Morgenzon (J 10)

Name: Morgenzon

Morgenzon, Mpumalanga, South Africa

The idea of a strictly Afrikaner settlement in modern South Africa is not new. In the 1980s, a group of right-wing Afrikaners, led by HF Verwoerd's son formed a group called the Oranjewerkers. They also planned a community based on "Afrikaner self-determination", and attempted to create a neo-"boerstaat" (lit. "Farmer State," a reference to an idiomatic term for an Afrikaner-only state) in the remote Eastern TransvaalTransvaalThe Transvaal is the name of an area of northern South Africa. Originally the bulk of the independent Boer South African Republic, after the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 it became the Transvaal Colony, and one of the founding provinces of the Union of South Africa, with its regional capital in...
(now MpumalangaMpumalangaMpumalanga, , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...
) community of Morgenzon. Its failure was possibly due to the fact that South Africa had an Afrikaner government at the time and so few perceived any benefit from this community.


Teaksend Railway Station
Maizefield Railway Station
Bloukop Railway Station
Suidvaal Railway Station
Minera Railway Station
Naudesfontein Railway Station
Hamelfontein Railway Station


Willie Olivier, Sandra Olivier - 2003 - Sports & Recreation - 304 pages
Keep an eye out for the well- known wild horses of Morgenzon, especially in ... the railway line to the mines in Peach Tree Creek and an old abandoned mine. ...



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