Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (NHK)

Dutch Reformed Church in Africa
Classification	Protestant
Theology	Reformed
Polity	Presbyterian
Branched from	Dutch Reformed Church
Separations	Reformed Churches in South Africa (1859)
Congregations	c. 300
Members	130,000

The Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (Dutch: Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika, abbreviated NHKA) is a Reformed Christian denomination based in South Africa. It also has congregations in Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Along with the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (NGK) and the Reformed Churches in South Africa, the NHKA is one of the three Dutch Reformed sister churches of South Africa. The NHKA retains the old Nomenclature Nederduitsch, the word originally referring to the Dutch language.^[1] The word refers to the Low Saxon language today. The Dutch language remained the official language of the church until 1933 when the church started functioning almost exclusively in Afrikaans.