Lize Kriel
Biographic Data
| ID | 195285 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lize Kriel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lize |
| FAMILY NAME | Kriel |
| SIGNATURE | KRIEL L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2933-2215 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
African-Language Periodicals of the Berlin Mission Church During the First Half of the Twentieth Century, Northern South Africa
Jonas Raubaas Mohaaschwa and the Introduction of Christianity to Mamabololand in the Late Nineteenth Century
Gendered ruptures and continuities in the Venda traditional leadership from C. 1990 to 2020
This article approaches traditional leadership disputes amongst and within Venda royal houses over the past three decades (from the end of grand apartheid to the presidency of Mr Cyril Ramaphosa) while investigating the reasons for the importance of such traditional leadership positions in modern South Africa. In the light of the most recent disputes around the right of women to ascend to the highest Venda authority, historical precedents around …
Winged women on book covers for contemporary African fiction
In her collection of short stories, Intruders, Mohale Mashigo (2018) draws on popular culture as well as local cultural memories as invested in South African folktales, to conjure up a fantastical world in which spirituality is often invoked. In this article, I consider the way in which the visual image of a woman with angelic wings designed for the book cover by artist Shubnum Khan, serves the purpose of marketing the commodity by means of conno…
Chapter 2 The Book as Prop in the Missionary Imagination
John Muafangejo’s How God Loves His People All Over the World as Material Religion
The artworks produced at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft Centre at Rorke’s Drift, KwaZulu-Natal, have been highly appraised and appreciated in South African art-historical circles, not in the least so as African expressions of postcolonial and anti-apartheid resistance. The work of Namibian artist John Muafangejo (1943–1987) is prominent amongst these. In this article, while borrowing generously from the methods of art historical re…
‘The Lord God is like a cow … ’
This paper introduces three African Lutheran pastors of the Berlin Mission Church who during the late 1920s/early 1930s had worked with German missionary Carl Adolf Hoffmann in the Woodbush-Wolkberg area of the former northern Transvaal (today Limpopo Province, South Africa). Evidence from Philippus Bopape, Josef Mahoro and Moses Rakoma’s sermons, annual and quarterly station reports and conversations with Hoffmann are juxtaposed in an attempt to…
Tribing and Untribing the Archive
Setting Transvaal Scenes in German Type
Carl Adolf Hoffmann is counted among the most prolific 19th- and 20th-century authors employed by the Berlin Missionary Society in the former Transvaal, South Africa, home to the Berlin Mission Church’s northern-Sotho/Sepedi-speaking synods. Hoffmann attempted to record African history and cultural practices with a view to preserving them for posterity by rendering orally performed knowledge into written and printed text. His efforts coincided wi…
Heimat in the Veld
By the end of the twentieth century, most descendants of the Berlin missionaries in South Africa had become integrated into Afrikaans-speaking white society to the extent that they could "pass" as Afrikaners, many of them also selfidentifying as such. The complex undertones of German-South African identity become apparent when looking into early twentieth century projects run by missionaries and their sons with the aim of ingratiating themselves …
Reflections on the mission(s) to capture the ‘reader’ and ‘book’ in southern African art
This article presents some early reflections from a cultural historical project on the visualisation of \nreading practices. The focus is limited to images of people reading. The pervasiveness of such \nimages in popular visual culture is illustrated, and how this relates to the established tradition \namongst Western artists to paint the image of the reader. A number of scholars have contributed to \nthe image of the reader in art as a field of …
Mourning Becomes … Post/memory, Commemoration and the Concentration Camps of the South African War
A German-Christian Network of Letters in Colonial Africa as a Repository for 'Ordinary' Biographies of Women, 1931-1967
This study explores the possibilities of extracting biographies of ‘ordinary Africans’, especially women, from the epistolary networks of a transcontinental Lutheran community of readers. Due to the enthusiastic efforts of a number of German deaconesses, women from British colonial Africa whose narrations might otherwise not have been recorded, participated in conversations with women in Nazi, and thereafter West as well as East Germany. Mission …
Praying is the Work of Men, Not the Work of Women’
In this article we take up Dorothy Hodgson's appeal for a stronger gender analysis of the process of missionisation by revisiting Adrian Hastings's 1993 essay in which he argued that ‘again and again in a mission history ... the early significant baptisms were mostly of women’. A close reading of the reportage of the Lutheran missionaries of the Berlin Mission Society is undertaken to establish whether or not this trend is also applicable to the …
Tsuneo Yoshikuni, African Urban Experiences in Colonial Zimbabwe
Book History in Southern Africa
Same war, different story
An earlier issue of this journal carried an article contextualising and interpreting a prominent praise poem performed for their leader by the Hananwa, a northern Sotho community in South Africa. While it looked into the Hananwa's oral memory of the violent subjugation of their ancestors by the forces of the South African Republic (ZAR) in 1894, this article explores white people's representations of the Hananwa leader, Mmalebôhô, over the past h…
Colin Rae's Malaboch
Die Boer-Hananwa-Oorlog ("Malaboch-Oorlog") van 1894
In December 1997 a year-long exhibition on the Hananwa, the People of the Blue Mountains, was launched by the National Cultural Historical Museum at their African Window in Pretoria. The prominent exhibition only reconfirms the extent to which this Sepedi-speaking community of Blouberg in the Northern Province has been under the searchlight in recent years. The aim of this survey is to identify and contemplate the value of currently available res…
Johann Tempelhoff, Die okkupasiestelsel in die distrik Soutpansberg, 1886-1899, Argiefjaarboek vir Suid-Afrikaanse Geskiedenis, 60
No abstract available
Christoph Sonntag's Mmalebogo
Christoph Sonntag's Mmalebogo
Die Boer-Hananwa-Oorlog ("Malaboch-Oorlog") van 1894
In December 1997 a year-long exhibition on the Hananwa, the People of the Blue Mountains, was launched by the National Cultural Historical Museum at their African Window in Pretoria. The prominent exhibition only reconfirms the extent to which this Sepedi-speaking community of Blouberg in the Northern Province has been under the searchlight in recent years. The aim of this survey is to identify and contemplate the value of currently available res…
Johann Tempelhoff, Die okkupasiestelsel in die distrik Soutpansberg, 1886-1899, Argiefjaarboek vir Suid-Afrikaanse Geskiedenis, 60
No abstract available
Colin Rae's Malaboch
Same war, different story
An earlier issue of this journal carried an article contextualising and interpreting a prominent praise poem performed for their leader by the Hananwa, a northern Sotho community in South Africa. While it looked into the Hananwa's oral memory of the violent subjugation of their ancestors by the forces of the South African Republic (ZAR) in 1894, this article explores white people's representations of the Hananwa leader, Mmalebôhô, over the past h…
Book History in Southern Africa
Tsuneo Yoshikuni, African Urban Experiences in Colonial Zimbabwe
Praying is the Work of Men, Not the Work of Women’
In this article we take up Dorothy Hodgson's appeal for a stronger gender analysis of the process of missionisation by revisiting Adrian Hastings's 1993 essay in which he argued that ‘again and again in a mission history ... the early significant baptisms were mostly of women’. A close reading of the reportage of the Lutheran missionaries of the Berlin Mission Society is undertaken to establish whether or not this trend is also applicable to the …
Mourning Becomes … Post/memory, Commemoration and the Concentration Camps of the South African War
A German-Christian Network of Letters in Colonial Africa as a Repository for 'Ordinary' Biographies of Women, 1931-1967
This study explores the possibilities of extracting biographies of ‘ordinary Africans’, especially women, from the epistolary networks of a transcontinental Lutheran community of readers. Due to the enthusiastic efforts of a number of German deaconesses, women from British colonial Africa whose narrations might otherwise not have been recorded, participated in conversations with women in Nazi, and thereafter West as well as East Germany. Mission …
Reflections on the mission(s) to capture the ‘reader’ and ‘book’ in southern African art
This article presents some early reflections from a cultural historical project on the visualisation of \nreading practices. The focus is limited to images of people reading. The pervasiveness of such \nimages in popular visual culture is illustrated, and how this relates to the established tradition \namongst Western artists to paint the image of the reader. A number of scholars have contributed to \nthe image of the reader in art as a field of …
Heimat in the Veld
By the end of the twentieth century, most descendants of the Berlin missionaries in South Africa had become integrated into Afrikaans-speaking white society to the extent that they could "pass" as Afrikaners, many of them also selfidentifying as such. The complex undertones of German-South African identity become apparent when looking into early twentieth century projects run by missionaries and their sons with the aim of ingratiating themselves …
‘The Lord God is like a cow … ’
This paper introduces three African Lutheran pastors of the Berlin Mission Church who during the late 1920s/early 1930s had worked with German missionary Carl Adolf Hoffmann in the Woodbush-Wolkberg area of the former northern Transvaal (today Limpopo Province, South Africa). Evidence from Philippus Bopape, Josef Mahoro and Moses Rakoma’s sermons, annual and quarterly station reports and conversations with Hoffmann are juxtaposed in an attempt to…
Tribing and Untribing the Archive
Setting Transvaal Scenes in German Type
Carl Adolf Hoffmann is counted among the most prolific 19th- and 20th-century authors employed by the Berlin Missionary Society in the former Transvaal, South Africa, home to the Berlin Mission Church’s northern-Sotho/Sepedi-speaking synods. Hoffmann attempted to record African history and cultural practices with a view to preserving them for posterity by rendering orally performed knowledge into written and printed text. His efforts coincided wi…
Chapter 2 The Book as Prop in the Missionary Imagination
John Muafangejo’s How God Loves His People All Over the World as Material Religion
The artworks produced at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft Centre at Rorke’s Drift, KwaZulu-Natal, have been highly appraised and appreciated in South African art-historical circles, not in the least so as African expressions of postcolonial and anti-apartheid resistance. The work of Namibian artist John Muafangejo (1943–1987) is prominent amongst these. In this article, while borrowing generously from the methods of art historical re…
Gendered ruptures and continuities in the Venda traditional leadership from C. 1990 to 2020
This article approaches traditional leadership disputes amongst and within Venda royal houses over the past three decades (from the end of grand apartheid to the presidency of Mr Cyril Ramaphosa) while investigating the reasons for the importance of such traditional leadership positions in modern South Africa. In the light of the most recent disputes around the right of women to ascend to the highest Venda authority, historical precedents around …
Winged women on book covers for contemporary African fiction
In her collection of short stories, Intruders, Mohale Mashigo (2018) draws on popular culture as well as local cultural memories as invested in South African folktales, to conjure up a fantastical world in which spirituality is often invoked. In this article, I consider the way in which the visual image of a woman with angelic wings designed for the book cover by artist Shubnum Khan, serves the purpose of marketing the commodity by means of conno…
African-Language Periodicals of the Berlin Mission Church During the First Half of the Twentieth Century, Northern South Africa
Jonas Raubaas Mohaaschwa and the Introduction of Christianity to Mamabololand in the Late Nineteenth Century
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