Thabo Makgoba

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Thabo Makgoba at the 2012 World Economic Forum

Thabo Cecil Makgoba (born December 15, 1960 in Alexandra , Johannesburg ) is a South African theologian . Since 2007 he has served as Archbishop of Cape Town and Primate of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa .

Life

Makgoba grew up in Alexandra . He attended the local Pholosho Primary School and then the Orlando High School in Soweto , where he took his matric . He earned a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) In Applied Psychology from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He then attended St. Paul's College in Grahamstown until 1989 to become an Anglican priest. He married Lungelwa "Lungi" Manona, the daughter of the social anthropologist Cecil Manona (1937–2013). He received a Master of Education in Educational Psychology from the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was also employed as a Senior Lecturer from 1993 to 1996 . He was curate of St. Mary's Cathedral in Johannesburg and chaplain of the University of the Witwatersrand. He then served as a priest in Johannesburg for St. Alban's Church in Ferreirastown before moving to Christ the King Church in Sophiatown . From 1999 he was archdeacon there.

In 2002 he became suffragan bishop of Queenstown , in 2004 bishop of the parent diocese of Grahamstown. On December 31, 2007, Njongonkulu Ndungane was consecrated as Archbishop of Cape Town and he took on the role of Primate, the highest office of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa. At the time of appointment, he was the youngest primate in the history of the ecclesiastical province.

In 2009 Makgoba received his PhD from the University of Cape Town with a thesis on the spirituality of disabled miners. From July 2011 to April 2012 he was a member of the Press Freedom Commission.

In 2012 he made Ellinah Wamukoya the first woman in Africa to take office as Bishop of the Diocese of Swaziland . Makgoba has been Chancellor of the University of Cape Town since 2012 . He appeared several times on panel discussions at the World Economic Forum in Davos . The Archbishop Thabo Makgoba Development Trust is a foundation he runs that works against social inequality. She works in the fields of school education, professional development and health education.

On May 28, 2017, he gave the sermon in the closing service of the 36th German Evangelical Church Congress in Wittenberg .

Makgoba is married to Lungelwa Makgoba; they have two children together.

Positions

Makgabo (2nd from right) with other clergymen on International Nelson Mandela Day 2013
  • At the 2009 Synod, guidelines for dealing with homosexual couples by the Anglican Church were adopted, which are also to be applied in the states of the ecclesiastical province that do not have liberal legislation for homosexuals like South Africa.
  • In September 2015, he and the other Anglican bishops of the ecclesiastical province prayed for all those involved in the massacre at the site of the Marikana massacre. Makgoba gave them his blessing .
  • In his Christmas sermon in 2016, Makgoba clearly rejected President Jacob Zuma's suggestion that the churches should not interfere in politics.

Works

  • 2005: Connectedness. Short memoirs. Pretext, Cape Town.
  • 2011: Workplace Spirituality in a Context - A reflection from a perspective of spinal cord injured mine workers. Dissertation. Lambert Academic Publishing, ISBN 978-3-8454-7602-5 .

Honors

Web links

Commons : Thabo Makgoba  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archibishop donates to his former school. alexnews.co.za of March 5, 2015 (English), accessed December 26, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c d e entry in Who's Who Southern Africa ( Memento from December 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  3. ↑ Archbishop Thabo Makgoba Development Trust website , accessed December 26, 2016
  4. ↑ Report on the final service at evangelisch.de, accessed on May 28, 2017
  5. ↑ Report in the Makgobas blog , accessed on December 26, 2016
  6. ^ South Africa is not broken, says Makgoba. iol.co.za on December 25, 2016, accessed December 26, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Makgoba, Thabo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Makgoba, Thabo Cecil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African clergyman, Archbishop of Cape Town
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Alexandra