South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Then God said: “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth,and the small animals that scurry along the ground.” — Genesis 1:26 From the […]
Multitudes of people who attended the recent It’s Time prayer day in Pretoria were blessed by the playing of two verses of Amazing Grace by English professional trumpeter Dan Newell. There was also an air of mystery around his performance, as Angus Buchan shared that Newell had come out from England at […]
Originally published in Faith Wire Jang-mi was startled as the door to her cell swung open. Bruised, bloody, and soaked from her captives’ attempts to wake her with buckets of water, she was surprised to see her uncle walk through the door. Jang-mi lives in the most oppressive country in […]