Minister Paul Verryn speaks to the Mail & Guardian about his relationship with God, the importance of religion and how his journey has changed.
Former Cosatu general secretary Jay Naidoo has been released from police custody in Swaziland, says the Swaziland Solidarity Network .
Although Johannesburg’s Central Methodist Church was an "unsuitable" shelter for children, it was their only option amid a lack of government support.
A power struggle in the Methodist Church? A pre-World Cup clean-up cloaked in official hypocrisy? Or the reining in of a gung-ho cleric?
The fact that about 2 500 Zimbabweans live in the overcrowded Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg is a reflection of their desperation.
Johannesburg’s Central Methodist Church, which houses over 3 000 Zimbabwean refugees, could face closure.
Central Methodist Church teacher is suspended amid claims that children seeking refuge are being forced into sexual acts.
Johannesburg police on Monday denied media reports that Zimbabwean children were being sexually abused at an inner-city church.
Two men were arrested on Wednesday night for threatening the life of Methodist bishop Paul Verryn.
The Johannesburg High Court has granted an urgent interdict preventing the relocation of foreigners displaced by xenophobic attacks who are being accommodated at the city’s…
The border between South Africa and Zimbabwe should be ”comprehensively” abolished, Methodist Bishop Paul Verryn told academics at the University of the Witwatersrand on…
George Mhanda came to Johannesburg to feed his family, struggling to eat under Robert Mugabe’s derelict rule. The Zimbabwean mechanic found a job in a local garage and a room in…
Anti-immigrant violence has spread to Cape Town, where mobs attacked Somalis and Zimbabweans and looted their homes and shops, police said on Friday. Hundreds of African migrants…
The headlines of the papers at the newsstand at the Bree Street taxi rank on Monday reflect the deadly xenophobic violence that spread around Johannesburg on the weekend.…
A wave of xenophobic attacks spread through Johannesburg townships on Monday. Mobs beat foreigners and set some ablaze in scenes reminiscent of apartheid-era violence. A total of…
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s deafening silence after weekend elections has raised increasing speculation about the fate of a strongman who has never previously found…
Robert Mugabe’s ruling party is ready for a presidential election run-off between the veteran Zimbabwean leader and his arch-rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, a government spokesperson…
According to a <i>Finweek</i> report last week, South African education is in crisis mode.
Human rights issues concerning refugees, immigrants and exiles needed urgent discussion and action at all three levels of government, experts said on Thursday during a panel…
Many Zimbabwean refugees seek shelter at the Central Methodist church in Johannesburg’s CBD, sleeping on stairs and in passageways in the only place they can find free…
