Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Njongonkulu Ndungane, has spent this week visiting Alma College, Michigan, in the USA as part of a two-month sabbatical. He has given two public lectures. The first, on Wednesday night, was a reflection on those influences in his life, which have led him to his present commitments. He spoke about his life under apartheid, his imprisonment on Robben Island and his passionate commitment to the creation of a new South Africa.
01 October 2004
The Most Revd Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, attended a special service to celebrate the 70th birthday of Cape Town's oldest Anglican Church yesterday. Langa's St Cyprian's Church has a rich history of survival through the adversity of apartheid's Group Areas Act.
20 September 2004
"When I visited Swaziland last month, people said to me 'We hid you under our beds in your dark days. What are you doing for us now?'"
31 August 2004
The Bishop of Swaziland, the Rt Revd Meshack Mabuza, has expressed great thanks for the visit to his diocese last month of a delegation from the worldwide Anglican Communion
11 August 2004
A communique from an Anglican Communion delegation to Swaziland... In response to a request from the Bishop of Swaziland, the Rt Revd Meshack Mabuza, the Primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (CPSA) - the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane - formed a delegation of Anglican Communion leaders to visit Swaziland from 8-10 July 2004.
14 July 2004
Media release from the office of the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane, the Archbishop of Cape Town and Primate of the Province of Southern Africa
06 July 2004
The Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane, has called for the understanding and patience of the Church community in Africa in the wake of criticism by the African Provinces of the ordination of openly gay persons.
17 May 2004
Against the backdrop of the British Prime Minister's new Commission for Africa and the UK's preparations for chairmanship of the G8 and presidency of the EU next year, the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane, the Archbishop of Southern Africa, has been invited to attend high level discussions on AIDS in Africa.
06 May 2004
Twenty thousand people are dying of AIDS-related illnesses every year in Swaziland. National life-expectancy is to drop to just 27 from 62 by 2010. The most productive section of society (around 30 years old) has effectively been wiped out, wrecking the country, which has already been crippled by drought and economic disintegration.
04 May 2004
As we begin our 10th year of democracy, there is much for our transforming nation to be proud of and a solid platform of achievement from which to set new standards and objectives.
03 January 2004