ABSTRACT
Reverend Daniel Malgas was among the first group of local Anglican clergy to be trained in Grahamstown (now Makhanda), South Africa, in the 1870s. In Lent 1879,2 he completed his studies, was ordained as a deacon, and began his ministry on a mission station in the eastern part of the Cape Colony. Daniel Malgas was introduced to missionary education in his late teens. He was of the Mfengu tribe and, like his contemporary Peter Mazisa, probably found himself caught between traditional Xhosa life and the ever-increasing Western cultural demands of a Christian convert. In a similar system, Malgas did not receive formal theological training but was instead assigned to a theological tutor—John Espin. Malgas did not provide details about the curriculum of the teaching certificate,18 or of tutoring he received from Espin, so it is impossible to discern exactly what he was taught.
