It was the encounter with the first of these agencies, the Methodist mission, that laid the basis for the distinction between setswana and sekgoa. This encounter, in fact, paved the way for the dualistic vision of the world-and its expression in the concepts of work, time, and value- through which the political economy of apartheid was later to be understood. We have con- sidered the role of the mission and its relationship to the other agencies of the colonial process elsewhere (Comaroff and Comaroff 1986; also J. Comaroff 1985). It is enough here to repeat a few well-established points about that process