The financial stimulus package for businesses in distress due to the COVID-19 pandemic is the South African Government’s strategy to begin the process of economic recovery. Small-scale farmers received only a meagre percentage of these funds. Stan Muyebe, from the Justice and Peace Commission, under the auspices of the Southern African Bishops’ Conference (SACBC), calls for the transformation of the food supply chain to stimulate rural development and provide greater access for small-scale agricultural producers.

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Matthew Charlesworth visited his former high school, where he encountered an artistic composition that prompted a deeper spiritual reflection. The artwork calls for greater religious tolerance, but Charlesworth suggests that it reveals a far more encompassing image of God and the spiritual quest that necessarily values a tolerance that must lead us towards genuine fraternity.

“T.O.L.E.R.A.N.C.E.”, by sculptor and artist Guy Ferrer, is composed of nine bronze sculptures, each representing a letter of the word “tolerance” and depicting aspects of a religion, belief or spirituality.

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