South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Children, youth and the young-at-heart (of all ages!) are invited to join in a citywide 40-hours Burn (prayer and worship time) and family celebration in Port Elizabeth from 6pm on Friday September 28 to 10am on Sunday September 30. Those who attend the event at the Walmer West Primary School […]
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 […]
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 […]
Originally published in Ynet News The latest comments by South Africa’s deputy international relations minister, Ebrahim Ebrahim, saying that he ”discourages” South Africans from visiting Israle, keep making headlines. South African newspapers, such as the ‘Cape Times’ and ‘The Mercury Durban’ described the remarks as a categorical and official admission […]
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 […]
The Bible study and life application habits of South African Christians will be probed in a major, national, online survey from tomorrow (August 15). The South African Theological Seminary (SATS) says it is conducting the study because it is “deeply concerned about the state Biblical literacy in our country”. The […]
It was “fresh”, “relevant”, “enjoyable” said moviegoers who attended the main attraction at the Boardwalk Nu Metro, Port Elizabeth on Sunday morning. No doubt about it, the critics loved the innovative, inaugural showing of iChurch a digital church service designed to reach a cyberspace generation that relates to screens. The […]
African Christian Democatic Party (ACDP) Member of Parliament and party spokesperson on International Relations, Cheryllyn Dudley today said the party is outraged by forced conversions of Christians in the Gaza Strip by the ruling Hamas regime. In a press statement she says: “The ACDP is outraged by the situation facing […]
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 […]
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 […]