After she married Adriaan Jacobus Louw of the farm Rietfontein, she bade farewell to education. The descendants of the Louws, including the well-known writer, Mike the Louw Theron, living here today. Education reins for the year 1893-1894 was then entrusted in the hands of Mr EB Hoffman. Adriaan Jacobus Louw. Especially in the nineties many small schools were established here. For instance, at the beginning of 1899 the council of the Dutch Reformed Church Bethal, referred to the town's government school. Mention is made of between 50 and 60 children, and the teachers in the year 1898, was D Retief and E Marais. The following year, one R W Niehaus and Miss E Bernsman were teachers at Bethal. Outside the latter, there were nine other teachers, 9 government schools and a total of 178 pupils. Mention is also made of ten private schools. Threatening clouds of war by end of 1899, resulted in stop to education development and progress in the region. 18
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