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Hiemstra Residence Mashishing (Lydenburg), Mpumalanga

Date: c1890 Type: Homestead Status: Extant Street: 41 Church Street

The house was built in ca. 1890, and was occupied by the beloved teacher, Sybran Hiemstra, since 1907. Hiemstra had started a State school in Lydenburg some years before the start of the Anglo-Boer War. He married his teaching assistant, Johanna Opperman in 1896. After the war (1899-1902), Hiemstra was asked by Afrikaans speaking parents to start a C.N.O. (Christelike Nasionale Onderwys (Christian National Education)) school in Lydenburg. The school was funded from the Netherlands. The government later took control of the C.N.O. schools, and Hiemstra left Lydenburg to go farming. [Information supplied by the Lydenburg Museum]