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Oakford: Motherhouse
and Infirmary for Sisters, High School and Related Boarding
School for Girls, Pre-School and Elementary School for black
children, clinic and ambulance service to outlying stations,
old age home for the destitute, Marian Conference Center
for Christian Groups.
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Ethembeni: pre-novitiate
on Oakford premises. Sisters are responsible for pre-novitiate
formation program. One sister teaches at the Oakford elementary
school.
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Phoenix: a newly
established community in a fast-growing Indian city with
parish ministry in catechetics, liturgy, pastoral care and
alternate medicine.
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Magaliesburg: community
at SA Boys’ Town with ministry to the boys in residence
in the area of nursing care, administration, and cooking;
nursing care at local clinic and outlying stations.
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Nursing and pastoral
care in a Catholic hospice for aids ministry.
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Kimberley: long established
St. Boniface Mission with sisters teaching in the Christian
Brothers High School, others serving as parish sisters in
the nearby community; involvement in feeding program for
the poor of the informal settlement bordering on the Mission.
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Ekukanjeni: rural
mission with sisters involved in local clinic, parish ministry,
and in charge of kindergarten.
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Empangeni: well-established
Catholic School from pre-school level through High School
with boarding facility for high school girls.
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Bluff / Durban: St.
Dominic’s Retreat Center at the Indian Ocean.
Our sisters minister in administration, retreat direction,
creative workshops, and supervision of domestic staff.
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Other sisters are
involved in teaching at Our Lady of Natal Catholic School,
ministering in two parishes in counseling and religious
education and in the city’s welfare institution as
social worker.
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Johannesburg Communities:
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Bedfordview Generalate:
headquarters of our international congregation.
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Villa Maria: Regional
Center; one sister serves in pastoral ministry especially
to aids victims in nearby hospitals.
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Casa Siena: a community
of sisters involved in a different outreach in the city
of Johannesburg: community consultant giving workshops in
leadership development, team building and facilitating national
events. Diocesan director of Pastoral Councils responsible
for Christian leadership formation especially in the black
and colored community.
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Home economics teacher
at a Dominican school.
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Emmanuel: Spiritual
direction and retreat giving on national level; sewing classes
in developing township.
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Koinonia: Conference
and Retreat Center where sisters serve as administrator,
food supervisor, in supervision of domestic staff; one sister
is on the teaching staff of the diocesan seminary in Pretoria
and another sister in pastoral ministry in public hospitals.
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Hlabisa: a community
in the heart of rural Zululand. Main ministry is catechesis
in the parish and outlying missions.
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Pietermaritzburg:
Villa Assumpta, residential home for the elderly.
Sisters administer the home and serve the residents in various
capacities especially nursing care.
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Geluksdal: Common
Dominican Novitiate for four Dominican congregations of
women in South Africa. At present the director is an Oakford
Dominican.
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