The 1908-10 Campaign Against Incorporation Into South Africa (Part 2)

We left off with the observations that, ably assisted by his Tribal Secretary Peter Sidzumo, during his later year’s Kgosi Sebele I (along with his brother-in-law and close ally Kgosi Bathoen I) also associated himself with the then rising current of black protest politics within South Africa, which was finding its voice through a vibrant African controlled press, regional “Native” Congresses and political associations, as well as such forums as the Inter-State Native College Scheme that founded Fort Hare University.

In a published address, given in absentia, at the Inter-State Native College Scheme’s July 1908 Convention, Sebele addressed the issue of “Why South Africa Fails” head on by in part noting:

“But then who is really to blame that ‘the [so-called] Kafirs has thus commenced to read from the wrong end of the book’. It is a very common fallacy frequently hinted at by white witnesses that a good deal of the blame for the existing unsatisfactory state of affairs rests on the shoulders of the missionaries.

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