Baviaans

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Municipal area until 2016
Coat of arms of the municipality

The former municipality ( Local Municipality ) Baviaans was part of the Sarah Baartman district (formerly Cacadu), Eastern Cape Province in South Africa . 15,321 inhabitants lived on an area of ​​7,727 km² (as of 2001). The seat of the local government was Willowmore .

The municipality was named after the Baviaanskloof Mega Reserve nature reserve . The term Baviaanskloof is borrowed from the Dutch for baboon and gorge ( kloof ) and composed.

In the Baviaanskloof region there were, with interruptions, some early missionary activities by the Moravian Brethren in the 18th century . In 1789, Bishop Johann Friedrich Reichel took up the idea of ​​a revitalization of the mission project at the Cape in his report on the East India Mission to the Synod. As a result, three professionally trained missionaries were sent to Cape Town in the summer of 1792 , and from there they traveled on to Baviaanskloof . With the support of the regional VOC inspector Martin Teunessen, they were able to start operating a school for the San who lived there in March 1793 . Political influence from Holland and the envy of Boer settlers in the area interfered with the project. The conflicts as a result of the formed Batavian Republic expanded in the VOC colony on the Cape and reached their peak in 1795. British troops protected the Moravian village after their annexation of the Cape region. At that time, more and more San moved here and the community grew to about 500 people.

In 2016 the parish became part of the newly formed Dr Beyers Naudé parish .

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  1. ^ Municipal boundaries South Africa
  2. ↑ Meaning of the name municipalities
  3. ^ J. Taylor Hamilton, Kenneth G. Hamilton: The renewed Unitas Fratrum 1722-1957. History of the Moravian Brethren . Vol. 1., Herrnhuter Verlag, Herrnhut 2001, pp. 360–363

Coordinates: 33 ° 18 ′  S , 23 ° 29 ′  E