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Edward Lekganyane
Religious leader (1922 – 1967)
Edward Lekganyane, popularly known as "Kgoshi Edward" (1922 – 21 October 1967), was the leader of the Zion Christian Church (ZCC) from Easter Sunday, April 17, 1949, until his death eighteen years later. During this time he used his charisma and organizational abilities to expand the ZCC from about 50,000 to 600,000[1] members, while also reshaping numerous facets of the church. During his tenure as bishop, the ZCC emerged as South Africa's largest independent church, while Lekganyane became arguably the wealthiest and most powerful African in apartheid-era South Africa.
Early life and career
[edit]Edward was the second-born son of Engenas Lekganyane and his senior wife, Salfina Rabodiba, and was born in Thabakgone in the Mamabolo Reserve east of Polokwane. Although his exact birth date is unknown, he is known to have been born during a smallpox epidemic that led his father to quarantine his household for some time.[2] At this time, Engenas Lekganyane was the Transvaal leader of the Zion Apostolic Faith Mission church, led by Edward Lion, who he named his son after. Edward was then educated by his father at private schools in the area, eventually obtaining Standard 5.[3] As one of five le
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Transformation and Independence
The First Pentecostals in Latin America
The global shifts and constant mutations that characterized Pentecostalism were strongly influenced by local factors. Independent churches with a Pentecostal emphasis proliferated in the global South, and this expansion had repercussions for all of world Christianity, drastic changes that were unforeseen by the Edinburgh World Missionary Conference in 1910. But this was not just a geographical and cultural shift of center; it was at the same time a reformation of Christianity so fundamental that its reverberations extended much further than had the Protestant Reformation. The 1910 Edinburgh missionary conference had left Latin America out of the program altogether, regarding it (like all Europe), as already Christianized and therefore not needing missionaries. In stark contrast, pentecostals, like their evangelical counterparts, saw South America as the “neglected continent” and were stridently anti-Catholic. Their rhetoric described Latin America as a “Romanist” stronghold and their letters and reports abounded with allusions to the “darkness” and “delusion” of popular Catholicism in this region. They were at pains to point out that Catholicism was “