Denis Hurley Remembered on SAfm

Remembering Steve Biko: a Bright & Guiding Light in Dark Times

Address by Bishop Rubin Phillip, Anglican Bishop of Natal (KZN) - at St Philip’s Anglican Church, Fingo Village in Grahamstown, 19^th September, 2012.

Remembering Steve Biko: a Bright & Guiding Light in Dark Times

As the Unemployed People's Movement have noted we gather here in Grahamstown to honour the memory of Steve Biko, a man who was indeed a bright and guiding light, at a moment when a dark night is settling over our country. As the light of our democratic dawn dims we all have to look inward and find our courage, individually and collectively, for the struggles ahead. Make no mistake - the massacre at Marikana was a turning point and the path ahead will be difficult and will require real courage.

Bishop Rubin Philip's Sermon at the Marikana Massacre Memorial Service

Bishop Rubin Philip

Marikana Massacre Memorial Service
Friday, 24th August 2012, Emmanuel Cathedral, Durban

And so, again, the truth of our country is in dead black bodies littering the ground. Once again, the truth of our time is that people asserting their rights and dignity against systemic injustice have been brought down in a hail of bullets. Has nothing changed in our place, when its truth remains that the armed might of the state acts for the elite of powerful and wealthy, and against our people? No self-righteous declarations of 'tragedy'; no insisting on 'complexity'; no obfuscatory 'commissions of enquiry'; are enough to hide that truth. The truth is plain to masses of the people of South Africa, it is an affront to God.

Laying an Axe to the Roots

An Advent Message from the KwaZulu-Natal Church Leaders Group

Luke 3:1-20 John the Baptist Prepares the Way
 "A voice of one calling in the desert,
'Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.
Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill made low.
The crooked roads shall become straight, the rough ways smooth.
And all humankind will see God's salvation.' "

UnFreedom Day Speech

SPEECH DELIVERED TO: ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO EVENT FOR UNFREEDOM DAY KENNEDY ROAD COMMUNITY HALL, CLARE ESTATE, DURBAN, KZN, 27TH APRIL 2008 BY BISHOP RUBIN PHILLIP, ANGLICAN BISHOP OF NATAL AND CHAIRPERSON OF THE KWA-ZULU NATAL CHRISTIAN COUNCIL

For many years the courage and dignity of our people under oppression was a light to the world. There was a time when our country was a light to the world. But that light has grown so dim that there is a real danger of it being extinguished altogether.