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Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize (left), and KZN MEC for Health, Nomagugu Simelane (right) look on as Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, the head of the Anglican Church in South Africa, gets his Covid-19 vaccination at the Royal Showgrounds in Pietermaritzburg on Tuesday. Moeketsi Mamane
Religious leaders in KwaZulu-Natal were happy to be used as “guinea pigs” by the government to spread the message that South Africans should get vaccinated against Covid-19.
Cardinal Wilfrid Napier, the Catholic Archbishop of Durban, said the clergy in the province had made a decision, at the start of lockdown in March last year, to help the government fight the country’s “new enemy”.
The Catholic Church s coadjutor archbishop Abel Gabuza has died of Covid-19. Image: The Inter-Regional Meeting of the Bishops of Southern Africa/via Facebook
Covid-19 has claimed the life of the Catholic Church s archbishop coadjutor of the archdiocese of Durban, Abel Gabuza.
Cardinal Wilfrid Napier, the Catholic Archbishop of Durban, made the announcement on Sunday. Gabuza died at Hillcrest Hospital on Sunday morning after a week in ICU battling Covid-19.
“The archbishop had not been with us in Durban long just short of two years but in that time we came to recognise him as a gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor.