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The Mission and the work of the Bishops.

We can agree with the point which says that  the Church rejected the policy of apartheid because the policy of Apartheid is implemented at the cost of large scale removals.  The clear examples are Mr. Khoza and Mrs. Ngcongo whom I interviewed.  Because of the policy of Apartheid they were moved from their place of origin and which was in Mousie.  This was because they were told that the government was going to build the factories in that area.  So by that reason they were forced to move.  What I can say is that this was what we can call the force removals which the government began to use to blacks so as  to keep the Apartheid policy going.

What we find is that "the Church was particularly involved in ministering to those  affected  by proposed relocation"8 . I can also agree with the fact that the Church was also concerned about the social being of the blacks.   This is because the families of these two people were allowed to settle in the area of Mariannhill Mission.  "... Bishop Streit of Mariannhill, a diocese which supplied a considerable number of migrant laborers, or better still, on land which they owned as the only effective means of removing the worst excesses of the migratory labor system."9  In other words I can say , by allowing the people to settle in the area of the Church another means to protect the people from the policy of   Apartheid.  But what I can say is that it was not about the protection only, on the other side they were going to get many people who were converted and follow the Roman Catholic Religion.   S what we can say is that the Roman Catholic Mission work was twofold.  It aimed at converting the people as well as protecting people against the policy of apartheid.