Manche masemola biography of william shakespeare

South African Christian martyr

Manche Masemola (1913–1928) was a South African Christianmartyr.

Manche masemola biography of william shakespeare

Early life

Masemola was born in Marishane, a small village near Jane Furse, in South Africa. She lived with her parents, two older brothers, a sister, and a cousin. German and then English missionaries had worked in the Transvaal Colony for several decades and by the early twentieth century there was a small Christian community among the Pedi people which was widely viewed with distrust by the remainder of the tribe who still practiced the traditional religion.^{[citation needed]}

Martyrdom

By 1919, an Anglican Community of the Resurrection mission was established by Fr.

Augustine Moeka in Marishane. Masemola attended classes in preparation for baptism with her cousin Lucia, against the wishes of her parents. Her parents took her to a Sangoma (African traditional healer), claiming that she had been bewitched.

She was prescribed a traditional remed