Njongonkulu Ndungane

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The Most Reverend Njongonkulu Ndungane
Archbishop of Cape Town Primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa
Church	Anglican
See	Cape Town
In office	1996—2007
Predecessor	Desmond Tutu
Successor	Thabo Makgoba
Orders
Ordination	1974
Consecration	1991
Personal details
Born	2 April 1941 Kokstad
Previous post	Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman

Njongonkulu Winston Hugh Ndungane FKC (born 2 April 1941) is a retired South African Anglican bishop and a former prisoner on Robben Island. He was the Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman and Archbishop of Cape Town.

Early life

Ndungane was born in Kokstad. He attended Lovedale High School, Alice, Eastern Cape and completed his schooling there in December 1958.

Political life and imprisonment

In March 1960 he was involved in anti-Pass Law demonstrations while a student at the University of Cape Town and was later arrested for his anti-apartheid activities. From August 1963 he served a three-year sentence on Robben Island as a political prisoner. On his release he was served with a two year banning order.

Church ministry

Ndungane decided to seek ordination during his imprisonment on Robben Island. In 1971 the Most Reverend Robert Selby Taylor, Archbishop of Cape Town, sent him to St Peter’s College, Alice, Eastern Cape. He was ordained a deacon in December 1973 and a priest in July 1974. He served his first curacy in Athlone, Cape Town in the Diocese of Cape Town. In 1975 he left South Africa for King's College London, where he earned his Bachelor of Divinity and Master of Theology degrees while he was a curate in London.

After his time in London he had a short time as an assistant chaplain at St George’s Church in Paris. He returned to South Africa in 1980 and was appointed the rector of St Nicholas' Matroosfontein. The Most Reverend Phillip Russell, Archbishop of Cape Town, appointed him as his representative in the Diocese of Johannesburg

In 1984 he was mandated by Archbishop Russell to take responsibility for reopening St Bede’s Theological College, Umthatha, which had been closed. In 1985 he was appointed Principal of St Bede’s.

In 1991 he was elected Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman. In September 1996 he was elected Archbishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.^[1]

In 2006, he founded African Monitor, a pan-African non-profit organization that monitors both the fulfillment of the promises of both aid-giving and aid-receiving countries.^[2]

Awards

Order of the Baobab in Silver^[3] (2008)
Doctor of Divinity (honoris causa) Rhodes University^[3]

Publications

Primate Speaks Out on Debt and Arms^[4] (1997)
Oppression, Faith and the Future^[5] (1997)
Address[es] by the Archbishop of Cape Town^[6] (1999)
A World with a Human Face: A Voice from Africa^[7] (2003)
Don't cut aid to Africa now^[8]

References

↑ Anon. "Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane". Historic Schools Restoration Project. Retrieved 2013-10-04.
↑ Anon. "The AM Organisational Structure". African Monitor. Retrieved 2013-10-04.
↑ 3.0 3.1 Anon (2008). "The Order of the Baobab in Silver". Office of the Presidency, Repulbic of South Africa. Retrieved 2013-10-04.
↑ Njongonkulu Ndungane (1997). Primate Speaks Out on Debt and Arms. Anglican Communion Office.
↑ Njongonkulu Ndungane; John Binns (1997). Oppression, Faith and the Future: The Archbishop of Cape Town : a Conversation With, and Address by the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane. Great St. Mary's.
↑ Njongonkulu Ndungane (1999). Address[es] by the Archbishop of Cape Town the Most Reverend Njongonkulu Ndungane, at a Conference on "Local Communities, Global Realities" Held in Toronto, Canada, June 21, 1999.
↑ Njongonkulu Ndungane (2003). A World with a Human Face: A Voice from Africa. David Philip. ISBN 978-0-86486-614-1.
↑ Njongonkulu Ndugane (2009). "Don't cut aid to Africa now". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 2013-10-04.
↑ Sindiwe Magona (1 October 2012). From Robben Island to Bishop's Court: The Biography of Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane. David Philip. ISBN 978-0-86486-738-4.
↑ Sarah Rowland Jones (March 2011). Faith in Action: Njongonkulu Ndungane : Archbishop for the Church and the World. Lux Verbi. ISBN 978-0-7963-0763-7.

Anglican Church of Southern Africa titles
Preceded by George Alfred Swartz	Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman 1991–1996	Succeeded by Itumeleng Baldwin Moseki
Preceded by Desmond Tutu	Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town 1996–2007	Succeeded by Thabo Makgoba

v t e Bishops of Kimberley and Kuruman

Wilfrid Gore Browne Theodore Gibson John Hunter John Boys Philip Wheeldon Edward Crowther Graham Chadwick George Swartz Njongonkulu Ndungane Itumeleng Moseki Oswald Swartz

v t e Bishops and Archbishops of Cape Town

Bishops	Robert Gray William West Jones (became archbishop)

Archbishops	William West Jones William Carter Francis Phelps Russell Darbyshire Geoffrey Clayton Joost de Blank Robert Selby Taylor Bill Burnett Philip Russell Desmond Tutu Njongonkulu Ndungane Thabo Makgoba

Persondata
Name	Ndungane, Njongonkulu
Alternative names	Ndungane, Winston Hugh Njongonkulu
Short description	Archbishop of Cape Town
Date of birth	2 April 1941
Place of birth	Kokstad
Date of death
Place of death

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