FIRST GRAND MASTER OF GLSA: With this seed sown, intense negotiations took place – it was just a matter of time before this Grand Lodge came into being. The three Grand Lodges initially tried to steer the negotiations in the direction of a United Grand Lodge but on 22 April 1961, the Grand Lodge of Southern Africa was formed, with Colonel Colin Graham Botha as its first Grand Master. One Lodge in South Africa elected to remain with the G.E.N., giving lie to its name “Eendrag Maak Mag” (Unity is Strength), while the seven Lodges in (the then) Rhodesia also remained with the G.E.N. In 1981 it was realised that the Grand Lodge would have no jurisdiction outside the boundaries of the Republic of South Africa and, with the consent of the three Grand Lodges, the name was changed to: The Grand Lodge of South Africa.
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