Ø       Honourable Ms Dipuo Peters, Premier of the Northern Cape;

Ø       Honourable Mr P Saaiman, MEC of the Northern Cape for Tourism, Environment and Conservation;

Ø       Counsellor B. S. Mereeotlhe, Kgalagadi District Municipality Executive Mayor;

Ø       Reverend Dr Moisraele Prince Dibeela, General Secretary of the UCCSA;

 Ø       The Board Chairman and Members of the Kuruman Moffat Mission Board;

Ø       Esteemed dignitaries from the business sector, church leaders, traditional leaders,

South Korea's president-elect Lee Myung-Bak, has described Jesus as a model for CEOs.

President Lee, 66, made the statement during a prayer meeting at Seoul's Somang Church where he serves as a Presbyterian elder, said aide Kim Heon-Jin.

A former chief executive of the Hyundai group's construction arm, Lee has pledged to become a business-friendly president and revitalise the economy.

"I've said I will become a CEO-type leader but actually, the best model of a CEO-type leader was Jesus Christ. "Two millennia ago, Jesus showed a leadership of service by washing the feet of his disciples. Likewise, I will do my own best, serving the people." 

A South African church-backed group is offering ex-combatants training skills to help them stay away from violence.

Working with local churches the programme, run by the National Peace Accord Trust, will provide ex-combatants with life skills and vocational qualifications so they can be absorbed into the formal job market or set up ventures of their own.

In the final days of Apartheid, the government used surrogate forces in numerous black areas. Entire communities were attacked.

Ecumenical News International

This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the United Congregational Church of Southern Africa.  It was in 1967 when Congregationalists from five different countries came together as four different churches at an assembly in Durban and came out of that same assembly as one united Church.  This was by no means some mean feat; in fact it was a great act of ecclesiastical union that would be followed by others some thirty years or so later.  In fact the act of union was not just an accomplished fact it also was an expression of what the new denomination hoped for, and would struggle to promote in the coming years.