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The Most Rev. Dr. Thabo Makgoba is the Anglican Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa. He became Archbishop of Cape Town in 2007, the youngest person ever to be elected to this position. His book, Faith & Courage: Praying with Mandela, recounts his ministry of prayer and presence in the final years of Mandela’s life. We are grateful to be able to ask him more about his life and ministry.

1. What is your hope for this book?
My hope is that it will encourage others to write about their stories of faith and be courageous in articulating them. There are many milestones that people pass in their lives and one of my milestones as a Christian was being fortunate enough to be asked to minister to Nelson Mandela in his “quietening” years. His was a story of faith and courage which transformed me, so my hope for others is that readers will learn about the spiritual side of Nelson Mandela and be transformed by his story.

2. What is your favorite mem

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Feature Story
Holy Disrupters: Interviews with religious leaders and advocates on HIV and compassion
Thabo Makgoba, Archbishop of Cape Town
UNAIDS speaks to the Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba about his work on HIV and his hopes for the future
What was your experience working on HIV in the early days?
I first started working on HIV in around 1998 when I was a rector in Johannesburg and it was a scary time, I remember the South African television adverts saying ‘AIDS kills’ with a coffin that banged—we were all terrified. Everyone was scared, there was a lot of stigma, parishioners were also dying from fear and lack of knowledge.
"There was an immense fear that life had come to an end…."
Through Archbishop Desmond Tutu and others we knocked on every door and established the Anglican Church of Southern Africa’s AIDS programme called ACSA. We hit the ground running but there was an immense fear that life had come to an end….
How has your work changed today?
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An address to the "Theology from Below Conference" at the Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University:

Fellow theologians (all of us here are theologians, no matter how far along the journey we are);
Fellow students of the Gospel (because all of us, no matter how well qualified, remain students all our lives);
Sisters and brothers in Christ:

Good evening. And for those from other parts of our country, our continent and the world, welcome to the beautiful Western Cape. It is exciting for me to be among all of you, postgraduate students and researchers from many different backgrounds and contexts, here in Stellenbosch tonight.

The conference organisers have asked me to tell my own story, including my journey as a ung person entering the world of theology and the church, in the context of theologies that are speaking from the margins and challenging those “at the top”, or theologies concerned with Africa and the Global South.

You may think it strange fo