Name: THE MAN WHO SHOOK THE MOUNTAINS - In the footsteps of my ancestors
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Author: Mofokeng, Lesley
ISBN: 9781776192519

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THE MAN WHO SHOOK THE MOUNTAINS - In the footsteps of my ancestors

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Physical Book

Author

Lesley Mofokeng

Publisher

Jonathan Ball Publishers

Language

English

Pages

242

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.0 x 14.0 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.28 kg.

ISBN13

9781776192519

Synopsis "THE MAN WHO SHOOK THE MOUNTAINS - In the footsteps of my ancestors"

'This is a South African story of an unsung hero, a man forgotten by history - though not by me, nor by the people who knew and respected him ...' When his grandfather gave sermons, he was 'capable of shaking mountains', a church leader tells journalist and author Lesley Mofokeng. 'Ntate Mofokeng pulled people towards God with the great and rare talent of a motivator.' In this revealing book, Mofokeng investigates the life of his grandfather, Mongangane Wilfred Mofokeng, a prominent Dutch Reformed Church evangelist. In the 1950s, as Black South Africans were being evicted from the cities to live in reserves and homelands, Mongangane set out to build a community at a dusty cattle post in the far North West province. There he managed to establish a resilient community that mostly lived outside the repressions of the apartheid regime. The journey takes the author from Johannesburg's Marabi-soaked townships of the 1930s to his childhood home of Gelukspan near Lichtenburg and then to rural Free State and the mountain kingdom of Lesotho. In what becomes a spiritual quest, he traces the inspirational footsteps of his ancestors and the legendary King Moshoeshoe. Mofokeng also explores the politics and history of the Dutch Reformed Church's Black constituency and uncovers why to this day it is called Kereke ya Fora - or 'Church of the French' - and its hymns are sung across denominations and in social spaces outside the church.

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