The late Arthur Keppel-Jones was born at Rondebosch, Cape Province, South Africa, in 1909. Because of the racial-political situation in his homeland, Dr. Keppel-Jones, a Rhodes Scholar in 1929, left his native South Africa to immigrate with his family to Canada in 1959. When he wrote the influential When Smuts Goes in 1947, Professor Keppel-Jones accurately predicted the political chaos that would engulf South Africa if the United South African Party, led by Jan Smuts, went down to defeat at the hands of the Afrikaaner Nationalist Party. When Smuts and his party were defeated, the racial discrimination policy known as apartheid quickly became law, drawing international condemnation, sanctions, and isolation. Dr. Keppel-Jones was a distinguished professor for many years at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Before he died, in 1996, he was an avid boatman and cruised northern Ontario lakes. In this view he is on Buck Lake north of Kingston, Ontario, circa 1963. [Photo, courtesy Michael Keppel-Jones]

Ebenezer Modeni Sikakane was born outside Estcourt, Kwa Zulu-Natal, in South Africa. His education started with schooling at the age of eight because he had to walk quite a distance to get to the nearest school. He then went on to obtain a teacher’s diploma; a B.A. in Theology from the University of South Africa; a Th.M. from Fuller Theological Seminary, California; and a D.Min, from Trinity Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois. Ebenezer married Emily Sibisi, a school teacher from Newcastle, South Africa, and they taught together for six years until he entered the ministry. After that he taught at the same college for eleven years and then went on to evangelism with African Enterprise for nine years. In 1978 they moved to Canada with their five children. Ebenezer taught at Tyndale College and Seminary for sixteen years, heading up the Intercultural Studies Department of the College. After retiring from lecturing in 1996, he is now part-time pastor of Churchill Community Church near Stouffville, Ontario. He is also honorary Canadian Director of African Ministries, an organization operating in South Africa. In this view, Rev. Sikakane congratulates recent graduates from Tyndale College. [Photo, courtesy Rev. Ebenezer Sikakane]