The Bechunaland News

Vryburg at that time was very much a nothing sort of place but for the British it was a convenient base from which to administer the two Bechuanalands. When the southern chunk was incorporated within the Cape Colony, that base was immediately moved to the Imperial Reserve in Mahikeng.

We may well marvel, therefore, that it was viable not only for a newspaper to be published in Vryburg but also to be printed in the same place. We may also marvel, given the difficulties that newspapers experience in being distributed today, that Townshend & Son should have been able to dispatch copies to most of the principal towns of the Northern Cape and also to worthwhile settlements in the Protectorate – Ramoutsa, Gaberones, Kanya, Moleplole, Mochudi, Sequani, Notwani, Palachjwe, and Macloutsi.