Kuruman

Kuruman lies in a dry interior country made habitable by a great spring, known as the Eye of Kuruman. The water feeds the Kuruman River and has long sustained people and cultivation in the valley. The region was home to the Batlhaping, a Tswana people under the chief Mothibi. In 1816 the London Missionary Society began work among them, and the Scottish missionary Robert Moffat arrived in 1820. The mission moved to the Kuruman River valley in 1824, where Moffat worked on translating scripture into Setswana.