Nelson Mandela Bay executive mayor Eugene Johnson surprised Christians at an outdoor thanksgiving and prayer event in Gqeberha (PE) on Sunday when she put aside an official speech that had been written for her and instead delivered a message straight from her heart, which she said she preferred to do as […]
Author: Andre Viljoen
Group announces plans for new synod, ‘radical reformation’ of DRC ‘back to Word of God’
The Kairos Network (KN) — an association of Dutch Reformed Church members and groups who believe the General Synod no longer upholds the Word of God — has announced a plan of action aimed at “radically” reforming the denomination from within rather than breaking away. Dr Anton Knoetze chairman of […]
Is the ‘new normal’ about to be replaced with ‘normal’?
President Cyril Ramaphosa, in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) yesterday, announced that government plans to scrap the National State of Disaster “as soon as we have finalised other measures under the National Health Act and other legislation to contain the pandemic” . Reacting to the president’s undertaking, ACDP […]
Court battle on cards in pursuit of electoral reform, petition launched
With just six months left of the two-year deadline government was given by the Constitutional Court to amend the Electoral Act to accommodate independent candidates, a showdown is looming between government and independent organisations which promote direct democracy in South Africa. Dr Michael Louis, a Christian marketplace leader who was […]
Retired chief justice shares on obeying God, next Kingdom assignment
“I sense very strongly that God is about to do something unprecedented in this nation,” said South Africa’s former chief justice, Mogoeng Mogoeng in a telephonic interview with Gateway News this week In our conversation just days after he had apologised publicly for comments he made about Israel, he shared […]
Mogoeng apologises as ordered ‘because I am not above the law’
The rule of law — “one of the foundational values of our democratic state” — demands that all, including the Chief Justice, comply with lawful orders however much we might disagree with them. says former Chief Justice Mogoeng in a statement released today. “Individually and together with my judicial colleagues, […]
Many committing lives to Jesus at ‘metaverse’ church
In December US multisite megachurch Life.Church announced that it had brought church to the “metaverse” — an online, 3-D, virtual reality world where people can interact through avatars — virtual representations of themselves. Nearly 100 people from various parts of the world attended the first service and two of them […]
Pastor leading campaign to thank God for sparing SA during pandemic
Giving glory to God by thanking Him for hearing His people’s cries for help — and for graciously sparing them from millions of Covid deaths predicted by experts – is a serious matter, said Pastor Sibusiso Khoza. The senior leader of the Grace Tabernacle family of churches told Gateway News […]
Calls to pray for Mogoeng after ‘shocking’, ‘biased’ judgment against him
The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) South Africa branch and South African Friends of Israel (SAFI) have expressed shock at a judgment against former chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng by the Judicial Conduct Appeals Committee and have called on South Africans to pray for him. “We are shocked at the biased […]
Mogoeng’s appeal dismissed, must apologise for Israel comments
Former Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng’s appeal against the Judicial Conduct Committee’s findings that he had involved himself in political controversy over SA’s policy on Israel has been dismissed by the Judicial Conduct Appeals Committee and he has been ordered to issue an unconditional apology within 10 days. In a 2-to-1 […]