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Mission in an African city: discovering the township church as an asset towards local economic development in TshwaneThis multidisciplinary, applied study investigated whether the township church can be repositioned or re-discovered as an asset, which could be used to form strong community
 structures in local communities and in turn be the foundation for community development
 and Local Economic Development (LED) for Tshwane (specifically Soshanguve and
 Hammanskraal (S&H)). The concept of oikos is of central importance in the understanding of
 the ecological dimension of mission in relation to LED and was used in this thesis defined as
 oikomissiology which has a Christological basis and broadens the scope of mission by reinterpreting missio Dei and various socio-theological themes in order to realise the vision of
 collective wellbeing or shalom). Oikomissiology provided a framework / worldview for
 analysis, description, reflection and planning for action which releases the world, economics,
 the church and conventional Christian theology / missiology from the traps of anthropocentrism. A narrative approach enabled the “uncovering” of the voices of grassroots
 communities, giving grassroots participants (i.e. local church ministry representatives)
 freedom to tell their stories and share their experiences as far as LED is concerned, such
 that major economic concepts were spoken of in these stories in laymen’s language. The
 narratives were supplemented by interviews with experienced practitioners and church
 leaders, which resulted in gaining richer perspectives on LED and on how township
 congregations that participated in this research are attempting to respond to current
 socioeconomic crises in Tshwane (S & H). A literature study and a study of the physical
 space were performed in dialogue with narratives and interview findings. The findings of this
 applied study established that the township church, in relation to other community
 organisations and structures, is an asset that could play a number of vital roles towards
 improving LED in Tshwane (S & H).
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Who benefited? : implications of "Project Go" for the children in a children's homeThe transformation of child and youth care ran concurrently with the political transformation in South Afriola. One of the projects aimed at establishing the transformation of child and youth care, was Project Go. This project placed a moratorium on the transfer of children 'deeper' into the child care system. It aimed at reunifying children ln residential care wtth their families. Furthermore, the projed assessed the children in the system with the aim 
 of accommodating them in the least restrictive, most empowering child care facility. This narrative action research study focused on the effects of Project Go and the transformations on the children at the Children's Haven M T R Smit This study can also be described as emanciipatory action research. This qualitative study is positioned within a social construction discourse. Knowledge was socially constructed through multiple reflexive conversations. I researched the background to the transformation of the child and youth care system and 
 investigated the implications of the transformation for the children at t.he Children's Haven M T R Smit,as well as for the child care workers and management of the haven. A narrative approach was employed. I relied on the Foucauldian discourse to come to some understanding of issues of power and resistance. Following Foucauldian thought, I investigated discourses constituting the care that the children at the Children's Haven M T R Smit received. This investigatlon led me to formulate some understanding of the history of the Dutch Reformed Church 
 (DRC) the body responsible for the management of the haven since it was founded in the earty 1920s. 0nce I reached an understanding of some of the historical developments of the DRC (which l 
 learned was closely linked lo Afrikaner politics), I explored some implications of the transformation for the DRC's future involvement with the children in its care. This exploration led me to a comparison of the theology of the DRC and black liberation theology, focusing on prophetic practice. Although not an initial aim of this study, I learned that the transfornation of child and youth care held implications not only for the pastoral practice of the DRC, but also for the helping professions such as psychology, social work and child care. l focused briefly on the ethics and 
 some limitations of care provided by the profession of psychology. I reflected on the implications of the transformation of child and youth care for the helping professions.
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Speech: An Authentic TheologyArchbishop Tutu's writings on black theology. Typed with a few handwritten notes.