Crisis News, published by the Western Province Council of Churches, Cape Town, "attempts to tell the truth of what is happening in our country", particularly in the Western Cape and from a theological point of departure. Accounts of human rights violations, detentions, torture, violence and police brutality are reported together with theological viewpoints about the deepening political and social crisis in South Africa, during the 1980's
Archive record
Crisis News

- Origin date
- August 1992
- Updated
- 27 Aug 2019

South African History Online. (2016, February 22). Crisis News. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/R-0104175
South African History Online (2016) 'Crisis News', South African History Online, 22 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/R-0104175 (Accessed: 30 July 2026).
South African History Online, Crisis News [website], https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/R-0104175, (accessed 30 July 2026).
"Crisis News." South African History Online, 22 Feb. 2016, https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/R-0104175. Accessed 30 July 2026.
South African History Online. "Crisis News." South African History Online. February 22, 2016. https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/R-0104175.
Further reading
DISA Archive
Letter from Barney Pityana to Neville Curtis
Cape St Francis, Western Cape Peninsula
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