February 20
Africa: Maria's Keepers - One Woman's Escape From the Jehovah's Witnesses Church in South Africa
Sam Human's new book 'Maria's Keepers' tells the story of Maria, a former Jehovah's Witness in South Africa, and reveals gender victimisation, sexual abuse and cover-ups within the… Read more »
October 18, 2022
South Africa: Leading Anti-Apartheid Liberation Theologian Dies
Well-known South African Catholic priest, anti-apartheid activist and internationally renowned theologian and author Father Albert Nolan has died at the age of 88. Read more »
September 11, 2022
South Africa: South African Men - World Champions in Violence and the Murder of Women, Says Catholic Bishop Sithembele Sipuka
Catholic bishop Sithembele Sipuka says gender-based violence should be called what it is: femicide. And it's action -- not summits or slogans -- that will help bring an end to the… Read more »
September 07, 2022
Mozambique: Insurgents Kill Italian Nun in Attack On Mission Station
The killing of a nun in Mozambique has raised concerns that the Islamic State-linked insurgency is now taking hold in a new province -- Nampula. Read more »
July 12, 2022
South Africa: Open Letter Rejects 'Unconstitutional Fatwa' Against LGBTQIA+ Muslims
A group of Muslim South Africans have released an open letter denouncing the Muslim Judicial Council's fatwa which they says amounts to hate in a context where the lives of… Read more »
June 28, 2022
South Africa: Jerry Pillay, SA Academic Labelled By Some As 'Anti-Jewish', Elected to Top World Council of Churches Job
The University of Pretoria's Dean of Theology and Religion, Jerry Pillay, will be leaving to take up the post of general secretary of the World Council of Churches in Geneva. Read more »
June 07, 2022
South Africa: Of Facts, Opinion, Advertorials and Expulsions - the SA Jewish Report Case
Glenda Daniels, an associate professor of media studies at Wits University, sits on the executive of Sacomm, the Press Council and Sanef. These views are her own. Read more »