Source: Gateway News, August 26, 2021
Gateway News received reports from two Christian leaders who were both led by the Holy Spirit to carry out healing missions in KwaZulu-Natal in the wake of the looting and unrest in South Africa that started in the province in July.
Pastor John Mathuhle, who is from Senekal in the Free State, was dispatched to Phoenix, north of Durban, to build bridges of hope and healing in an area where communities were torn apart as the July unrest led to violence that claimed about 36 lives there and fanned racial tensions in the area.
Reporting on his mission, Pastor John said that watching media coverage in July of malls burning as thousands of people looted all they could get their hands on was like watch apocalyptic movies of the end of the world. It also brought back memories of October 16 last year where a tense standoff between angry farmers and armed EFF supporters in Senekal nearly turned into a bloody civil war.
“Had the Lord not intervened through His Church across the nation, it only had to take one bullet or one throw of a stone for the whole situation to break into a blood bath—that’s how close it was,” he wrote.
But, in response to the prayers of many believers throughout South Africa and beyond, God intervened, miraculously turning people’s hearts from conflict to reconciliation and community rebuilding. The experience left him and others in the Eastern Free State town feeling indebted to the nation and the world for standing with them in prayer, said John.
For a report on the events of July read Sparked by Zuma’s Arrest, Unrest in South Africa Escalates (Christian Science Monitor).