Anglican Organisations and Guilds

The following organisations are well developed, with duly constituted diocesan committees and office bearers, and branches in many of the parishes:

• Youth
• Children’s Ministries
• Mothers’ Union (and St Agnes Guild)
• Anglican Women’s Fellowship
• Bernard Mizeki Guild

For contact details of the leadership of the above organisations, click here.

Capraway Development Company

Capraway is a Church-based Company in the Eastern Cape, operating in the area covered by the Dioceses of Grahamstown and Ukhahlamba, which aims to improve quality of life for all.

The mission of Capraway Development Agency is to develop community-based initiatives with special focus on heritage conservation and maintenance of such heritage sites within its area of operation. Its main function is to promote, coordinate and implement community development and outreach programmes among the poor and the underprivileged by undertaking the following Key Performance Areas:

· Land and Agriculture, focussing on rural development, food security and land tenure.
· Property, Heritage and Tourism, focussing on heritage conservation, property maintenance and promotion of tourism.
· Health and Welfare, focussing on HIV/ AIDS, TB; orphans and vulnerable children, etc.
· Education and Training, focussing on Leadership Development, theological training and computer literacy.
And generally undertake such other activities desirable to implement the mission of the development agency.

Capraway’s funding partners at present are:

· Bread for the World, Germany
· AngliCORD, Australia
· AVERT, UK
· SAMP, USA

For more on Capraway, please contact:
Kosi Mhletywa, Personal Assistant to the Executive Director, kosi@capraway.co.za, 043 726 4504 or 082 257 9376.
Executive Director: Canon Lulama Ntshingwa.

Religious Orders

Community of the Resurrection of our Lord

An Anglican Community of Sisters based in Grahamstown, founded by Mother Cecile in 1884. The CR Sisters have a history of dedicated service in education and welfare in many parts of South Africa and Zimbabwe, and until recently also retained a House in London. In recent years numbers have fallen, and the remaining Sisters are all resident in Grahamstown. However, the first new Sister in many years, Sister Kekeletso, made her Final Profession in 2005. Two of the CR Sisters are ordained priests, including Mother Superior Zelma.

The Order of the Holy Cross (Benedictine)

An Anglican Community of Brothers with their headquarters in the USA. Their monastic community and novitiate in South Africa is based at uMariya uMama weThemba (Mary Mother of Hope), just outside Grahamstown. The first three OHC Brothers arrived in 1998. They took over the running of the retreat house on the property known as Hillandale, which had previously been operated by the CR Sisters. The first three Brothers were all American citizens, one of them a priest, but other men have been exploring their vocation, and the first monk from Africa, Namibian Br. Daniel Ludik, made his life vow at the beginning of May 2010.

College of the Transfiguration

The Church of the Province of Southern Africa has only one residential theological college, the College of the Transfiguration, situated in Grahamstown. Men and women come here from any of the 23 dioceses of the CPSA, and sometimes from beyond, to study full-time, generally for three years. The teaching staff are mainly CPSA clergy, and licensed in the Diocese of Grahamstown. Both staff and students assist from time to time in local parishes.