TIMELINE OF THE HISTORY OF STEINKOPF

1817 – Establishment of the Steinkopf Mission Station at Besondermeid by the London Missionary Society

1838 – The headquarters of the mission station moved to Kookfontein

1840 – The London Missionary Society terminated their work at Steinkopf

1840 – The mission work is taken over by the Rhenish Missionary Society

1847 – Steinkopf became part of the Cape Colony

1848 – The death of the last local Nama chief Vigiland Orlam

1850 – The commercial mining of copper in Namaqualand

1876 – The railway line of the copper train between Port Nolloth and the copper mines reached Steinkopf

1902 – The Boers invaded Steinkopf during the Anglo-Boer War

1913 – The 1909 Mission Stations and Communal Reserves Act introduced direct government rule in Steinkopf

1934 – The Dutch Reformed Mission Church took over mission work at Steinkopf

1948 – The Government introduced the apartheid system which formally declared Steinkopf as a Coloured Rural Area

1994 – The First Democratic Elections in South Africa

2000 – Steinkopf became part of the Nama Khoi Municipality