Saving Souls, Healing Bodies: Missionaries and Healthcare Delivery Among Black Communities in the Former Transvaal Province of South Africa during The Twentieth Century

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The advent of western medicine in imperial/colonial Africa was cast by its mix of advocates as "mission and mandate".Missionary groups, who comprised a very active stakeholder in colonial social welfare, regarded themselves as being involved in a double mandate of saving souls and healing bodies.Across the length and breadth of colonial Africa, missionaries made their mark as providers of frontline healthcare services in under-served African communities.However, in South Africa the turn towards apartheid stifled missionary activity in the provision of healthcare services.But as this study seeks to show, in the case of the rural Transvaal, when the apartheid state took over the running of medical missions, a variety of missionary groups had -for all their ambiguity -already entrenched themselves as potential pioneers of primary healthcare in some localities.And there were legion.

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