South Africa
AfriCom, Part of YWAM's Africa Field Office
Mission: To connect YWAM staff in Africa to one another and to YWAM internationally, championing them and facilitating their work through mobilising people, prayer and resources.
Schools: N/A
Focus: Communication
AfriCom
P.O.Box 330
Muizenberg
7975
South Africa
Phone: 27-(0)21-788 7345
Fax: N/A
Email: ywamafricom@gmail.com
Bethlehem
Mission: YWAM Bethlehem is a bridge between Africa and Latin America. We are training people to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to remote villages and difficult countries. Our base operates primarily in English and Spanish, but also many other languages are spoken.
Schools: DTS: 1 February and 1 September; SOFM: 10 July, SBC: 1 September, Jesus Year: 1 February – 10 December
Focus: Frontier Missions, Discipleship, Counseling, Community Development, Prisons, Church Planting, Farm ministries, Poor Communities, The Deaf and the Blind, Feeding scheme, Orphanage, Schools, Hospitals, Youth, Kids, Africa, Latin America, Closed Countries. We host visiting teams from all over the world.
Link:
YWAM Bethlehem
PO Box 1878
Bethlehem 9700
South Africa
Phone/Fax: +27-(0)58-303-0326
Mobile: +27-(0)82-662-8372
Email: mgodoy@xsinet.co.za
Email: miguel@xinet.co.za
YWAM Drakensberg
Mission: From the Mountains to the Nations
Schools: DTS 28th Sept 2007 - 21 Feb 2008
Focus: Training / Discipleship and Local community
Languages: English
Link:
M2N Ministries
P.O. Box 307
Winterton
South Africa 3340
Phone: +27(0)72 399 8153
Phone: +27(0)36 448 2194 (till end Aug 2007)
Email: ywam@theberg.org.za
YWAM Durban
Mission: To release and equip the indigenous people to reach their God-given destiny.
Schools: DTS, starting in January, June, July and September. Leadership Training School, starts in April.
Focus: Indigenous people, Mercy Ministry, Domains of Society
Link:
YWAM Durban
PO Box 15157
Bellair 4006
South Africa
Phone: Tel +27(0)31 464 9373
Fax: +27(0)86 619 3635
Email: admin@ywamdurban.org
Hammanskraal
Mission: To give children a Christian based education, train teachers and establish satellite preschools.
Schools: We offer Teacher Training, one afternoon a week for those already teaching.
Focus: Local community, Preschool
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YWAM Hammanskraal
PO Box 74
Hammanskraal
0400
South Africa
Phone: +27-12-711 0123
Phone: +27-12-7110026
Fax: +27-12-711 0627
Email: ywam.north@pixie.co.za
Jeffrey's Bay
Mission: YWAM Jeffrey’s Bay has used the following values to create a recipe for creating a family atmosphere through the teaching of Christian ideals: Relationships are the motivation for all our activities. Mentoring others is an important part of everything we do. Generosity characterizes our attitudes and lifestyle. We have a heart for hospitality. Prayer is the foundation of all our relationships, plans and ministry.
Schools: School of Biblical Studies, Discipleship Training School and School of Creative Arts and Leadership Development
Focus: Training, mentoring, evangelism, community development
Link:
YWAM
P.O.Box 811
Jeffreys Bay
6330
South Africa
Phone: +27-(0)42-2931794
Fax: +27-(0)42-2932062
Email: office2@ywamjbay.com
Joseph Project Johannesburg
Mission: We exist to identify, disciple and release the Josephs of the next generation, through giving them hope and equipping them to achieve their dreams.
Main activity: Homework club: helping disadvantaged children from grades 4-7 with homework every schoolday afternoon.
Focus: Inner City Kids
Languages: English, Portuguese
Link:
Joseph Project
P. O. Box 33918
Jeppestown
2094
South Africa
Phone: +27 (0) 11 614 4901
Fax: N/A
Email: admin@josephproject.org.za
KKYM Cape Town
Mission: To reach this generation of Southern African teenagers, children and families, disciple them in a proven knowledge of God, and mobilise them to share God´s love with others.
Schools: opyear, pcym, internship, seminars
Focus: Children and Youth
Link:
KK YM
P.O. Box 4522
Tyger Valley
7536
South Africa
Phone: +27(0)21-975 7014
Fax: N/A
Email: info@kkyouthministry.org.za
YWAM Klerksdorp
Mission: 1. Evangelism-Church planting, Church Growth Seminar Ministry. 2. Traning-Pre-Primary School, Theological School, Media Ministry, Local School Ministry. 3. Mercy Ministry-Feeding Scheme, Unmarrige Mother and Kids Care, HIV/AIDS Seminar Ministry, Clinic Ministry,
Schools: English Language School for Korean Missionaries
Focus: Working with local churches
Link:
YWAM Great Kosh in Klerksdorp
P. O. Box 6811
Flamwood, 2572
South Africa
Phone: +27-18- 489-3857 (Office), +27-18-468-3333 (ELS), +27-82968-3944 (Direct)
Fax: +27-18-462-1720
Email: ywam@lantic.net or info@ywam.wmission.net
YWAM Kruger Park
Mission: To create a movement to Provide, Protect, Restore and Empower orphans and vulnerable children.
Schools: DTS
Focus: Orphans and vulnerable children.
Language: English
Link: www.compassiondts.com
YWAM
P.O. Box 4450
White River
1240
South Africa
Phone: +27-(0)71-2818228
Fax: N/A
Email: info@TenThousandHomes.org
Media Village
Mission: Media Village is committed to providing excellent training in mass media at a cost that is affordable to students from 1st and 3rd world countries. We are committed to fast tracking students who have not been privileged to receive adequate secondary education without compromising our academic standards. We integrate a Christian worldview and value based ethics into all our classes.
Schools: DTS, SVP, RBS, CBVM, SOP, SOD, SDC
Focus: Production, Administration, Training
Link:
MediaVillage
P.O. Box 112
Kalk Bay 7990
South Africa
Phone: +27-(0)21-7889296
Fax: +27-(21)-7889609
Email: info@mediavillage.info
YWAM Midrand
Mission: The vision of YWAM Midrand is to see the Midrand area transformed through the renewal of the mind and the restoration of dignity that would bring the community back to Christ with models that can be multiplied throughout South Africa and beyond.
Schools: DTS
Focus: Skills Training, Evangelism, Discipleship and Practical Assistance in the Community
Link:
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YWAM
P O Box 2515
Halfway House
1685
YWAM Midrand
Phone: +27-(0)11 805 0714 / 15
Cell: +27-(0)84 5506 205
Fax: +27-(0)11 805 0717
Email: info@ywammidrand.co.za
YWAM Muizenberg
Mission: YWAM Muizenberg is committed to equipping, discipling and mobilising young people of all ethnic groups to impact their world by offering excellent training and establishing local ministry models which can be multiplied into the developing world.
Schools: DTS, Biblical Teaching and Preaching, SBS, SBS/CC
Focus: Training
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YWAM
P.O. Box 129
Muizenberg
7950
South Africa
Phone: +27-(0)21-788 7322
Fax: +27-(0)21-788 1247
Email: ywamreg@mail.com
National Office YWAM South Africa
Mission: N/A
Schools: N/A
Focus: Administration, Leadership, Pastoral Oversight
Languages: N/A
Links:
YWAM
National Office
P.O. Box 926
Worcester
6849
South Africa
Phone: N/A
Fax: N/A
Email: ywamnlt@yahoo.com
Regional Office YWAM Southern Africa
Mission: Championing leaders, staff and students in the mission, and representing them to the international leadership of YWAM so that through them the Kingdom of God becomes evident in all nations, giving hope to the destitute and those affected by HIV/AIDS.
Schools: N/A
Focus: Administration, Leadership, Pastoral Oversight, Networking
YWAM
Regional Office
Southern Africa
PO Box 10579
Centurion, 0046
South Africa
Mobile -27-(0)825635822
Fax: N/A
Email: kr.van@hotmail.com
YWAM Rustenburg
Mission: Our mission is to empower and equip believers for a life of sold out abandonment to the will of God, and thus affect the destiny of nations as we live to serve Him through our individual gifts and talents.
Schools: Discipleship Training School
Focus: Discipleship, Evangelism, Hospice care, Child-led homes, feedings schemes, HIV/AIDS and orphan care.
Languages: English, Tswana
Link:
YWAM Rustenburg
Postnet Suite 253
Private Bag X82245
Rustenburg 0300
South Africa
Phone: +27 (0)14 592 5290
Phone: +27 (0)82 779 9388
Fax: +27 (0)86 524 3320
Email: info@ywamrustenburg.org
YWAM Worcester
Mission: Our mission is to be a Gateway to Africa and the World. We want to make it easy for people from different parts of the world to come to Africa as well as for Africans to go into the mission fields of the world.
Schools: DTS, CDTS, ELS, IPHC, TESOL, FMS,SBSCC
Focus: Training, Evangelism and Youth Ministry.
Link:
YWAM Worcester
P.O. Box 926
Worcester
6849
South Africa
Phone: +27(0)23 347 7040
Fax: +27(0)23 347 7042
Email: ywboland@intekom.co.za
About South Africa
Xenophobic Attacks
 The violence against foreigners in different parts of South Africa has left people homeless, traumatized and gripped by fear. For some it is the bruises on their backs or the search for loved ones they cannot locate that consume them. However, in the midst of all this pain many are looking to God’s faithfulness and the compassion of His people, grateful that they are alive. Although they are cold in the tents set up for them to take refuge, they are grateful that they are at least safe.
Other facts:
  • South Africa has been ranked 28th among 108 countries measured for responsible competitiveness, according to the global think tank AccountAbility.
  • Johannesburg has been ranked as the eighth cheapest city in the world for expatriates, according to the most recent Cost of Living Standards Survey from Mercer Human Resource Consulting.
  • South Africa is ranked 18th out of a total of 115 economies in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2006, ahead of many developed nations, including Belgium (20th), the United States (23rd), Switzerland (26th), Austria (27th) and France (70th).
  • South Africa ranks 52nd out of 157 countries in the world in terms of economic freedom, ahead of Italy (60th), Brazil (70th), the United Arab Emirates (74th), Greece (94th), India (104th) and China (119th), according to the Index of Economic Freedom 2007.
  • The black middle class grew by 30% in 2005, adding another 421,000 black adults to SA's middle-income layer and ramping up the black population's share of SA's total middle class to almost a third, according to the Financial Mail. Between 2001 and 2004, there were 300,000 new black entrants to the middle class.
  • South Africa ranks in the top four countries worldwide in terms of the transparency surrounding its budgets - ahead of the US, Norway and Sweden - according to the Open Budget Index.
  • South Africa is ranked 29th out of 175 countries for ease of doing business - ahead of Austria, France, Spain, Brazil and India - according to Doing Business 2007, a joint publication of the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation.
  • Cape Town has the fifth-best blue sky in the world according to the UK's National Physical Laboratory.
  • The Johannesburg Stock Exchange was the 7th best performing stock market in 2005, according to the World Federation of Exchanges.
  • Home ownership in SA has increased from 64% (5,12m households) in 1994 to 78% (7,9m households) in 2004, according to a South African Advertising Research Foundation development index
  • Pretoria has the second largest number of embassies in the world after Washington, D.C.
  • Interest rates are at a 25-year low.
  • South Africa accounts for almost 45% of the GDP of the entire African continent, with an economy three times the size of the second biggest (Egypt).
  • South Africa is one of only 12 countries with potable tap water.
  • Almost a quarter of South Africa’s non-interest budget is spent on education.
  • The University of South Africa UNISA is a pioneer of tertiary distance education and is the largest correspondence university in the world with 250,000 students .
  • Afrikaans is the youngest official language in the world.
  • In 2005, Time Magazine hailed President Thabo Mbeki as the Most Powerful Man in Africa
  • According to the Economic Freedom of the World 2005 Annual Report, South Africa ranks 38th out of 127 countries in terms of ecomomic freedom, tied with France and ahead of Israel, India, Italy, China, Brazil and Russia.
  • The rand, the world's most actively traded emerging market currency, has joined an elite club of 15 currencies - the Continuous Linked Settlement (CLS) - where forex transactions are settled immediately, lowering the risks of transacting across time zones.
  • The South African Rand was the best performing currency against the US Dollar between 2002 and 2005, according to the Bloomberg's Currency Scorecard.
  • South Africa has 37 000 high net-wealth individuals (holding at least US$1million in financial assets) in 2004, according to the World Wealth Repor.t
  • South Africa's per capita GDP, corrected for purchasing power parity, positions the country as one of the 50 wealthiest in the world.
  • Worldaudit.org ranks South Africa as the 32nd most democratic country out of 150 nations.
  • Stellenbosch University was the first university in the world to design and launch a microsatellite.
  • South Africa is the 32nd best place in the world to do e-business (tied with Poland), according to the Economist Intelligence Report.
  • South Africa is the best-ranked country in terms of price stability, our fiscal policy is ranked 11th, our international trade competitiveness 21st, and we are the 28th most-attractive destination for foreign direct investment, according to the World Competiveness Yearbook 2005.
  • South African business owners of mid-size companies are the second most optimistic worldwide about their economic prospects of the year ahead, according to the annual Grant Thornton International Business Owners Survey for 2005.
  • South Africa houses one of the three largest telescopes in the world at Sutherland in the Karoo
  • South Africa is the first, and to date only, country to build nuclear weapons and then voluntarily dismantle its entire nuclear weapons programme.
  • The value of South African real estate improved by 30% over the past 5 years.
  • Since 1994, 500 houses have been built each day for the poor.
  • Tax revenue in SA has increased by 220% over the past 10 years.
  • In 2005, 10 million South Africans benefited from access to social grants.
  • The number of tourists visiting South Africa has grown by 116% since 1994.
  • Over the past 5 years, Consumer Confidence in SA has improved by 43%.
  • In the global measure of women in Parliament, South Africa ranks 8th in the world.
  • Of the 10 LSM levels ( LSM1=poorest; LSM10 wealthiest ), the average SA family located in LSM6
  • The current police to population ratio is 1:304.
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    South Africa is often referred to as "The Rainbow Nation", a term coined by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and later adopted by then-President Nelson Mandela. Mandela used the term "Rainbow Nation" as a metaphor to describe the country's newly-developing multicultural diversity in the wake of segregationist apartheid ideology.

    South Africa is an exhilarating, spectacular and complex country. With its post-apartheid identity still in the process of definition, there is undoubtedly an abundance of energy and sense of progress about the place.




    Travellers too are returning to a remarkable land that has been off the trail for way too long.


    The infrastructure is constantly improving, the climate is kind and there are few better places to see Africa's wildlife.


    But if you want to understand the country, you'll have to deal with the full spectrum. Poverty, the AIDS pandemic and violence remain a problem.


    HIV/AIDS
    South Africa has more people with HIV/AIDS than any other country in the world. Over 4.8 million individuals are infected with the virus. By 2010 adult HIV prevalence could reach 25% of the population.
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