South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
The positive response to a full page pro-Israel advertisement in the Sunday Times of August 31 “has exceeded all expectations” says Vivienne Myburgh who initiated the Christian-funded advertising campaign to counter recent negative media on Israel. “We have been inundated with emails from the Jewish community in SA and from […]
Mighty Men Western Cape this week announced the news that thousands of men in the region have been waiting for: they will be hosting an official Mighty Men Conference from midday on Friday, September 25, 2015 to midday on Sunday, September 27. The WC MMC will be held on Moreson […]
[notice]A monthly column by Marcel van der Watt, lecturer in the Department of Police Practice at UNISA, former police detective, and current member of the Gauteng Rapid Response Task Team for Human Trafficking.[/notice] The ‘ice bucket challenge’ has taken the world by storm. Pictures of celebrities dousing themselves with buckets […]
I recently attended a children’s eisteddfod in De Aar and was reminded of how privileged we are to be living in the Karoo. What prompted the awareness of being privileged was not the Karoo’s wide-open spaces, silence, scenery, or lack of rush-hour traffic, but the manner in which the eisteddfod […]
In the lead up to International FASD (Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder) Day on September 9, Home of Hope, a Cape Town based child protection organisation, has launched a campaign to create awareness about FASD, and the dangers of consuming alcohol while pregnant. Home of Hope is a faith based Christian […]
Cricket: Zimbabwe stuns Australia Captain Elton Chigumbura hit a fluent half-century as Zimbabwe secured a shock three-wicket win over Australia in the triangular series on Sunday. Zimbabwe’s only previous success against the world’s top-ranked 50-over side came in their very first meeting in Nottingham in 1983 and since then have […]
Compiled from reports by African Enterprise Team The opening night of the Fired UP! Mission to the University of Pretoria went off with a “big bang” with over 2000 students and members of the public attending an event headed up by Christian R & B singer Loyiso Bala and the […]
The campaign to raise funds for a full page advertisement in the Sunday Times to “bring the truth about Israel” has had “tremendous support” and the advertisement will be placed this Sunday (August 31), said the project visionary, Vivienne Myburgh. The project which she initated because of “a lot of […]
Two more religious freedom cases in SA this month By Advocate Nadene Badenhorst, Spokesperson for FOR SA A month ago the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a fundamentalist terrorist group whose aim is to create an ultra-Islamic state in Iraq and Syria, gave Christians in Mosul (Iraq) an […]
The ‘Africa Bless Israel’ organisation founded by Reverend Albert Mbenga-Ukulangai has inspired the creation of a song called Africa Arise. The song features singers from western, southern, central and eastern Africa and was written by John Osa, the founder of The Rebirth of Africa Vision and pastor at the Kingdom Heirs […]