Gateway News prophetic columnist Marian Fitz-Gibbon interviews Pastor Lil de Fin, the great-granddaughter of Smith Wigglesworth and former co-leader of Acts Church in Johannesburg. Family dinners offer a great opportunity for meaningful discussions about the day’s news and sharing our lives. There are so many compelling topics to debate. But […]
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Couple travel through South Africa, singing the Gospel
Music has been Derek and Jenie Oliver’s business for all 21 years of their married life but it took a life-threatening attack on their daughter’s health to turn their musical talent into a ministry. During five years in which their daughter, Jessie, battled Crohn’s disease, undergoing five life-saving operations, they […]
CRL overreaching mandate, say Nelson Mandela Bay church leaders
The CRL Rights Commission should remember that its mandate is to protect the freedom of religious communities in South Africa and not to regulate them, says the Nelson Mandela Bay Church Leaders Network. The church leaders say, in an open letter, that they are deeply concerned about “what appears to […]
SACC scolds Malema for calling Gordhan a dog
The South African Council of Churches (SACC) has taken EFF leader Julius Malema to task for calling public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan a “dog of white monopoly capital”. Malema launched his verbal attack on Gordhan earlier this week while addressing a crowd of EFF supporters outside the venue where the minister […]
FOR SA urges public to comment on spanking Bill
Comments on the revised draft of the Children’s Amendment Bill 2018 are open until November 29, says Freedom of Religion SA (FOR SA) in an email alert calling for broad public participation in the process through submitting written comments. Section 7 of the Bill proposes that any punishment, within the […]
PE church leaders meet with mayor
A delegation of senior Port Elizabeth church leaders met with Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Mongameli Bobani and members of his leadership team in the mayor’s office this morning. Items discussed during the two and a half hours indaba were organisational stability, corporate governance, disruption of local council meetings, service delivery, […]
Happy birthday President Ramaphosa — Tshego Motaung
It’s not every year that one gets to share a birthday with a sitting president, and this year I happen to be that person. I was born on the 17th November, the same day our current president Cyril Ramaphosa was born. I first became a big fan of President Ramaphosa […]
‘Amazing Grace’ released from the north to the south
At approximately the same time that accomplished British trumpeter Dan Newell played Amazing Grace on the stage at It’s Time Pretoria on October 27, accomplished British piper, Piperjames, played Amazing Grace on the beach at Melkbosstrand, Cape Town, at a prayer gathering inspired by the Pretoria event. The fact that both It’s Time Amazing Grace players are […]
‘Miracle’ electoral reform bill could open door for independent candidates in next election
The tabling of a private member’s bill with the Speaker of the National Assembly yesterday, that could empower voters to elect the best candidates in next year’s election was a miraculous answer to prayer, said a man who has been waging an 18-months legal battle to reform the Electoral Act. […]

