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About Francina Susanna Louw
F S Malan, 1894. (Mrs A A Louw). Wife of Rev. Louw of the Dutch Reformed Mission of Morgenster. Mrs Louw died in 1935. Information in letter from Miss Julia Heyman dated 13/11/1955 from Fort Victoria.
SAF 2018:
Francina Susanna * Riebeek-Wes 10.3.1872 ≈ NGK Riebeek-Wes 21.4.1872 † Morgenster, Rhodesië 25.6.1935; sendeling in Masjonaland. Medevertaalster van die Bybel in Chikaranga x Paarl 25.4.1894 Andries Adriaan Louw * Fauresmith 26.2.1862 † Morgenster, Rhodesië 12.8.1956; sendeling in Masjonaland s.v. Andries Adriaan Louw en Jemima Murray
Notas deur David Abraham Swanepoel
Cinie was ‘n besonder begaafde student wat met Jan Smuts meegeding het in die skool by Riebeek-Wes. Sien bronne onder en doen ‘n tegniese soektog op die PDF vir vermeldings. Haar belangrikste werk was te Morgenster in die destydse Rhodesië:
“After her arrival at Morgenster, Cinie was more than just the missionary’s wife and assistant. She and Andrew both regarded it as essential to understand the local language, which was Chikaranga, a Shona dialect. To that end, they walked around with notebooks, asking the locals the names of various objects, which they then meticulously recorded. In this way they soon became fluent. Cinie, however, did not leave it at that. In 1915, she published a 397-page grammar book entitled A Manual of the Chikaranga Language, which included a vocabulary of 8 000 words. The late Prof. Doke of the University of the Witwatersrand said of it: “This book contains the best grammatical sketch of any Mashonaland language hitherto published”.
The Louws were also involved in the translation of the Bible into Chikaranga, but upon completion it was decided not to publish it, but to rather produce the Bible in Unifying Shona, which would eventually reach a greater number of people. This task was completed by their son, André A. Louw, in 1950. In addition to this, Cinie became editor and contributor to the church’s publication, Munyai waShe (The King’s Messenger) ; translated 210 hymns into Chikaranga; and wrote readers in Chikaranga for the mission’s school. As a result of her efforts, she was nominated to serve on both the Mission Council’s Language Commission and the Southern Rhodesian government’s Language Commission.
Cinie also devoted much of her energy to the plight of women. In 1910, she began lobbying for the establishment of ‘daughter’s homes’ for young Shona women who had been rejected by their families or husbands. Such homes already existed in Malawi at the time, and due to her efforts more were established in Rhodesia. Furthermore, she also gave birth to five children (one of whom died at young age), and adopted a sixth." [1]
Bronne:
1. Lindie Korf. Behind every man: D.F. Malan and the women in his life, 1874-1959. Paper presented at the Southern African Historical Society (SAHS) Biennial Conference, University of Johannesburg, June 24-27, 2007. https://www.academia.edu/511013/Behind_Every_Man_D.F._Malan_and_the....
2. Lindie Korf. 2010. DF Malan: a political biography. PhD thesis, US. http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/3991
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Francina Susanna Louw's Timeline
| 1872 |
March 10, 1872
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Allesverloren Farm, Riebeek West, Cape Province, South Africa
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| 1895 |
July 6, 1895
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Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia
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| 1897 |
May 9, 1897
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Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia
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| 1902 |
May 30, 1902
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| 1905 |
December 13, 1905
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Morgenster, Fort Victoria (Masvingo), Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
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| 1907 |
March 28, 1907
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Morgenster Mission, Zimbabwe
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| 1918 |
July 23, 1918
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Morgenster Mission, Zimbabwe
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| 1935 |
June 25, 1935
Age 63
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Morgenster Mission, Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia
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