DR M. GIDEON ~KHABELA
Name: M. Gideon Khabela Ph.D; M. Phil.; STM (USA); Hons. BD (Scotland); Dip.Th (South Africa)
Postal Address: P.O. Box 101451, Scottsville 3209, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu/Natal
E. Mail : gkhabela@yahoo.com
Telephone : Tel. 011 + 27 (33) 346 - 2459 (international dialing)
Cell: 011 + 27 73 126 8480 (international dialing)
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D degree) 1990 - 1992
Union Theological Seminary, New York, USA
Field of Study: Religion and Politics in the Struggle for liberation in South Africa.
Dissertation Topic: A Seamless Garment: Church and Politics in the Theology of Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Masters of Philosophy (M.Phil) 1988-1990
Union Theological Seminary, New York, USA
Field of Study: Religion and Politics - an in-depth study of various struggles for liberation
Masters of Sacred Theology (STM) 1987~-1988
Union Theological Seminary, New York, USA
This study examined various ideologies prevailing in the different struggles for liberation
Bachelor of Divinity and Honours (Hons. BD) 1984~-1987
University of Aberdeen - Scotland
This was a study that introduced me in the arena of studies of international struggles for
liberation
Diploma in Theology (Dip. Th) 1988~-1980
The Federal Theological Seminary, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
These were professional studies that introduced me into Religion as a career
TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Present Employment (2003/2004)
Administrator of Pholela Academic Institute and
Minister of Pholela District Congregation
Uniting Presbyterian Church of South Africa
Phillips Exeter Academy (2001/2003)
Recipient of the Thurgood Marshal Fellowship
Teaching courses on South Africa (TRC), Modern History of Africa
Acting School Minister (2002/2003).
Federal Theological Seminary (1992-1994)
HoD Systematic and Practical Theology Department
Acting Principal of Albert Luthuli College
Fort Hare University (1994-2000)
Senior Lecturer - Practical Theology Department
Supervising post-graduate students
Vice Dean: Faculty of Theology (1996)
Chaplain to the theology students - former Albert Luthuli group of churches.
University of Durban/Westville (1993)
Part-time lecturer - Missiology and Church History
Pace University (New York) (1989-1992)
Part-time lecturer - African History
Union Theological Seminary (1989)
Tutor of Post-graduate students
FELLOWSHIPS
Thurgood Marshal Fellowship
Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, USA 2000 - 2003
Scholar-in Residence
Presbytery of Northern New England and Synod of the North East (USA)
United Presbyterian Church - USA
January - June, 1999
AWARDS
Prestigious Broadway Award for social involvement - Broadway Church of Christ (May 1999)
BOBO Sikhosana Award - Student Representative Council: Federal Theological Seminary, August 1993
INVOLVEMENT IN SOCIETY
Chairperson - Religious Education Forum - Central Region, Eastern Cape
Member of Human Rehabilitation and Trauma Counseling Programme - Eastern Cape
Leader - TRC devotional exercises in the Eastern Cape.
Member of Council for Pholela Institute and High School
Executive member of the SACC (1976/77)
PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES
Non-violence in Natal - Past and Present: Examining the Leadership of Chief Albert Luthuli (Mahatma Ghandi Centre for non-violence, 1993)
What Does Athens Have to Do with Jerusalem?: An Examination of the Relation Between Theological Education and the Role of the Church in South Africa (Fedsem-
1993)
The Teaching Ministry of the Church: Looking at the RPCSA (Umtata, 1993)
The Role of the Church in the Struggle for Liberation, 1960-1994 - A Presentation to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Nov. 17, 1997
My Soul looks at the Passing Horizon - A Presentation to the General Assembly of the RPCSA, Cape Town, June 1997
Feminism and the Politics of Sexual Difference - East London, October 25, 1997
Tiyo Soga in the Context of the Xhosa Chiefs - University of Transkei, 12 September, 1997
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
1. Tiyo Soga: The Struggle of the Gods, Alice: Lovedale Press, 1997
2. Perspectives on Ubuntu: A Tribute to Fedsem, Alice: Lovedale press, 1998
3. A Seamless Garment: Church and Politics in the Theology of Archbishop Desmond Tutu 1976 - 1989
In Print by Skotaville
Call Me Umfundisi: Pastoral Ministry in the Black Church
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
The Socio-cultural and Religious Dynamics of the Black Struggle in South Africa (JBT, 1989)
Perceptions of the Struggle in South Africa: Toward A Strategy of Civil Disobedience (JBT, 1990)
Dialectics of Race and Class in the Hermeneutics of Black Theology: An Historical Approach (JBT, 1990)
Doing Theology in the Context of Change (Messenger, March 1995)
Biblical Hermeneutics of Black Theology: An Unfinished Debate in SP Abrahams et al (eds), Theology on the Tyume, Alice: Lovedale Press and David Phillip Publishers, 1997
CHURCH AFFILIATION
Uniting Presbyterian Church of South Africa
Ordained - June 1980
Pastored churches at Glenbain (Ixopo)
Newcastle/Dundee (Natal)
Broadway Temple (New York, USA)
Semple Mission - King Williams Town (Eastern Cape)
Minister of Pholela District Congregation (Natal)
CHURCH - LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
Moderator of the general Assembly - Uniting Presbyterian Church of South Africa - 1996/7
Current Moderator of the Drakensberg Presbytery - UPCSA
MORE PERSONAL DETAILS
Bom April 16, 1953, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
Married, 3 children aged 26, 24 and 22
Secretary
Global Mission
United Congregational Church and
Disciples of Christ
Indianapolis
Email: bgoba@dom.disciples.org
HOD: Religion Department
20 Main Street
Exeter, NH 03833
USA
Email: jhamilton@exeter.edu
PO Box 180
Durbanville
7551
Cape Town
South Africa
Tel: (021) 976 3044
Email: eddiegermiquet@cybertrade.co.za
