The most beautiful, spacious, light and airy little country cottage shop has just opened its doors on the main street of Tarkastad in the Eastern Cape. The Story, as the charming little shop is known, will sow all of its profits into meeting specific needs in the community. And it […]
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South Africans turning out in numbers to protest against xenophobia
South Africans in their tens of thousands have turned out to support anti xenophobia marches and events around the country this week and South Africa’s Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgob has urged one million South Africans to join an anti xenophobia march in Pretoria tomorrow (Friday, April 24). Some 30 000 […]
KMMC draws men on foot and bicycles, in cars and busses
Tens of thousands of men will converge just outside Middelburg in the Eastern Cape on Rusoord Farm for the Karoo Mighty Men Conference 2015 (KMMC) this weekend. They will arrive in cars and busses, on bicycles, motorbikes and even on foot from all over South Africa in the hope of […]
A barren Karoo site set to produce rich Kingdom fruit
Seated in the arid emptiness and silence of the Karoo one can hardly believe that within days the area will be filled with tens of thousands of men worshipping the Lord God Almighty. Sitting below a cross planted on a little, rocky koppie overlooking the stage area of the Karoo […]
Xenophobia — it’s about human beings like us
[notice]A fortnightly column on marriage, family and relationships.[/notice] Leviticus 19: 33-35: 33 When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. 34 The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for […]
“Do not be afraid: revival is near”
[notice]A monthly prophetic perspective from Marian and Kate Fitz-Gibbon[/notice] Less than a month ago a sound over South Africa was “Do not be afraid — revival is in the land!” We remember standing worshipping with 7 000 other South Africans in what was an almost a surreal setting. We were afraid, […]
How Does the Gospel of the Kingdom impact xenophobia?
[notice]A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God.[/notice] At the foundation of xenophobia or genocide is an underlying narrative that dehumanises the other. Victims of slavery, genocide and xenophobic violence have been called ‘less than human’, ‘cockroaches’ or other demeaning labels such as ‘kwerekwere’ in our […]
Time to consider our moral state
This week I was standing at a queue in an ABSA branch in Walmer, Port Elizabeth and I overheard a lady client telling a teller that she wished that xenophobic attacks would break out in her community so that she would have an opportunity to loot whatever she wanted from […]
Freedom of religion — What are the real questions for the courts?
[notice] A special report by attorney, Nikki Venter, written on behalf of Freedom of Religion South Africa (FORSA)[/notice]There is a rising legal challenge that will soon reach the courts in many western countries, if it has not already. CNSMonitor.com summed it up nicely: “As more and more same-sex couples across […]
WATCH: Video Of the Week: April 23, 2015 — SA Christian artists release song against xenophobia
[notice]In Video of the Week we post a weekly video clip to inspire, inform, edify or entertain. Readers are welcome to email suggested clips of the week to news@gatwaynews.co.za[/notice] South African Christian recording artists Neville D, Judith Sephuma and Patrick Duncan have collaborated to produce a song and music video in […]