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/ 9 December 2005
In her late fifties, softly spoken and immaculate in her yellow uniform, ”MaMofokeng” could easily pass for a school matron. But appearances are deceptive. Masechaba Mofokeng is the bishop of the Holy Jerusalem Church of Repentance in Jabulani, Soweto, and the first South African woman to build her own church.
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/ 23 November 2005
As Pastor Thandi Sithole walked into the bereaved family’s shack, at the back of the main house in Mapetla, Soweto, she was hit by the smell of poverty. "It’s difficult to explain it, but poverty has a smell," Sithole said. "The mother of the deceased sat huddled in a corner next to a rickety chair. A few weeks ago, she buried her four-month-old granddaughter. Now the mother was dead.
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/ 16 November 2005
It is Sunday morning and at the Donaldson Young Men’s Christian Centre in Orlando East, Soweto, people hurriedly file into the hall. They are members of the Faithways Community Church, started and run by the one-time Urban Bantu Council chief and Soweto mayor in the dark 1980s, David Thebehali.
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/ 28 September 2005
The old National Party stronghold of Krugersdorp is to be the site of a unique memorial site featuring a bronze statue of a mineworker and walls of remembrance for miners who died with their boots on. The statue, created by sculptor Adam Madebe and local artists, will be unveiled on Heritage Day, September 24, in recognition of miners’ contribution to South Africa’s economy.
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/ 22 September 1995
Louise Flanagan A group of former Ciskei soldiers fighting for reinstatement four years after they were fired for blowing the whistle on illegal military activities may finally be compensated. “The indications are that it is a matter of working out quantum,” a spokesman for the ministry of defence, Dr Das Herbst, said this week. The […]