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President Kenneth Kaunda greeting Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. and Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood at the opening of the mission hospital in Sesheke. The group includes Dr. Luke Connors FMDM. The hospital was built by Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap.

President Kenneth Kaunda at the opening of the new mission hospital in Sesheke in Zambia.

President Kenneth Kaunda at the opening of the new mission hospital in Sesheke. The group includes Dr. Luke Connors FMDM and Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.

Photographs showing the visit of Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd (1901-1966), Minister of Bantu Affairs in the South African government (he was later Prime Minister), to the Holy Family Mission at Katima Mulilo in the Caprivi Strip (situated in present-day Namibia but then under South African control). A typescript note is extant in the file. It reads: ‘The purpose of his visit to the Mission was to assess the possible implications of implanting the infamous Bantu Education Act into the Caprivi where, at the time, all the schools were administered by the Capuchins with the aid of a very meagre subsidy from the S.A. government. Dr. Verwoerd (the “architect of apartheid”, was assassinated during his reign as Prime Minister) enforced the Bantu Education Act, in the late 1950s, as a means of preventing black South Africans from receiving an education anywhere near the standard enjoyed by other ethnic groups, e.g. whites and coloureds’. One of the photographs shows Verwoerd (identified with an 'X') with various religious including Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. and Fr. Bartholomew Prendiville OFM Cap., superior of the Katima Mulilo Mission. See also CA AMI/2/10/3/110.

Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with school children.

The exterior of Malengwa Friary. The original caption reads: ‘The first friars were Fr. Macnaise, Fr. Timothy Phelim and Br. Fergus. The building was thatched at first’.

Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with African bishops probably in Rome.

Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. and other African bishops at a reception in the Vatican with Pope Paul VI.