This latest newsletter from CIHA Blog partner, the Ujamaa Centre discusses chronic unemployment in post-apartheid South Africa as well as highlighting research work that has been conducted looking at the “feminization of poverty”. The Centre calls for churches to provide theological resources that engage these economic dimensions of life.
The newsletter also includes an interview with Rev. Mfanafuthi Zuma who has been trained by the Ujamaa Centre on Contextual Bible reading and religion and governance. Rev. Zuma highlights the importance of taking a bottom-up perspective, an important reminder for those also working in humanitarianism and development: “I learned through Ujamaa that you can’t solve or deal with community issues without those affected in the community.”
Find the latest downloadable newsletter here: June Newsletter
Find the previous Ujamaa Centre newsletter from December 2017 here.
The Ujamaa Centre was initiated in 1989 as part of the School of Theology at the then University of Natal (currently known as UKZN). The Ujamaa Centre is the ideological-theological product of various strands of liberation theology, particularly South African Black Theology and South African Contextual Theology. More specifically, the Ujamaa Centre is committed to working with communities of the poor, the working-class, and the marginalized, using the biblical and theological resources for social and individual transformation.