A comprehensive motion to tackle violence against women was passed unanimously by the Provincial Synod of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa. The motion encouraged the church to improve awareness of the problems women face, to offer care and support to victims, and to implement stringent measures to deal with perpetrators.
09 November 1999
During these times of severe social distress - when the majority of South Africans earns less than twelve rands per day, when the rate of unemployment is almost 40 percent and when the Government repeatedly cites financial constraints
31 August 1999
The 29th Provincial Synod of the Anglican Church of the Province of Southern Africa passed the following urgent motion, moved by the Bishop of the Highveld, the Right Revd David Beetge.
19 July 1999
The Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane, presiding over the first Provincial Synod, delivered a thought-provoking and challenging charge to the 29th Session of Provincial Synod.
15 July 1999
The Anglican Bishop of Freetown, Sierra Leone, the Rt Revd Julius Lynch, has called on the British government to press the United Nations to send a peacekeeping force to help secure the future of his country.
09 July 1999
The Archbishop of Cape Town the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane will undertake an ecumenical visitation to the churches in Germany at the invitation of the German Evangelical Church (EKD).
21 April 1999
This note is a tribute to the Right Reverend J Henry Okullu, whose death on March 13 was reported in an Ecumenical News International release this morning.
22 March 1999
We write as Primates and Archbishops of the Anglican Communion in the Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Reformed Church, having assembled last year for the Lambeth Conference at Canterbury. We give thanks to Almighty God for granting us that opportunity for consultation, determination and expression of our common mind in the Anglican Communion.
18 March 1999
Sierra Leone is experiencing its "darkest hour". The future of the West African nation hangs in the balance, declares the Rt Revd Julius O P Lynch, Anglican Bishop of Freetown.
08 March 1999
On October 13, 1998, about 11:00 a.m. two officers from Brigade 40 came to the Headquarters of the Diocese, located at 1307 Chaussee de Kasenga/Kampemba. They arrived in a Jeep with their bodyguards.
22 December 1998