Michelle Jones and Cobus Coetzee

A GROUP of prominent Capetonians, including archbishops Desmond Tutu and Thabo Makgoba, has written a hard-hitting statement slamming attempts by “a group of political activists” to “promote a climate of hate” and destabilise the province through violent protests.

Violence and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity should stop and people should respect each other, Anglican Church of Southern Africa Archbishop Thabo Makgoba said Tuesday.

The Anglican Church in Southern Africa has committed itself to form a partnership with the Episcopal Church in Sudan, with which it shares membership of the Anglican Communion.

By Leanne Jansen

Education was a moral issue and teaching a calling, the Anglican Church of Southern Africa said on Sunday.

MORE than 1 000 people crowded the Diocesan College (Bishops) Chapel for the funeral of James Thomas, the South African killed in the three-day Westgate Mall terror attack in Nairobi.

By Bellah Zulu, ACNS reporting from Johannesburg

The Primate of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, the Most Revd Dr Thabo Makgoba, said good education is at the heart of the Church’s capacity to grow, and that Godly education can help form, inform and transform
Christians and the Church.