South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
By Heidi Baker — Originally published in Charisma Magazine Since the last time I wrote, it feels like the world’s storms have only grown stronger and more chaotic. There are more wars in the news. There are cyclones at home in Mozambique. There is spiritual shaking and tremendous fear in […]
On Monday Gateway News celebrated a decade of “telling the God stories of Africa”. Editor Andre Viljoen shares some reflections on why we should care about the news we consume For many years an old Barlow Wadley shortwave radio receiver gathered dust at the bottom of my wardrobe, a forgotten […]
Dr Wallace Mgoqi, who earned a reputation as an advocate for human rights and social justice during his long public career which included stints as a legal practitioner, a gender equality commissioner and head of the South African Land Claims Commission and acting judge in the Land Claims Court, shares […]
Since the nationwide lockdown began in March this year, my thoughts and accompanying emotions have swung the pendulum from “everything is going to be okay” to “help! My future has been hijacked”. Perhaps you can relate? For the world has changed. Our own individual worlds have changed. The way we […]
Freedom Day in South Africa is often marked by festivities that government hosts to commemorate the first democratic elections that took place on April 27 1994. Many expected that those elections would be violent, however they ushered in a peaceful transition of power that marked a turning point, not only […]
Watch the word of hope below for South Africa from Rev Suzette Hattingh via SA Back To God: And consider joining a growing number of Christians in SA who are using the 21-day lockdown period to practice the following: – Every morning at 9am take communion as a family. – […]
In spite of the worst drought in generations, a group in the Karoo town, Middelburg, decided to go on with a practice that looked insane in the circumstances — a flower festival in the middle of a severe drought! Middelburg’s annual Flower Festival, organised by the interdenominational ladies group, the […]
South Africans came in numbers to hear Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng speak on business and leadership at a breakfast meeting at Rivers Church in Sandton, Johannesburg last Friday. Looking at the diverse crowd who were clearly hungry for hope and direction in the midst of the current leadership crisis in […]
Candice Eleonor Solomons knows what it is like growing up without a mother’s love, being rejected and abandoned, going to bed without food, being locked out of the only home she knew, and losing a brother to violence. She has lived with bitterness but always sought a relationship with God, […]
Reeze Telling –A Fighting Chance, a DVD that documents a promising PE professional cricketer’s harrowing fall into the hell of drug addiction and his journey of recovery, is being launched at The Storehouse Church in Vitry Avenue, Lorraine, PE at 7pm on Friday May 31. “Let me start by giving God […]