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" that she still loved the Word ofGod,
but she had now become so dull and was
no longer able to make any definite
decisions ... "56
Mpande appreciated the medical expertise ofthe Norwegian missionaries.
They helped him cure his sporadic gout sickness.
The Berlin Mission in the Colony of Natal and KwaZulu dates from the
year 1847 when two missionaries ofthat society, Rev. Dohne and Posselt,
came from the interior over the UkhaWamba and commenced operations
in KwaZulu with permission from Mpande. S7 They founded two stations,
one called Emmaus, at the Ukhahlamba, at the sources of the Thukela;
and another, called New Germany near Pinetown, close to 20km from
Port Natal. 58 The Hanoverian Mission had its origin (under Providence)
in the zeal and energy ofthe pious pastor Harms at Hermannsburg, on the
sources of the Inhlimbithi, one of the eastern branches of the Umvoti. 59
The Hanoverians, having obtained permISSIOn from Mpande,
subsequently built SIX additional mission stations at Sterk Spruit,
Ehlanzeni; Ethembeni on the Mpofana, Inyezane on a northeastern branch
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S .A. 1/3/9: Annual Repon ofResident Magistrate Windham 1859: USPG folio D25:
CaUaway to HawldtlS. 6 February 1863.
Ibid., p. 242.
Ibid., p. 243
Ibid., p. 243.