The Lodge De Goede Hoop The Mother Lodge of South Africa, and later No. 1 on the roll of the Grand Lodge of South Africa and formerly No. 12 on the roll of the Grand East of the Netherlands; This is a short history of the Mother Lodge of South Africa, written, comp., and publ., in 1972 on the occasion of the bi-centenary of its foundation in 1772; by Osborn Hambrook Bate. Rev., ed. and brought up to date by Thomas N. Cranstoun-Day