Bazar, Elim, South Africa, 1933

"Bazareröffnung Ostern 1933" ("Opening of the bazar easter 1933"). A crowd of people, mainly boys, thronged in front of a building. In the far center a man standing. Willibald Schaberg (1900-?) was born in Dresden where he worked as a teacher and theologian. In 1929 he married Elfriede Henrietta Johanna Nigrin in Herrnhut. That same year they went to South Africa West where Willibald worked as a missionary in Elim until 1939 and again from 1948. From 1934 he was Präses of the Mission in South Africa West. In 1935 he was in Moravian Hill / Cape Town. From 1939 until his return to South Africa he stayed in Germany.