By Derick Matsengarwodzi PRETORIA was recently soaking in blood. The xenophobic attacks left a trail of confusion on souther...
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By Derick Matsengarwodzi
PRETORIA was recently soaking
in blood. The xenophobic attacks left a trail of confusion on southern Africa’s
relations. Security details continue to comb for evidence leading to the
callous murders in Africa’s second largest economy.
As many continue to
seek answers, the church however came in full force to condemn the senseless
murders that habitually besiege South Africa, and using spiritual warfare to denounce
the heinous acts. Reverend Edson Tsvakai was adamant and held that, “It is time
to call on God stop the attacks. If we do not pray, the situation will not
change,” he mentioned during a recent prayer session in Harare.
While leadership has
been vocal about the attacks, prayer is the main channel to avert the acts. At
the dawn of 2014, at an all-night vigil to mark the advent of 2015, Apostle
Pride Sibiya stunned the gathering by pronouncing that: “foreign nationals in
South Africa and Botswana are emissaries dispatched by God to preach and pray
for their host nations to turn towards God.”
He declared,
“Generally, 2015 will be a difficult year in these two mentioned countries.
Their economies will be depressed because of ill-treatment of foreigners and
homosexuality tendencies.” Homosexuality is acceptable in South Africa, while
xenophobic attacks have been recurrent with the most casualties recorded in
2008.
Few months later, the
prophecy began to manifest itself after a foreign shop owner gunned down a boy
for allegedly stealing. Then, a wild statement by King Goodwill Zwelithini
fuelled the already inflated situation. Their respective currencies have
suffered a downturn, whilst water and electricity shortages have escalated.
“Xenophobia was
instigated as a form of awareness to foreign nationals who were sent to preach
the gospel of Christ but resorted to womanising, fornication and drunkenness.
Let us pray for these countries. The attacks were not instigated by the Zulu
nationals but they are spiritual,” mentioned Apostle Sibiya.
Paul Charles,
communication director of the Southern African-Indian Ocean Division
Seventh-day Adventist Church released a statement condemning the attacks. “The
Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Southern African-Indian region is outraged
by the recent, current xenophobic attacks against foreign nationals in South
Africa. There is no justifiable reason to warrant the senseless violence and
prejudice bringing shame to a new and free democratic South Africa.
To embrace true freedom
means to renounce a spirit of domination, abuse or violence against people.
Without reservation, our leadership and almost 3.5million Seventh-day Adventist
members in Southern Africa condemn all these senseless acts of violence and
hatred which also affected members of our church.”
Regional churches also recently
combined forces to execute night vigils and street marches to renounce these
acts. Notable servants of God such as Shingi Munyeza, the president of
Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe, a gathering of more than 500 churches in
Zimbabwe condemned the acts. – Tinzwei
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