Several Volga German families responded to an agricultural emigration scheme of the Cape Colony government in South Africa. The scheme included free passage and free land.
The first group was to settle in East London, South Africa, but because of the outbreak of the Ninth Xhosa War, they disembarked from the SS Godeffroy in February 1878 in Cape Town, and found jobs there and in surrounding areas including the suburbs of Maitland, Philippi, and Wynberg. A second group arrived in Cape Town aboard the SS Saturnus on 1 March 1878.
Deutsche Evangelisch-Lutherische St Martini Kirchengemeinde
- Maitland Cemetery (FindaGrave)
- Philippi Lutheran Cemetery (FindaGrave)
- Nieder-Monjou Russia: Volga Germans to South Africa [Online]
Colonies
Cape Town's "City Bowl" viewed from Lion's Head (May 2018).
Source: Diego Delso via Wikipedia Commons.