A good week for Bishop Stephen Moreo
The filthy streets of downtown Joburg were suddenly cleared of rubbish this week, not by miracle but by divine intervention of a kind. On Palm Sunday, Bishop Stephen Moreo, head of the Anglican Church’s diocese in the city, became so indignant at the state of the streets that he went out, clad in robes and mitre of office and clutching his crosier, to embarrass city officials with an impromptu and excoriating sermon, accompanied by cries of “Hosanna” and surrounded by garbage outside the Cathedral Church of St Mary the Virgin. Within hours a municipal cleanup began.
A bad week for Wim de Villiers
Ever since transforming a pillar of the previous establishment, Wim de Villiers has been in the crosshairs of those who want Stellenbosch University to remain Afrikaans. For the rector and vice-chancellor of the university, language has been a battleground. There was talk of a motion of no confidence after the South African Human Rights Commission found the university violated the rights of Afrikaans-speaking students. Now he faces allegations of nepotism after two close relatives benefited from his discretionary rights to places in the university.
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