The South African pioneers of African freedom, like Tiyo Soga, Pixley kaIsaka Seme and J.J. Xaba would never have stood for xenophobia, President Thabo Mbeki said at a gathering in Tshwane this afternoon.
He was speaking at the National Tribute in Remembrance of the Victims of Attacks on Foreign Nationals and South Africans held in the [...]
In a piece tagged “doom and gloom” The Shrieking Man writes about what one can only call the moral degeneration in South African society, which he attributes to a lack of shared values. And if this continues, he says, the future is bleak
what is coming is an atomised capitalist anti-community where divisions grow rather [...]
Preamble
A couple of years ago, when our Constitutional Court was considering the question of homosexual marriage, I was asked by my bishop, His Eminence Metropolitan Seraphim, Archbishop of Johannesburg and Pretoria, to prepare a short paper on Christian marriage. In view of the confusion and conflicting opinions and controversies among other Christian groups on the [...]
Amatomu’s move to new servers seems to be taking longer than expected, and now that it’s been gone for a couple of days, I realise how much I miss it.
There are other African blog aggregators like Afrigator, South African Blog Top Sites and Muti, but none of them seem to keep one in touch with [...]
Liberals tend to get a bad press nowadays. Those who dislike liberalism often no longer even bother to try to justify their dislike — it is enough to simply use the word “liberal” as an epithet to condemn the person in their eyes. The enemies of liberalism, on both the left and the right, have [...]
Sex and skin — that’s what the US Democratic Party’s primary race was all about, if one read South African newspapers last weekend. Her sex and his skin, but with the emphasis on the skin.
Nearly 15 years after the end of apartheid, it seems, the South African media still have not recovered from their obsession [...]
Yesterday I went to St Stithians College Founders Day. I don’t often attend, but this was a special occasion, for me anyway, as I was in the class of ‘58, so it was 50 years since my matric year. Some schools try to arrange class reunions on such anniversaries — my wife’s school (Pinetown Convent) [...]
An interesting thing about the blogosphere is that it provides an opportunity to encounter people of different cultural backgrounds that one would be less likely to meet in real life. The disadvantage is that one meets people out of context. There are words and sometimes pictures, but until one sees people in their context, one [...]
I’ve just returned from the conference of the Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa (ASRSA), which was held last week on the Durban campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
It was the first time I have been to the conference of that particular body, and apart from a brief business meeting most of [...]
Today I’m going to Durban to attend the conference of the Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa (ASRSA). I’ll be reading a paper on “Christian understandings of paganism and witchcraft”.
I don’t know if I’ll get a chance to blog while I’m there, but I might post a report on the conference on [...]
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