Cobus Coetzee and Siyavuya Mzantsi

INFORMAL settlements leaders have given Premier Helen Zille a two-month ultimatum to respond to their demands, while religious leaders try to mediate.

Michelle Jones and Cobus Coetzee

A GROUP of prominent Capetonians, including archbishops Desmond Tutu and Thabo Makgoba, has written a hard-hitting statement slamming attempts by “a group of political activists” to “promote a climate of hate” and destabilise the province through violent protests.

Violence and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity should stop and people should respect each other, Anglican Church of Southern Africa Archbishop Thabo Makgoba said Tuesday.

The Anglican Church in Southern Africa has committed itself to form a partnership with the Episcopal Church in Sudan, with which it shares membership of the Anglican Communion.

By Leanne Jansen

Education was a moral issue and teaching a calling, the Anglican Church of Southern Africa said on Sunday.

MORE than 1 000 people crowded the Diocesan College (Bishops) Chapel for the funeral of James Thomas, the South African killed in the three-day Westgate Mall terror attack in Nairobi.