'Tell the truth as it is'

Refugee children in downtown Johannesburg couldn't perform their play about xenophobia in Botswana. Instead they staged a poignant exhibition at home.

Central Methodist Church 'unsuitable' for children

Although Johannesburg's Central Methodist Church was an "unsuitable" shelter for children, it was their only option amid a lack of government support.

Paul Verryn: What went wrong?

A power struggle in the Methodist Church? A pre-World Cup clean-up cloaked in official hypocrisy? Or the reining in of a gung-ho cleric?

Don't blame Verryn ...

The fact that about 2 500 Zimbabweans live in the overcrowded Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg is a reflection of their desperation.

Central Methodist Church could face closure

Johannesburg's Central Methodist Church, which houses over 3 000 Zimbabwean refugees, could face closure.

Children moved from church after sex-abuse claims

Central Methodist Church teacher is suspended amid claims that children seeking refuge are being forced into sexual acts.

No abuse at Jo'burg's Central Methodist Church, say cops

Johannesburg police on Monday denied media reports that Zimbabwean children were being sexually abused at an inner-city church.

Two arrested after Bishop Verryn death threats

Two men were arrested on Wednesday night for threatening the life of Methodist bishop Paul Verryn.

Court halts relocation of foreigners

The Johannesburg High Court has granted an urgent interdict preventing the relocation of foreigners displaced by xenophobic attacks who are being accommodated at the city's Cleveland and Jeppe police stations, Lawyers for Human Rights said on Monday.

'The poor are becoming impatient'

The border between South Africa and Zimbabwe should be "comprehensively" abolished, Methodist Bishop Paul Verryn told academics at the University of the Witwatersrand on Wednesday. "In exactly the same way we pulled down the fences in 1994 and found that instead of restricting, it enabled," Verryn told a colloquium on xenophobia.

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