Foreword / N.R. Mandela -- The benefits for the Moravian Church in South Africa / Angelene Swart -- Introducing the Genadendal Integrated Conservation Project in South Africa / Ron van Oers -- Genadendals' historical context and project set-up / Hannetjie du Preez -- Value assessment at various levels of scale / Job Roos -- Genadendal : conservation and development / Lucien le Grange and Ivan Smidt -- Identifying the cultural landscape of Genadendal / Johan van Papendorp -- Challenges of the rural housing subsidy / R. Rughubar -- Challenges of implementing the new rural housing subsidy for existing historical building stock / P. Pansegrouw, K. Oosthuizen and G.C. Combrink -- Infrastructure provision and service delivery challenges in Genadendal / Denver Damons and Marius Brand -- Historic Mission Settlement Education Project / Michael Jonas -- Technical aspects of dwellings made of adbe in Genadendal / Leo G.W. Verhoef and Jacques Retieff -- Integrated conservation of Genadendal : a critical review / Hannetjie du Preez and Job Roos
Summary
During our term in office as President of the Republic of South Africa, we decided to rename the presidential official residence in Cape Town from Westbrooke to Genadendal which means Valley of Grace. We also visited this historic little town on 10 October 1995. The renaming of the official residence was in honor of the oldest mission settlement in South Africa. Over the centuries it became a place associated with the coming together of people from different racial groups: in addition to being the first permanent Khoi settlement at the Cape, it was also a place of sanctuary for more than a tho
