Honorary Mass For Mr Thomas Tlhapane
An honorary Mass was held for Mr Thomas Tlhapane. The ninety-three-year-old parishioner of the Maria Mater Ecclesia Church in Garankuwa township, north of Pretoria, was honoured for his decades-long service and commitment to his family, community and Church in the Archdiocese of Pretoria and beyond it. Mr Tlhapane was featured in the April edition of The Southern Cross.
Top: Thomas Tlhapane with assistant parish priest of Maria Mater Ecclesia Church Fr Jimmy Mashamaite; Bottom left: Cecilia Moloantoa with Mr Tlhapane. Right: Thomas Tlhapane showing the article written about his life in the April 2023 issue of The Southern Cross
Daluxolo Moloantoa is features writer for the Southern Cross magazine.
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