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
The Rt Revd Dinis Sengulane, Bishop of Lebombo, Mozambique, has been made an Honorary Companion of St Michael and St George (CMG) by the Queen. According to a communique from the British High Commission in Maputo the award was given in recognition of the Bishop's effort to strengthen Anglo-Mozambique relations and for the involvement by the Bishop in the peace negotiations which led to an end of the civil war in the country.
28 February 1997
Further to earlier reports in ACNS about Archbishop Desmond Tutu's operation for cancer of the prostate, he is now out of hospital and working again as Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee. The Archbishop will continue to receive treatment although it has been established that the cancer has not spread.
21 February 1997
More than 80 per cent of South Africa's medical doctors are refusing to perform abortions, following the legalisation of abortion at the beginning of this month.
21 February 1997