The Other Side of the Story
Attempts by Missionaries to Facilitate Landownership by Africans during the Colonial Era
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https://doi.org/10.25159/2412-4265/6800Keywords:
Khoisan, Mission Stations, Congregational Church, Inanda, Edendale, Indaleni, Mahamba, London Missionary Society (LMS), land disposessionAbstract
This article provides a critique of the role played by progressive missionaries in securing land for the African people in some selected mission stations in South Africa. It argues that, in spite of the dominant narrative that the missionaries played a role in the dispossession of the African people of their land, there are those who refused to participate in the dispossession. Instead, they used their status, colour and privilege to subvert the policy of land dispossession. It critically examines the work done by four progressive missionaries from different denominations in their attempt to subvert the laws of land dispossession by facilitating land ownership for Africans. The article interacts with the work of Revs John Philip (LMS), James Allison (Methodist), William Wilcox and John Langalibalele Dube (American Zulu Mission [AZM]), who devised land redistributive mechanisms as part of their mission strategies to benefit the disenfranchised Africans.
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Copyright (c) 2020 R. Simangaliso Kumalo
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Accepted 2020-02-25
Published 2020-10-26