It would be “really not fair” if the Dalai Lama was denied a visa to South Africa to attend Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu's birthday party, businesswoman Mamphela Ramphele said.

Below, the Archbishop offers a longer reflection on the lessons that we can learn for today, from this great South African intellectual and man of faith. Dr Makgoba comments on freedom of speech and the protection of
information legislation, on hate speech and racial and sexist language, and on Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s recent remarks about restitution.

My dear sisters and brothers in Christ and to all the people of Norway, I cannot be silent in the face of the horror and brutality of the bombing in Oslo and mass murder of young people in Norway.

Walter Loening, Maurice Kibel and Louis Reynolds

The OUTBREAK of an epidemic of severe enteritis in Germany should make us sit up and take note and action.

On Thursday 30th June at 14h00 the Most Revd Dr Thabo Makgoba, Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, will lead a delegation from the Western Cape Religious Leaders’ Forum to a number of informal settlements in Khayelitsha, to stand in solidarity with local people suffering from inadequate sanitation. The Social Justice Coalition will be conducting the visit.

FINAL WORDS: Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgoba delivers a sermon at the closing of Albertina Sisulu's funeral.