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the expulsion of Beyer, and his replacement by C.H. Stech in 1874 284 .
However, even if the missionary activities seemed to have suffered this
setback, Christianity had come to be a new form of religious identity marker
in that area as communities tasted this new kind of religion.
The Lutheran mission station in Makgabeng was established in 1870 after
two visits to the area by Moschutz in 1865 and in 1869 285 . Superintendent
Grutzner and Gustav Trumpelmann arrived in Makgabeng in February 1870,
and the latter took over the activities of the station 286 . The Makgabeng
station was an outstation of that one in Leipzig and it was built among the
people of Kgoši Monyebodi. In 1871 missionary Baumbach joined
Trumpelmann in Makgabeng and he later took over the activities of the
station 287 .
After Baumbach left the station in 1882, Stech, who was at the helm of the
Leipzig station in Blouberg, took over the running of the Makgabeng station
in 1888, but was replaced by missionary Sack between 1888 and 1890 288 .
In 1893 the Makgabeng station was abandoned owing to a heavy fever-
284 M. Jackel, Gananoa, p. 21.
285 Ibid, p. 17.
286 Interview, Robert Manaka, Inveraan village, 29 December 2004.
287 M. Jackel, Gananoa, p. 17.
288 Ibid, p. 17.
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