Needs a Dutch or Afrikaans speaker to properly translate, but first sentence:
It is perhaps not sufficiently known that some time ago a useful and quite laborious work was begun by one of our diligent compatriots.
Het Volksblad (English: People's Journal) was an Afrikaans-language daily newspaper published in Bloemfontein, South Africa, and distributed in the Free State and Northern Cape provinces, where it was the largest Afrikaans daily. It was South Africa's oldest Afrikaans newspaper.
