South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
On Friday, December 5, Judge Lee Bozalek will hear arguments from TopTV/StarSat and ICASA in their appeal against his ruling that cancelled the license to broadcast hardcore porn on South African TV. The Justice Alliance of South Africa (JASA), Doctors For Life and Cause For Justice will oppose the appeal at […]
Originally published in news24 South African aid worker Werner Groenewald tried in vain to protect his two children moments before they were shot dead by the Taliban in Afghanistan at the weekend. “They shot Werner in his office in the leg and then he ran upstairs to go try and […]
Christian singer, songwriter Darlene Zschech who has been undergoing aggressive treatment since she was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2013 says her doctor has just confirmed that there is no sign of cancer in her body. “In the good Dr’s very South African accent he said ‘this is […]
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 […]
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 […]
Archbishop Dr Thabo Makgoba, the Metropolitan of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa and the Archbishop of the Diocese of Cape Town, visited the Port Elizabeth diocese from Wednesday 19 to Sunday 23 November. I was present in a breakfast on Friday the 21st at the St John’s Parish in […]
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 […]