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    Indoda Ebisithanda ("The Man Who Loved Us") - The Reverend James Laing among the amaXhosa, 1831-1836
    Edited by Sandra Rowoldt Shell
    Volume:
    III-1 (2019)
    Print Status:
    In Print (eBook available)
    This study is a critical edition of a section of the journals of the Reverend James Laing of the Glasgow Missionary Society. The first scholarly study of the Laing journals, this thesis seeks to contribute towards a new understanding of the early days of transcultural interchange on the Eastern Cape frontier. The only previous published work on Laing is William Govan's hagiographical Memorials...
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  • Moravians in the Eastern Cape 1828-1928
    Translated by F.R. Baudert, edited by T. Keegan
    Volume:
    II-35 (2004)
    Print Status:
    In Print
    The four missionary texts which make up this volume reveal the little-known range of Moravian missionary work in the Eastern Cape, from its inception in 1828 to 1928. Vivid and subjective in character, they illuminate this field of Moravian mission activity in South Africa, which extended to the Xhosa the pioneering work done at Genadendal and its family of stations...
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  • Norwegian missionaries in Natal and Zululand: selected correspondence (1844-1900)
    Edited by Frederick Hale
    Volume:
    II-27 (1996)
    Print Status:
    In Print
    The Norwegian Missionary Society established its first permanent stations north of the Tugela in the 1840s. The Zulu Lutheran Church which developed from conversions in the 1860s only really developed after the conquest of Zululand in 1879. The Norwegian missionaries were strategically located to view changes in Zulu culture and civilisation and their letters and reports comprise a rich and...
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  • Griqua Records, the Philippolis Captaincy, 1825-1861
    Original Dutch text with English Translation - Compiled translated and edited by Karel Schoeman
    Volume:
    II-25 (1994)
    Print Status:
    In Print
    In the Transorange in the early part of the 19th century, there were four small, semi-independent Griqua polities, each ruled by its own Chief or Kaptyn. They of were of considerable importance to the British authorities at the Cape, and to the London Missionary Society. This volume comprises of a collection of official and semi-official documents relating he Captaincy...
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  • Lawrence Richardson. Selected correspondence (1902-1903)
    Edited by Prof. Arthur M. Davey
    Volume:
    II-8 (1977)
    Print Status:
    In Print
    Lawrence Richardson (c.1869-1953), a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers), was involved in two fact-finding and humanitarian missions to South Africa in the wake of the South African War. His meticulous diaries detail his interviews and draw a perceptive picture of a society devastated by war.
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  • David Livingstone South African Papers (1849-1853)
    Edited by I. Schapera
    Volume:
    II-5 (1974)
    Print Status:
    Out of print
    This volume of Livingstone's writings, which predates his travels, is concerned primarily with South African racial and missionary affairs as well as comments on traders. His bitter prejudice against the Boers emerges clearly, as do his conflicts with other missionaries., but his insights into local societies are nonetheless revealing.
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  • The Journal of Joseph Tindall, missionary in South-West Africa, 1839-55
    Edited by B.A. Tindall
    Volume:
    I-40 (1959)
    Print Status:
    In Print
    Joseph Tindall, a Wesleyan missionary, worked in South-West Africa, initially with Jonker Afrikaner in Damaraland. His journal includes much information about local customs and conflicts between Damara groups. This work lacks the usual historical introduction.
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  • Maleo en Sekoekoeni
    Translated from the original German into Afrikaans by J.F.W. Grosskopf and edited by G.P.J. Trümpelmann; with an English summary by A. Ravenscroft
    Volume:
    I-38 (1957)
    Print Status:
    In Print
    Dr Theodor Wangemann was a director of the Berlin Missionary Society who came out to South Africa in 1866 to visit the mission stations throughout the country. This work, one of several which Wangemann wrote and a typical example of nineteenth-century German missionary literature, describes mission work in the Lydenburg district of the northern Transvaal.
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  • The Cape Journals of Archdeacon N.J. Merriman, 1848-55
    Edited by D.H. Varley and H.M. Matthew
    Volume:
    I-37 (1957 for 1956)
    Print Status:
    In Print
    Archdeacon Merriman was appointed Archdeacon of Grahamstown by Bishop Robert Gray in 1848. his instructions were to expand the church in the Eastern Cape by establishing new congregations and building churches in the small townships. He was to 'awaken 'religious instincts long dormant through lack of opportunity' and to 'preach to barbarous people the saving grace of Christianity.' In accomplishing...
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  • Letters of the American Missionaries, 1835-1838
    Edited by D.J. Kotzé
    Volume:
    I-31 (1951 for 1950)
    Print Status:
    Out of Print
    The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions was one of the last missionary societies to begin work in South Africa. Since the Cape Colony was well-populated with missionaries, the Americans concentrated initially on the Matabele in the Transvaal, and on Natal. Their arrival coincided with the Great Trek and Boer expansion north and east so they were well placed...
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  • The Diary of the Rev. F. Owen, Missionary with Dingaan, together with the accounts of Zulu affairs by the interpreters, Messrs. Hully and Kirkman
    Edited by Sir Geo. E. Cory
    Volume:
    I-7 (1926)
    Print Status:
    Out of print (Softbound reprint and eBook available)
    Owen produced one of the best-known descriptions of life in Dingaan's kraal, including an account of the Retief massacre, of which he was the only white witness. This was the first time that the diary had been published in its entirety, apart from the Bechuanaland portion 'which had been re-written to include the history but to exclude the theology'.
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