| LC control no. | no2012096842 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Mgijima, Enoch, 1868-1929 |
| Variant(s) | Mgizima, Enoch, 1868-1929 |
| Associated country | South Africa |
| Birth date | 1868 |
| Death date | 1929-03-05 |
| Place of birth | Whittlesea (South Africa) |
| Place of death | Queenstown (South Africa) |
| Field of activity | Millennialism Bulhoek Massacre, Bulhoek, South Africa, 1921 |
| Profession or occupation | Religious leaders Evangelists |
| Found in | Because they chose the plan of God, 2010: page 1 (Enoch Mgijima; African prophet in the village of Ntabelanga; leader of the Israelites) page 3 (born at Bulhoek in 1868; son of Jonas Mayekiso Mgijima) page 38 (died March 5, 1929) Dictionary of African Christian Biography, via WWW, July 17, 2012 (Mgijima, Enoch Josiah; the leader of the Israelites whose massacre in 1921 caused a wave of concern throughout South Africa; he became a farmer and hunter; he also became a lay preacher and evangelist in the Methodist Church; because of his lack of education, he was never able to become an ordained minister; he joined the Church of God and Saints of Christ, but was eventually asked to leave this church as well; he called the new church that he established the Israelites) South African History Online, via WWW, July 17, 2012 (Enoch Mgijima (Mgizima); Fingo prophet of the Israelites sect in the Eastern Cape; died in Ntabelanga, Queenstown; his followers, believing Enoch's claim that they were under the special protection of God, had defied orders by the government to leave the Bulhoek commonage outside Queenstown, which lead to the Bulhoek Massacre in 1921) |
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