Pentecostals and Apartheid in South Africa during Ninety Years 1908-1998
South African Pentecostalism and Political Participation After the first Dutch settlers arrived in South Africa in 1652, Protestant Christianity (with almost entirely European membership) through the Dutch Reformed Church held total monopoly until the 19th Century.[1] Today, some three-quarters of the Black population are members of many ‘Protestant’ churches, but this figure includes a majority of […]