The implementation of halaal regulations in certain KFC branches in KwaZulu-Natal continued to cause conflict this week. The Mercury reported that Gugu Smamane, 30, a KFC employee in Davenport, Durban resigned after she was disciplined by area manager Nonhle Mgabhi for warming her food in the halaal certified store. Thereafter […]
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Persecution veterans to talk in SA
Persecution mission veterans Dr Nik and Ruth Ripken* will conduct a one-day ‘Servants in the Crucible’ seminar in Pretoria, Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town in September. The Ripkens, who are being hosted in South Africa by Open Doors, have interviewed approximately 600 believers who live courageously in persecuted environments in […]
Thousands attend Pietermaritzburg rally
Thousands gathered at the Woodburn Rugby Stadium in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday for the closing rally of the African Enterprise Jubilee Mission. The rally was the culmination of a week of outreach in the city by African Enterprise, an organisation sharing the Gospel in word and deed across Africa. African Enterprise […]
KFC lose halaal dismissal case, faces 2nd complaint
An Empangeni woman who was not allowed to take non-halaal food to work at KFC has lodged a complaint with the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), it was reported today. This was the second such complaint against the fast food chain. On Friday last week, KFC lost a […]
Satanic strongholds over Maritzburg to melt away, declares ‘prayer warrior’
Originally published in African Enterprise newsletter Intercessors who have been praying fervently and fasting for spiritual renewal in Pietermaritzburg will soon rejoice to see Satanic strongholds melting away and thousands of people embracing Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour, a renowned ‘prayer warrior’ has declared. Ronelle Muragan, co-leader of […]
KFC employee fired over non-Halaal food
By Bongani Hans — Originally published in ioL News Kentucky Fried Chicken’s Empangeni franchise is being challenged in the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration by an axed employee who was fired for bringing non-halaal food to work and who now wants his job back. The fast-food outlet dismissed Jabulani […]
Zumat HeliClinics Programme takes off
The air over the Makathini Flats was filled with the distinctive sound of an approaching helicopter on Wednesday last week (July 25) on the day that marked the start of Zululand Mission Air Transport’s (ZUMAT’) HeliClinics Program. A crowd of people from this remote area in northern KwaZulu-Natal came outside […]
‘Embrace reconciliation in Jesus Christ’, M’burg meeting told
When churches indulge in racism, hatred and divisions, they exhibit the height of hypocrisy –by preaching the powerful and all-liberating gospel of Jesus Christ– and yet failing to walk and reflect their talk through reconciliation. This warning was made by Reverend Sipho Sibisi, a pastor at Prophesy Ministries, a Pentecostal […]
Religious groups at hearings say Christian holidays should stay
By Taryn Hodgson — Africa Christian Action At The Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL) hearings in Cape Town today, representatives from Christian, Muslim, Khoisan and business groups present agreed that Good Friday and Christmas should not be removed as […]
Flying doctor service getting new set of wings
After 37 years of flying doctors to remote areas in fixed-wing aircraft, Zululand Mission Air Transport (ZUMAT) is introducing a helicopter service. The new HeliClinics programme, which will start in the second week of July, is being introduced because of the deterioration of clinic runways. The helicopters will enable ZUMAT […]