‘We cannot continue to rely on writing projects’: Caritas Africa seeks financial self-reliance

by Sheila Pires | Nov 3, 2026 | Featured, Caritas South Africa

Caritas Africa is exploring new approaches to fundraising and philanthropy to strengthen its financial sustainability and support the charitable mission of its member organisations across the continent. The initiative was among the objectives of Caritas Africa’s...

Caritas South Africa seeks to strengthen national coordination and diocesan action

by Sheila Pires | Oct 13, 2026 | Uncategorized, Caritas South Africa, Featured, Social Action

Founded in 1970, Caritas South Africa is working to strengthen its national structure and improve coordination while building on the charitable work carried out by dioceses across the country.   Caritas South Africa is renewing efforts to strengthen national...

Caritas Africa President Calls for Renewed Coordination and Communication at the National Level

by Sheila Pires | Oct 8, 2025 | Uncategorized, Caritas, Caritas South Africa, Featured

On Monday, 6 October 2025, the President of Caritas Africa visited Khanya House, the headquarters of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC), as part of his official mission to strengthen Caritas structures and collaboration across the continent....

President of Caritas South Africa Calls for a “more meaningful” World Day of the Poor

by Sheila Pires | Nov 18, 2023 | Caritas South Africa

The President of Caritas South Africa has called on the people of God to make the seventh annual World Day of the Poor “more meaningful, personal, and enduring,” considering the economic challenges in South Africa. “Approximately 55.5 percent (30.3 million people) of...

Food parcels donation by Caritas Durban to flood victims

by Phuti Makgabo | May 16, 2022 | Caritas, Caritas South Africa, News, Pope, Social Action

On Saturday, 14 May 2022, Caritas Durban led by its President Archbishop Mandla Jwara accompanied His Excellence, Archbishop Peter Wells, the Nuncio to Southern Africa together with his First Secretary, Monsignor Dario Paviša, to visit 3 of the areas that were...

Catholic Church Pastoral Letter on Violence Against Women, Girls and Children

by Phuti Makgabo | Nov 28, 2019 | Bishop Statements, Caritas South Africa, Ikhanya News, Justice and Peace

PASTORAL LETTER ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, GIRLS AND CHILDREN “A bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh” (Gen. 2:18, 23) Brothers and sisters, This is a very sad and tragic moment in our land when women and young girls are murdered and subjected to all forms of...