South Africa: Extortionist Targets Cape Town Madrasa With Threats and Demands for 'Protection' Payments

Threatened with extortion, a Langa madrasa's plight ignites community action, as local leaders push for legal intervention and condemnation of attacks on faith spaces. Read more »

South Africa: The Pope's Encyclical and Its Poignant Challenges to SA - What Future Do We Want?

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is not waiting for us to resolve South Africa's inequalities before arriving. It is already here, and it will either compound those inequalities or… Read more »

South Africa: SIU Report Exposes Sins of Foreign Pastors

A Special Investigating Unit report on the Department of Home Affairs details the criminality of 'holy' men desperate to preach in South Africa, and how local officials and… Read more »

Africa: Speaking Truth to Power - Why the Catholic Church Won't Be Silenced By Trump

SA's Cardinal Brislin slams the US president's attacks on Pope Leo XIV, insisting the papacy is not political theatre. Read more »

South Africa: Historic St Augustine's Cathedral Plunged Into Darkness Amid Ongoing Vandalism in Gqeberha

Gqeberha's St Augustine's Cathedral experienced prolonged power outages throughout December, caused by vandalism at a nearby substation. Read more »

South Africa: Ramaphosa Secures Papal Blessing for G20 Values, While Trump (Yet Again) Dumps On SA

A day after US President Donald Trump declared a US boycott of the upcoming G20 Summit, Pope Leo XIV endorsed the G20's positions on debt and inequality as resonant with his… Read more »

South Africa: Heinz Winckler, Angus Buchan and the Revival of Christian Nationalism in SA

Former Idols winner Heinz Winckler is attempting to rebrand as South Africa's Charlie Kirk, while the mayor of Cape Town has prayed alongside the evangelist Angus Buchan. Read more »

South Africa: The Mamphela Ramphele and Helen Zille Marriage That Never Got to the Church

In this extract from James Selfe's memoir, he charts the ill-fated courtship, in the run-up to the 2014 general election, between Mamphela Ramphele and Helen Zille. Read more »

South Africa: 'We've Had Enough' - Churches Mobilise Communities Amid NMB Governance Crisis

After a disastrous meeting with Executive Mayor Babalwa Lobishe and the province's Premier Oscar Mabuyane, most churches in Nelson Mandela Bay have called a meeting on Thursday to… Read more »

South Africa: Can Hate Speech Be Defended As Freedom of Religion? Court to Decide in LGBTQ Discrimination Case

A Gqeberha shop owner who put up a sign banning LGBTQIA+ patrons and ran an anti-LGBTQ WhatsApp group is at the centre of a landmark hate speech case. While he claims religious… Read more »

South Africa: Watch - In the Name of God? the Secretive Christian Sect Under FBI Investigation

A shadowy Christian sect known as the Two by Twos (2x2s) -- also called The Truth, The Way, or the No-Name Church -- is at the center of a shocking global child sexual abuse… Read more »

Botswana: Zion Christian Church Leader Visits Botswana As Infighting Threatens to Tear Church Apart

Two warring factions have claimed legitimacy as the true St Engenas Zion Christian Church in Botswana, with one, until recently, legally registered and the other with close ties to… Read more »