E M Neethling (Author)
Edited by L.C.P. Endemann
1979
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VOORWOORD (translation below this)
Daar is seker min Suid-Afrikaanse families wat die Neethlings kan oortref met die getal akademici, teoloë, opvoedkundiges, medici, politici en regs geleerdes wat hulle opgelewer het vanaf hul vestiging alhier. Miskien kan dit toegeskryf word aan die voorsprong wat die Neethling-seuns gehad het bo ander Afrikanerseuns van hulle tyd, wat middele tot verdere studie betref. Die Neethling/Smuts-armefamiliefonds is vandag nog beskikbaar aan voornemende studente uit hierdie twee families.
Die Neethlingfamilie het op velerlei terrein 'n besondere bydrae gemaak. Twee van hulle uitmuntende seuns uit 'n vorige eeu was advokaat J.H. Neethling en sy naamgenoot ds. J.H. Neethling van Stellenbosch. Die Neethlings het ook ondertrou met ander bekende Wes-Kaapse families soos die Albertyns, De Waals, Hofmeyrs, Louws, Murrays, Van der Bijls en De Villiers's. Twee Neethling-dogters was onderskeidelik die groot moeder van adv. Tielman Roos, die omstrede politikus, en die eggenote van laasgenoemde se politieke teenstander, genl. J.B.M. Hertzog, die latere eerste minister van die Unie van Suid-Afrika.
Graag wil ek van hierdie geleentheid gebruik maak om namens die Neethlings in Suid-Afrika 'n woord van dank te rig aan mev. Edith Neeth ling, kuratrise van die C.P. Nel-museum op Oudtshoorn en opsteller van hierdie geslagsregister. Dit is 'n besondere prestasie vir 'n immigrant uit die verre Siebenbürgen in Roemenië om so 'n reusetaak te midde van soveel ander pligte en teenslae op die pad aan te pak en dan die voortref like eindproduk te lewer wat hierdie werk inderdaad is. Wees verseker dat "hierdie goeie mense" (soos u die Suid-Afrikaners noem) u in hul harte reeds een van die volk gemaak het.
FOREWORD
There are certainly few South African families who can surpass the Neethlings with the number of academics, theologians, educators, medics, politicians and jurists they have produced since their settlement here. Perhaps this can be attributed to the advantage that the Neethling boys had over other Afrikaner boys of their time, in terms of means for further study. The Neethling / Smuts Poor Family Fund is still available today to prospective students from these two families.
The Neethling family made a special contribution in many areas. Two of their outstanding sons from a previous century were lawyers J.H. Neethling and his namesake Rev. J.H. Neethling from Stellenbosch. The Neethlings also married other well-known Western Cape families such as the Albertyns, De Waals, Hofmeyrs, Louws, Murrays, Van der Bijls and De Villiers's.
Two Neethling daughters were respectively the great mother of adv. Tielman Roos, the controversial politician, and the wife of the latter's political opponent, Genl. J.B.M. Hertzog, the later Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mrs Neethling in South Africa, Edith Neethling, curator of the C.P. Nel Museum in Oudtshoorn and compiler of this genealogical register.
It is a remarkable achievement for an immigrant from distant Transylvania in Romania to undertake such a huge task amidst so many other duties and setbacks along the way and then deliver the excellent end product that this work is indeed. Be assured that "these good people" (as you call the South Africans) have already made you one of the people in their hearts.