The peoples of southern Africa are confronted with the daily reality of war.
War means the killing of people, the deliberate act of taking human lives.
It entails the planned and intentional destruction of the accumulated products of human labour. In their wake, all wars leave desolate landscape inhabited by orphans, by widows and widowers, by grief and pain. Go anywhere in southern Africa today and if you have ears to hear, you will not miss the pitiful cries of the bereaved. You will not fail to see the motherless children nor the mothers and fathers whose offspring have ceased to be, mangled into a bloody pulp by the merciless machine of military conflict. The Church has identified some of its major objectives with regard to Namibia, South Africa and our region as a whole as justice, peace and reconciliation.