Mayibuye iAfrika!

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PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1996. A study of ancestral, biblical and women's hermeneutics in local struggles for ancestral land during the political transition in South Africa. Primary research was done with communities that had been forcibly removed from their land under apartheid, focussing on Sotho-, Tswana- and Pedi- speaking communities that were part of the Back to the Land Campaign. The author subsequently worked as a researcher with the Commission on the Restitution of Land Rights in 1996-98.

subjects: Land restitution; African traditional and theological aspects; Black,  African and Prophetic Theology; local hermeneutics

People: Bakwena ba Mogopa,  Bakubung ba Ratheo,  Mashilane Community,  Molotele Community,  Setlhare Community,  TW Ntongana,  NH Ngada,  Paul Makhubu,  Kenosi Mofokeng,  Wolfram Kistner,  Mercy Oduyoye,  Lydia Kompe,  Rural Women's Movement,  Transvaal Land Restoration Committee,  Cosmos Desmond,  Weli Mazamisa,  Takatso Mofokeng,  Itumeleng Mosala,  Desmond Tutu,  Joe Seremane,  Emma Mashinini,  Durkje Gilfillan

Places: South Africa: Mphumalanga,  Gauteng,  Limpopo,  North West,  Free State

Times: 1950-1995