College of the Transfiguration

A shift happened in the mid-twentieth century when the college was given some provincial recognition as a result of a synod of bishops in 1955.

Pressures brought to bear by the apartheid regime, and other institutional factors, resulted in the consideration of different schemes of amalgamation as early as the seventies.

At the time of its closure in 1992 the college had an influential role in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.

The college went through difficult times during both world wars as numbers declined, even closing for five months in 1943.

Subsequent research showed that the name was problematic and the "College of the Transfiguration" was chosen, influenced by the then, Archbishop Desmond Tutu.