South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Dispatch Live Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng believes in being open to criticsm because it helps with learning – but the country’s judiciary and executive have agreed to be more circumspect about airing criticism in public. This emerged after a day-long meeting between the executive and judiciary yesterday at […]
For God so loved the world…. 20 years ago evangelist Michael Cassidy got on a plane in Entebbe, Uganda and sat next to a stranger; a lovely but desperately sad looking young woman from Rwanda. It was just after the genocide in Rwanda when about 75% of the Tutsi minority […]
Openness of schools to Gospel overwhelms film crew Five days into the week-long Switched On mission in Nelson Mandela Bay reports are coming back of people responding to the Gospel message that is being proclaimed in every corner of the city in the greatest evangelism outreach every undertaken in the […]
[notice] Special report by Beatri Kruger, Adjunct Professor: Public Law at the University of the Free State to mark a landmark date in the fight against human trafficking — August 9, 2015, when the Prevention and Combating of Trafficking in Persons Act (7/2013) came into operation.[/notice] “Money may be able […]
By Piperjames McGowan, Chairman of the MMC Western Cape As the Mighty Men of the Western Cape reflect on Women’s Month (August 2015) in honour of all women in South Africa they would also like to pay special tribute to OUR very own Mighty Ma, Ina Murison (Francina Sara Murison-McGowan) who […]
God has a dream for South Africa – a dream in which the ever present nightmare of social disaster gets managed as risk, birthing a major new business sector and leading the way in poverty eradication. It is a dream which former career diplomat turned carer for Aids orphans, Robert […]
When Sarah was told by her South Africa-based missionary father Paul (not their real names for security reasons) that she could join him on a mission trip to China if she raised her own finances she was so successful that they had to tell people to stop sending money. Paul […]
The biggest evangelism thrust ever undertaken in Nelson Mandela Bay (Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage and Despatch) will officially “Switch On” on Sunday (August 16, 2015). But in reality fired-up evangelists who couldn’t wait that long have already been out winning souls. And at a pre-launch pastors’ breakfast and meeting this morning […]
Religious freedom was the winner this week as University of Cape Town Vice Chancellor Dr Max Price ordered that “expelled” SRC Vice President Zizipho Pae be reinstated and DA MP Marius Redlinghuys apologised to her for comments he made to her in response to her Facebook post reacting critically to the legalisation […]
Members of the Inter-Church Council (ICC), representing three mainstream Afrikaans churches, held a historic first dialogue meeting with leaders of the African National Congress at the ANC’s Luthuli House headquarters in Johannesburg on Tuesday (August 4). Previously the church leaders withdrew from an invitation to meet the ANC on June 9 […]