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Inkholo yesilnmbi yintfo lensha esiveni semaSwati, yefika nebelumbi<br />
EmaSwati njengato tonkhe tive te -Afrika abevele anayo inkholo yawo<br />
yesintfu. Inkholo yebelumbi yatsi nayifika kwadzingeka kutsi bantfu bashiye<br />
inkholo yabo banamatsele kuyebuKhristu. Kuyakhanya 4e kutsi<br />
tifikanamtfwalo tasebentisa yona Ienkholo ekulabliseni lamanye emaSwati<br />
emasiko, nekubusa lelive. Bantfu -ke kwatsiwa bonile kufanele bakhululwe<br />
etonweni taboo Banela kuva Ielo bayekela kuIwa nembuso wetifiki,<br />
batemukela ngetandla letimhlophe. Lokusimanga kutsi wona lamasontfo<br />
lavulwa abese ayehlukana, kwaba khona ebantfu labamnyama newebelumbi<br />
kantsi kutsiwa munye Nkulunkulu lokhontwako. Kwaphindze kwatsi khona<br />
lapho emasontfweni alabamnyama bafundisi kwaba belumbi. Lamanye -ke<br />
emabandla enkholo yesilnmbi bekuyi Black Methodists, Baptists<br />
nemaPentecostals. Inkholo -ke iseqentiswe njengetikhali kubetembusave<br />
ekudideni tingcondvo tebantfu. Fredrickson (1995:58) ufakaza utsi:<br />
The tendency to identify Christianity with European civilization<br />
made whites the teachers and blacks the pupils - a hierarchical<br />
relationship that was supposed to be temporary but that tended<br />
to become, certainly in the missionary thinking <strong>of</strong> the late<br />
nineteenth century less <strong>of</strong> a sudden liberation from sin and<br />
unbelieve through the miracle <strong>of</strong> divine grace and more <strong>of</strong> a<br />
long-term guidanship.<br />
Lokusho kutsi inkholo isite bekufika kutsi bafake imitsetfo yabo nemasiko<br />
abo ekubuseni lelive. Kufanele sati ngemaciniso etemlandvo lakhombisa<br />
kutsi nemaSwati atimbandzakanya kubetembusave etikhatsini letinyenti.<br />
Kasenene (1993: 129) ufakaza utsi:<br />
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