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Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Holy United Methodist Church in SA (52).President W Macheke with some members of his church choir.
Identifier: islandora:2282

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Sunday service at the Bethlehem Apostolic Church in Zion (9). Bishop J P Zwane, 1357 Mofolo North, presiding in a half-built church. They were raising funds to complete the building.
Identifier: islandora:2410

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Bantu Bethlehem Christian Apostolic Church of SA (1). Mrs L Radebe, Prophet, healing at home.
Identifier: islandora:2368

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Apostolic Full Gospel Mission of South Africa (2). Bishop JE Makgalemele blessing sheep selected for slaughter at a special service.
Identifier: islandora:2505

Title: Church members at a ceremony
Subject: Shembe Church ; Zulu (African people)--Religion, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal. Church members at a ceremony near the headquarters of the Nazareth Baptist Church, or Shembe. Shembe is a staunchly traditionalist Zulu cult that was founded in 1913 by Isaiah Shembe after a vision. Their beliefs are a mix of Old and New Testament and the ancestral veneration of traditional Zulu culture.
Identifier: islandora:7358

Title: Allan Boesak speaks at the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, Cape Town
Subject: Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946-, Political activists, Civil disobedience, Apartheid era, World Alliance of Reformed Churches (Presbyterian and Congregational)
Description: South African church leader Dr. Allan Boesak (2nd from right) "vowed to continue resist the South African government even though he feared that he may be killed". With him were members of a delegation from the World Alliance of Reformed Churches. General Secretary Edmont Perret, right, Slyvia Michel and Joachim Guhrt.
Identifier: islandora:14834

Title: Observatory Methodist Church, Cape Town, 1962
Subject: Observatory (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Methodist Church Observatory - A fine picture of the Observatory Methodist Church shows Devil's Peak in the background. The church was built in 1894 on a site given by Mr J. W. Wood, and it was opened on November of the same year. The congregation then numbered 100.
Identifier: islandora:17285

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Archbishop J H Abel, leader of an association of Apostolic independent churches on the West Rand, officiating at an ordination service in Soweto. With him is the Revd Brian Brown of the Christian Institute.
Identifier: islandora:2250

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Apostolic Full Gospel Mission of South Africa (2). Bishop JE Makgalemele sprinkling sheep selected for slaughter with holy water.
Identifier: islandora:2504

Title: St Mark's Church, and its rector, District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: St Mark's Church and its rector, the Rev. Stanley Gray ... a stand against the Group Areas Act in the dissolution of District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17999

Title: Oral history interview with Hazel Solomon, a survivor of the St. James Church massacre [Part 2 of 3]
Subject: Oral history, St. James Church (Kenilworth, South Africa), Forgiveness--South Africa, Reconciliation, ,
Description: On the 25th July 1993, four operatives of the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA), the armed wing of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) attacked St James Church in Kenilworth, Cape Town, during a Sunday evening service. Approximately one hundred congregants were inside the Church. During the attack, the congregants were fired on with automatic weapons and two hand grenades were thrown into the Church. Eleven members of the congregation died and fifty-eight were injured. This research explores the intra- and inter-personal tensions within the testimonies of survivors on the process of forgiveness and reconciliation. Themes include: the amnesty application by the APLA cadets to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC); personal responses to trauma; memories of the event; Christian beliefs in context of personal trauma; congregational mapping; political violence and the public and personal processes of forgiveness., Pol2.04a.mp3: Part 2 of 3 ; 01:00:44 min. ; interview 4 of 6
Identifier: islandora:22641

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Consecration of Archbishop Shandu. Archbishop M P Radebe giving an exhortation.
Identifier: islandora:2097

Title: Leliefontein church service
Subject: Public worship--South Africa--Namaqualand, Church attendance--South Africa--Leliefontein, Rural elderly--South Africa--Namaqualand,
Description: Church Service held at the Methodist Church in Leliefontein.
Identifier: islandora:5015

Title: Christ Church, Anglican Church, Constantia, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Constantia (Cape Town South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Christ Church (Constantia) - When church bells ring out over the vineyards of Constantia there need be little doubt that the sound comes from Christ Church, the picturesque place of worship which has served the surrounding community for nearly 90 years, for it is the only church in the valley. Built in a corner of the Silverhurst estate in 1895, Christ Church, Constantia, has the picturesque qualities of an old church in the English countryside. Its walls are of rough stone and it stands in the shelter of a grove of pine trees.
Identifier: islandora:17287

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