This weekend we have reason to thank God for the contributions to the good of humanity of a great, selfless generation of leaders.
In South Africa, we give thanks for the life of Mama Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe, widow of Robert Sobukwe, who died in Graaff-Reinet weeks after her 91st birthday.
Abroad, we received with shock the news that Kofi Annan, a great African and a Nobel peace laureate who gave new energy to the United Nations to intervene to prevent conflict, has died in Geneva after a short illness.
And at home we celebrate the long lives of leaders who are still with us: the 93rd birthday of Mama Gertrude Shope, a former trade unionist and the first leader of the ANC Women's League, and the 90th birthday of Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
I am pleased to be preaching at a thanksgiving service for the Prince in Durban today, of which we will write more later.
Our prayers go to the families of those who have died, and our best birthday wishes to those veterans celebrating milestone birthdays.
Archbishop Thabo Makgoba
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