The Christian leadership in Nelson Mandela Bay will be demonstrating unity in diversity with a multicultural football competition on Youth Day, Thursday June 16 — the 40th anniversary of the Soweto student uprising. Sixteen teams from around the Bay and from the visiting Operation Mobilization ship, Logos Hope, which is […]
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Former foes ‘sing a new song’ of reconciliation
A project in which former foes are working together to repair and rebuild eight Soweto high schools that were involved in the June 16 uprising is more than symbolic – it is powerful action. So says Dan Montsitsi, who was one of the leaders of the 1976 student uprising, more […]
Groundswell of support for Soweto reconciliation events
Plans to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the June 16 uprising in Soweto and to use the occasion to bear witness to racial reconciliation through Christ are enjoying wide support, said Rev Moss Ntlha, General Secretary of the Evangelical Alliance of South Africa. “It is going to be a very […]