Stories of the calling of female ministers in the Dutch Reformed Church played out over a period of approximately 107 years. The folk mother discourse, which silenced women’s voices in public, developed in the Afrikaner ...

This article contributes to the continuing debate on gender equity in the African Initiated Churches (AICs) and their leadership, emphasising the united stand taken by women of the Zionist and Apostolic wings of the ...

More than 30 years have passed since the Nederduitsch Hervormde Church, the second largest of the three traditional Afrikaans-speaking sister churches, opened the door for women to become ministers. Statistics are used ...

This article highlights the contributions to mission work by the wives of the missionaries working in Botswana in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While these women made a substantial contribution to the ...

Churches in South Africa have a history of gender injustice, that is, of not being accountable to women believers. This article presents stories of women testifying to the effects of unjust gender discourses on their ...

The central thrust of this article is a review of Mercy Amba Oduyoye’s contribution to African feminist theologies in her pursuit of justice in the church and in society, particularly with regard to gender justice. The ...

Mai Chaza’s story is one of evolution from wife, mother and “bloused” member of the Methodist Church's women’s union to elder, faith healer and founder of the Guta RaJehovah Church. Chaza’s healing ministry to women ...

This article deals more with Charlotte Maxeke’s work than with the details of her life history. Maxeke was the first black South African woman to receive a BSc degree − this at a time when few women were graduating from ...