Stephanus Jacobus du Toit

Reverend Stephanus Jacobus du Toit (October 9, 1847 to May 29, 1911) was a South African nationalist, theologian, journalist, and politician who translated the bible into the Afikaan language. In his younger years did much to promote the Afrikaans language as a symbol of Afrikaner nationalism. In 1872 he became an ordained minister of the Duch Reformed Church. Apart from the years 1882-8 when he was Superintendent of Education in the South African Republic (which became South Africa), he lived in or near the town of Paarl in the Cape Colony. Disillusionment with the Kruger regime led him, in later years, to moderate his views.