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eligion to the extent that the religious beliefs and practices
kept the tribal system intact.
(Chidester, 1996:206).
Bantfu labacacelwe benta tiphakamiso kutsi asenalabelumbi bafundziswe
ngenkholo yesintfu kute nanabo babe nelwati kepha kwangatsi
bahlangabetana netimbila titfutsa ngobe belumbi abayiva kahle lendzaba.
UMfundisi Gabriel Setiloane, (1986) uyichaza kahle lendzaba ngemaga akhe
nabeka kanjena:
I have always believed that we Blacks who are in the study of
these mysteries of African religious activity and life, have a duty
to raise to the attention of our White Western fellow scholars,
that there is much more to this than can be judged and
assessed adequately I and by Western scholarship and knowhow.
. Unfortunately Wester scholarship and know-how are
arrogant and never want to declare themselves baffled,
especially by phenomena "in pagan primitive cultures".
(Seti/oane, 1986:1).
Lekumele bantfu bendzabuko bakwente kutsi bavele bachubeke ngemphilo
yabo, bakhohlwe belumbi ngobe phela belumbi banako kwabo
labangabangiswa ngumuntfu. Imphi yekubuyiselwa kwesintfu senkholo
yesintfu idzinga kutsi bantfu bendzabuko labakholelwa kuyo lenkholo
bachubeke nekutikholelwa kuyo, bayekele lamahhantanta
lasabangemambuka. LobekanguMengameli walive leNinginzimu Afrika,
Nelson Mandela asabanjelwe eRobben Island wakhombisa kutsi inkholo
yesintfu imenta umuntfu akwati kubeketelela nobe yini lahlangabetana nayo
nanobe iyimbi kanganani. Kwatsi nakufika emakhomu lasemancane
akhandza labalabadzala lababoshwa kudzala acabanga kutsi hhayi
lamakhehla akasasito tidlamlilo sekagotjiswe ngemaBhunu. Mandela
kwamcasula loku kepha ngenca yenkholo yakhe wabeketela. Asimuve
nacashunwe ngu-Alt encwadzini lehlelwe nguMakobane nalabanye, (1995)
abeka kanjena waMadiba:
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