Cape Town Archbishop Thabo Makgoba inaugurated a new Anglican diocese at a ceremony in Queenstown at the weekend.
The new diocese has been named Ukhahlamba Diocese, and lies north of Grahamstown.
Diocesan spokesperson Maggy Clarke said it was named after the Drakensburg mountain range.
I am a little surprised. This is a very poor, largely Xhosa-speaking area. Although the Grahamstown diocese is geographically large (and used to be even larger before it split off Port Elizabeth into a separate diocese) it is still manageable. Can this area sustain a diocese, one wonders, and is it necessary?