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As of the early 1990s the majority of Latter-day Saints in South Africa were English-speaking white people, mainly of British origin. At some point between 2000 and 2005 the LDS Church reached a point where half the members in South Africa were black, and the percentage of blacks in the membership has continued to rise since then. [16]
In 2019, church leaders also announced the division of the Africa Southeast Area, into the Africa Central and Africa South areas, effective August 1, 2020. [9] Two months later, W. Christopher Waddell, second counselor in the Presiding Bishopric , announced in Johannesburg that the new Africa Central Area would be headquartered in Nairobi , Kenya .
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Pages in category "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in South Africa" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
1. Emeritus general authorities are individuals who have been released from active duties as general authorities. However, they remain general authorities of the church until their death. Except for the three former members of the Presiding Bishopric noted, all living emeritus general authorities are former members of the First or Second Quorums of the Seventy. 2. These former members of the ...
In 1995, all LDS Church units were included in the newly formed Roodeport South Africa Stake. 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.
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 ]