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Name: LOUBSER, Marthinus Petrus (Rev.)

Birth Date: 1876 Cape Town
Death Date: 9.6.1947 Western Cape
First Date: 1905 in GEA, 1909 in BEA
Profession: Minister of religion, first permanent Afrikaans minister
Area: Eldoret
Book Reference: Red 31, Hut, Web, Nicholls, Red Book 1912, North, Du Toit
General Information:
Web - Anne Lehmkuhl - In 1945, a second NGK congregation was started at Thomson's Falls. It was named Loubser congregation, after the first minister, Ds. MP Loubser.
Nicholls - The Revd M.P. Loubser, a Boer pastor who united the three Dutch Reformed churches around Eldoret and established a single place of worship, would not compromise on the language of instruction and started his own school, Broederstroom, in 1911, with all lessons in Afrikaans. He also began a second school at Sergoit.
Red Book 1912 - M.P. Loubser - Uasin Gishu
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Uasin Gishu Voters Roll expunged
Groen He viewed the Afrikaner community in East Africa as the vanguard of Afrikaner expansionism on the African continent. In the early 1920s he declared all of Africa to be his 'vaderland' and contended that the entire continent should eventually fall into Afrikaner hands. He strongly opposed and feared European colonialism and Asian (Indian) settlement but he did not consider these historical movements to be permanent obstacles to his nationalist goals.