A keynote address by the Most Revd Dr Thabo Makgoba, Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, as part of the Beyers Naude Memorial Lecture Series at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University:

Vice-Chancellor, staff, students, members of the Kagiso Trust, members of the university community and of the wider Nelson Mandela Bay community: Good evening!

I am thrilled and honoured to be among you to give a lecture named for Beyers Naude, or “Oom Bey” as we knew him in the church community, in the framework of your current university theme of “promoting critical consciousness”. I have entitled my lecture tonight “South Africa's New Struggle,” and it is the example and inspiration of Beyers Naude which has emboldened me to address you on this topic.

An address to the Graduation of the College of the Transfiguration, delivered at the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, on March 19, 2014:

Lessons: Sirach 1:1-10; Psalm 19; and Matthew 28:16-20

I greet you all in the name of God, Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer. Amen.

Dean of the Province and Chair of Council, Bishop Rubin, members of Council, the Rector, the Revd Canon Pityana, staff and students, the Bishop of Grahamstown and other bishops present at this historic milestone in the life of our Province and the College, graduates, your family members, invited guests, ladies and gentleman: Greetings!

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba
Provincial Youth Consultation – ‘Message of Motivation’
11 September 2010

[Reflection around Lk 6:43-49, set for Eucharist of the Day – therefore, either begin with:

There could hardly be a better place to start these reflections than with this morning’s Eucharist Gospel Reading …

OR, if they chose their own readings:

Preparing for these reflections, I looked at the Lectionary readings for today, and found that there could hardly be a better place to begin than with the Gospel set for the Eucharist …

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba
Moral State of the Nation Address
3 February 2010

[Opening Greetings: Ladies and gentlemen, I’m glad to be with you this evening.]

Introductory Comments
I have just returned from the World Economic Forum in Davos. There, religious leaders contributed articles on ‘Values for the Post-Crisis Economy’ and helped lead discussions, as part of our interdisciplinary consideration of economic, political, social and technological developments.

This underscored how religious leaders are expected to express views on the moral questions that set the context for our lives.

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba
‘100 Men and More Thanking God’
St Philip’s District Six – 11 October 2008

Good evening! I was about to say ‘Good evening, Ladies and Gentlemen’ but I realised we are all gentlemen – at least, I hope that all the men here tonight are actually gentlemen!!

Rector, Wardens and Parish Councillors of St Phillip the Deacon, thank you for your invitation.

This is my first ‘thank you’ tonight, as I speak about thanking God, and, in particular, thanking God for the influence of certain men in my life.

Address by Thabo Makgoba, Bishop of Grahamstown to the G20 Conference, an international gathering of school principals St Andrews College Chapel, Grahamstown, Freedom Day, 27 April 2007.

The conference focussed on leadership lessons that emerged from a reading of Nelson Mandela’s autobiography.

Let us pray:
Pour your Grace into our hearts, O God, that we who have known the Incarnation of Jesus Christ announced by an Angel to the Virgin Mary, may by his Cross and Passion be brought to the Glory of his resurrection. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.