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Masemola was born in Marishane, a small village near Pietersburg (now Polokwane), in South Africa.
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Manche Masemola
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German and then English missionaries had worked in the Transvaal Colony for several decades and by the early twentieth century there was a small Christian community among the Pedi people which was widely viewed with distrust by the remainder of the tribe who still practiced the traditional religion. By 1919, an Anglican Community of the Resurrection mission was established by French Augustine Moeka at Marishane.
Her parents took her to a Sangoma (African traditional healer), claiming that she had been bewitched.
Manche had said that she would be baptized in her own blood. She died without having been baptized.
She is one of the ten 20th-century martyrs from across the world who are depicted in statues above the Great West Door of Westminster Abbey, London.
