EDINBURGH — It’s very unusual for business matters to make it to the pulpit, much less so for a highly respected man of the cloth to explain why we can’t forgive people who have publicly apologised for some sins. In a hard-hitting sermon, Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgoba has hit out at foreign business consultants McKinsey and KPMG for not adequately taking responsibility for their actions in South Africa. He unpacked the details of the fees McKinsey earned for doing very little for Eskom, asking how people who live in shacks must feel about the global consultancy taking R13m a day. He pondered how it was that McKinsey bosses did not finding something “smelly” in that exorbitant daily income. Without McKinsey and KPMG employees taking a cold, hard look at themselves in the mirror and genuinely coming clean on their wrong-doing in the Gupta-Zuma state capture scandal and corruption in South Africa, heartfelt forgiveness is unlikely. – Jackie Cameron

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CHURCH leaders in South Africa have confronted the government there about the widespread Covid-19 procurement corruption. In an online service on 30 August, they declared September a month of “Direct Action Against Corruption”.

Preaching during the service, the Archbishop of Cape Town, Dr Thabo Makgoba, said: “I have wept. I have agonised. I have prayed for long hours in my heart. I have spoken my heart out in public over these past few days, over the terrible, downright despicable theft of public money, the looting of state coffers, and above all, the undisguised theft from the poor.”