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Archbishop of Cape Town’s tribute to anti-apartheid hero and trumpeter Hugh Masekela

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba pays tribute to anti-apartheid campaigner and trumpeter Hugh Masekela, who died yesterday aged 78.

24 January 2018

Archbishop of Cape Town calls on MPs to replace South African President Jacob Zuma

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, has called on South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma to be replaced, and for a “carefully targeted Cabinet reshuffle.”

02 January 2018

Archbishop of Cape Town urges ANC members to be “architects of a flourishing South Africa”

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba has urged members of South Africa’s ruling ANC to “follow their consciences” as they elect a new leader.

12 December 2017

Historic Western Cape church badly damaged in student protest arson attack

A 130-year-old church at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town has been badly damaged in a suspected arson attack.

28 September 2017

Peninsula Paddle opens up the blue-green veins of the city

A Cape Town Anglican has devised an innovative way of drawing attention to the industrial and domestic pollution that poisons his city’s waterways.

01 August 2017

Archbishop of Cape Town calls on South African government to scrap plans for nuclear energy

The Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Revd Thabo Makgoba, has appealed to the South African government to end moves to develop nuclear energy and instead to spend the money on education, training and other development initiatives.

22 February 2017

Anglicans Ablaze: education and leadership key for discipleship

This year’s Anglicans Ablaze in Cape Town was an opportunity to explore spiritual and social issues including inequality and poverty.

10 October 2016

Young people at Anglicans Ablaze in Cape Town

Thousands of young Anglicans are meeting in Cape Town, South Africa for the biennial Anglicans Ablaze conference.

06 October 2016

Archbishop Desmond Tutu discharged from hospital

The Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, Desmond Tutu, has been discharged from hospital after undergoing what has been described as “a minor surgical procedure”

15 September 2016

Roof collapse at Cape Town's St George Cathedral

Experts are today assessing damage to the metropolitical church of the Province of Southern Africa after part of the roof collapsed on Friday.

01 August 2016