Loading...
Loading...
Click here if you don’t see subscription options
Voices
Russell Pollitt, S.J., is America’s Johannesburg correspondent.
A camp set up to house foreigners in South Africa after widespread xenophobic attacks broke out
Dispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
In response to the recent spate of xenophobic attacks the South African Government launched Operation Fiela a word which means to ldquo sweep clean rdquo or ldquo clear out rdquo the rubbish Although the national police force led this operation the military were also brought in to assist Th
Dispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
While the world rsquo s attention was focused on the outbreak of deadly xenophobic attacks in South Africa another deplorable murder took place Eighty-six-year-old Missionary Sister of the Precious Blood Stefani Tiefenbacher was allegedly gang raped and murdered in her bedroom Police are waiting
South African Police attempt to control widespread xenophobic attacks
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
Church and civil organizations are working to bring relief to victims.
Discussing the Family Synod Questionnaire in South Africa
Dispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
Eurocentric view of family—father, mother and children (nuclear family)—found problematic
The statue at the centre of the #RhodesMustFall Protest at the University of Cape Town
Dispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
RhodesMustFall has become a headline story and frequently used hash-tag in social media It is has become the label given to a raging debate around curricula race white privilege and colonialism at institutions of higher learning in South Africa The Rhodes Must Fall campaign began at one of Afri
Members of the Economic Freedom Fighters being removed from the South African Parliament.
Dispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
Parliament erupted into a brawl just a few sentences into the president's speech
Locals run with items from a shop in Soweto, South Africa, Jan. 22. Local media reported that violence broke out Jan. 19 after a 14-year-old South African was allegedly shot dead by a foreign shop owner (CNS photo/Siphiwe Sibeko, Reuters).
Dispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
In recent weeks South Africans have once again witnessed xenophobic violence The violence broke out after a Somali shop owner in Soweto shot a 14-year old local dead The shop owner claims that the boy part of a gang of youths was trying to steal from him One of the youths dropped a gun in the p
The martyr Benedict Daswa - courtesy of the Diocese of Tzaneen
Dispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
Benedict Daswa, a layman, was killed for his opposition to the use of traditional medicines.
Eugene de Kock - picture from CityPress
Dispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
Notorious apartheid-era death squad commander given parole after 20 years behind bars.
VICTORIOUS. African National Congress supporters celebrate the election results in Johannesburg on May 10.
Signs Of the Times
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
On May 7, 10 days after the celebration of the anniversary of their nation’s first democratic elections in April 1994, South Africans went to the polls in the first vote since the death of Nelson Mandela last December. The African National Congress gained a 62 percent majority to retain p