SA Quaker News, April 2023, is out

Download the latest edition of SAQN (Issue 252) from the Publications page.

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Discussion documents on a Universal Basic Income Grant

Below are two PDF files on UBIG. They can be viewed either by scrolling in the block where you see the text, or they can be downloaded by clicking the “Download” button beneath each. If you struggle to access them, please contact Heath and she will email you the PDF files directly.

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SA Quaker News, November 2022, now available

The latest SA Quaker News, Number 251, published in October 2022 is now available from the link below.

SA Quaker News — November 2022

The issue starts with a focus on World Quaker Day 2022 celebrations at the Meetings in SAYM.


The contents are as follows:

Editorial — by the new editor, Bronwen Ellis

WORLD QUAKER DAY
Bulawayo celebrations — Sipho Nsimbi
Eastern Cape Quakers — John Blair
Quaker Community of the Western Cape — Photos by Bronwen Ellis and Graham Thomas
Namibia and Blue Idol meeting — Helen Vale and Enid Ellis

QUAKERS THINKING – ABOUT THE FUTURE
Creating a stairway to Heaven – Jennifer Bowler
The Circle of Life – Doreen Bekker Natural money – Rory Short
The Anonymity of Money – Rory Short

QUAKERS IN ACTION
The FAU in South Africa, Part 3 — Anthony Barlow

NON-QUAKERS IN ACTION
Leafline is Life Line — Bronwen Ellis

BOOK REVIEWS
Countdown — Alan Weisman — by Helen Holleman, Eastern Cape Quakers
The Battle for God — Karen Armstrong — by Wouter Holleman, Eastern Cape Quakers
How the World really works — Vaclav Smil — by George Ellis, Quaker Community of the Western Cape

TAILPIECE
Afterword – Closing the Gap — Wouter Holleman

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SA Quaker News, September 2022, now available

The latest SA Quaker News, Number 250, published in September 2022 is now available from the link below.

SA Quaker News — September 2022

The issue has a large focus on Ubuntu, the theme for the SAYM Yearly Meeting coming up in January 2023, including photographs from Susan Winters’ 30-years of capturing images of a Southern African phenomenon for which she did not previously have a word.

The contents are as follows:

Southern Africa’s Gift to the World — Gregory Mthembu-Salter

Testimony: Sheldon Weeks

QUAKERS THINKING

Caring for Creation — Amanda Gibberd

Blessed be the Fruit — Bronwen Ellis

Poverty in Zimbabwe — Phillemon Chirimambowa

Confession of a reluctant Quaker — Michael Sperger 

QUAKERS IN ACTION

River Rescue, Part 2 — Helen Holleman

Young Friends AVP workshop — Kopane Moteane & Ruvimbo Kadungura

The FAU in South Africa, Part 2 — Anthony Barlow

Easter Egg hunt — Cecilia Nkesi & Khosi Sekoere

The Yvonne Pickering Kindergarten — Enid Ellis

QUAKERS TRAVELLING

Flock to Marion Island — Justine Limpitlaw

More images of Ubuntu — Susan Winters

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Yearly Meeting 2023

The upcoming YM 2023 of the Southern Africa Yearly Meeting will be taking place from 3-8 January 2023 at Good Shepherd Retreat Centre in Hartbeespoort. Please check the Events page for details and to download registration forms.

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SAQN 249 — May 2022 now available

Go the the Publications page to read or download the latest edition of SA Quaker News.

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Minutes from the March 2022 Representative Meeting

The Minutes are accessible via the SAYM page or by clicking here. The document is behind the password. Please contact your Clerk for the password.

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World Bank report on Inequality in Southern Africa

An Assessment of the Southern African Customs Union

Download the report by clicking the image below. The PDF file is about 8,5 MB.

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Representatives Meeting, 26/27 March 2022 documentation

The document pack for the March 2022 Representatives Meeting can be downloaded via the SAYM web page.The reports in the document pack are also available for browsing online as web pages. They can also be accessed via the SAYM web page.

The Representatives Meeting page is protected by the password, so please contact you Clerk if you do not have it.

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SA Quaker News 248 — January 2022

SAQN 248 is now available on the publications page, or it can be accessed by clicking here.

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