The study assessed the oral history projects undertaken between 1994 and 2014 within the Pietermaritzburg Cluster of Theological Libraries to ascertain the depth and breadth of their collections in as far as documenting the voice of the indigenous clergy is concerned. Data collection instruments used for the study were interviews, both face-to-face and telephonically, documentary analysis, email correspondence and database checks. The findings revealed that the School of Theology, now the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics (SRPC), at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, was at the forefront in this collection drive and that theological libraries were generally lagging behind; that ethnographical, literacy and content challenges are prevalent and that there is a dearth of material pertaining to religious archives on the National Register of Oral Sources (NAROS) database, which does not bode well with regards to the management of this ecclesiastical heritage. The study also revealed that there was a need for a co-ordinated oral history collection strategy to avoid duplication of effort. The study recommended that for religious archives to be effectively managed, private archives need to be properly legislated like their public counterparts, hence the need for a new national model in this regard irrespective of the perceived institutional imperatives.