Pretoria Centre Manager – This position will be responsible for the high-level management and development of Mukhanyo’s growing Pretoria Learning Centre. The ideal candidate will also serve as a Senior Lecturer on the Academic Team.
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Marketing Manager – This Pretoria-based position is responsible for coordinating the following: newsletters, student recruitment, event planning, donor communication, fund-raising, marketing literature, social media, etc. The ideal candidate will have experience in these areas along with a passion to serve the Lord in Christian ministry.

Records Manager – The Records Manager is responsible for managing a team of dedicated people in the Student Records department. This position, based in KwaMhlanga, manages and coordinates all administrative activities involving student admissions, registration, record-keeping, and graduations. The ideal candidate will have experience in office management and educational administration.

More information and additional vacancies are listed here.

After extending the KwaMhlanga campus significantly a few years ago, it was time for the Johannesburg facilities to be upgraded and the Pretoria facilities to be expanded.

Pretoria. The story of the Pretoria study centre is also a cause for thanksgiving. The state education authorities did not want the study centre to be located at the facilities of a high school. So a different venue had to be found.
The ideal place was found in a large hall adjacent to a Dutch Reformed Church in the suburbs of Wonderboom-South, even closer to the centre of Pretoria. In addition to a suitable conference centre, offices and classrooms, this church has a large secure parking area.

Mukhanyo now rents a part of the centre. The facilities had to be adjusted and renovated drastically, but today there are four lecture rooms, a library and four offices. All this was paid for with local donations.
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This facility can now easily be used to teach a hundred students, with the further potential of expansion. Here marketing will also be of importance this year.

Saturday, 9 March was a joyful occasion when 64 certificate, diploma and degree students graduated, equipped as church leaders to spread God’s Word in their communities in South Africa and beyond.

During the graduation ceremony, the students dressed in black gowns, square academic caps and black and dark green neckbands, were addressed respectively by Principal Dr B. de Vries, Rev P. Manzanga and Dr L. Netshitomboni, the Chairperson of the Mukhanyo Board. Referring to the parable of the Talents, the Principal greeted the students with a “well done good and faithful servants” (Matthew 25). Rev Manzanga reminded the students about Jesus’ instruction to Peter to feed and care for the sheep (John 21). Dr Netshitomboni asked the attention of the students to worrying developments in today’s South African society.

What made it even more of a special event is that it was in 2019 – Mukhanyo’s 25th anniversary. For 25 years the college has been teaching many hundreds of students, both new and experienced church leaders. Through them Mukhanyo is reaching thousands of people, to tell the world about our great God and His Son, Jesus Christ. Thousands of people in southern Africa are learning about God’s great deeds and saving grace, and how to honour and please Him in the way He expects of His children.

This day was the first in a number of commemoration events to thank God that He has blessed Mukhanyo and made it grow and develop in many ways. The next major event will be Mukhanyo’s annual meeting on Saturday 11 May, which will be held in KwaMhlanga.

In the past year Mukhanyo was evaluated in various ways.  It has proved to be above expectations. Just look at the following:

• The Council for Higher Education has accredited Mukhanyo’s new BTh and BTh Honours degrees. This means that the Department of Higher Education & Training (DHET) and the Higher Education Qualifications Committee (HEQC) of the CHE – the government agencies that review all higher education in South African – have found that Mukhanyo’s academic quality is on the same level as those of similar qualifications at universities.
• The students from other African countries, who are studying at Mukhanyo, are impressed with Mukhanyo’s standards. And similar colleges elsewhere in Africa make use of Mukhanyo’s programmes. Mukhanyo’s annual consultation of Bible Colleges unites and builds cooperation among reformed evangelical theological institutions.
• Many church groups all over South Africa and beyond make use of Mukhanyo’s diploma courses which are fast becoming a benchmark for effective biblical training for church leaders, also enabling students to progress to higher levels of theological training.
• Many local visitors and international ministry delegations in the past year have been impressed with the quality of Mukhanyo’s facilities, including its computer facilities, recording studio, lecture rooms and the fast expanding libraries in all three locations.
• To maintain our high standards and to continue improving, the Board of Directors had approved several audits by professional consultants for early 2019: The annual financial audit will soon be completed, a governance and legal compliance audit has been started, and a comprehensive ministry audit will start in a few months.
  

We thank the Lord for all these improvements and we pray that He will send more and more students to make use of all that Mukhanyo offers.

The annual general meeting (AGM) of member churches is expected to take place on
​11 May. This will also be the day when Mukhanyo gives thanks to the Lord for 25 years of ministry as a Christian college involved in many spheres of training and mission work.
Plans for the day are still in the making. But it will be a day worthwhile participating. Work is being done on a history book about Mukhanyo’s first twenty-five years of ministry.

There were many other developments in 2018. To mention a few:

• About a dozen workshops, seminaries and conferences – including the highly successful Bible College Consultation in June. Topics on these occasions included the role of pastors and church leaders, the role of pastor’s wives, facilitator and tutor study groups, as well as personal evangelism workshops, Bible counselling, alumni support, youth ministry and the training of support staff.
• The growing number of distance study groups for the first time surpassed 60, with over 600 students. The study material sent to these groups requires further updating, something on which a serious start was made during the past year, so far with impressive results, also according to the donors supporting the project.
• After years of hard work, a number of programmes were fully accredited by the CHE and DHET, and two new programmes conditionally accredited in preparation for next year.
• The Johannesburg Study Centre was renovated with special funding of R1 million and started 2019 with much better facilities, including a large library and media centre with recently donated books, as well as work stations for students.
• A new initiative was started: the compilation of a number of modules to add up to an unaccredited certificate in theology (“Project FOCUS”) which will take the form of short courses especially designed for local church communities.
• The Pretoria Study Centre relocated to a much larger, modern and better location. With funding specially received for this purpose, the venue was turned into an ideal place for future growth.
• A quick survey after the mid-year holidays showed that most students were doing ministry work in one way or another. Which not only shows the practicality of the Mukhanyo model (combining study with practical ministry work), but also shows that students are already deeply involved in church work and their communities.