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At the time when German immigrants were escaping persecution, South Australia was just opening up for colonisation. Thanks to a wealthy Scottish businessman and chairman of the South Australian Company, George Fife Angas, a deal was struck by Pastor August Kavel to start a new Lutheran settlement in South Australia. The countryside in the Barossa Valley region of South Australia was reminiscent of the Germans' homeland, and it was ideal for them to continue established agricultural practices from Germany and Prussia.

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Germans came to Johannesburg (and the whole of South Africa) for the same reason as did many other Europeans, for work, new land and at the time (juse like America) it was seen as a land of prosperity because there was untapped Natural Resources (such as Gold and Diamonds) and large amounts of land.

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