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Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Soweto scene. Afternoon smog in Central Western Jabavu. Coal fires added to the serious pollution problems.
Identifier: islandora:2165

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Holy United Methodist Church in SA (52). Blessing of children, Sunday morning service.
Identifier: islandora:2320

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Apostolic Full Gospel Mission of South Africa (2). Apostolic Full Gospel Mission of South Africa (2) Bishop J E Magalemele at breakfast in his dry-cleaning & tailoring shop, 870 Central Western Jabavu, Soweto.
Identifier: islandora:2362

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Mr S Mahlangu, processing with patients to a pool he had built next to a stream near Meadowlands.
Identifier: islandora:2301

Title: Church gathering
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, indigenous, San, dance, ritual, celebration, dress, traditional, woman, man, women, men, mud, sand, drums, stick, religion, San (African people)--South Africa--Religion, Zionist Christian Church, Independent churches--South Africa, Schmidtsdrift (South Africa)
Description: An outdoor church gathering. Schmidtsdrift, South Africa. Circa 1992.
Identifier: islandora:12071

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Dawn baptism and healing, north-west of Soweto. On the extreme right, Bishop J E Makgalemele of the Apostolic Full Gospel Mission of SA (2), is healing a member of his congregation.
Identifier: islandora:2106

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Ordination ceremony. Holy Free Corner Stone Church of Zion (15). Bishop Nkosi ordaining the Lady Minister.
Identifier: islandora:2517

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Apostolic Full Gospel Mission of South Africa (2). Bishop J E Magalemele at his Holy Place outside his home & shop, 870 Central Western Jabavu, Soweto.
Identifier: islandora:2445

Title: Mother and daughter at a church service
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, portrait, child, woman, San, indigenous, congregation, religion, church, San (African people)--South Africa--Religion, Schmidtsdrift (South Africa)
Description: A mother and daughter at a Dutch Reformed Church service. Another woman's face can be seen indistinctly. Schmidtsdrift, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:11893

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Holy Water stored at the home of Mrs A Nakeli each bottle has been prayed for specifically to cure a particular illness. See Martin West, Bishops & Prophets in a Black City, pp 102-3.
Identifier: islandora:2429

Title: Oral history interview with Trevor Adams, a survivor of the St. James Church massacre [Part 1 of 2]
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., Pol2.01.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 25:04 min. ; interview 1 of 6
Identifier: islandora:22639

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: AICA conference, Soweto. The meeting was held at a Methodist church. In a show of co-operation the Methodist minister welcomes AICA delegates.
Identifier: islandora:2260

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: St Francis Church (57). Sacrificial fire at a ceremony described in Martin West, Bishops & Prophets in a Black City pp182-3.
Identifier: islandora:2316

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Bantu Bethlehem Christian Apostolic Church of SA (1). Sunday service. Senior women sit in order of seniority; senior men are on the other side of the table, with the rest of the congregation - mainly women and children filling the rest of the space.
Identifier: islandora:2433

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Baptism & healing. Congregations standing on the banks of a small river on the north-west outskirts of Soweto, beyond Naledi, where there were a series of pools suitable for the full immersion required for both baptism and healing.
Identifier: islandora:2117

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