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Commandant Paul Erasmus Memorial

Commandant Paul Erasmus Memorial

There's a monument on the Dutch Reformed Church grounds in memory of Commandant Paul Erasmus.

Erasmus died in 1881 as Commandant of the Somersetters in Tweefontein in the then Basutoland. Basutoland was a British Crown Colony from 1884 to 1966 in what is now known as Lesotho. Interesting that the rule of the Cape Colony was not popular in Basutoland, and it was brought under direct control of the Queen of England. Basutoland gained it's independence from the United Kingdom on the 4th of October 1966, and was renamed the Kingdom of Lesotho.

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