AMAHORO AFRICA

Amahoro Gathering 2009

Details

Dates: June 8-15, 2009

Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

Conversation: Reformation

Cost: $1200 USD (covers all accomodation, meals, conference fees and transport within South Africa. Airfare not included). A non-refundable deposit of $200 is required on registration to secure your place. The balance will be due by 1 April 2009.

Accomodation: Youth For Christ Training Centre situated in the Hekpoort Valley of the Magaliesberg, about 1 hour from Johannesburg

Field Trips: There will be 3 field trips for the non-African participants to Durban, Cape Town and the Eastern Cape, which will leave on the morning of Friday, 12th June, and return to Johannesburg on the afternoon of Sunday 14th June. The field trips will provide an opportunity to see and participate in ministries doing Kingdom work in South Africa.

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Agenda


  • Arrival on Monday, 8th June, with the official start of the conference at supper time and ending with breakfast on Friday, 12th June. (Field trips depart the morning of Friday, 12th June, and return to Johannesburg on the afternoon of Sunday 14th June.)

  • The conference will include speakers on featured topics as well as ample time for small group discussion and networking.

  • A full list of conversation partners will be sent out in due course, but invited speakers include Desmond Tutu (emeritus Archbishop, RSA), John de Gruchy (theologian, RSA), Brian McLaren (author, USA), Glenda Wildschut (TRC comissioner, RSA), Edward Antonio (theologian, Zimbabwe), Sam Kareithi (developmental economist, Kenya), Pam Wilhelms (sustainability consultant, USA) and Vishal Mangalwadi (author, India). We are expecting about 300 participants from Africa and a 100 from the rest of the world.

  • Field Trip groups will meet back in Johannesburg for feeback sessions on the evening of the 14th June and the morning of Monday, 15th June. We will officially end with lunch, so that participants can catch flights back home in the afternoon and evening.

  • For more information, including the full agenda, please complete our Amahoro Gathering Information Request Form.

The African Reformation

By Thabo Mbeki
Amahoro Africa - Thabo Mbeki

I am an African.

I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land.

I owe my being to the Khoi and the San whose desolate souls haunt the great expanses of the beautiful Cape – they who fell victim to the most merciless genocide our native land has ever seen, they who were the first to lose their lives in the struggle to defend our freedom and dependence and they who, as a people, perished in the result.

I am formed of the migrants who left Europe to find a new home on our native land. Whatever their own actions, they remain still, part of me.

My mind and my knowledge of myself is formed by the victories that are the jewels in our African crown, the victories we earned from Isandhlwana to Khartoum, as Ethiopians and as the Ashanti of Ghana, as the Berbers of the desert.

I come of those who were transported from India and China, whose being resided in the fact, solely, that they were able to provide physical labour, who taught me that we could both be at home and be foreign, who taught me that human existence itself demanded that freedom was a necessary condition for that human existence.

Being part of all these people, and in the knowledge that none dare contest that assertion, I shall claim that - I am an African.