Anglican Communion News Service - Digest News

The ever-widening gap between rich and poor, despite the fall of apartheid, is “truly immoral”, Archbishop of Cape Town Thabo Makgoba has said at his inauguration as chancellor of the University of the Western Cape.

He succeeds Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, who stepped down last year after 23 years.

“It is all too evident that economic disparities remain vast, and even growing,” Makgoba said on Tuesday night.

“The situation in education is little better, for all that the headline statistics trumpet great increases in matric pass rates. For beneath these figures lies the sad story that a good half of those who entered school in 2000 failed even to write matric.

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