Category: Provincial Notices

The College of Transfiguration is advertising an academic vacancy for a FULL-TIME LECTURER.

Reporting to the Rector of the College, the successful candidate will be required to:

1. Demonstrate a specialist interest and ability to teach in the field of Ethics and the New
   Testament among other theological fields.
2. Demonstrate an ability to teach and be willing to adapt their teaching to enhance student
   engagement and success, including during times of disruption.
3. Teach and contribute across a range of disciplines beyond their area of speciality.
4. Engage with the life of the College in alignment with the College’s Vision and Mission.

The closing date for applications is Tuesday 15th June 2021.

READ FULL DETAILS – including details of where to send applications – BELOW:

Kindly be informed that the Elective Assembly of the Diocese of Lesotho did not elect a Bishop at its sitting on Friday 23^rd April, 2021.

The Assembly is delegating their Election of a Bishop to the Synod of Bishops.

Sincerely in Christ,

REVD DR MAKHOSI NZIMANDE

Provincial Executive Officer

Kindly be informed that the Elective Assembly of the Diocese of Kimberley & Kuruman could not elect a Bishop at their Elective Assembly of 19 & 20 April, 2021.

The Assembly has delegated their Election of a Bishop to the Synod of Bishops.

Sincerely in Christ,

THE REVD DR MAKHOSI NZIMANDE
Provincial Executive Officer

To all our dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ

Provincial Lent Course 2021

We hope the Lent course,  Living Holy and Healthy Relationships,  provided you and your parishioners with food for thought.  Not an easy topic but one that is essential to preach the Gospel into such situations and continue to have the conversations.  In the spirit of ongoing conversation and ministry, we would appreciate feedback from the course.

All feedback would be relevant whether it is around content or layout, time management or insight.   Perhaps you even have ideas how to take this forward?

Please send comments to Canon Cynthia Botha as Secretary to the Liturgical Committee  at  publish@anglicanchurchsa.org.za

God’s grace and presence be with you and all you serve as you journey to Easter

The Revd Paul Germond, Canon Cynthia Botha, Revd Diana Lawrenson  and Fabian Oliver

St Francis Church, Parkview, Diocese of Johannesburg  

New dates for previously postponed Elective Assemblies have been confirmed for the following four Dioceses:

Diocese of Kimberley and Kuruman – Elective Assembly, 19th & 20th April, 2021;
Diocese of Lesotho – Elective Assembly, 23rd & 24th April, 2021;
Diocese of Natal – Elective Assembly, 17th & 18th May, 2021; and
Diocese of Zululand – Elective Assembly, 20th & 21st May, 2021.

The Revd Dr Makhosi Nzimande
Provincial Executive Officer

For the sake of convenience, the list of candidates previously published is repeated below:

ELECTIVE ASSEMBLY OF KIMBERLEY & KURUMAN 

Candidates
The Revd Canon Jerome Francis
The Very Revd Reginald Leeuw
The Ven Dr Lepai Meschack Trevor Mariri
The Ven Mosimanegape Aaron Morake
The Revd Gift Van Staden
 

ELECTIVE ASSEMBLY OF LESOTHO

Candidates
The Revd Edwin Molemo Baatjies
The Revd Matsitso Josephine Duma
The Revd Canon Benjamin Nkopa Mafereka
The Revd Dr Isaiah Makhetha
The Very Revd Tanki Job Mofana
The Very Revd Mosokotso Lazarus Mohapi
The Revd Kenny Ntoane
The Revd Abiel Lethale Pheko


ELECTIVE ASSEMBLY OF NATAL

Candidates
The Very Reverend Xolani Dlwati
The Revd Mlungisi Hadebe 
The Revd Canon Bellina Mangena
The Revd Barnabas S Nqindi
The Revd Sithembiso Ntshangase


ELECTIVE ASSEMBLY OF ZULULAND 

Candidates
The Revd Lewis Eisenhower Stevenson Gumede
The Revd Vikinduku Victor Mnculwane

The Archbishop has approved the appointment of the Revd Jacques Pretorius to succeed the Revd Roger Cameron as Executive Director of the Anglican Board of Education (ABE).

His appointment was recommended by the ABE. He will take office on Maundy Thursday.

He was ordained in the Diocese of Natal in 1993, where he served six years as Rector of Howick and briefly as chaplain at St Anne’s Diocesan College.

From 2010 to 2018 he was one of the chaplaincy team at St John’s College in Johannesburg, and Head of Divinity. He has also served as a governor at Michaelhouse school and on the Board of St Mary’s, Waverley.

He is also a member of the Archbishop’s Commission on Racism in Anglican Church Schools.

The Revd Dr Makhosi Nzimande

Provincial Executive Officer

A commendation by Archbishop Thabo Makgoba

Dear People of God

We enter Lent this year at a time of unprecedented  suffering as a consequence of Covid-19. But while, thanks to medical science and collective action, we can be confident that this pandemic too shall pass, the “hidden pandemic” of our times – gender-based violence – remains deeply rooted in our society.

It is with that in mind that Provincial Standing Committee commissioned “Living Holy and Healthy Relationships” as the Lent Course for 2021.  As the introduction says, “Given that GBV brings such deep devastation to individuals, families and communities, we are often overwhelmed by the disastrous effects of this violence.” But just as we can overcome Covid-19, so too can we overcome GBV if we dedicate as many resources, both spiritually and through collective action, to uprooting this evil.

I commend warmly “Living Holy and Healthy Relationships” and appeal to you to engage earnestly with it, mustering all the energy you can to working among those in your patch of God’s Kingdom to bring about the changes in outlook and behaviour needed to end permanently this scourge.

To the Provincial Liturgical Committee and the Parish of St Francis of Assisi Parish, Parkview, we extend our thanks for the fine work they have done.

God bless.

†† Thabo Cape Town

Update: January 13, 2021: The four Elective Assemblies have been postponed as a consequence of the second wave of the coronavirus, and new South African government regulations preventing them from being held in person. The Archbishop is consulting with the church’s lawyers, the Synod of Bishops and the Dioceses on the way ahead.

The following have been nominated as candidates for Elective Assemblies to be held in the Dioceses of Natal, Kimberley & Kuruman, Lesotho and Zululand during February.

The Ven Horace Arenz, Provincial Executive Officer

ELECTIVE ASSEMBLY OF NATAL TO BE HELD 5-6 FEBRUARY 2021

Candidates
The Very Reverend Xolani Dlwati
The Revd Mlungisi Hadebe 
Canon Bellina Mangena
The Revd Barnabas S Nqindi
The Revd Sithembiso Ntshangase


ELECTIVE ASSEMBLY OF KIMBERLEY & KURUMAN TO BE HELD 9-10 FEBRUARY 2021

Candidates
The Revd Canon Jerome Francis
The Very Revd Reginald Leeuw
The Ven Dr Lepai Meschack Trevor Mariri
The Ven Mosimanegape Aaron Morake
The Revd Gift Van Staden
 

ELECTIVE ASSEMBLY OF LESOTHO TO BE HELD 16-17 FEBRUARY 2021

Candidates
The Revd Edwin Molemo Baatjies
The Revd Matsitso Josephine Duma
The Revd Canon Benjamin Nkopa Mafereka
The Revd Dr Isaiah Makhetha
The Very Revd Tanki Job Mofana
The Very Revd Mosokotso Lazarus Mohapi
The Revd Kenny Ntoane
The Revd Abiel Lethale Pheko


ELECTIVE ASSEMBLY OF ZULULAND TO BE HELD 19-20 FEBRUARY 2021

Candidates
The Revd Lewis Eisenhower Stevenson Gumede
The Revd Vikinduku Victor Mnculwane

News that the Revd Loraine Tulleken died earlier today of a suspected heart attack at her home in Kommetjie in the Western Cape is numbing.

One of the great communicators of our church, Loraine edited Southern Anglican for many years and has since been producing by e-mail the Anglicans in Africa News Bulletin.

Her blunt wisdom was on display just five days before her death when she wrote on her Facebook page: “Anyone else irritated by the term ‘passed on’? To die is part of our spiritual journey.”

In Johannesburg, she was known as a dedicated priest, where I was her archdeacon when she served in Sophiatown, and testimony to how she was loved in Cape Town was provided today by the Rector of St Clare’s, Ocean View:

Reverend Lorraine.

Thank you for always welcoming our young ones to celebrate mass with you. Thank you for making them a part of your ministry. Our parish was blessed to be enriched with your knowledge.

You shared your love, friendship and stories with us and we are privileged to have shared your life journey with you.

Rest in peace Reverend Lorraine.

Dance with the angels.😇

Father Ulric and the Parish Family

Our deepest condolences go to her family. – Archbishop Thabo Makgoba

English and isiXhosa editions of the lectionary for the Church year beginning with Advent are now available from the Publishing Committee.

The English edition is also available as an e-book, to read in downloaded software. Click here >>

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba of Cape Town announced today that the Ven. Canon Dr. Makhosazana Nzimande will become the Church’s next Provincial Executive Officer with effect from March 1, 2021.

Dr. Nzimande will replace the Ven. Horace Arenz, who is retiring. She is currently Rector of All Saints, Ladysmith, and Archdeacon of Uthukela in the Diocese of Natal.

She holds a number of leadership positions internationally and locally, among them Vice-Moderator of the World Council of Churches Faith and Order Commission, a member of the Church’s Provincial Liturgical Committee and the Advisory Board for Theological Education, and, in the Diocese of Natal, as an Archdeacon and a member of the Diocesan Chapter and Board of Trustees.

She has previously served as Lecturer and Head of Department of the University of Zululand’s Department of Theology and Studies, as director of the Diocese of Natal’s Institute for Leadership Development and as a field organiser for the Diakonia Council of Churches.

Her PhD in Biblical Interpretation (Old and New Testaments) was earned at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University in the United States. She has Bachelor’s and Honours degrees from the University of Natal (formerly Durban-Westville) and undertook Anglican studies at Westcott House, Cambridge in the United Kingdom.