A Journey from Formation to Faithful Action On 3 September 2026, in Delft, we gathered to celebrate the graduation of the uHambo 2026 cohort. There was a sense of joy and anticipation in the room as the leaders presented the project concepts they had developed during the journey and received their certificates of completion. The...
As this Women’s Month draws to a close, we remember the women who stood together against the Pass Laws in the mid 50s, refusing to accept a system that determined where they could live, work and move. Their struggle remains part of South Africa’s memory, and yet this August we find ourselves facing an unsettling...
How Uhambo walked alongside Anelisa Anelisa Tyam has a passion for the young people in her classes and school that is tangible. She teaches up to 50 learners at a time, from Grades 8 to 12 in a school in Delft, Cape Town, in an environment where many young people are at risk and vulnerable....
The RESPOND Coalition in the Repatriation Process South Africa has lived with a difficult and unresolved immigration question for many years. Migration has shaped our cities, our townships, our workplaces and our communities, with people from across the African continent coming to South Africa in search of safety, work, education and a better life. At...
Newsletter Editorial By Dr Selena Headley The City of Cape Town has announced a R114 million budget for the N2 Edge Safety Project aka “N2 Hell Run“. They proposed a wall and we are all invited into making a choice, because this is not only a budget decision, but a moral one. It raises difficult...
By John Scheepers As a middle-age white man who grew up safely cocooned within apartheid policing and spatial planning, my experience as a hardened criminal is admittedly limited. But just bear with me for a moment as I think out loud. If, for whatever reason, greed, addiction or poverty induced desperation, I was accustomed to...
By Professor Stephan de Beer Cameroonian philosopher, Achilles Mbembe, describes global migration today not as a crisis to be managed through exclusion and criminalisation, but as the organic re-organisation of the world, challenging colonial borders and the nature of the nation-state. Yet, anti-migrant sentiments are rising world-over, and populist leaders gain favour based upon xenophobic...
This is a presentation from the Kairos 40th Anniversary.
A provocation by Zenzile Molo. We have spent today looking at two of the stories Luke tells of meals around the table with Jesus. Luke 14: a meal with the Pharisees where Jesus turns blessing and honour on its head and tells a parable which illustrates his point of inclusion and inviting the outcasts, but...
Dear Friend, We find ourselves in deeply uncertain times. Across the world, suffering and injustice continue to unfold in devastating ways. The weight of displacement, loss, hunger and the erasure of human dignity touches every corner of the globe. These are not just headlines, they are the cries of real people, many of whom are...
