Tuan Masud

Beside the road from Rawsonville to Worcester lies the grave of Tuan Masud. The story told of its discovery concerns an artisan working on a building site in Worcester, sleeping in a tent. One night a voice woke him, calling the name Masud and asking him to come outside. A man on a white horse asked him to follow, led him to a certain spot, and disappeared. In the morning the artisan went back and found a grave there.

Worcester had enslaved Muslims from its early years, and a mosque was built in the town in 1885, one of the first outside Cape Town. Tuan Masud was probably one of the early enslaved Muslims made to work the farms of the valley.