JAMES DWANE

In the wake of Dwane's secession, chaos reigned in the South African AME Church. The fact that the church survived at all was a testament to the energy of a small group of loyalists in the Cape who labored tirelessly to check the spread of the rebellion. . . . They also rallied their ministerial colleagues in the interior, a task made more difficult by the problems of wartime [The English-Boer War of 1899-1902) communication but eased by the resentment that many of the original Ethiopians had always entertained toward Dwane. Between loyalists lobbying and Anglican authoritarianism, seceders began to drift back to the AME Church. Dwane himself chafed against his European supervisors and was for a time suspended, but ultimately he remained within the Anglican fold. Not so Mangane Mokone, who wrote a contrite letter to Bishop Turner asking him 'to forgive and forget and treat me as before. . . .'

-James T. Campbell, Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa (1995), p.221.