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The 'Battle of Rorke's Drift' from a Swedish missionary perspective

Hale, Frederick (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2006)

The “Battle of Rorke's Drift” during the Anglo-Zulu War took place at the site of the recently established Swedish Lutheran Oscarsberg mission station. However, histories of that conflict have almost completely ignored ...
Ontstaan en ontwikkeling van Welkom met verwysing na die Afrikaanssprekende Gereformeerde Kerke se vroee rol

Gillmer, J. G. (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2006)

This article refers to the establishment of Welkom and its development and more particularly to the role of the Afrikaansspeaking Reformed Churches during the early mining processes since 1950 in the Goldfields. The ...
Youth participation in church governance and administration in the Uniting Reformed Church of Southern Africa

Matsaung, Lesiba (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2006)

In the period before 1994 many youth members of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA) and Dutch Reformed Mission Church (DRMC) never had the opportunity to participate in the governance and administration of their ...
The prehistory of the Federal Theological Seminary of Southern Africa: a study in ecumenical ancestry

Duncan, Graham (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2006)

From the time of the arrival of the first missionaries in South Africa, there was a need to prepare local agents to pursue the work of mission. Each of the English speaking churches formed and pursued its own stream. ...
African feminist reflections on the Accra Confession

Lenkabula, Puleng (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2006)

This article sets out to discuss, from an African feminist theological perspective, the Accra confession: Covenanting for justice in the economy and the earth (hereafter the Accra Confession). It uses descriptive analyses ...
Christian attitude and the human dignity of women

Vorster, Koos (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2006)

My aim, in this article, is to focus on the human dignity and human rights of women from a classical Reformed perspective. The role women should play in the church and society will also be discussed. The central theoretical ...
Jesse Mugambi's pedigree : formative factors

Gathogo, Julius (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2006)

The article sets out to retrieve Jesse Mugambi’s life history as it surveys the key concepts of liberation and reconstruction in his works. In so doing, the study acknowledges that he became a household name in the ...
The history and potential of burial societies in creating basic Christian communities in South Africa

Molobi, Victor (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2006)

Burial societies are small and cohesive, comprising members with shared rural and cultural roots. Burial societies are similarly syncretistic, in that they fuse African ‘tradition’ with elements of Christian modernity. ...
Arbeid en vergoeding voor 1994

De Beer, Edmund (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2006)

Are apartheid and other discriminatory laws and practices the main reasons for disparities in employment, occupation and income within the South African labour market? This article poses an answer to this question. In ...
The incarcerated body: Judicial inspections, human rights and religious policy in prisons in South Africa

Landman, Christina; Willem, Luyt; Du Preez, Nicolien (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2006)

The theologian is the voice of the voiceless, including the voiceless in prison. In the first part of this article the history of prison inspection as an outcome of the human rights movement is traced both nationally ...
Clashes of worldviews in the early history of the Catholic Church in South Africa : the struggles of FR Aloys Majong Mncadi with his white superiors (1877-1933)

Mukuka, George (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2006)

This article critically examines the life of the second Catholic indigenous priest in South Africa, Fr Aloys Majonga Mncadi. The article briefly gives a background to the training of the black priests in South Africa ...
The use of different types of water in the Zion Christian Church

Lebeloane, Lazarus; Madise, Mokhele (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2006)

Humanity discovered the curative properties of water more than 4 000 years ago. This can be seen in the way in which people were drawn over time to natural resources such as springs, fountains, rivers and wells to wash ...
Methodism in South Africa : the teaching ministry of five native mission agents

Kumalo, Simanga (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2006)

Very little is said about the unique contribution of Methodist native mission agents into teaching of the Christian faith in their communities. These were people such as Samuel Mathabathe a native preacher from the ...
A history of training lay people for evangelisation in the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe

Dube, Aleta (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2006)

This article is about the urgent need to train lay people for evangelisation in Zimbabwe. The Second Vatican Council made one very strong point that the Church was not truly established and did not fully live, and nor ...

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