, Danielskuil: Van Griekwa-buitepos tot dienssentrum, HSRC, p. 49). After the devastation of the Anglo-Boer War, Danielskuil began to recover slowly. The London Missionary Society (LMS), based at Moffat Mission in Kuruman, took the lead in the black and coloured community. The missionary, J Tom Brown, worked with local residents such as Isaac Haai, Andries Kruger, Lambert Jansen (or Jansz) and J Khatlane, to establish a mission school in 1907, with CB Majara as teacher (Snyman 1988, p. 62).
Latitude: -28.1644
Longitude: 23.5267