“No Amount Is Safe”: SACBC and DG Murray Trust Unite to Raise Awareness on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

by Sheila Pires | Oct 8, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured, Justice and Peace

As part of International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Day, observed globally on September 9 each year, the SACBC Justice and Peace Commission, in partnership with the DG Murray Trust, hosted an awareness workshop at Khanya House on October 6. The...

Bishop Mbuyisa Welcomes Report on Tembisa Hospital Corruption

by Sheila Pires | Oct 6, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured, Justice and Peace

The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) Justice and Peace Commission has welcomed the recent report by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) exposing the looting of more than R2 billion from Tembisa Hospital. In the statement signed by the Chairperson...

Water Insecurity and Climate Change

by Sheila Pires | Sep 16, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured, Justice and Peace

In this week’s reflection for the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) Justice and Peace Series on the Season of Creation, Fr. Peter Knox SJ reflects on the theme of water insecurity and climate change. Drawing on his recent experiences in the...

Women and Men Are Equally Responsible for Our Common Home

by Sheila Pires | Sep 9, 2025 | Uncategorized, Justice and Peace

It is easy to adopt popular stereotypes about the roles of women and men in society, in the family, the workplace, and in politics. If we don’t reflect on what these are saying about both women and men, we tend to repeat what we have been taught from our childhood....

Co-operatives in the Development of Africa

by Sheila Pires | Sep 1, 2025 | Uncategorized, Justice and Peace

In his novel The Power of One, Australian Bryce Courtenay fantasised about how one motivated, visionary person was able to change the social dynamics of a mining village in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) in the 1940’s. A young white man with determination was able to...

Cape Town Declaration on Global Justice and Solidarity Calls for Systemic Reform

by Sheila Pires | Jul 1, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured, Justice and Peace

At the conclusion of the G20 International Symposium on Global Justice and Solidarity held at the University of Cape Town, participants from across Africa and the world endorsed the Cape Town Declaration on Global Justice and Solidarity, a policy-focused statement...