South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Drum Famed South African Gospel group, Joyous Celebration, has released a statement announcing the passing of one of its members – Lihle Mbanjwa. According to the statement, the singer was in a car accident that also left her fellow band-mate and drummer, Sabu Satsha, in a critical […]
The African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) says it is shocked by claims by South African State Security that they were not aware that ISIS was recruiting South Africans to fight in Iraq and Syria. In a media statement released today the ACDP says that Iraq’s Ambassador to South Africa, Dr Hashaim […]
Following the recent racial twitter spat between popular Afrikaans singer Steve Hofmeyr and puppeteer Conrad Koch with his puppet Chester Missing a YouTube video emerged from a certain Bouwer Bosch; a spoken word video in Afrikaans titled “Kleurblind”. The video has since gone viral and made headlines in most of […]
Farmer evangelist Angus Buchan returned to South Africa today from an “exceptional” week-long ministry trip to the United States where he believes “we are on the verge of a massive revival”. “I felt a tremendous momentum buildup from my last visit to the US and feel that we are literally […]
With the sound of drumming in the balmy evening air, on Tuesday, the Jewish community in the Western Cape expressed their thanks for support from Christians. About 60 people gathered at the Albow Centre in Cape Town including invited guests from the Christian community. The Zionist Federation expressed their thanks […]
A lot of thumb sucking and lies are aiding the persecution of Woolworths over the Israel / Palestinian issue. A group calling itself the National Coalition for Palestine (NC4P) on Monday released a report claiming Woolworths is losing almost R8 million a month because of the boycott campaign. It claims the popular […]
[notice]This week marks the start of the 16 days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children (November 25 to December 10) and Gateway News Volunteer Reporter Debbie Hemmens took the opportunity to look at how three Gauteng-based NGOs are tackling the gender violence problem.[/notice] The 16 days campaign […]
The Grobler family of Despatch are looking forward to their latest Bible mission adventure — a Christmas outreach in Swaziland where they plan to hand out 500 Bibles at churches and schools in the Siteki area. “We never thought that the next mission would come so quickly after our Lesotho […]
Freedom Mantle, the youth of the South African Christian Leaders Initiative (SACLI), will be journeying with 20 young South Africans, between 18 to 35 years of age, on Robben Island as they deeply engage the possible futures of their generation and country after 20 years of democracy. The core theme of this […]
Expanding on the positive results of the 2014 #imagine Experiences, four weekend-long youth festivals are planned for next year, says #imagine Movement in a media statement. From April 10 to 12, 2015, up to 20 000 teenagers and youth leaders will be gathering in four locations across South Africa to […]