JOHANNESBURG: The South African Council of Churches (SACC) is encouraged by the ruling from the Constitutional Court on Thursday 31 March, which has served to restore the faith of the people in the constitutional integrity of our nation, and goes a long way towards upholding accountability in the Office of the President.
The highest court in the land has, today, delivered a devastating judgement on the constitutional and moral conduct of the President, the National Parliament and the leadership of the Speaker. In any normal democracy the State President would go before the nation tonight and announce his resignation. But then we are not a normal democracy.
Yet today every South African, regardless of race, religious or political affiliation, can confidently say that there is no individual at any level that can operate above the authority of our constitution. This makes this day both a sad and a happy day – sad that it had to come to this, and happy that the national integrity has been restored by the ConCourt.
In his unanimous ruling, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng went to great lengths to demonstrate the constitutional requirements of the Office of the President; the National
Malusi Mpumlwana
Malusi Mpumlwana
In August Mpumlwana stepped "down after serving for close to 10 years as regional director of Africa programs for the Kellogg Foundation.
"Mpumlwana, a bishop in the Ethiopian Episcopal Church, intends to focus on the social challenges of his pastoral ministry when he leaves the Foundation. In particular, he wants to work with communities and congregations to invest more in young people, especially those that are rendered vulnerable by poverty and disease. He hopes to contribute to the creation of an environment in which young people can be better placed to lead an African society that is comfortable with itself. He further aims to use his experience with the Kellogg Foundation to help strengthen social giving among those with wealth.
"While at the Kellogg Foundation, Mpumlwana oversaw an integrated program designed to promote the socio-economic transformation of the southern African region in this post-Apartheid period. The Foundation’s program in Africa hopes to create positive change by working to reverse the cycle of rural poverty, building healthy, viable, and sustainable rural communities through civic engagement; creating economic
Leadership
Seara Mkhabela
Seara is a seasoned business executive with over 21 years’ experience, having served as such at various corporations, including Merck Sharpe and Dohme, a multinational pharmaceutical company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Altron Group, a South African based information technology and services company listed on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE), Anglo American Platinum, a multinational mining company which has its roots in South Africa, listed on the JSE and Anglo America SA, where she has been for the past 8 years, presently occupying the position of Executive Group Head: Corporate Affairs. she served as an independent director of the Outotec SA board from Currently, she is a trustee on the Outotec SA trust and chairs the Social Ethics Committee.
Prior to her entry into the business world, Seara practiced Intellectual Property Law at Spoor and Fisher, a leading specialist firm in SA. She was also active in the protection of Indigenous knowledge systems and served as an independent director on the World Culture Forum.
In the various capacities stated above, Seara has contributed to the Southern African policy discourse i
Archbishop Thabo Makgoba
Anglican Church of Southern Africa
PRESIDENT
After ordination, he served in various positions at the johannesburg Anglican Diocese, during this time he graduated at Wits with a BA (Honours) in Applied Psychology and an MEd in Educational Psychology, and lectured in the Division of Specialized Education at the Wits College of Education, where he was Dean of Knockando Residence. He was elected Bishop Suffragan of Grahamstown in , then as Bishop of Grahamstown in and as Archbishop in the year He pioneered the concept of indaba in the worldwide Anglican Communion as a means of getting to grips with difference and was decorated by the Archbishop of Canterbury with the Cross of St Augustine for his role in the Communion. He is the former chair of the Anglican Communion Environmental Network and continues to serve as a Board Member in several NGO’s in both Ecumenical and Interfaith Bodies.
Since moving to Cape Town, he earned a PhD from the University of Cape Town for a thesis on Spirituality in the South African Mining Workplace and has also received degrees in various disciplines. Revd. Archbishop Thabo Makgoba is currently the Chance
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