South Africa's last state president under apartheid, F.W. de Klerk, had a tragic lack of insight into the evil of South Africa's racial segregation policy, the Anglican Bishop of Grahamstown, David Russell, said last week, 19 June.
01 July 1997
Corruption in South African society is subverting and bedevilling the work of honest, caring policemen and women, the Anglican Primate and Archbishop of Cape Town, The Most Revd. Njongonkulu Ndungane, said on 8 June. if we allow prisoners to be released, only to commit a crime again and be returned to prison."
13 June 1997
After they successfully participated in the peace making process that saw the signing of the historical peace accord in Rome in 1992 between the Mozambican Government and the rebel Movement-front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO), the Mozambican Churches are now embarked on yet another national programme. This demilitarisation programme aims to swap weapons with farm implements, for example, for a better Mozambique, reports APS writer Osman Njuguna.
10 June 1997
The Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and Primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa has become involved in a bitter public argument with the country's Minister of Correctional Services, who is responsible for overseeing prison management.
10 June 1997
The debt burden of developing countries will feature high on the agenda of next year's Lambeth Conference according to the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane.
30 May 1997
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has made a final call to South Africans who were involved in political criminal acts during the apartheid era to apply for amnesty before the cut-off date, on Saturday, 10 May.
09 May 1997
About two years ago four quite ordinary women in Matola (south of Maputo) decided that something had to be done about the young girls, who lived on the verge of becoming street children. They knew that girls are much more vulnerable than boys and that living on the streets would affect the rest of their lives.
18 April 1997
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former Anglican Archbishop of the Province of Southern Africa, gave the opening prayer at a public Day of Prayer against Crime on 13 April. The day was organised by the police. The Archbishop said that South Africans were glad that under the government of President Nelson Mandela the police were now regarded as friends, no longer as the enemy of the people. The police service was now representative of, and there for all the people.
18 April 1997
The bishops of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (Anglican) have publicly apologised to homosexual people who have been hurt by the "unacceptable prejudice" against gays and lesbians within the church.
14 March 1997
A proposal to use underground mine shafts as "super maximum security prisons" in South Africa has been slammed by the country's Anglican bishops as callous and offensive.
07 March 1997