Bethal is proclaimed as town The next step was to have Bethal declared as town. A request in the form of a petition was submitted by the lords Du Plooij and Naude earlier, in the year of 1880 to the authorities. The signatures of twenty-one owners and occupiers of plots in Bethal, appeared on the petition to motivate that, for the sake of inhabitants’ spiritual and material wellbeing; a need for a town existed. It was further mentioned that Standerton was seven hours and Middelburg nine hours on horseback from Bethal. An own town, where necessary churches and schools could be erected was thus, urgently necessary. 7
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