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Joseph Engenas Matlhakanye Lekganyane

Joseph Lekganyane was born in 21 January 1931 in Moria. His father is the founder of the Zion Christian Church (ZCC) in 1910. He attended school up to standard six and later a junior certificate (standard nine).

Joseph Lekganyane’s prominence in the church developed when he became a personal driver for his father. This position brought him closer to various church leaders and the inner working of the ZCC. After the death of his father, Joseph Lekganyane claimed leadership of the church. However, his brother Edward Lekganyane disputed his claim after his return from Natal where he worked. This caused serious conflict leading to the split of the church in the ZCC of the Dove and ZCC of the Star as their respective symbols. ZCC (Dove) was headed by Joseph Lekganyane and its stronghold was in rural areas. Edward Lekganyane’s stronghold was in urban areas, especially Johannesburg, were many people still believed that succession should follow traditional lines of primogeniture. On 15 September 1949, elders of the Church and Advocate P

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New Information on the Early Life of Engenas Lekganyane

New Information on the Early Life of Engenas Lekganyane March 2019 About six years ago, dissatisfied with the extent of existing information, I set about trying to write a new biography of Engenas Lekganyane. It was obvious that Lekganyane was the most important religious figure in southern African history (at least from 1900 onwards), and that the extremely sparse set of records available around his life needed to be upgraded with new source material. Despite living in the United States and having to work in six different languages, I expanded the relevant data set relating to Engenas quite dramatically. Two weeks ago I found some new materials, more by luck than by design, which shows that our received understanding of Lekganyane’s background is incorrect. These new materials include the first known written references to Engenas and his father, Barnabas. They also show that almost all sources of information about Lekganyane, whether written or oral, have made the same basic mistake about him. As a result, I too have made t

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Between Two Cultures

Barry Morton, Booksmango, 242 pages, 3 of 5 stars

The Zion Christian Church (ZCC) is the African and ecclesiastical version of the Freemasons—shrouded in mystery and secret rituals. What’s so special about the tea they’re brewing? Why is the water they splash on faces so magical? What makes their uniforms blessed? The answers are difficult to find.

Despite its twelve million members and place as southern Africa’s largest African Initiated Church, the ZCC is nearly empty of any historical or theological literature.

This book is so helpful because it pulls back the curtain on this Christian cult that dots the south of Africa. A main reason I strongly recommend Barry Morton’s book on the ZCC is that there is no other work like it. There’s simply not a lot of literature from which to choose.

In the book’s nine chapters, Morton covers the early life of ZCC founder Engenas Lekganyane, his spiritual influences, the ZCC’s theological convictions and finally Engena’s latter years. The book critiques the history of the ZCC, not her theology, as there are