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COMMUNITIES AND SALESIANS IN THE VICE PROVINCE OF SOUTHERN AFRICA (AFM)
The Salesians live in communities that are relatively autonomous, although accountable to the Provincial Superior and his Council. Each community has a Rector who is responsible for the spiritual well being of the members and the implementation of the mission. Decision making happens through House Council meetings.
The community at the Salesian Institute, Cape Town, is the oldest in the Vice-Province and was established in 1910. The solid building is a landmark on Somerset Road, on the corner of Chiappini Street. The present rector is Fr Michael Connell.
Click here to view the Salesian Institute Annual Report 2008.
The community runs several Youth Projects...
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Learn to Live consists of an informal school for children up to the age of 16 from shelters as well as from the streets. It also has a few workshops where older youth learn Welding, Carpentry, Panel beating and Leather Work.
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The 16+ Outreach programme makes contact with youth on the street in order to win their trust and introduce them to the Hostel programme.
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The Don Bosco Hostel accommodates between 25 and 30 youth older than 16 who voluntarily enter an 18 month rehabilitation programme, popularly known as the School of Life, for youth who have spent years on the streets fending for themselves.
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The Green Point parish forms part of this community, with the presbytery at Cheviot Place, Green Point, and the churches of Sacred Heart in Somerset Road next to CWD and St Margaret Mary in Green Point. Fr Bart Walsh is the parish priest.
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Youth Employment Skills (YES) focuses on skills training for unemployed school leavers.
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(1896) 1926 St Bede
Archdiocese of Cape Town
Centre for youth at risk– Parishes – Repository
Salesian Institute
P.O. Box 870
Cape Town
8000 South Africa
Tel: 021 425 1424 Community
Tel: 021 425 2833 Rector
Tel: 021 425 1450 Administration
Fax: 021 419 1312
Email Rector: michaelc@theinstitute.org.za
Email Administration: office@theinstitute.org.za
Fr Michael Connell Rector
Fr George Gallagher
Br Marko Mhara
Fr Pawel Michałowski Vice Rector
Fr Patrick Naughton Bursar
Br John O’Kane
Br Peter Simmonds
Fr Alberto Villalba Project Coordinator
Fr Bartholomew Walsh PP |
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The Lansdowne community, Cape Town, with Fr Eoin Farrelly as rector, is based at Our Lady help of Christians on Lansdowne Road, along the M5. The community was established in 1923 when the agricultural school Savio was built. This used to be a farm until the encroaching suburbs forced the Salesians to relocate the herd of dairy cows which had been built up to Daleside/Walkerville in Gauteng. The premises were then restructured into a normal high school. The school closed in 1976 and has since been leased. The present lessees are Santos Soccer Club.
Apart from the Lansdowne parish, Westridge and Hanover Park parishes are also in the care of this community. Fr Eoin Farrelly is parish priest at St John Bosco in Westridge and Fr Pat Lonergan is the parish priest at Our Lady of the Rosary in Hanover Park.
The Life Choices programme which focuses on behaviour change in youth through an abstinence and be faithful (AB) message, forms part of the Lansdowne community projects.
The provincial Planning and Development Office is also situated on these premises.
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1932 Mary Help of Christians
Archdiocese of Cape Town
Parishes – Youth Centre
Catholic Church
310 Lansdowne Road
Lansdowne
7780 South Africa
Tel: 021 696 2903/4 Parish
Tel: 021 696 4352 Rector
Fax: 021 696 2903
Email: boscocp@netactive.co.za
Fr Hugh Boyle
Fr Eoin Farrelly * Rector / PP
Fr Vincent Ford
Fr Anthony Garman
Fr Patrick Lonergan ** PP
Fr Edmund O’Neill ***
Fr Timothy Wrenn PP
*St John Bosco Church
41 Amandel Street, Westridge,
7785, Mitchell’s Plan
Tel: 021 374 7688
Email: boscocp@netactive.co.za
**Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church
111 Hanover Park Avenue, 7780, Hanover Park
Tel: 021 692 1375
Cell: 082 784 7525
***Director SPDO
Salesian Planning & Development 0ffice
Tel: (+27) 21 696 0290
Cell: (+27) 73 634 1433
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The Walkerville community (1949) with Fr Robert Gore as Rector, is situated on a farm along the Randvaal Road in the Walkerville district south of Johannesburg. It incorporates the Bosco Youth Centre, which is popular as a conference and retreat centre and is ideal for large groups of youth who love the wide open space and swimming pool.
The LoveMatters programme has been offered here for the past six years as a residential behaviour change programme and is popular among schools from all over Johannesburg, with teaching staff reporting noticeable positive changes in the students.
The Parish of St Dominic Savio is part of the community’s responsibilities, with the church on the premises.
Fr Dino Miotto has been for 15 years the principal of the excellent Michael Rua Primary and Intermediate School nearby, which had been established for farm children from the area and is now classed as a public school on private property with a Catholic ethos. Being in a rural setting, over 800 learners are bussed there each day.
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(1949)1950 St John Bosco
Diocese of Johannesburg
Diocesan Youth Pastoral Centre – Primary School – Parish – Vocations promotion
Bosco House
P.O. Box 25
Randvaal
1873 South Africa
Tel: 011 949 2360 Residence
Tel: 011 949 2361 Youth Centre
Cell: 082 847 0963 Rector
Tel: 011 949 1722 Parish
Fax: 011 949 1022
Email: boscoypt@iafrica.com
Website: http://www.boscocentre.co.za
Fr John Coleman
Fr Robert J Gore
Fr Stanisław Jagodzinski *
Br Sean McEwen
Fr Dino Miotto
Br Lingoane Tlaile
Fr Ivo Pisacane
*St Dominic Savio Catholic Church
P.O. Box 378 Walkerville 1876
Tel: 011 949 1722; Cell: 076 984 1185 |
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The Johannesburg community (1952) consists of the Robertsham parish with parish priest Fr Canice Dooley as Rector, and of Ozanam House on Nelson Road in Booysens. The Provincial Office and animating team is based here too. A large portion of the property has been let to the Catholic Institute of Education (CIE) to use as their headquarters for almost 25 years. Salesian Missions, comes under the Provincial Office and the office is also based there in Booysens.
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Johannesburg - Booysens
(1952) 1967 2006 ST JOHN BOSCO
Diocese of Johannesburg
Provincial House– Centre for missionary animation – Parishes – Youth Centre
Ozanam House
P.O. Box 2335
Southdale
2135 South Africa
Tel: 011 680 1235 Vice-Province
Tel: 011 680 5803 Residence
Fax: 011 680 1680
Email: sdbecon@iafrica.com
Fr Canice Dooley Rector / PP
Fr Francois Dufour Provincial
Br Evariste Ilunga (AFC)
Fr Emmanuel K Kagimbangabo (AGL)
Fr Michael Power (GBR)
Fr Zbigniew Zomerfeld
Salesians Missions
P. O. Box 1884 Southdale 2135
Tel/Fax: 011 476 8315
Email: missionoffice@bucknet.co.za Website: www.salesianmissions.co.za
Contact:
Fr John Coleman - Director or
Denise Hards - Administrator
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Johannesburg - Robertsham
1980 St John Bosco Church
Diocese of Johannesburg
Parish – Youth Centre
Salesian House
P.O. Box 82654
Southdale
2135 South Africa
Tel: 011 680 3900
Fax: 011 680 0007
Email: boscorob@telkomsa.net
Fr Canice Dooley PP
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The Ennerdale community (2005) includes the Novitiate Formation House on 7th Avenue in Ennerdale. The AFM novitiate accommodates novices from the Zambian Province, but it will probably relocate to Lusaka in 2009. Together with the Salesian Sisters who have been running the Don Bosco Educational Centre in the nearby informal settlement of Finetown, the community are responsible for the Declan Collins Educational Centre, which in the process of being established nearby.
The Ennerdale community is also responsible for the parish of All Saints (1969) where Fr Sean Murphy is the parish priest. It consists of three large communities based in Finetown, Lawley and Ennerdale itself.
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2005 BL. MICHAEL RUA
Diocese of Johannesburg
Novitiate (2005) – Parish – Youth Centre
Salesian Community
P.O. Box 287
Ennerdale
1826, South Africa
Tel/Fax: 011 855 5499
Parish: 011 855 1009
Email: salesian@iafrica.com
Fr Jeffrey Johnson (Rector and novice master)
Fr Seàn Murphy *
Fr Krzysztof Rychcik (ZMB)
Novices:
Christopher Sharpe (AFM)
David Njolo (ZMB)
Joachim M. Kaweme (ZMB)
Willem Mukuve (ZMB)
Chrispine Chewe (ZMB)
Propererly Mwila (ZMB)
*All Saints Parish
P.O. Box 541
1826 Ennerdale
Tel: 011 855 1009 |
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The Swaziland community (1953) with Fr Larry McDonnell as rector, centres mostly around Manzini, but also includes Malkerns. It is a well established and dynamic community, with primary and secondary schools, 5 residential homes for former street children, Likusasa Lifeskills Centre, Bosco Skills Centre, Bosco Study Centre, together with several other youth projects.
Click here to view a more detailed history of the establishment of Manzini.
Fr Michael Whelton is parish priest at Malkerns (1982) and several out-stations. He is also manager-chaplain of the Don Bosco High School for boys, while the Missionary Sisters of Mary Help of Christians supervise the neighbouring high school for girls.
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MALKERNS (Swaziland)
Diocese of Manzini
(1982) St John Bosco
High Schools & Primary School Parishes, Convent MSMHC
Don Bosco House
P.O. Box 391
Malkerns
Swaziland - Southern Africa
Tel: 528 3225
Email: wheltonm@realnet.co.za
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MANZINI (Swaziland)
(1953) 1967 Mary Help of Christians
Diocese of Manzini
Primary School & High School, Missionary Primary Schools, Residences for youth at risk, Youth Centre
Salesian House
P.O. Box 3286
Manzini
Swaziland – Southern Africa
Tel: 505 2020 Residence
Tel: 602 1779 (Rector)
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Email Rector: sdbosco@realnet.co.sz
Email: salesians@realnet.co.sz
Fr Patrick Ahern
Bro Jonasi Bonera
Bro Arnesh Daimari
Fr Jonathan Daniels
Fr Peter Doherty
Fr Patrick Fleming
Fr Mikel Garmendia
Fr Lawrence McDonnell
Fr John Mehers
Br Charles Scollard
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Fr Marian Kulig is the rector of the Lesotho community in Maputsoe (1980) on the border of South Africa near Ficksburg. The Community is responsible for St Luke’s Parish – one of the largest missions in the diocese of Leribe. There are pre-schools, primary and high schools which are animated in partnership with the Salesian Sisters, who also run the Mazzarello Craft Centre where girls with less academic aptitude learn sewing and tailoring skills.
The community is also responsible for a large oratory and for pre-novitiate formation. At present the Salesians at the invitation of the Archbishop, are planning to establish a new presence in Maseru which would include a large parish, schools and an Oratory.
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(1980) 1982 St Luke
Diocese of Leribe
Mission – Primary and High School
St Luke’s Salesian Mission
P.O. Box 85
Maputsoe
350 Lesotho – Southern Africa
P.O. Box 585
Ficksburg
9730 South Africa
Tel: 224 30308
Fax: 224 30596
Email: stluke@leo.ls
Fr Jacinto Dias
Bro Lesooana Moeti
Bro Vincent Hoang Quang
Fr Joy Sebastian Thekumcherikunnel* PP
Br John Bhutana Thusi
Fr Marian Kulig Rector / PP
* Sacred Heart Mission, Ha Seleso, Maseru 00 266 59009693 |
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