Missionary News, Prayer Points
Prayer Points – Mark and Carol Grieve
Thursday 15 April, 2010 · Posted by Editor
I would like to ask all our supporters to be in prayer for South Africa at this time.
The country is at its highest racial disunity since 1994. Their is much tension and bitterness across racial lines and among the poor who continue to despair with poor service delivery.
The tension has been fuelled almost single-handedly by the ignorant but influential ANC youth league president, Julius Malema. He continues to upset minority groups in the nation. He has been chanting the apartheid struggle song “Dubula iBhunu” which means literally “Kill the farmer.” He refuses to stop singing this at rallies. Since 1994, 3400 farmers have been murdered. This week the leader of the white racist party called AWB was murdered. He was a famer. The AWB party vowed revenge but have since retracted. But tensions still remain high. Today the two farm workers who murdered Eugene Terre Blanche appeared in court. There were cheers of ‘Hero’ from blacks and condemnation from whites. Barbed wire was placed in between them.
Furthermore Malema has just been to Zimbabwe were he endorsed Mugabes land reforms and declared that South Africa needed to go the same way. Despite not being on the cabinet of the ANC there seems to be no one in leadership willing or wanting to quieten Malema. The ANC is losing respect both locally and internationally and its ministers are continually in the news for all the wrong reasons, i.e. corruption.
Please pray that a calm and strong leadership that has integrity will rise within the ruling party.
Thank you for your prayers.
Mark Grieve
South Africa – 15 April 10
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