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South African Children's Home
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The '''South African Children's Home''' () was a building on the end of [[Long Street (Cape Town)|Long Street]] in [[Cape Town]]. It housed the first [[orphanage]] in [[South Africa]] from its foundation in 1815 until 1923. It was also the home of the [[South African College]] from 1829 to 1841. After the Children's Home left the building, it was changed and dismantled piece by piece until the last remnants - part of a modern red brick building - were demolished in November 1981.
== Background ==
A wealthy widow named Margaretha Anna Moller (1743-1815) petitioned the [[Cape Colony]] government early in the 19th century to build a home for old, sick, and needy women. She herself contributed a sum of money to establish the old-age home. The government readily offered a piece of land on the end of Long Street, just west of the land that would later house St. Martin's [[Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (Cape Church)|Evangelical Lutheran]] Church. Moller contributed from time to time starting in 1808, and within five years, the board had accumulated £3,500 for construction, mostly from her. Another factor led to the construction of the home, namely some elderly women living on the funds collected.
== Orphanage founded ==
A few years later, Mrs. Moller decided to earmark £1,200 to founding an orphanage, using land intended for the Old Women's Home. [[Governor of the Cape of Good Hope]] [[Du Pré Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon]] (1807-1811) was particularly enthusiastic for the plan and contributed 5,000 [[Dutch rijksdaalder]]s of his own money, while his successor, [[Lord Charles Somerset]], issued an 8,000-riksdaalder loan for construction. The building, designed by the architect [[Louis Thibault]], was completed in little more than a year. Shortly after Thibault's dead in November 1815, the Rev. Johannes Petrus Serrurier of the [[Groote Kerk, Cape Town|Groote Kerk]] formally opened the building and the orphanage therein. A post-ceremony collection drive netted £160. The widow Moller's contribution that year was no less than £6,000.
From the South African College's foundation on October 1, 1829 to the dedication of the [[Egyptian Building (Cape Town)|Egyptian Building]] next to [[Company's Garden]] on April 13, 1841 (the first building specifically erected for higher education in South Africa),<ref></ref> the orphanage shared space with the first institution of higher education at the Cape. However, quarters were crowded and inadequate, to the point that enrollment in the school (which ranged from primary school boys to college students) declined from an original 115 to 16 within a year of the move.
The orphanage, first known as the SA Weenhuis and later as the SA Kinderhuis, was run by a committee of the [[Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (NGK)]] and the Lutheran church. The institution continues to this day, but moved in 1923 to a better site in [[Gardens, Cape Town|Gardens]].
== Sources ==
* [[Andries Dreyer|Dreyer, Rev. Andries]]. 1910. ''Historisch Album van de Nederduitsche Gereformeerde Kerk in Suid-Afrika''. Cape Town: Cape Times Beperkt.
* Van der Heever, David. [https://ift.tt/2JyTHQK 5 June 2005]. ''VASSA Journal''. URL accessed 15 May 2016.
== References ==
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Cape Town]]
== Background ==
A wealthy widow named Margaretha Anna Moller (1743-1815) petitioned the [[Cape Colony]] government early in the 19th century to build a home for old, sick, and needy women. She herself contributed a sum of money to establish the old-age home. The government readily offered a piece of land on the end of Long Street, just west of the land that would later house St. Martin's [[Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (Cape Church)|Evangelical Lutheran]] Church. Moller contributed from time to time starting in 1808, and within five years, the board had accumulated £3,500 for construction, mostly from her. Another factor led to the construction of the home, namely some elderly women living on the funds collected.
== Orphanage founded ==
A few years later, Mrs. Moller decided to earmark £1,200 to founding an orphanage, using land intended for the Old Women's Home. [[Governor of the Cape of Good Hope]] [[Du Pré Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon]] (1807-1811) was particularly enthusiastic for the plan and contributed 5,000 [[Dutch rijksdaalder]]s of his own money, while his successor, [[Lord Charles Somerset]], issued an 8,000-riksdaalder loan for construction. The building, designed by the architect [[Louis Thibault]], was completed in little more than a year. Shortly after Thibault's dead in November 1815, the Rev. Johannes Petrus Serrurier of the [[Groote Kerk, Cape Town|Groote Kerk]] formally opened the building and the orphanage therein. A post-ceremony collection drive netted £160. The widow Moller's contribution that year was no less than £6,000.
From the South African College's foundation on October 1, 1829 to the dedication of the [[Egyptian Building (Cape Town)|Egyptian Building]] next to [[Company's Garden]] on April 13, 1841 (the first building specifically erected for higher education in South Africa),<ref></ref> the orphanage shared space with the first institution of higher education at the Cape. However, quarters were crowded and inadequate, to the point that enrollment in the school (which ranged from primary school boys to college students) declined from an original 115 to 16 within a year of the move.
The orphanage, first known as the SA Weenhuis and later as the SA Kinderhuis, was run by a committee of the [[Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (NGK)]] and the Lutheran church. The institution continues to this day, but moved in 1923 to a better site in [[Gardens, Cape Town|Gardens]].
== Sources ==
* [[Andries Dreyer|Dreyer, Rev. Andries]]. 1910. ''Historisch Album van de Nederduitsche Gereformeerde Kerk in Suid-Afrika''. Cape Town: Cape Times Beperkt.
* Van der Heever, David. [https://ift.tt/2JyTHQK 5 June 2005]. ''VASSA Journal''. URL accessed 15 May 2016.
== References ==
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Cape Town]]
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