ABSTRACT
The important unit in church organization is the local church group by which is meant the group of people regularly meeting for weekly devotions and other church activities. Only the Roman Catholic Church has local groups of considerable size. Their mission work is centralized at Taung, where they have a local group of over two thousand members. In the Roman Catholic Church indigenous leadership is much less prominent than in Protestant churches. There is no R.C. African priest in the chiefdom, but one of the three fathers in the Mission is a coloured man who was born at Phokwane, while one of the five brothers attached to the mission is a Tswana from Kimberley. Women's associations play an important role in church life, and through these, women are given most of their opportunities for leadership in the churches, but some such opportunities exist apart from these associations.
