by Sean Reilly | Jul 18, 2008
Nelson Mandela, who played a crucial role in ending apartheid in South Africa, is 90 today. After a series of public appearances around the world over the past few weeks, he will spending the day at home with his family. Mr Mandela was jailed 27 years as a member of...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 24, 2008
The Rev Philip Potter, a former general secretary of the World Council of Churches, has been honoured by the South African government for his determined commitment to combatting racism and apartheid in the 1970s and 1980s. On 22 April 2008, President Thabo Mbeki...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 18, 2008
A South African church-backed group that helps former combatants involved in violence during the apartheid era to play a peaceful role says its life skills programme is needed in a country where those who have not found a place in the system often resort to violent...
by Sean Reilly | Oct 30, 2007
The World Alliance of Reformed Churches has said that a South African church, suspended from the grouping in 1982, cannot be readmitted because it has not renounced the support for the apartheid ideology that led to its exclusion – writes Stephen Brown. WARC...