The awkward positioning of a Dutch Reformed "missionary" in apartheid South Africa : Rev. D. P. Botha and the Cape "coloured" question

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dc.contributor.authorMuller, Retiefen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-30T10:02:58Z
dc.date.available2022-03-30T10:02:58Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionCITATION: Muller, R. 2020. The awkward positioning of a Dutch Reformed "missionary" in apartheid South Africa: Rev. D. P. Botha and the Cape "coloured" question. Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, 46(1):1-15, doi:10.25159/2412-4265/6805.en_ZA
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at: http://www.scielo.org.za
dc.description.abstractThe Rev. D. P. (David) Botha was a lifelong apartheid critic and minister in the Dutch Reformed Mission Church (DRMC) and later the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA). Early in his career, he served as a "missionary" in a DRMC congregation in Wynberg, and subsequently in other congregations in the Western Cape, South Africa. During his career, he wrote an important book and engaged in public discourse through contributions in newspapers and other mainstream publications. Focusing on these sources, most of which now form part of his private collection in the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) Archive, this article traces Botha's growing agitation regarding the implementation of apartheid policies, in the aftermath of the institution of the 1950 Group Areas Act. Among other things it illuminates the early apartheidera white view of the other, as experienced and critiqued by this insider-outsider minister with respect to his assessment of general white perceptions of so-called "coloureds" in the Cape Town area. Through specific attention to Botha's correspondences with A. P. Treurnicht and Beyers Naudé, this article also shows the problematic perspective of a white missionary seeking to alleviate the impact of policy decisions on his church members, while simultaneously buying into the predominant ideology of racial categorisation.en_ZA
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dc.format.extent15 pages
dc.identifier.citationMuller, R. 2020. The awkward positioning of a Dutch Reformed "missionary" in apartheid South Africa: Rev. D. P. Botha and the Cape "coloured" question. Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, 46(1):1-15, doi:10.25159/2412-4265/6805en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2412-4265 (online)
dc.identifier.issn1017-0499 (print)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.25159/2412-4265/6805
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/124389
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherThe Church History Society of Southern Africa
dc.rights.holderAuthor retains copyright
dc.subjectColored people (South Africa)en_ZA
dc.subjectNederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk -- Missionsen_ZA
dc.subjectDutch Reformed Mission Churchen_ZA
dc.subjectBotha, D. P.en_ZA
dc.subjectApartheid -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.titleThe awkward positioning of a Dutch Reformed "missionary" in apartheid South Africa : Rev. D. P. Botha and the Cape "coloured" questionen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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