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....
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...
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...
There are several scriptures that speak of reconciliation and restoration of that which was lost, broken or separated. Just a couple to mention are the following: Luke 19:10 – For the Son of man came to seek and save what was lost Colossians 1:19,20 – God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in...
Spoiler alert: The Sixth Sense, Star Wars and Shrek One of the longest-standing jokes in my family comes from when the presenter on a local television station announced the upcoming movie in his most dramatic voice: “Toniiiight – Bruce Willis is dead in Sixth Sense”. Years later, someone just has to say, “Toniiight…” and uproarious...
I remember being about nine when I first truly encountered Christianity. I had grown up in a fairly irreligious home. The issue was more that religious people believed just another fairytale among the plethora of other fairytales. I was raised to question everything; the world consists of conflicting narratives – live with the tension. About...
In September last year, The Warehouse hosted Mzwandile Nkutha of the Anabaptist Network of South Africa, and Stuart Murray of the Anabaptist Network in the UK for an evening centred around power and theology. The ideas and discussions that emerged from this evening have given me much to reflect on in the months since. These...
Over the past few weeks, we at The Warehouse have been reading the book of Luke through the lens of the upcoming elections, trying to get a feel for how Jesus would vote if he were in our positions today. While neither the ANC, DA or EFF make appearances in the New Testament, the stories...
