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| − | The [[Cape of Good Hope Temperance Society]] was founded at a meeting in Cape Town on 28 January, 1832, with a provincial management as a movement by concerned Methodists, inspired by and responding to the international Temperance movement[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperance_movement], to fight the abuse of alcohol and the general licentiousness that accompanied it. At one time this also included an anti-theatre lobby.
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| − | The first provincial executive of the society consisted of the Reverend Dr [[John Philip]], Doctor [[J.W. Fairbridge]], Doctor [[S. Baily]], the Reverend Dr [[J. Pears]], the [[Reverend Dr Adamson]], and [[Joseph Dixie]], [[Mr Hutchison]] and [[John Fairbairn]], with [[H.E. Rutherfoord]] and [[W. Buchanan]] as secretaries.
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| − | In Cape Town the reactions against this movement (as well as the concurrent international abolitionist movement[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism]) was great, particularly from the [[Dutch]] community, and among many anti-temperance writings, it led to one of the more significant early plays to be written and published in the country, ''[[De Nieuwe Ridderorde of De Temperantisten]]'' (lit. "The New Knighthood/New Chivalric Order, or the 'Temperantists'/People of the Temperance Movement"), a satirical play in four acts and 26 scenes by [[Charles Etienne Boniface]] (1787/8?-1853/4?). In the play a number of the members of the Temperance Society appear as caricatures.
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperance_movement
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| − | https://tangerineandcinnamon.com/tag/womens-christian-temperance-union/
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| − | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism
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| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 301-304.
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