Anthony Egan SJ

Yesterday Pope Francis travelled to Assisi to sign his new encyclical letter, considered the most authoritative and developed form of papal teaching, which is...

Former Zimbabwean High Court Justice Fergus Blackie died on 24 April 2021 at his home in Johannesburg. He is survived by his wife, two...

9 April 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian and pastor executed by the Nazis as...

Forty years ago, a 36-year old political philosopher was shot dead in his Durban home by ‘person or persons unknown’. Richard Turner was coming to the end of a five year banning order imposed on him for his anti-apartheid political activities. This fact, the fact that he was shot with a 9mm bullet identical to those used by the South African police, and the fact that then Minister of Police Jimmy Kruger had once called Turner ‘the most dangerous man in South Africa’, suggests, if not who, but why he was killed. Anthony Egan looks at the teachings of Turner and why we should reflect on his work today.