Nederduitse Hervormde Kerk Van Suid Afrika | Grimbreekstr 85, Polokwane 0700, Limpopo

The Dutch Reformed Church was introduced to South Africa by the Dutch East India Company's settlement at Cape Town in 1652 The first formal congregation was founded in 1665 under the jurisdiction of the presbytery of Amsterdam Despite the permanent British takeover of the Cape Colony in 1806 the church remained semi-established with congregations supported from government funds In 1824 an autonomous synod was founded at the Cape removing the church from control from the Netherlands This autonomous synod would become the NGK The reluctance of Dutch ministers to serve in a British-controlled colony meant that Scottish Presbyterian ministers with British sympathies were introduced to the church In the Great Trek of the 1830s and 1840s Boers left the Cape Colony and established republics in the interior of South Africa The NGK with its connections to the colonial government did not minister to them The South African Republic was established in 1852 and in 1853 Dirk van der Hoff arrived from the Netherlands as th