Statement from White South African Christian Leaders on Recent Actions by the United States Government

23 May 2025 - The form for signatories has been reopened.  If you’d like to sign please follow the link at the bottom of the statement.  We update the list of signatories on this document as we are able.  

                                                                                                

On 7 February 2025, the President of the United States of America issued an executive order withdrawing all U.S. government aid to South Africa. In the same week, their Secretary of State announced his refusal to attend the G20 summit in South Africa. The stated reasons for these actions are claims of victimisation, violence and hateful rhetoric against white people in South Africa along with legislation providing for the expropriation of land without compensation.  

As white South Africans in active leadership within the Christian community, representing diverse political and theological perspectives, we unanimously reject these claims. We make this statement as white South Africans because these claims are being made about us and our experience in this place.  The narrative presented by the U.S. government is founded on fabrications, distortions, and outright lies. It does not reflect the reality of our country and, if anything, serves to heighten existing tensions in South Africa.  It also detracts from the important work of building safer, healthier communities and addressing the complex history of land dispossession by white Europeans from the black African majority.

That South Africa has failed to effectively address the racial injustices of Apartheid and Colonialism is obvious. Whilst the reasons for this are complex, one factor is the sustained resistance by many white South Africans to initiatives that seek to meaningfully address the economic and land ownership consequences of these systems of racial oppression.  The resultant tensions thereof are now being weaponized for cheap political points in the USA. Similarly, there are South African leaders, especially within the white community, who are using the deplorable actions and statements of the President of the United States of America and his supporters to serve the narrow needs of their local constituencies. We call on our fellow South Africans to reconsider this dangerous political strategy and to rather give their energy towards working for a more just future in South Africa.

As South Africans who are Christian, followers of the ways of Jesus, we do this because we are conscious that the current U.S. government administration identifies and draws support from significant parts of our fellow believers in the USA. Recalling our history where the Christian faith was used to justify the oppressive colonial and apartheid regimes tacitly and explicitly, we have watched in horror as political rhetoric in the United States of America has also drawn on the Christian faith in ways which dismiss the most basic Christian call to caring for the vulnerable, loving of neighbours, and working for a good society for all. Such distortions of Christianity have produced innumerable violences, and the justifying of such violences in the name of Christianity is something we condemn and reject as leaders of our faith.

What is today known as South Africa is a part of the world that has experienced immense violence over multiple generations. We lament the fact that it continues to be a country with extremely high levels of violence which have impacted many, if not most of us, personally. However, while all South Africans have been personally touched by violence, the narrative of “disproportionate violence” aimed at white South Africans that President Trump is attempting to push negates the indisputable reality, for anyone living in South Africa, that black South Africans continue to be subject to the worst excesses of violence and oppression. Genocide Watch has noted that while white South Africans make up around 8% of the population they account for less than 2% of the murder victims[1].  

Whilst we have serious concerns about the political nature of foreign aid into our country and continent, the sudden and immediate withdrawal of aid, particularly aid which supports our health systems, promises devastation for our communities. In particular, the support being withdrawn from South Africa disproportionately affects the HIV community who rely on antiretroviral medication. South Africa has a significant number of people who are HIV+, and for whom access to antiretroviral medication is a matter of life or death. As pastors, we know them as members of our congregations and communities. As followers of the God of life, and of Jesus Christ whose ministry of healing has guided the work of the church over centuries, we must protest in the strongest possible terms where we see racial politics being weaponized in ways that will contribute to the early death for the poor and vulnerable, while serving the political agendas of the powerful.

As white Christian South Africans, we confess that we have not done enough to rectify the injustices of our colonial and apartheid past. We acknowledge the call of the gospel to continue working to undo the injustices of the past, and we recommit ourselves to work for redress, restitution and healing.  We know that rectifying historic injustices in land ownership and working beyond this towards undoing immense inequality is a key part of the gospel call for a commitment towards justice in our country.

We also commit ourselves to pray and stand in solidarity with faith leaders in the United States of America who are called to be a voice for justice and peace in this turbulent time. We recognize that the actions of the government and business leaders of the USA will have a definite impact on the future of the entire globe and that faith communities are called to critical witness in a time such as this. In the same way that churches were called to commit to united work for justice during the dark days of apartheid, we commit to supporting the prophetic church in the USA as it works for justice in the weeks, months, and years to come.

10 February 2025

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Author Group

Cobus van Wyngaard, Unisa & Dutch Reformed Church Pretoria, Gauteng

Craig Stewart, St Peters Anglican Church, Mowbray, Western Cape

Curtis Love (University of South Africa, Theological Ethics) Johannesburg, Gauteng

Sarah Montgomery, Lifespring Community Church, Durban, KZN

Signatories

Full name

Affiliation

Suburb and Province

Stephan de Beer

Centre for Faith and Community, University of Pretoria

Pretoria

Prof Dion Forster

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam / Stellenbosch University

Stellenbosch, Western Cape

Marthie Momberg

Research Fellow, Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University

Stellenbosch, Western Cape

Liesl Stewart

St. Peters, Mowbray (Anglican)

Rosebank, Cape Town, Western Cape

Alexa Russell Matthews

Arise Family NGO, Church of the Holy Spirit, Social Worker

Lakeside, Cape Town

Pete Portal

Tree of Life Community Trust

Manenberg, Cape Town, WC

Anneke Rabe

SACLI

Mpumalnga

Christo Greyling

Dutch Reformed Church representative to the World Council of Churches’Commission on Health and Healing, Lead on subcommittee on HIV, reproductive health and epidemics

Somerset West, Western Cape (and Hilversum, Netherlands)

Prof Sharlene Swartz

St Francis Anglican Church; University of Cape Town

Betty’s Bay, Western Cape

John Scheepers

Isiphambano Centre, Cape Town Baptist Seminary

Salt River, Western Cape

Wendy Lewin

The Greenhouse Collective

Hout Bay, Western Cape

Philip Donald

Anglican

Lansdowne, Western Cape

Pieter Bezuidenhout

AFM pastor

Centurion, Gauteng

Dr Colin Habberton

Signal Church, Angello Network

Cape Town, Western Cape

Rev Brendan Fox

Anglican

Kirstenhof, Western Cape

Xana McCauley

Rhema

Fourways, Gauteng

Nigel Branken

Neighbours NPO and We are Church, Pastor, Social Worker and Activist

Gauteng, South Africa

Wilna de Beer

Tshwane Leadership Foundation

Pretoria, Gauteng

Chris Kamalski

Follower of Christ, American (married to a South African!) living permanently in South Africa, Editorial Director for Missio Aliance, Coach & Spiritual Director, Restore Voice

Jeffreys Bay, Eastern Cape

Garth Japhet

Heartlines

Johannesburg Gauteng

Marius Louw

Minister in the DRC. Currently minister of the English Reformed Church, Amsterdam.

Amsterdam

Sarah Portal

Tree of Life Manenberg

Manenberg

Brett "Fish" Anderson

Heartlines, Wellspring Community Church

Diep River, Cape Town

Stuart Talbot

Lay worker ngo

Kzn

Rev Steven Lottering

Methodist Church of Southern Africa

Cape Town

Dr Vaughan Stannard

Beautiful Gate SA

Pinelands, Cape Town, Western Cape

Wilma Terry Jakobsen

Anglican/Volmoed

Hermanus Western Cape

Riaan de Villiers

Dutch Reformed Church

Cape Town Western Cape

Duncan Mclea

Anglican Priest

Claremont, Cape Town

Dr Robert Steiner

Rondebosch United Church

Cape Town

Louis van der Riet

Dutch Reformed Church

Cape Town, Western Cape

Jacqui Tooke

Pinelands Baptist Church

Pinelands, Western Cape

Alexander F Venter

SACLI co-chair and Vineyard pastor

Salt Rock, KZN

Stiaan van der Merwe

South African

Norwood, Gauteng

Jennifer Charlton

Anglican

Greenside, Gauteng

Janet Trisk

Anglican

Port Alfred, Eastern Cape

Miles Giljam

SACLI; Anglican Church of the Holy Spirit, Kirstenhof

Muizenberg, Western Cape.

Bianca Truter-Botha

Dutch Reformed Church

Cape Town, Western Cape

Chris Ahrends

Retired Anglican Priest

Cape Town, Western Cape

Cecile Murray-Louw

NGK Durbanville Moedergemeente

Durbanville, Western Cape

Susan Smith

Church membership

Caoe Tiwn Caoe Orovincr

Daniela Gennrich

Coordinator, We Will Speak Out South Africa and Lay Canon, Anglican Diocese of Natal

Durban, KwaZulu Natal

Rev Dr Rachel Mash

Anglican Church of Southern Africa

Capetown, South Africa (permanent resident)

André Buttner

The Methodist Church of Southern Africa

Cape Town

Lou-Maré Denton

Dutch Reformed Church

Brackenfell, Western Cape

Tamsyn Pretorius

Every Nation Rosebank

Gauteng

Ecclesia de Lange

Inclusive and Affirming Ministries

Durbanville, Western Cape

Dr. Khegan M. Delport

Stellenbosch University / Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg

Cape Town, Western Cape

Kerry Wiens

Inundo Development Model Farm

Assagay, KZN

Revd Dr Claire Nye Hunter

Anglican priest

Rondebosch

Renier Lindeque

Atheist

Bryanston, Gauteng

Grant Edkins

White active citizen

Hilton, KZN

Rev. Chuck Spong

Assemblies of God

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

Caren Falconer

Ubukho Bakhe

Western Cape

Arnau van Wyngaard

Dutch Reformed Church

Piet Retief, Mpumalanga

Annie Kirke

Anglican Church of Southern Africa, Diocese of Cape Town

Cape Town, Western Cape

André Buttner

The Methodist Church of Southern Africa

Cape Town

Carol Franck

Pinelands Baptist Church

Pinelands Western Cape

Jaques Pretorius

Anglican Board of Education for Southern Africa (ABESA)

Cape Town

Ab IJzerman

Uniting Reformed Church

Khayelitsha. Western Cape

Rev Ron Robertson

Methodist church

Linbro Park, Gauteng

Neil Vels

Methodist Church of Southern Africa

Cape Town

Rev Joe Taylor

Methodist Church of Southern Africa

Hilton, Kwazulu Natal

Rev Toni Kruger-Ayebazibwe

Metropolitan Community Church / GIN SSOGIE

Newlands, Johannesburg

Jessica McCarter

Christ church Kenilworth. Anglican

Claremont. Capetown Western Cape

Robyn Jacobs

Arise Family NPO, Clinical Psychologist and University Drive Alliance Church

Cape Town, South Africa / Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Antoinette Erasmus

AFM of SA

Cape Town, Western Cape

Ann Currie

Anglican Church

Pinelands, Western Cape

Charlene van der Walt

Honorary Associate Professor, Gender and Religion, School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of KwaZulu Natal/Global Coordinator for Theological Education, Act Church of Sweden

Stockholm, Sweden.

Fiona McLennan

Congregational/Presbyterian (United Church)

Rondebosch, Western Cape

Michael Deeb

Catholic Dominican

Scottsville, KZN

Johannes Mouton

Dutch Reformed Church

Cape Town, Western Cape

Kerrigan McCarthy

Anglican Church of the Province of South Africa

Johannesburg Gauteng

Kevin Robertson

Anglican Church

Durban, KwaZulu-Natal

Tiana Bosman

University of the Western Cape

Cape Town

Julian cornelius muller

Dutch Reformed Church

Western Cape

Mel Steyn

Anglican

Bathurst Eastern Cape

Muller Oosthuizen

Dutch Reformed Church Williston

Williston, Northern Cape

David Field

United Methodist

Basel Switzerland

Mogomotsi Diutlwileng

Methodist Church

Pretoria - Gauteng Province

Etienne Snyman

Dutch Reformed Church (NGK)

Cape Town, Western Cape

Rowan Haarhoff

Wellspring Community Church (Landsdowne)

Claremont, Western Cape

Larry Warner

Disciples of Christ

Oceanside, CA USA

Louis Kritzinger Louw

Retired minister of the Dutch Reformed Church h

Pretoria, Gauteng

Joel Mxolisi Mayephu

Free Methodist Church of Southern Africa

Sunnyside Pretoria Gauteng

Andrew George Fair

White Christian South African Male

Somerset west, Western Cape

Mani Molefe

Methodist church

Roodepoort - Gauteng

Helène Smit

Stellenbosch Gemeente

Stellenbosch, Western Cape

Jacobus Adriaan Myburgh

Dutch Reformed Church

Wierdapark Gauteng

Doug Falconer

Ubukho Bakhe

Bergvliet, Western Cape

Petrus Francois Smit

Pastor of Dutch Reformed Church Groenkloof

Groenkloof, Gauteng

Andrew Wonnacott

New Hope SA

Muizenberg, Cape Town

Susan Hobbs

Amglican

KLOOF, KZN

Lyn van Rooyen

Dutch Reformed Church, consultant, World Council of Churches

Randburg, Gauteng

Dave Stroud

Member Care,Youth With A Mission

Parklands,Western Cape

Corne Peters

South African

Durban, KwaZulu-Natal

Andries du Toit

Numa Life Church

Retreat, Cape Town, WC

Jacques

DRC Parke

Kraaifontein, Western Cape

Charles Matthews

CHS Anglican

Lakeside, Western Cape

Karen Grant

Common Ground

Constantia, Western cape

Matthew Lewis

YWAM Durban, Follower, 24/7 Prayer South Africa

Durban Kwazulu-Natal

Andrew David McElwee

United Methodist

Bothell, Washington

Mike Durrant

Minister MCSA

Ifafi. North West

Rose S

Private

Durban KZN

Bronwyn Witthoft

Uviwe - You are heard : Debriefing, Pastoral Counselling and Member Care

Cape Town, Western Cape

Margie Pretorius

Unaffiliated Jesus follower

Cape Town, Western Cape

Revd Lorna Lavarello-Smith

Anglican Church of Southern Africa

Claremont Western Cape

Lesley Pope

Methodist

Edenvale, Gauteng

Lindy Bossenger

Anglican South African

Gauteng

Doug Sevre

Jesus Follower and Disciple Maker

Indio, CA United States

Abby Mkhwanazi

Lifespring community church, Brethren Church in Africa, Heart to Heart International

Waterfall, KZN

Laurie Gaum

Durch Reformed Church

Muizenberg, Western Cape

Carusta van der Merwe

University of Pretoria

Queenswood, Pretoria, Gauteng

Angela Clarke

Youth with a Mission

Muizenberg, Cape Town

Ronel Betts

Teacher; follower of Jesus.

Fish Hoek, Western Cape

Roleen Webber-Green

.

Waverley, Gauteng

Ernst Conradie

UWC

Bellville, Western Cape

Johan Pienaar

Retired minister Dutch Reformed church

Gauteng

Justin Taylor

Minister in the Church of Scotland

Guernsey

Sue Gray

Signal Church, Vineyard

Newlands, Western Cape

Esias E. Meyer

University of Pretoria and Dutch Reformed Church

Pretoria, Gauteng

Megan Chitsike

Wellspring Community Church

Western Cape

Bruce Nadin

Capricorn Community Church

Western Cape

Nicole Masureik

Pinelands Baptist Church

Pinelands, Western Cape

Ian France

Gracepoint Methodist Church

Johannesburg Gauteng

DEBBIE

Personal

Gauteng

Henry Pienaar

Christian Theologian

Strandfontein Cape Town

Rebecca Parry

member, Christ Church Kenilworth

Kenilworth, Cape Town, Western Cape

Greig Daryl Wegerle

Pastor and Businessman

Durban, KwaZulu-Natal

Mary Jean Thomas-Johnson

St John's Anglican Church

Wynberg, Western Cape

Valerie Anderson

Christian

Cape Town CBD

Richard Bolland

Founder, New Hope SA

Muizenberg, Western Cape

Jo-ann Scheepers

Teacher in Christian Education

Salt River, Cape Town

David J. Kleinhans

All Saints United Church

Pietermariztburg, KwaZulu-Natal

John van de Laar

Methodist Church

Atlasville, Gauteng

Andrew Holmes

Anglican

Cape Town

Dereck Palmer

Assemblies of God

Bergvliet, CPT, WC

Fr Russell Pollitt SJ

Roman Catholic

Gauteng

Cindy Duvel

Christian Leader

Pinelands, Cape Town

Taryn Wegerle

Pastor & Principal

Durban, KZN

Glenda James

Methodist Church of Southern Africa

Milnerton, Western Cape

Nic Paton

Cape Town Interfaith Initiative

Cape Town Western Cape

Craig Duvel

Pinelands Baptist Church

Pinelands, Western Cape

David J. Kleinhans

All Saints United Church

Pietermariztburg, KwaZulu-Natal

Dr Grace Nkomo

Connect Network, Ubukho Bakhe, University of the Western Cape

Tokai, Western Cape

Jackie Gallagher

Hillside Vineyard Church South Africa

Johannesburg Gauteng

Nicole Joshua

Anglican

Heathfield, Western Cape

Johan van der Merwe

Dutch Reformed Church Stellenbosch

Stellenbosch, Western Cape

Taryn Galloway

CHS, Anglican Church

Kenilworth, Cape Town, western Cape

Prof Hennie Goede

Faculty of Theology, North-West University

Potchefstroom, North-West

Mike Batley

Social worker, restorative justice practitioner

Pretoria Gauteng

Lucy Ivins

Hilton Methodist Church & Religious Education Teacher

Hilton KZN

A. James Goddard

Methodist Church of SA

Hilton, KZN

Rebecca Benn

Home Ground

Westville (KZN)

Professor Anthony Reddie

University of South Africa

West Midlands, the UK

Dr Gideon van der Watt

Lutheran Pastor

Bloemfontein, Free State

David Botha

Religious leader

Tulbagh Road Western Cape

André Bartlett

Dutch Reformed Church

Riebeek West Western Cape

Sarah Rule

Roman Catholic Womenpriests South Africa

Stellenbosch, Western Cape

Charlotte Brown

Anglican Deacon

Cape Town, western province

Wendy Rens

Pinelands Baptist

Pinelands, Westeen Cape

Juanita Greyvenstein

Krugerpark Community Church

Skukuza, Mpumalanga

Annalet van Schalkwyk

Theologian, Honorary Professor in School of Philosophy, Religious Studies and Classics; UKZN

Tshwane, Gauteng

Sunelle Stander (Lays)

Ordained Pastor, Presbyterian Church (USA)

Jacksonville, Florida

Sas Conradie

Tearfund, NGK Pretoria-Oosterlig

Londen

Heather Hill

Central Methodist Mission

Cape Town

Nozipho

mcsa

kzn

Grant Stewart

R-Cubed (Restore Reconnect Rebuild)

Western cape

Heidi Newby

Active white citizen

Deneysville, Free State

Tumo Joseph mofokeng

Director of Afrolatin in favor of the world

Free State

Tony Drake

Christian

Observatory, Western Province

Joe Janse van Rensburg

Dutch Reformed Church (NG Kerk)

Jeffreys Bay, Eastern Cape

Megan Forster

Methodist Church

Somerset West & Netherlands

Francois Mynhardt van Pletsen

Interdenominational Independent

Somerset West, Western Cape

Noxolo Khanyile

Christ believer & follower

Soweto, Johannesburg

Luan Martin

Dutch Reformed Church

Kloof, KwaZulu Natal

Charnelle

Follower of Jesus Christ

Western cape

Rev Chris McLachlan

Reforming Church, South Africa

Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal

Bishop Geoffrey Davies

SAFCEI and ACSA

Western Cape

Melissa Riordan

Christian (Anglicanl

Nelson Mandela Bay, Eastern Cape

Rev. Patti Ricotta

Life Together International

Massachusetts, United States

Revd Dr Kevin Snyman

United Reformed Chirch

Durham, UK

Jocylyn Liedeman

Anglican

Parow, W. Cape

Richard Stephenson

Independent

Edgemead, Cape Town, Western Cape

James Mumper

Vineyard Church

Global Citizen

Catherine Draper

University of the Witwatersrand

Pinelands, Cape Town

Peter Watt

Church Leader

Durban KZN

Heather Ferreira

Self

Totally agree

Susannah Farr

Life Church; Pan African Youth Development Agency Leader

Kigali, Rwanda

Eugene Roberts

Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa

Gqeberha, Eastern Cape

Francois Naude

NG Kerk

Calvinia Northern Cape

Ashley Roberts

Christian; teacher

Gauteng

Tiaan Muller

Dutch Reformed Church

Humansdorp

Carien de Villiers

South African

Western Cape

Jacobus Francois Potgieter

None

Constantia, Cape Town

David Barbour

Methodist Church of Southern Africa

Musgrave, Durban, KZN

Marike Brink

Member: Dutch Reformed Church

Gauteng

Enrico Fourie

Methodist

Gauteng

Franziska Andrag-Meyer

Dutch Reformed Church

Struisbaai, Western Cape

Jenny kerchhoff

St matthews anglican church in hayfields

Pietermaritzburg , kwazulu natal

Nyasha Musimwa

Roman Catholic

Randburg, Gauteng

Tracy Bell

Anglican - Diocese of Natal

Pietermaritzburg, KZN

Alastair Buchanan

A pastor (retired) of Jubilee C.Church

Rondebosch

Tracy Jean Smith

Anglican

KZN

Ralph Willcox

Methodist Church of Southern Africa

Parklands, Western Cape Province

Marthe Muller

Urantia Teaching Mission

Bantry Bay, South Africa

George Lyon Sander

CfC Ministries

Marina Beach, KZN

Allan David Booth

Methodist

Kwa Zulu Natal

Deon Snyman

Uniting Reformed Church

Malmesbury, Western Cape

Sue Clarke

Methodist

Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal

Jabu Mnculwane

Endumisweni Community Church

Pietermaritzburg

Nicole Snowball

Signal Church

Cape Town Western Cape

Johan Stander

Emeritus Reverend Dutch Reformed Church

Bettys Bay Western Cape

Isolde de Villiers

Law Researcher

Free State

Sharon Westcott

White Christian

La lucia 0832700478

Ashling McCarthy

Christian non-demomination

Berea, South Africa

Stephen Oliver

Good Hope Metropolitan Community Church

Vredehoek, Western Cape

Rev Dr Jenette Louisa Sprong

Methodist Church of Southern Africa

Scottburgh, KwaZulu-Natal

Wilhelm Henry Meyer

University of KwaZulu Natal

Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu Natal

MarilynSchott

Baptist

Ekurhuleni, Gauteng

Nadia Schoeman

White Christian

Mbombela Mpumalanga

Helgard Pretorius

NG Kerk Pinelands

Cape Town, Western Cape

Sally Goldman

Methodist

Hillcrest, KZN

Sarah Crawford-Browne

Anglican

Milnerton, Western Cape

Dr Annemarie Paulin-Campbell

Christian belonging to the Roman Catholic Church

Linden Johannesburg

Delme Linscott

Methodist Church

Cape Town

Terri Clapperton

Home Ground Church

Westville, KZN

Johan Pienaar

Predikant NG Kerk

Lynnwood Gauteng

Ayub Khan

ANC

KZN

Joe Baumgartner

Swiss residing in SA, humanitarian worker, worships at TNC Midrand

Johannesburg Gauteng

Jenny Pereira

Methodist church

Pietermaritzburg, Kzn

Pieter Roeloffse

Stellenbosch Gemeente

Stellenbosch, Western Cape

Gil Marsden

Church of the Holy Spirit

Kirstenhof, Western Cape

Martin Badenhorst OP

Roman Catholic

Hyde Park, Gauteng

Revd Mpole Samuel Masemola

College of the Transfiguration / Anglican Church of Southern Africa

Makhanda, Eastern Cape

Lawrize Stofberg

Vineyard Church senior pastor (VCUKI)

Piperdam, Angus

Barnard Gerhard

WinaCity

Kuilsrivier, Western Cape

Mary Robson

Catholic

Durban KwaZulu-Natal

Jon Kerr

Anglican

Claremont, Western Cape

Xolani Nkosi

BARA-CREATION MINISTRIES, Principa at Union Bible Institute

PIETERMARITZBURG, KwaZulu-Natal

Rev Erica Murray

Anglican Church

Capetown Western Cape

Tim Tucker

The Message Trust

Observatory, Western Cape

Thomas Plastow, S.J.

St. Francis Xavier Seminary

Athlone, Western Cape

Sarah Oliver

Anglican

Observatory, Western Cape

Sarah Porter

Anglican Church

Firgrove, W.Cape

Nqabomzi Gawe

I support the group and the statement!

Berea KZN

Annatha Nel

NGK Keimoes en Neilersdrift

Northern Cape

Jim Cochrane

Em. Prof. University of Cape Town

Cape Town, Western Province

Grant Gunston

Jubilee Community church

Cape Town, WC

Brian Helsby

Heartlines

Gauteng

Ines Neto

International Grail

Western Cape

Martin Breytenbach

Anglican

Mowbray, Western Cape

Wendy Appleton

Christ follower

Rondebosch, Cape Town

Ashley Maclennan

The University of the Western Cape

Parow, Western Cape

Roselyn Ann Morrow

Catholic Chrostian

Morningside, Durban

Anne Webster

NCCB

Jhb

Craig Banks

Methodist

Sea Point Western Cape

Saleem Badat

University of the Free State

Durban Kwazulu-Natal

Craig Algie

Christian

Western Cape

Martin Mulcahy

St Michael's Catholic church

Rondebosch, Western Cape

Retha Scholtz

Private

Aston Manor Gauteng

Werner Lottering

Catholic Church

Gauteng

Wimke Jurgens

DR Church

Goodwood, Western Cape

David Grant

Common Ground

Constantia, Western Cape

Rosanne Shields

Southern Cross Magazine (Catholic)

Cape Town, South Africa

Janine Preesman

Ordained Minister Metropolitan Community Churches

Queenswood, Gauteng

Rev. Nkululeko Khanyile

Christian

Soweto, Gauteng

David Meldrum

Anglican

Mowbray, Cape Town, Western Cape

Sarah-Leah Pimentel

White Catholic

Muizenberg, Western Cape

Jonathan King

Crossways Church

East London

Heather Tuffin

Quaker Community of the Western Cape

Pinelands, Western Cape

Marinda van Niekerk

Reverend

Sunnyside, Pretoria, Gauteng

danie veldsman

university of pretoria

gauteng

Johan

Ng kerk

Hermanus western cape

Kay Ellen Lorentz

Resilient Kids SA

Durbanville, Western Cape

Mapula

Hope healing restoration

Midrand Gauteng

Mike Pothier

Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office

Cape Town Western Cape

Nik Wullschleger

SA Citizen and a Christian

WORCESTER WESTERN CAPE

Ps Gary Daniels

Shamash Global NPC

Pinelands Cape Town

Gerhard van der Merwe

Dutch Reformed church

Goodwood

Katherine Johnston

Pinelands Baptist Church

Pinelands, Western Cape

Jampie Nel

Dutch Reformed Church

Oostersee, Cape Toen

Loraine Wood

Baptist

Vredehoek, Cape Town

Penny Brink

Seventh-day Adventist

Somerset West, Western Cape

Clem Grey

CHS Church capetown.

Cape Town

Corne Stannard

Jesus follower

Pinelands Western Cape

Joan Marston

Sunflower Children's Hospice

Dan Pienaar, Bloemfontein

Helen Jennifer Legh Southwood

Church of the Holy Spirit

Western Cape

Peter Sadie

CHRISTIAN

Orchards, gauteng

Chris Rowland

Jubilee Community Church

Plumstead, Western Cape

Vicky Simpson

Christian

Durban, KwaZulu Natal

Mark Wiemers

Umhlali Methodist Church

Ballito KwaZulu-Natal

Andrew Warmback

Anglican Church

uMhlanga, KZN

Jan Petrus Bosman

Stellenbosch University

Pinelands, Western Cape

Johanna Dorothea van Wyngaard

Dutch Reformed Church

Piet Retief, Mpumalanga

Penny Middelkoop

Anglican

Rondebosch, Western Cape

Kirsten Barnes

Non-denominational Kids' Ministry Leader

Cape Town, Western Cape

Ina van der Spuy

South African/Canadian citizen

Saskatchewan, Canada

Brian Germond

Anglican

Linden, Gauteng

Justine Burns

Christian

Claremont, Western Cape

Roxanne Atkinson

Church of Jesus Christ

Cape Town, Western Cape

Vanessa Campbell

Roman Catholic

Johannesburg, Gauteng

Belinda Inglis

White Christian

Bergvliet, Cape Town

Roger Williams

Private

Vasco Estate, Cape Town, Western Cape

Wynand van Niekerk

Dutch Reformed Church

Pretoria, Gauteng

Angela Kemm

The Reconciled Church

Plumstead Cape Town

Ronel Geldenhuys

We desperately need each South african to engage in restoration of our country and not seek for help outside. Especially Christians looking for help external to doing the sacrificial thing to repent and hear one another in order to bring our country and first of all the church into unity across ethnic boundaries. We support this call

Gauteng

Angela Kemm

The Reconciled Church

Plumstead, Cape Town

Aneleh Fourie LeRoux

Dutch Reformed Church

Somerset-West, Western Cape

Richard Holloway

DRC St Helena Bay

Western Cape

Willem van der Waal

Reformed Pastor

Johannesburg

Gareth Bowley

One Hope Church

Stellenbosch (Western Cape)

Trevor Amafu Peter Ntlhola

TEASA

Johannesburg, Gauteng

Willem Wiid

Dutch Reformed Church

Newton Park, Gqeberha

Jorgen Edward Barnard

White Christian

Cape Town- Somerset-Wes

Siphiwe F Mkhize PhD

Roman Catholic

Hillcrest, Kwa Zulu Natal

Jessica McCarter

Christ Church Kenilworth. ANGLICAN

Claremont Capetown Western cape

Clark Buys

Tearfund & Anglican Church

KZN / UK

Jennifer Gous

Lay minister St Frances of the Fynbos

Betty’s Bay, Western Cape

Kate Europa

Jubilee Community Church

Salt River, WC

Jake Waldron

Tree Of Life Manenberg

Manenberg, Cape Town

Robert Fisher

Pastor

Europe

Glenn Hurlow

Seventh-day Adventist Church

Somerset West Western Cape

Nat Phomane

Council of African Independent Churches

Pretoria, Gauteng

Anastasia Huntley

Anglican

Roodepoort Gauteng

Rev. Sean McGuigan

Methodist Church of Southern Africa

Hilton, Kwazulu-Natal

Eugene Malan

Pastor, Dutch Reformed Church Sonstraal

Durbanville, Western Cape

Margriet Knaap

Non

Western Cape Province

Lorraine North

Methodist Church of Southern Africa

Somerset West, Western Cape

Johannes (Klippies) Kritzinger

Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Aftics

Olympus, Gauteng

Sanel Stoneman

Personal capacity

Western Cape

Prof. Gerrie Snyman (Retired)

University of South Africa

Villieria, Pretoria, Gauteng

Alnerie Turck

NPO Leader

Cape Town, Western Cape

Janette Wright

Christian

Pinelands, Western Cape

Georgie Borgström

Common Ground C'berg

Meadowridge

Schalk v Heerden

Dutch Reformed Church

Gauteng

Ross Anderson

REACH-SA/GWC

Muizenberg, Cape Town

Sihle Mooi

Hotel Hope Ministries

Melville, Johannesburg

Lynese Galloway Macey

Christ follower

Pinelands, Cape Town

Vernon Loker

Anglican

Durban North RSA

Dr Gerhard Venter

Retired Baptist minister

Kleinmond, Western Cape, 7195

Guillaume Smit

Hugenote Kollege

Western Cape

Mark Long

Church of England (since July 2022; previously Anglican Church of Southern Africa)

Kimbolton, Herefordshire,UK

Dave Speakman

None

Illinois

Dr Grace Nkomo

Connect Network, Ubukho Bakhe, University of the Western Cape

Cape Town, South Africa

Brendan Eagar

Baptist

Kensington, Gauteng

Angela Kemm

The Reconciled Church

Plumstead, Cape Town

Veroni Kruger

The Word for the World Bible Translators

Somerset West, Western Cape

Felicity Harrison

Catholic

Cape Town

Jeremy Hansen

Pastor; Jubilee Community Church

Claremont; Western Cape

Pierre Smith

Every Nation

Somerset West Western Cape

Marie-Jean Brink

Dutch Reformed Church

Rietfontein, Pretoria, Gauteng

Erien Steenkamp

Christian

Somerset west, Westville Cape

Andre Steenkamp

NCCB

Gauteng

David Irish

Jubilee Community Church

Meadowridge, Western Cape

Nicky de Villiers

South African citizen since birth 70+ years ago

Kirstenhof. Cape Town. Western Cape

Marc Hemmens

Lighthouse Family Church

Newton Park, Gqeberha

Mick Plüddemann

Jubilee Community Church

Cape Town, Western Cape

Jacques Sadie

White Afrikaner, Christian

Takoma Park, Maryland, USA

FRANCOIS JACOBUS REDELINGHUYS

Netherdutch Reformed Church

Bettys bay, Western Cape, South Africa

Trixi Blumschein Pluddemann

Jubilee Community Church

Cape Town Western Cape

Adrian Europa

Jubilee Community Church

Salt river, Cape Town, Western Province, SA

Doug Clothier

Jubilee Community Church

Cape Town, Western Cape

Juergen Rose

Anglican

Joubertina, Eastern Cape

Ilse Ahrends

Anglican

Rosebank Western Cape

Andries Cornelis Janse (André) VAN NIEKERK

Ned Geref Kerk

Baileys Muckleneuk , PRETORIA

David Fraser

Jubilee Community Church

Rondebosch, Western Cape

Robyn Wolfson Vorster

Hillside Vineyard Christian Fellowship

Johannesburg, Gauteng

Joshua Jacobs

Renew Church Fourways

Louwlardia, Gauteng

Angela Kemm

The Reconciled Church

Plumstead, Cape Town

Gail Malcomess

Common Ground Church Wynberg

Wynberg, Western Cape

Michael Maccallum

Wellspring Community Church

Marina Da Gama, Cape Town, Western Cape

Leon Eduardt de Jager

Christian

Mpumalanga

Carol Martin

Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Capetown, Western Cape

Robert Mckay

Christian Ally

Olympia Washington, USA

Johannes Raubenheimer

Retired

Durban, KZN

Britta Zawada

Pretoria, Gauteng

Stu Walker

iThemba Projects

Hilton KZN

Charlotte Grey

Vineyard Churches

Bergvliet, Western Cape

Lerato

iZenzo Job Club

Gauteng

Riaan van Jaarsveld

Apostolic Faith Mission

Upington, Northern Cape

Jacques Strydom

Dutch Reformed Church

Brackenfell, Cape Town

Dr. George Marchinkowski

Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa

Kempton Park, Gauteng

Marcelle September

None

Gqeberha Eastern Cape

Tim Jobson

Anglican. Christ Church, Kenilworth.

Rondebosch, Cape Town

Rev Christopher Judelsohn

Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa

Midrand, Gauteng

Jennifer Broadhurst

Private

Durbanville, Western Cape

Monique Mostert

Fellow christian

Durbanville. Western Cape

Marguerite Christi Potgieter

Church of the nations

Durbanville, Western Cape

Jacqueline Van Vuren

None

Rondebosch, Cape Town

Johannes Martinus Potgieter

Follower of Jesus

Durbanville, Western Cape

Japie Krige

Dutch Reformed Church

Melville, Gauteng

Ydalene Coetsee

Uniting Reformed Church

Stellenbosch Western Cape

Sharon Wright

Lily of the Valley Evangel Church

USA

Simoné Buchler

Jubilee Community Church

Newlands, Western Cape

Piet Beukes

DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH

KZN

John Gerard Ingram Clarke

Roman Catholic

Randburg Gauteng

Alexander Campbell

Roman Catholic Unitarian

Ottawa, Canada

Joe Boniaszczuk

Catholic

Durban North, KZN

Paul Goller

Catholic

Gauteng

Michael Brasler

Baptist

Lakeside, Western Cape

Carel van der Merwe

Church leader

Gqeberha Eastern Cape

Jana Niehaus

Non-denominational

Cape Town

Amanda Jane Pearson

Anglican priest

Bishopscourt Village, Western Cape

Andries Cilliers

Dutch Reformed Church

Sea Point Western Cape

Dan Vaughan

St Frances United Church

SedgeField WC

Graham Vermooten

Sustainable Missions

Cape Town, Western Cape

Geoff Davies

Anglican Church of Southern Africa and the Southern African Faith Communities Environment Institute

Kalk Bay and Western Cape

Michelle Pearton

Follower of Jesus

Durban North KwaZuluNatal

Renie Laage

None

Gauteng

Pieter Dirk Steyn

Following Jesus

Eastern Province

Rob Goldman

Hillcrest Methodist Church

Hillcrest, KZN

(Note: 413 signatories as of 6.00pm 28.2.25)


[1] https://www.genocidewatch.com/single-post/rising-crime-in-south-africa