Category History

This image from the “Gedenkboek”, a commemorative book celebrating one and a half centuries of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church, depicts workers building the Steinkopf’s main street during the 1920s.…

Days of Copper Transport Before the railway line between Port Nolloth and the copper mines was completed copper was transport by wagons from the mines to the coast for export.…

– Steinkopf became part of the copper railway line in 1873.– The railway line reached Steinkopf, making it a busy station.– It served as a key point for transporting stock…

Namaqua People

The anthropologist Peter Carstens who published this photograph described describe Steinkopf of those years as: “Here is the church and the missionary, the seat of local government where the law…

Established in 1945 After this community co-operative was established it became the only local shop and replaced the systems of local shops previously owned only by White business people, mostly…

The church was the first church building in Steinkopf and was completed in 1849 in the time of rev. Ferdinand Brecher as missionary. The mission house was completed in 1855…

In 1840 the London Missionary Society transferred its work in Namaqualand to the Rhenish Mission Society, a German organisation. For the first few years no missionary was stationed at Steinkopf…

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…

The Indigenous Inhabitants of the Area The original indigenous inhabitants of the region were the San and Namas. They did not see themselves as different ethnic groups. The social structure…