Balmoral (South Africa)

Balmoral
Balmoral
Coordinates	25 ° 52 ′  S , 28 ° 59 ′  E Coordinates: 25 ° 52 ′  S , 28 ° 59 ′  E
Basic data
Country	South Africa
province	Mpumalanga
District	Nkangala
local community	Emalahleni
height	1458 m
Residents	100
founding	1894

Balmoral is a place with around 100 inhabitants west of Middelburg in the South African province of Mpumalanga .

history

Balmoral was founded in 1894 as the NZASM station on the Pretoria – Maputo line . During the Second Boer War , the British built an internment camp near the train station. For decades, the place consisted of the train station and a primary school for the surrounding farms.

In 1997 several Afrikaans , including the chairman of the Boere-Republiek Koöperatief Beperk, Fritz Meyer, bought three parts of the Eenzaamheid farm outside the village. Right-wing Afrikaaner activist Willem Ratte owns a farm in Balmoral. Over time, the BRKB was re-registered as Balmoral Vestigings Koöperatief Beperk (BVKB).

Since Balmoral Vestigings Koöperatief Beperk was founded, only a few houses have been built on the BVKB property.

In the South African parliamentary elections in 2019 , the Vryheidsfront Plus won 96 of 375 votes (around 26%) in the constituency to which Balmoral belongs, while the party only got 2.4% nationwide. The African National Congress received 46.3%.

Cemetery and museum

The cemetery of the Balmoral internment camp, which dates from the Second Boer War, is owned by the BVKB. In 1997, BVKB residents founded the Volksmoord Museum of Boer Genocide next to the Balmoral Internment Camp cemetery and asked the British High Commission in Pretoria for an apology for the deaths.

In 2013, Willem Ratte removed his possessions from the museum, which fell into disrepair and was repeatedly vandalized. In 2016, the empty building burned down in a field fire.

In 2016 the BVKB sold the cemetery and the ruins of the museum to a new owner. A new museum about the internment camp and a restaurant are to be built.

traffic

Balmoral is just north of National Route 4 on the R104.

Others

According to the 2011 census, the town of Balmoral in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal is inhabited by 1,360 people, 99.5% of whom describe themselves as black.

Web links

• Balmoral Vestigings Koöperatief Beperk (Afrikaans)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ South Africa: Envisaged Boere Republic Registered In The Heart Of Mpumalanga . African Eye News. October 8, 1997. Retrieved January 4, 2014.
2. ↑ Parts 28, 29, 30 of the farm Eenzaamheid, See: BVKB Reëls 2013 , BVKB, 2013.
3. ↑ Rat refuses bail, continues hunger strike . IOL News. Retrieved January 21, 2014.
4. ↑ National Government Elections on news24.com (English), accessed April 24, 2020
5. ↑ Bitter Afrikaners go north to set up white-only territory . The Independent. Retrieved January 16, 2014.
6. ^ Museum tot niet , Die Bronberger, February 27, 2014.
7. ↑ Museum Katte lê in kratte , Middelburg Observer, April 21 2016th
8. ↑ Vlamme kan geskiedenis never uitwis never , Middelburg Observer, October 14, 2016th
9. ↑ New Owner , Balmoral Begrafplaas, November 8th 2016th
10. ↑ 2011 census , accessed June 2, 2017