Ermelo, South Africa - multiview postcard c.1970s

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• Picture / Image:  Ermelo [South Africa] - multiview 
• Publisher: Constantia
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• Notes / condition: small mark on back

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Ermelo is the educational, industrial and commercial town of the 7,750 km² Gert Sibande District Municipality in Mpumalanga province, Republic of South Africa. It is both a mixed agriculture and mining region. It is located 210 km east of Johannesburg.

Some of the earliest inhabitants of the area were the mysterious Leghoya people. Not much is known about them, but ruins of their settlements dating back to c.1400 can be found in the area.

During the mid-1800s, the area prior to the formation as a village, was an outspan area for resting teams of draw animals transporting goods across the region mainly due to the water of the small lakes dotting the area.[3]:302 Modern Ermelo was founded by Dutch Reformed Church Reverend Frans Lion Cachet (1835–1899).[3]:303 He would minister to the many farms in the area.[3]:303 A congregation was started by Cachet in 1870, and was recognised by the 5th annual general meeting of the church in April 1872.[4][5]

The town would be formed on the farm Nooitgedacht purchased from P.J. Fourie in 1879 and proclaimed on 12 February 1880.[3]:303 It would be managed by the church until 1895 when the government of the South African Republic took over its management.[3]:303 Cachet named it after a town in the Netherlands.[3]:303 Cachet was an outspoken preacher, who had a strong interest in evangelism to Jews, his own family having Jewish heritage.[6] Cachet had met and been influenced by Hermanus Willem Witteveen from Ermelo in the Netherlands as a young man, and named the settlement in honour of Witteveen.

In 1901, the town was reduced to a single standing home by the British during the Second Boer War.[3]:303 The town would be rebuilt in 1903.[3]:303