As missionaries started travelling north from the Cape Colony in the early 19th century, they established mission stations on their way. The London Missionary Society founded the town, but, because of a shortage of missionaries and presumably because of the cooperation between the London and Rhenish Missionary Society at the time, they instead sent a German missionary.
Missionaries journeyed north from the Cape Colony in the early 19th century and set up mission stations. The London Missionary Society founded the town, but due to insufficient missionaries and likely because of cooperation between the London and Rhenish Missionary Society at that time, they sent a German missionary instead.