Angus Buchan Biography
Possibly better known for more recent
happenings, Angus Buchan started his life
in Buluwayo, Zimbabwe, born in 1947 to
Scottish parents. Angus moved to the
Copperbelt in Zambia when he was six
years old with his two younger siblings and
folks where he completed the equivalent of
grade 10.
At 19 years of age, Angus flew to Scotland
where he completed his agricultural training.
Before returning to Zambia, Angus travelled
through Australia where he rode horses,
stacked bricks, milked cows and worked on
beef stud farms.
He returned to Zambia and, while working
as a farm manager, met and married Jill. Soon after that, they started farming
and bought their own farm. In 1974 they sold their farm in Zambia and moved
to Swaziland for seven months, where Angus was employed as a Section
Manager on a sugarcane plantation. They soon moved in search of their own
land and travelled to KwaZulu Natal. They bought an overgrown piece of
bushveld with no water, electricity or buildings - and called it SHALOM. By this
time, they had three children and Jill was pregnant with their fourth, Fergus.
Angus built a wattle and daub home for his family in just three weeks. On the
18th February, 1979, feeling totally burnt out by the pressures of farming,
clearing land, finances and raising a family, Angus and his family attended a
Methodist church service in Greytown led by a lay minister, where the whole
family gave their lives to Christ.
On the 17th November, 1989, Angus had an encounter with the Lord. At that
stage he realized that God was able to use not only the educated, but also the
uneducated to shake the world and he felt God was calling him to tell the
world about Jesus. Angus held his first campaign in Ladysmith soon after that.
Since then he's held hundreds of campaigns. There are not many towns and
stadia in South Africa in which he hasn't held meetings. He has also had the
privilege of preaching all over the world.
Angus, father of 5 children and grandfather to 9 - is a bestselling author of 15
books of which many have been translated into Afrikaans as well as other
languages. Seen on TV six times a week, Angus spends a lot of time
recording GRASSROOTS which reaches thousands of people in their homes
– many of which would never enter a church.