Biography
Richard Ngidi lived from 1921 to 1985 and served in the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa. He entered Leratong Bible School in 1962, became a pastor the following year, and was ordained in 1965. His early pastoral work included a small congregation at Ashdown near Pietermaritzburg.[1]
He became an evangelist and church leader whose work included preaching, prayer, the establishment of congregations, and the training of workers. Women participated in leadership and evangelism under his oversight, an important feature of the ministry recorded by church historians.[1]
Ngidi worked during apartheid, when racial separation affected church structures as well as public life. Mookgo Solomon Kgatle's historical study examines his ministry as a form of cooperation across racial, denominational, and gender divisions. This is the scholar's analysis of the evidence, not a claim that the surrounding church had escaped segregation.[2]
Healing stories also form part of the testimony associated with Ngidi. They should remain attributed to their historical accounts rather than be presented as independently verified medical facts.[1]
He died in 1985. His legacy includes local congregations and workers, together with a model of Christian cooperation developed amid a society and church system marked by deep division.[1] [2]