Our history in South Africa  begins in 1904, when  four sisters  arrived in Port Elizabeth to commence the mission and ministerial works of the Little Company of Mary. 

From a small, and initially difficult foundation in Port Elizabeth, the congregation expanded its ministries. Today, the Port Elizabeth consists of a community of three sisters who retired when we sold our hospital in that area some years ago. They minister to the poor and the needy and  also work in a poverty-stricken area of shacks and squatters just outside the town called Missionvale

PRETORIA

Pretoria is situated midway between Harare and Port Elizabeth, on the southernmost coastline of South Africa, at a distance of about 1,000 kms. each way.

The hospital in Pretoria was inaugurated in 1957. Attached to our hospital in Pretoria is the Mary Potter oncology unit and St. Mary’s unit for the terminally ill.Ten sisters engaged in different ministries in the various departments of the hospital.

Click here to visit the  Little Company of Mary Hospital in Pretoria

EESTERUST

There is also a community of two sisters at Eesterust, adjacent to the city of Pretoria.  Under the apartheid regime this was classified as a residential area for nonwhite people, and six years later not many people have been able, or have felt the need to pack up and move.  The sisters work in the parish, mainly visiting the sick and  marginalized people  in the area.