"Your Committee have now the satisfaction to state that on the 23rd of August in the last year (1820) a Society was formed at the Cape of Good Hope under the designation of the South African Bible Society."
Hierdie paragraaf uit die 1821-Jaarverslag van die Britse en Buitelandse Bybelgenootskap is die bewys van die amptelike begin van Bybelwerk in Suid-Afrika.