South Africa has a history of healthy child rearing based on African traditional values, before the coming of squatter camps. The aim of this article is to identify some historical values and incorporate them in future ...

Luther’s views on justice provide a useful platform of departure for discerning ‘points of contact’ between Christians and non- Christians on the nature and role of justice in society. The main elements of such ‘points ...

The introduction of formal schooling and learning was a new experience among children of indigenous people in South Africa. This came through missionaries as they introduced mission schools. Missionaries introduced mission ...

This paper describes the painstaking, controversy-ridden and only partly successful attempts made to harmonise worship life at the Federal Theological Seminary of Southern Africa in the 1980s. Established at Alice in ...

In this article the theological thinking on healing of two leaders in the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa (AFM) is discussed. John G Lake, together with Thomas Hezmalhalch, came to South Africa in 1908 to preach ...

Character formation was the most pervasive subject in the curriculum of mission schools despite the fact that it was nowhere to be found on the timetable. It was a major tool in the Christinising/civilising process with a ...