One of my interests is African independent churches -- their history, theology, missiology and mission practice.

There about 10000 of them in South Africa, and about as many again in the rest of the continent. Today I visited a couple of them -- the African Orthodox Church in their church building in Atteridgeville, Pretoria, and another group ( Read more... )

If you go to Mamelodi, east of Pretoria, or any open space in the megacity of Tshwane, or indeed any other South African city, on a Sunday afternoon, chances are you would see a group of white-robed Zionists doing a wheel dance.

In fact they might look rather similar to this:


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