PASTORAL LETTER Vol 4 April 2018
Dear fellow saints As you will by now know, our country yesterday suffered the loss of the person who came to be known as “the mother of the nation”, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. I am sure you will join with me in mourning the loss of someone who was an icon in the struggle against apartheid, and in the work she did post-1994. The following is the statement I issued last night (Easter Monday, 2 April, 2018) for both your information and prayerful consideration: The death of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has come as a blow to South Africa as a nation, according to the Bishop of Johannesburg, the Rt Revd Dr Steve Moreo. “The ‘mother of the nation’, as she was so aptly known, was an influential figure through the many years of struggle against apartheid when she showed herself time and again to be an inveterate struggler for the cause of justice. This was during a time when she had to bear the full might of a security state against her while her husband was in prison.