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DU PLESSIS, J : Een Toer Deur Afrika

Swets & Zeitlinger, 1917

A near fine copy in the original red cloth, spine faded else a remarkably clean tight example. A fine association/presentation copy, inscribed: "Aan ds Nico J. Smith, met die wens en bede dat die gees wat die skrywer van hierdie boek besiel het ook in toenemende mate sy deel sal wees, G.B.A. Gerdener 30/10/66". An emotive link between three of the foremost figures in NGK Church history in the 20th century. Gustav Bernhard Augustus Gerdener (Wupperthal, 31 Maart 1881 – Stellenbosch, 15 Augustus 1967) was a multifaceted theologian, church historian and academic. Johannes du Plessis (1868–1935) was a South African theologian and Protestant missionary. Du Plessis is perhaps most remembered for helping lead an interracial coalition to push for reforms to empower black South Africans and lessen government discrimination in the early 1920s, such as by limiting the pass laws.[1] He was ordained by the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, although relations between him and the DRC declined in his later life over his liberal and modernist theological views, culminating in an accusation of heresy and his dismissal as professor at the University of Stellenbosch. Nico Smith (1929 – 19 June 2010) was a South African Afrikaner minister and prominent opponent of apartheid. Smith was a professor of theology at the University of Stellenbosch, a member of the Afrikaner Broederbond (Afrikaner Brotherhood) organization, and a minister of the apartheid-supporting Dutch Reformed Church (DRC). However, he abandoned his upper-class lifestyle to live with the impoverished and segregated blacks of Mamelodi, a suburb of Pretoria. From Mamelodi, he worked to support the black community and oppose apartheid. Smith joined the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA), the separate branch of the Dutch Reformed Church for non-whites, due to the DRC's refusal to oppose apartheid.

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