German and then English missionaries had worked in the Transvaal Colony for several decades and by the early twentieth century there was a small Christian community among the Pedi people which was widely viewed with distrust by the remainder of the tribe who still practiced the traditional religion.

[1] Relations worsened, and the mother hid the girl's clothes so she could not attend Christian instructional classes.

[2] On February 4, 1928, her parents led the teenager to a lonely place, where they killed her, burying her by a granite rock on a remote hillside.

[4] She is one of the ten 20th-century martyrs from across the world who are depicted in statues above the Great West Door of Westminster Abbey, London.

[5] Manche Masemola is honored with a Lesser Feast on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America[6] on February 4.