26 October 2013, The Tablet

Never off the front line


Voices from Africa – 2

 
After many years as an anti-apartheid campaigner, Bishop Kevin Dowling of Rustenburg has in recent years been battling against HIV and Aids. In London for the church mission charity Missio, he told Abigail Frymann about his work and why he is heartened by the election of Pope FrancisIf ever a place was misnamed it’s Freedom Park in the North-West Province city of Rustenburg in South Africa. It’s a sprawling squatter camp of 25,000 people, many of them immigrants from neighbouring countries, attracted to the region by the nearby platinum mines. Freedom Park is technically illegal, so the Government has not provided infrastructure such as running water, electricity or health care. Miners pick up women and pay them for sex – offering less money if she asks him to wear a co
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User Comments (1)

Comment by: Denis
Posted: 25/04/2015 10:42:29

The Pope was both correct and courageous to describe this as genocide. As of this morning the BBC are still referring to it as a "mass killing."