Worst violence in years spreads in South Africa as grievances boil; churches appeal for it to stop
Johannesburg, South Africa Reuters Crowds clashed with police and ransacked or burned shopping malls in South Africa on Tuesday, with dozens reported killed as grievances unleashed by the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma boiled over into the worst violence in years. Protests that followed Zuma’s arrest last week have widened into looting and an […]
South Africa: Church leaders appeal for calm ahead of elections
ANLI SERFONTEIN, in an article first published on the World Council of Churches’ website, looks at appeals from South African churches for calm in the lead-up to South Africa’s new election early next month…