The second goal was acceptance of the religion of the West – monotheism, as embodied in Christianity and its value system – by the local African population. These goals were all-encompassing, making it impossible to be both Christian and traditional. Nor could one be educated and traditional. Acceptance of colonial education and Christianity implied the negation of African values, beliefs and ways of life. Although the conversion of blacks into labourers had begun in the Cape Colony, it was in the Transvaal that capitalism as a system began.40
