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Remembering and celebrating friends and supporters who have died

Last updated December 2024



As we add to the history of the Denis Hurley Centre, we want to celebrate people who have been a key part of our journey and whom we have lost. This page will be updated with links to tributes and memorials of people who have been important in the life of the Denis Hurley Centre and who have passed from this life to a better place.

We are sad to say goodbye to those we have loved and we will miss their company.  But, as people of faith, we can give thanks to God for the service they gave and be confident that, in God’s mercy, they will receive their eternal reward.  With St Thomas More we can pray: "We may yet hereafter in heaven merrily all meet together, to our everlasting salvation.”





2010
Fatima Meer (1928-2010)
Patron, Struggle hero, and close associate of +Hurley
2012
Prof Phillip Tobias (1925-2012)
Patron and renowned paleoanthropologist

2012
Rev Dr Khosa Mgojo (1932-2012)
Patron, Methodist Bishop

2016
Right Rev David Konstant (1930-2016)UK Patron, Bishop of Leeds

2017
Most Rev Barry Wood (1942-2017)Auxiliary Bishop of Durban
Link to the Homily preached at his funeral
2017
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-OConnor (1932-2017)
UK Patron, Archbishop of Westminster

2017
Themi Venturas (1958-2017)
Creator of 2015 Hurley Centenary Concert

2018
Nomfundu Ntuli (1985-2018)
Member of Face2Face café team

2018
Paddy Kearney (1942-2018)
Founder and chair of Trustees Paddy Kearney pages
2020
Canon Christopher Tuckwell (1945-2020)
Patron, Dean of Westminster Cathedral

2021
Rt Rev Abel Gabuza (1955-2021)Archbishop Co-Adjutor of DurbanObituary in the Southern Cross
2021Mgr Paul Nadal (1932-2021)Trustee, Patron and FundraiserPaul Nadal pages
2021
Virushka Ganga (1984-2021)Member of Face2Face café teamLInk to February 2021 news update
2021
Ben Ngubane (1941-2021)
Patron, Premier of KZN

2021Baroness Shirley Williams (1930-2021)
UK Patron, UK Government Minister

2021Mildred Neville (1927-2021)
UK Patron, founder of CIIR

2021Rev John Borman (1935-2021)
Methodist Bishop, Struggle hero
Link to June 2021 news update
2021Thandeka Makhanya (1991-2021)
Activist, and homeless woman,
Link to August 2021 news update
2021Liz Mkame (1937-2021)
Patron, partner with Paddy at Diakonia.
Link to October 2021 news update
2022
Albert Nolan (1934-2022)
Liberation Theologian
Link to October 2022 news update
2023Dr Hoosen 'Jerry' Coovadia (1940-2023)
Patron, Struggle hero, and renowned Doctor
Link to March 2024 news update
2023Paddy Meskin (1945-2023)
Patron, Founder of 'Religions for Peace'
Link to January 2023 news update
2023Rt Rev Maurice Taylor (1926-2023)
UK Patron, Bishop of Galloway (Scotland)

2023
David van der Westhuizen (1980-2023)
Street Lit
Link to July 2023 news update
2024Rev Norman Hudson (1931-2024)
Methodist Bishop, Chair of Diakonia

2024Ursula Hurley (1933-2024)
Poet and sister-in-law of + Denis Hurley

2024Pravin Gordhan (1949-2024)
Government Minister, and associate of Paddy Kearney
Link to September 2024 news update
2024Priscilla McKay (1940-2024)
Social Work Advisor, close friend of Paddy
Link to November 2024 news update





In addition, we remember those donors who have generously left us money in their wills.  For such legacies we commit to retaining the capital and only spending the interest so that the gift will continue to benefit the work of the DHC in perpetuity. 

For reasons of privacy, we do not list these donors by name but we remember them and all the names on this page in our Memorial Masses.




We also mourn the passing of homeless people, refugees and drug users who have used our services and for whom the struggle to survive became too much. Sometime we know about their deaths, often we do not; sometimes we know their real names, sometimes we do not. Often, in death as in life, they are not noticed by the world, but they are known to God and we believe will be welcomed home by the father of of us all. A few of those whose name we know include:

Faith ka Manzi
Thembinkosi Mathiyela
James Tshabalala
Banzi Mkula
Kgotso
Sicelo Blessing Ndlovu
Buhle Pearce
Andile Ndlovu
Siya Mngadi
Siyabonga Melokuhle
Jabu Msomi
Thobile Ngcobo
Londizwi Ndlovu
Senzo Khoza
Thabani Khanyile
Ntombi Zwane
Njabulo Ngcobo
Vusi Tshangase
Nosipho Shangase
Thandani Mkhize
Pamela Homani
Timothy Ngcobo
Kwazi Maphumulo
Clement Jali
Bongani Mkhize
Sikhumbuzo Gumede
Zenzele Dlamini
Amanda Kubheka
Thandeka Khanyile
Pinky Mtshali
Senzo Khoza
Thabani Khanyile




"Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.” (Luke 6:20)