After the Anglo-Boer War of 1899 to 1902, some South Arican boers who did not want to live under British colonial rule migrated to Eastern Africa, among them were several families belonging to the Reformed Churches in South Africa. From 1902 to 1914 about 1300 people left and settled mainly around the town Eldoret in the Uasin Gishu Country. Situated at a high altitude, the land was fertile and perfectly arable. There the farmers formed their own congregation that they called Vergenoeg, as it was "fat enough" rom British rule. At that point in time, Kenya was still a German colony called German East Africa and would soon become a British colony, after the First World War.
During the early 1960's, amid the struggle for Uhuru, and especially as a result of the actions of the Mau-Mau movement, most of the South African migrant farmers left Kenya.
