Directors of Departments
Pastor Sankwela Makaudi
Director: AFM National Mens’ Fellowship
Pastor Makaudi was born on the 19th of July 1974 in Kingswood (farms near Bloemhof). He entered the ministry as early as 1992 as a tent revivalist. From 1993-1997 he worked at the Department of Education in Wolmaranstad (Daeraad School). It was during this time that his school ministry and involvement in AFM Tswelelang Youth Leadership started. He also started in Church Leadership and Outreach Ministry and his calling for the Lord was discovered. From 1997-1999 he studied at the AFMSATI in Soshanguve and received his diploma in Theology.
In 2000-2001 he served his probation in Pampierstad AFM. In March 2001 he was ordained as an AFM Pastor. In 2002 he became a Presiding Pastor of AFM Jouberton in Klerksdorp till to date and pioneering an assembly (AFM Restoration Centre in Klerksdorp). He served in the Far North West Regional Leadership Forum (RLF) as a member and Deputy Chair. He founded a community outreach program “Good Samaritan” which has a great impact on the city and surrounding farm communities. From 2004-2020 he became part of the founding team of the formation of the AFM National Men’s Fellowship (NMF) and a co-ordinator of Men’s Fellowship Conferences. In 2020 he was elected as the AFM National Men’s Fellowship Director.
He is married to Kediemetse Makaudi.
Pastor Ellah Chauke
Director: AFM National Sisters' Fellowship
The eighth child of Etienne and Elizabeth Chabane, Ellah Chauke was born on the 22nd of March 1962 at Ha-Mashamba. She was raised at Shikundu in the Collins Chabane Municipality where she completed her basic education at Mayeke Primary School, Shikundu Secondary and Ripambeta High School between 1968 and 1981.
She accepted the Lord as her personal saviour in 1977 and was nurtured within the AFM where she served as a worship leader from 1978.
She led the AFM Local Sisters’ Fellowship in Mookgophong from 1983 to 1987 and at the Lulekani Assembly from 1987. She served for two terms as Deputy Chairperson of the AFM Lowveld Regional Sisters’ Fellowship from 2007 to 2013. Subsequently, she went on to serve as Chairperson of the AFM Lowveld Regional Sisters’ Fellowship from 2013.
On 30 April 2022, she got elected to serve as Chairperson of the AFM National Sisters’ Fellowship.
In 2017, Ellah Chauke received her status for ordination on the basis of her BA degree with theological subjects coupled with the completion of AFM-specific prescribed modules. She was duly ordained as a Pastor in the AFM of South Africa in 2018 following a period of ministry integrated learning. She serves as an associate Pastor of the AFM Lulekani Assembly.
She obtained a Diploma in Pedagogics at the University of the North in 1984. This was followed by a BA degree in 1992 and a BA Honours degree in Education through The University of Pretoria in 2012. During the course of her professional development, she further obtained the ACE School Leadership and Management certificate in 2009 and completed the Leadership Development Programme from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 2017.
She worked as an educator for 31 years in both primary and secondary education. Two years were as Deputy Principal and nineteen years as Principal. Furthermore, she worked for seven years as Chief Education Specialist presiding over the Malamulele North East circuit in the Vhembe District.
She is married to Pastor P.L Chauke and blessed with a son, Emmanuel and a daughter, Nkateko. They reside in Lulekani, Phalaborwa.
Pastor Thandanani Savhasa
Director: National Youth Department
Thandanani Savhasa was born in Johannesburg, on the 19th of November 1989. From an early age, she demonstrated leadership capacity becoming the captain of the Mondeor High School Rowing Club in 2006. In 2007 she was awarded the E.T. TRUE BLUE AWARD – which is awarded to a loyal, enthusiastic caring learner whose positive attitude, integrity, and exemplary behaviour, personify the spirit of the school with heart and passion!
In 2006 she became part of the Youth Leaders at the AFM Naledi Assembly in Soweto and became key in coordinating youth and community initiatives. Her milestones in Youth Leadership occurred in 2014 when the Assembly launched a strategic community focus, called “Church in Community”. Thandanani became a key driver for projects such as Career Guidance Expos, School Holiday Outreach Clubs, and platforms for youth in the community to showcase their talents. To date, these projects are still a key part of the Assembly’s outreach focus.
Thandanani was ordained on the 23rd of September 2018, and a year later became the Presiding Pastor of the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) Church of South Africa, Naledi Assembly. She is currently also the Youth Chairperson of the AFM Central Gauteng Region.
She is an ecumenist who understands the role of the entire body of Christ working together and currently serves in the Gauteng Council of Churches as an Executive Member. She leads church-based community interventions through the Local Ecumenical Action Network in Naledi (LEAN), Soweto.
She is also the Former Youth Co-Chair of a global movement called Next Generation Network (NGN) for Empowered 21 ’s in Africa. Currently, she is part of the coordinating team of special ministry for girls within the church and their spiritual and physical development.
In 2013 she obtained her Architectural (BAS) Degree from the University of the Witwatersrand. She has 10 years of experience in retail, commercial, residential and mixed-use architectural design from leading architectural firms in South Africa and Africa. Her career milestones include being in the design team for the Time Square Hotel, known as the Maslow, Menlyn in Pretoria.
She also has professional experience working in a Non-Profit Organisation in 2017 as a youth development worker and trainer. She holds a Bachelor of Theology (BTH) Degree from North-West University, completing it with a Golden Key Honours Society Award.
Married to Percy and blessed with a son whose name is Thendo.
Pastor Bongiwe Naile
Director: AFM Welfare
Bongiwe Cynthia Naile was born on the 10th of September 1971 in Ntabankulu - a small town in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. She joined the AFM Church at the age of 10 years and accepted Christ as Lord and personal Saviour at the age of 12 years. She is an ordained AFM Pastor and her past involvement in the AFM ranges from Sunday School to Youth- and Women’s Ministry. She held the position of Deputy Director of AFM Welfare for 15 years. She was appointed as Director of the AFM Welfare on 1 February 2024. She is also a Presiding Pastor of the AFM Enhakkore Assembly in Hatfield, Pretoria.
Before she was appointed Deputy Director at AFM Welfare, she was actively involved in assisting local Churches with starting welfare projects in the three AFM regions in the former Transkei (Ngokholo at Ekuphumleni; Theologos at uMzimvubu; and ASCOC at Kei) – to only name a few. Through the NDISWE programme, under the leadership of Dr Mostert and the late Pastor Songxaba, she brought AFM Welfare operations to the Transkei area. She played a key role in 1999 when Pastor Brook Wilkson and the AFM National Office Bearers attended an event on “The role of the Church amid HIV & AIDS” held at the UNITRA stadium.
Bongiwe Naile has a BA degree in Social Work from UNITRA; a BA Honours in Social Sciences obtained from UNISA; a BA Honours in Gender Studies from UNITRA; a bachelor’s degree in Theology (BTh) from Auckland Park Theological Seminary and a Master’s degree in Social Work (MDIAC Social Work) obtained from Huguenot University College (UNISA).
She has worked as an educator at St Cuthbert’s High School (Tsolo); as a social worker at Efata School for the Deaf and Blind (Mthatha); as an Assistant Director at Mthatha Hospital Complex (Mthatha); as a part-time lecturer at UNITRA (currently known as the Walter Sisulu University of Technology) and UNISA and as a social worker and consultant running her practice (Mthatha).
She also has practical experience in the following areas of social work: (i) education and awareness of child abuse; (ii) prevention and management of child abuse; (iii) HIV & AIDS education, care, management, and counselling; (iv) adherence counselling for ART course; (v) social work field instruction; (vi) play techniques in the assessment of sexually abused children; (vii) advanced trauma support. She also completed training offered by the Institute of Directors South Africa (IoDSA) on “Being a Director” and a Financial Management course (Stellenbosch).
Past. A.K. Khoza
Director: National Children's Ministry
He started working as a Sunday School teacher and superintendent of the AFM of SA in Soshanguve from 1988. During his period as a teacher and superintendent of the local Assembly, he also served in the Sunday School Pretoria District Committee. Some assemblies were started through Sunday School during his term as a Sunday School superintendent.
He has served in the National Children Ministry of the AFM of SA from the year 2005. From 2005 to 2008 as the National Secretary, from 2008 to 2012 as National Treasurer and from 2012 to 2022 as the Deputy Director, from March 2022 as the National Director. Pastor Alfred Khoza is pastoring an Assembly which he started through Children Ministry in Soshanguve.
After completing his matric he worked as a site clerk at a construction company while studying through correspondence.
He obtained a Diploma in Business Management through correspondence while employed at Fraser Alexander where he worked as a Business Unit Financial Controller in the Northern Business Unit (North West Province).
He was one of the Management Board Members of the Northern Business Unit.