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White Christianity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2024

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The Dominicans of the English province have now been working in South Africa for over forty years and the work we are doing is varied and colourful. At Stellenbosch in the Cape we have a priory which is primarily a training house for (white) South Africans with a novitiate for both choir and laybrothers and a study house of philosopy and theology. At Hammanskraal in the northern Transvaal we staff (with the help of the Dutch Dominicans) a major seminary for the training of African priests. We have two university chaplaincies, Stellenbosch and Cape Town, and are responsible for the running of nine parishes, white, brown and black, one at Stellenbosch, the others on the East Rand.

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Copyright © 1966 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 The Coloureds are a separate ethnic group of mixed while and African blood. There are about two millions of them in the Republic, three million whites and eleven million Africans.

2 For typical examples of the thinking African's attitude to christianity see the relevant pages of Bloke Modisane's Blame Me on History and Ezechiel Mphahlel's Down Second Avenue.

3 An account of the cruel and savage effects of Bantu education is given by Chief Luthuli in Let My People Go (Fontana books), pp. 44-49.