Marsh was forced to abandon the station owing to ill health, and from 1850 it was administered by Jacob Dohne, formerly of the Berlin Missionary Society.
The Mission was limited by a perennial staff shortage throughout the nineteenth century, making it impossible to spare a missionary for an isolated station.
In 1875 African preacher Daniel Njaleki was appointed by the AZM to take charge of Table Mountain station.
Conflict erupted as the NCU wrote to the American Board of the Reserves requesting Shibe's removal.
Today the church has over 80 000 members across South Africa as it found in the provinces of KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Eastern Cape And North West.