[This blog post is one in a series of personal viewpoints of Warehouse Staff members on the Unite Against Corruption March] Reading through this “anti-corruption” march website I’m seeing an anti-ANC march. The problem of South Afrika is bigger than the ANC: we are faced with colonial corruption. Our corruption is older than 1994. This march brings...
Author: Thandi Gamedze (Thandi Gamedze)
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Where Justice, Love, and Mercy Meet
[This blog post is one in a series of personal viewpoints of Warehouse Staff members on the Unite Against Corruption March] How to respond? There is a stirring all over South Africa that change is needed in our country, and that the church needs to be involved in bringing it about. Opinions on what form...
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Unite Against Corruption: An Opportunity for White South Africans to Confess, Repent, and Change
[This blog post is one in a series of personal viewpoints of Warehouse Staff members on the Unite Against Corruption March] Colonialism and Apartheid were two of the most extreme forms of institutionalised corruption that the world has ever seen. For the benefit of a small minority of people, corruption was entrenched into every department...
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If You March as the Church
[This blog post is one in a series of personal viewpoints of Warehouse Staff members on the Unite Against Corruption March] If you do march, as a Christian you need to consider the following: You are carrying the banner of Christ. You are there as a peace keeper. You pray for peace to prevail from...
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What Are the Times?
[This blog post is one in a series of personal viewpoints of Warehouse Staff members on the Unite Against Corruption March] The bible is filled with stories of God’s people engaging in the public square. This happens in multiple ways: through private engagements with Kings and rulers, public acts of repentance and symbolic acts of...
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Ukungalingani eMzantsi Afrika- Inequality in South Africa
Iingcali zophando zisixelela uba uMzantsi Afrika lo ukuluhlu lamazwe aphambili ekungalinanini kwabantu. Okukungalingani ke kusingise phakathi kwabasokolayo nabatyebileyo; kwabanemivuzo emikhulu nabanemivuzo emincinci. Abo bebefudula bephethe ubutyebi belilizwe basabuphethe nanamhlanje ntoleyo ikhombisa uba akukhange kubekho mahluko wenzekile emveni koba sifudukele kwiDemocracy. Ukungalingani kwelilizwe kweza ngoba kwahlaliwa phantsi, ngamadoda ombuso wengcinezelo, kwahlela uba iStructure sesisizwe kumelwe simiswe...
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Money and the Church
The biggest building in Khayelitsha is a church. I am pondering the damage that is caused simply by ignorance. First of all, the amount of money wasted in beautifying the building, electrifying the property and all that goes with it. These are all problems, to me. Apparently, in the USA over 10 billion US dollars...
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Far Less Than Was Lost
When heads have been battered And lives have been shattered, Families scattered As if nothing mattered, Do you still wonder that streets are blood-spattered, That weapons are clashing, Assegais flashing, Pangas gashing, Bricks and bombs crashing? How can you knock now, when you broke down the door; Tell us to make peace when you started...
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Is Saying Sorry Enough?
I would like to start by asking a further question. What is it that we want to achieve by saying sorry? Do we want to achieve healing, closure, forgiveness and reconciliation for ourselves? Or do we want healing, closure, forgiveness and reconciliation to happen in the lives of those who have been harmed? I think...
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Christians Must Deal with the Poison of Racism
#Blackface, a 21st birthday celebration where two University of Pretoria students dressed up like domestic workers and painted their faces and arms black is not the first racism case to come from a formally Afrikaans university. The South African Human Rights Commission reports that out of the 500 reports of racism it received in the...
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