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Technical Institute (of the Lodge de Goede Hoop)
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Despite the co-operation of the BRITISH MILITARY ENGINEERS and the presence of THIBAULT as Government Architect at the Cape, Sir George Yonge had to write to England in 1800 'for a person to be sent out to build more barracks and other edifices'.
At this time THIBAULT had offered his services as Director of Arts and Crafts in a Technical Institute which was being founded by the Lodge de Goede Hoop. Apparently as a result of his insistence on the need for good designers, architecture was placed on the curriculum, with the German sculptor Anton ANREITH as full-time instructor. There were courses mathematics and the drawing of ornamentation, as well as courses in carpentry and 'house-painting' (mural decoration).
Unfortunately, THIBAULT died in 1815, before his services to the Technical Institute could be truly felt, and ANREITH died only seven years later.
Of the men they taught:
WF HERTZOG later became Assistant Surveyor-General,
Abraham AURET became an architectural draughtsman in the Surveyor-General's office
AGH TEUBES became a Cape Town architect in private practice,
Charles FISHER, nothing further is known,
Abraham DE SMIDT was taken on as a draughtsman of plans and maps in the Chief Secretary's office,
Hermanus SCHUTTE became qualified surveyor,
Jan SCHUTTE became qualified surveyor. (Lewcock 1963:355).