Archbishop on same-sex civil unions

Anglicans in other Provinces of the Communion sometimes display a tendency “to use African Christians as proxies in their own culture wars,” Archbishop Thabo Makgoba has said.

Do Churches Still Hold Moral Authority in Today's Society?

Ashraf Garda of SAfm in Johannesburg talks to Archbishop Thabo Makgoba and Bishop Malusi Mpumlwana, General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches.

Afternoon Talk, SAfm, December 18, 2015 (Find original programme here: iono.fm/e/239098)

AUDIO - Archbishop Thabo Makgoba's Reflection on Advent IV

The Archbishop completes his Advent reflections. The reading for the Fourth Sunday in Advent is Luke 1: 39-55.

AUDIO: Reflection for Advent III - Archbishop Thabo

Archbishop Thabo's reflection on the Third Sunday in Advent: Reading from Luke 3: 1-6.

Click on the recording below, or you can download the file to your mobile device and share with your friends.

St George's Cathedral, Cape Town - Nelson Mandela Commemoration Service

The full recording of Evensong at St George's Cathedral, Cape Town, on December 6, the Second Sunday in Advent and the day after the second anniversary of the death of Nelson Mandela. 

Preacher: Archbishop Thabo Makgoba. (Scroll down to read the text of the sermon.) Prayers led by: Dean Michael Weeder. Soloist: Titilayo Adedokun-Helm

AUDIO: Archbishop Thabo's reflection for Advent II

Archbishop Thabo's reflection on the Second Sunday in Advent. Click on the recording below, or you can download the file to your mobile device, listen later and share with your friends. The Gospel reading is Luke 3: 1-6.

Nearly 2 million people lobby against global warming

At COP21, the UN climate summit in Paris, Archbishop Thabo Makgoba joined other members of the international ecumenical grouping, the ACT Alliance, in handing over petitions signed by 1,7 million people, urging political leaders to take decisive action to curb global warming and deliver a strong, fair deal that helps poor countries adapt to their changing climate.

In the photo below with Archbishop Thabo is Christiana Figueres, who as executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is the UN's top official dealing with the issue.

Photo: Sean Hawkey/WCC

From Paris, Archbishop calls for climate change agreement

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, in Paris for the UN climate change conference, has called for an agreement to be reached at the talks which promotes renewable energy, helps people to adapt to climate change and where that is not possible, to give them assistance to mitigate its effects.

AUDIO: Archbishop Thabo's reflections on Advent I

Archbishop Thabo is again delivering a series of reflections on each Sunday in Advent. Listen to his first reflection on the Gospel reading for Advent 1, below:

Religious leaders label student protests a crisis

Cape Town religious community joins march against corruption

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba was one of those who addressed the crowd at the end of the march, outside Parliament and the Presidency in Cape Town

Hundreds carried posters protesting against corruption.

The marchers gathered outside Parliament and against the backdrop of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral and Table Mountain.

Consecration and enthronement of the new Bishop of the Highveld

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba of Cape Town leads the Right Revd Mthetheleli Charles May from the service at which Bishop May was consecrated and enthroned as the Bishop of the Highveld. 

Bishop May blesses Archbishop Makgoba after the service, held in a huge marquee in the grounds of St. Dunstan's School in the Diocese on Saturday September 12, 2015.