South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
On a Friday afternoon three weeks ago Gqeberha (PE) couple Toy and Mart van Vuuren were attacked by two gunmen who accosted them in their car in front of a township finishing school. The men whipped open the front doors of their vehicle moments after the couple had locked the […]
ALF JAMES writes that at the very heart of a call to South Africans to gather on a farm near Bloemfontein to pray against violence and crime in our nation is a call for believers to come together not as blacks or whites, rich or poor, or a language group […]
As far as crime is concerned we seem to be taking one step forward and two back. This issue has become South Africa’s Achilles heel and something the country is failing to get a handle on. The statistics released by the Minister of Police Nathi Nhleko and national Police Commissioner […]
Worshipers across the Bay are invited to unite as the body of Christ taking the city back for Jesus at Ignite Worship on Saturday, September 19, 2015 from 9am to 5pm in Linton Grange Park (0pposite Verkenner School), Port Elizabeth. The event forms part of a city leadership campaign “Taking back […]
Televangelist Joel Osteen’s Lakewood mega-church in Houston announced on Monday that $600,000 (R6,5m) in Sunday donations were stolen from its safe last weekend. An off-duty Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy, and church employee, noticed the break in around 8:30 am on Monday morning. Investigators believe the robbery occurred sometime between Sunday […]
Originally published in Christian Post A Texas church leader, who is also a deputy for the local county Sheriff’s Office, shot at a man breaking into cars in his church parking lot late Tuesday night. The deacon, who has not been identified, and several other church members had stayed late […]
A few days ago I updated my Facebook status and reflected on the numbers of people who are killed and raped in South Africa daily. As a country we are infamous for raping instead of nurturing our children. Many people do not know or perhaps do not care to know […]
Crime Stats SA (www.crimestatssa.com) reports that nearly 16000 people were killed in South Africa in the twelve months between 2011/2012. The same website shows that the world average for murder is 7.6 per 100 000 people and SA’s average is five times higher at 36.5 per 100 000 people. The Minister of […]
[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] A time to act has arrived. The goal of this month’s article is simply to spur you […]
The South African Police Services special unit tasked with combating crime linked to occult activities was never disbanded. It merely went underground because the glare of publicity sometimes hindered investigations. This was disclosed to Gateway News by the Commander of SAPS Occult Crime Unit, Dr Attie Lamprecht, who said there […]