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After the 1978 revelation, the South African government revoked its limits on visiting LDS Church missionaries, [15] and the LDS Church started actively proselyting to blacks. Church president Spencer W. Kimball visited Johannesburg in 1978 for an area conference, [ 15 ] and the first black branches formed in Soweto in the 1980s.
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The first Botswana native to serve a full-time mission for the LDS Church, Yakale Million Moroka, began serving in 1999 in the South Africa Cape Town Mission. In the early 2000s, the church formed its first branch in Francistown in the north of Botswana. In 2009, missionaries were regularly sent there for the first time.
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The Durban South Africa Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Durban, South Africa. [5] The intent to construct the temple was announced by church president Thomas S. Monson on 1 October 2011. [ 6 ]
Adams College is a historic Christian mission school in South Africa, associated with the United Congregational Church of Southern Africa (UCCSA). It was founded in 1853 at Amanzimtoti a settlement just over 20 miles (32 km) south of Durban by an American missionary. The settlement there is known as Adams Mission.
As of 2021, the LDS Church reported 102,862 members in 269 congregations in the DRC, [1] making it the third largest body of LDS Church members in Africa, behind Nigeria and Ghana. [4] Currently, the DRC ranks as having the 16th highest LDS growth rate among countries of the world, with an annual growth rate of 13 percent. [5]
In April 1981, LDS Church leaders announced the building of a temple in Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa.Groundbreaking took place on 27 November 1982. Once the site of estates built by nineteenth-century mining magnates and financiers, the area around the temple now features hospitals, office buildings, and schools, many of which are housed in mansions from the Victorian era.