SA sits on a ticking social timebomb
The spreading cancer of xenophobic attacks, with an opportunistic criminal element clearly taking advantage of people’s frustrations to foster atrocities, brought to mind Aeneas in the temple...
June 2008
Fix this!
Pope Benedict places his concern for the world’s hungry at the centre of the Church’s social justice platform. Earlier this month he told global leaders attending the...
Poor leadership led to attacks
When I started this column, I argued that leadership is one of the most important issues of our time, and that leadership affects all of us in...
Mugabe’s Lost Destiny
The outcome of Zimbabwe’s parliamentary and presidential elections in March took many commentators, including this newspaper, by surprise.
St Francis digs up tales of fools in the garden
I dont mean all the horrible things; one does not have to be a rocket scientist to work out what he thinks of crime, corruption, nuclear weapons...
What is youth?
As the SACBC family life theme for June is “Me and Youth”, I offer a few thoughts on this topic from the angle of youth and their...
Government could cut the petrol price – if it wanted to
When Jacob Zuma voiced his concern in a speech last month about escalating fuel prices, I was sure that every South African—with the exception perhaps of the...
The culture of impunity
The distressing attacks on African expatriates in many parts of South Africa can be explained partly with reference to poor service delivery and competition for scarce resources.
Catholic education today
Special editorial by Michail Rassool Addressing Catholic educators in Washington DC in April, Pope Benedict said education is integral to the mission of the Church to proclaim...
Can good come from xenophobic attacks?
I am standing at the church door greeting parishioners as they head home. Only then I realised only one of our immigrant parishioners had come for our...
