South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
By Adam Rondeau — Originally published in The Christian Post “A funny thing happened to me the other day on the way home…” I’ve heard a lot of jokes start off that way, but this time it’s not a joke. It really did happen! It was an average Saturday and I was […]
By Gerda Potgieter — originally published in Devoted Magazine If there is one story that inspired me, it is the story of Emmanuel Taban who, at the tender age of 15, travelled all the way from South Sudan to South Africa, which he reached at the age of 16. Without […]
Tracey Mungofa was born and raised by her grandparents, deep in the woods of Zimbabwe. Her mother had to emigrate to Botswana to find work. “If you grow up without your parent guiding you, different people tell you different things about life, but no one can actually tell you what […]
Cape Town artist Leigh Telli talks about her latest project — a calendar depicting places of biblical and prophetic significance in modern Israel Ever since I was a young girl, I’ve been captivated by the wonder of drawing and the way in which paint could bring to life even an […]
For the past year Andre Blignaut of Cape Town has been living with severe heart failure and under the cloud of a medical opinion that he should be dead and that any day could be his last. But something has changed that defies medical explanation. And Andre, who says he […]
In her latest testimony, missionary Lydia Venter illustrates the power of obedience and prayer God has shown us these profound and startling realities through His Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep mysteries of God. Who can see into a man’s heart and know his thoughts? Only the […]
Music industry entrepreneur Julita Kok shares a testimony of how she recently found herself in an awkward spot. And how she resolved it with God’s help Adele (the publisher in my office) and I were invited to a corporate event and we were so happy to just network again with […]
The day I met Dennis, I was a little alarmed, to say the least. My minister had asked me to take the 20-year-old under my wing and try to work with him on the farm. He was an addict with a preference for ‘Tik’ and from our initial meeting, it […]
Growing up in Soweto, Johannesburg, Jabu Ndaba and his boyhood friends admired older, violent, neighbourhood criminals who hijacked cars and trucks. He says they started stealing from shops at an early age. “Sometimes we got arrested. They spanked us, then released us.” Later Jabu and his friends graduated to stealing […]
By Yasiri J Kasango Today, I can joke about what I don’t have – good vision and normal stature. But my lighthearted attitude wasn’t always so. Visual impairment, more often attributed to old age, is something I was born with. The trials with my sight cannot be corrected with prescription […]