The Nipah virus outbreak in southern India this week has claimed 12 lives to date.According to the World Health Organization the virus is “a newly emerging zoonosis that causes severe disease in both animals and humans. The natural host of the virus are fruit bats of the pteropodidae family, pteropus…
The grandmother of Poppie van der Merwe said she could finally rest after the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria sentenced the toddler’s killers, Louisa and Kobus Koekemoer, to life behind bars. Poppie was only three years old when she died in Brits in October 2016. She had been abused…
Moloch[a] is the biblical name of a Canaanite god associated with child sacrifice. The name of this deity is also sometimes spelled Molech, Milcom, or Malcam. The name Moloch results from a dysphemic vocalisation in the Second Temple period of a theonym based on the root mlk “king”. There are a number of Canaanite gods with names based on this root, which became summarily associated with Moloch, including Biblical מַלְכָּם Malkam “great king”…
The KZN office of the auditor-general has stopped auditing the books of the eThekwini Metro and has recalled all its staff from the council after allegedly receiving a series of death threats, the provincial Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional…
Former ANC MP and arms deal activist Andrew Feinstein has said ahead of the start of former president Jacob Zuma’s corruption trial that there is “overwhelming evidence” of his guilt. “The reality is that Jacob Zuma should find himself in jail,” Feinstein told AFP ahead of Zuma’s court appearance on…
Former president Jacob Zuma’s legal team is expected to file an application to the KwaZulu-Natal High Court on Tuesday as it seeks a review of National Director of Public Prosecutions Shaun Abrahams’ decision that there was no reason for him not to stand trial. The 16 charges relate to the controversial…
The fierce, emotional debates around land the last few months have markedly increased the political temperature and the levels of intolerance across the racial divide. Only centrifugal forces such as AfriForum and the EFF have benefited from this. White South Africans feel more vulnerable and insecure now than in the…
Anton Szandor LaVey[1] (born Howard Stanton Levey; April 11, 1930 – October 29, 1997) was an American author, musician and occultist.[2] He was the founder of the Church of Satan and the religion of La Veyan Satanism. He authored several books, including:…
The name Satan is derived from a root meaning ‘to oppose’ or ‘to be or to act as an adversary.’ In some cases, he is not necessarily malevolent and he may have even been sent by the Lord to prevent worse harm (such as in Numbers). Examples of passages using…
Xaphan was one of the fallen angels who rebelled with Satan. He is now a demon of the 2nd rank. He has a reputation for an inventive mind and came up with the idea to set fire to Heaven before he and the others were thrown out. Dictionnaire Infernal –…
Deuteronomy 18:9-12King James Version (KJV) 9 When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to…
Beelzebub in the Gospels Ba’al-zebub, also called Beelzebub or Beelzebul is known as the ‘prince of demons’. In the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke), it’s who the Pharisees accused Jesus of being because he could cast out demons. For instance: “The scribes who had come from Jerusalem said,…
According to Wierus, Bael is first king of hell with estates in the East. He has three heads: a toad, a man, and a cat. He also speaks in a raucous, but well formed voice, and…
Azazel is the chief of the Se’irim, or goat-demons, who haunted the desert and to whom most primitive Semitic (most likely non-Hebrew) tribes offered sacrifices. The Old Testament states that Jeroboam appointed priests for the Se’irim. But Josiah destroyed the places of…
The Council of Muslim Theologians (Jamiatul Ulama South Africa) distanced itself from a discriminatory online list on how to identify a Shia Muslim, after the link was circulated on WhatsApp and other social media. The list was published in January this year, but has seemingly resurfaced after an attack on…
Critics have described the attack on the Imam Hussain Mosque in Ottawa, Verulam on Thursday as a “heinous attack” and “totally unjustified”. Three men stormed the mosque on Thursday afternoon, stabbing two people and slitting the throat of another man who died in hospital as a result of his extensive…
Parliament’s Select Committee on Social Services has decried the situation in the North West, where there are reports that protesters have been blocking the entrance to the Tshepong Hospital in Klerksdorp. News24 reported earlier on Wednesday that patients at the hospital were left stranded after angry protesters stormed in and forced…
The Book of Enoch (also 1 Enoch;[1] Ge’ez: መጽሐፈ ሄኖክ mets’iḥāfe hēnoki) is an ancient Jewish religious work, ascribed by tradition to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah. The older sections (mainly in the Book of the Watchers) of the text are estimated to date from about 300 BC, and the latest part (Book of Parables) probably to the first…
From country priest to trusted top Vatican aide, Australia’s most senior Catholic cleric George Pell has seen his reputation plagued in the twilight of his career by controversy swirling around a 1970s paedophile scandal in the former gold rush town of Ballarat. To his admirers, the 76-year-old cardinal embodies the…
Beijing – A knife-wielding man with a grudge killed seven middle school children and injured 12 others as they returned home in northern China on Friday, authorities said, in one of the deadliest such rampages in the country in recent years. The 28-year-old suspect was detained and the injured children…
The next deadly disease that will cause a global pandemic is coming, Bill Gates said on Friday at a discussion of epidemics. We’re not ready. An illness like the pandemic 1918 influenza could kill 30 million people within six months, Gates said, adding that the next disease might not even…
Investigation in the case against a man who allegedly raped his domestic worker and forced her to perform sexual acts with his dogs has been completed after the dogs’ DNA results were finalised. The Bronkhorstspruit Magistrate’s Court also heard on Tuesday that the case would now be transferred to the…
She visited dark rooms filled with ceremonial candles and containers of muthi, performed numerous cleansing and healing rituals and spent more than half a million rand. All in the hope of getting help for recurring headaches and maybe finding love again. Instead Lerato Mfuthi* has been left with an even…
Western Cape police say they are making headway in their investigation into the murder of a woman on a farm outside Stilbaai, after arresting four suspects on Friday. Heila Killian, 63, was killed when five masked men shot her at a braai on a friend’s farm. The suspects then made…
A Zimbabwean prophet, 37, has appeared in court after he allegedly killed one of his congregates during a baptism session in Nyaure River in Domboshawa. According to New Zimbabwe.com, the incident happened last weekend when Pastor Masimba Chirayi mistook Wendy Thinnamay Masuka for a “vampire”. Chirayi told the Harare magistrate’s court that…
Mbombela – Police are hunting for three men involved in the murder of a 73-year-old man at a farm in Charl Cilliers, near Secunda, on Friday night. Police spokesperson, Brigadier Leonard Hlathi, said the men had attacked the man and his family shortly after 22:00. “According to information, the man…
Cape Town – A Kimberley couple survived a vicious attack at their farm near the diamond city in the Northern Cape. Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus) has suggested that there could be a political motive behind the incident. Provincial police spokesperson Captain Sergio Kock said four men entered the couple’s…
A farmer and his wife are recovering in hospital after a group of balaclava-clad men attacked them in their home in Reivilo, North West police said on Thursday. Christo, 52, and Lizelle Bosman, 46, were woken from their sleep in the early hours of Wednesday by seven or eight robbers,…
An armed gang are on the run after opening fire on a group of people on a farm outside Stilbaai, killing a 62-year-old woman, Southern Cape police said on Tuesday. The men, wearing balaclavas to conceal their faces, accosted two men and two women who were having a braai in…
Statistics compiled by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) were presented in the sentencing proceedings in the case against former Western Cape police commissioner Arno Lamoer and three others at the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday. IPID’s head of investigations Matthew Sesoko was asked to present the statistics at…
President Cyril Ramaphosa and British Prime Minister Theresa May agreed on a deal worth millions to help South Africa improve its business environment. Ramaphosa is in the UK on a working visit to London to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, which will take place on Thursday and Friday.…
Two people have been arrested in connection with the murder of four people, including two teenagers and a child, who were shot dead at Brown’s Farm near Philippi in Cape Town, Western Cape police said on Sunday. “Our investigations into the ruthless killing led to the apprehension of two suspects,…
Polokwane – The doors of Limpopo’s Enterprise factory in Polokwane remain shut after the health department confirmed on Sunday that the source of a listeriosis outbreak had been traced back to the facility. After a two hour meeting on Monday, management told workers that the factory would be closed until…
Mbombela – Police are hunting for three men involved in the murder of a 73-year-old man at a farm in Charl Cilliers, near Secunda, on Friday night. Police spokesperson, Brigadier Leonard Hlathi, said the men had attacked the man and his family shortly after 22:00. “According to information, the man…
Port Elizabeth – A private bill has been lodged by Congress of the People (COPE) Member of Parliament, Deidre Carter, that seeks to have the “right of refusal” of state employed marriage officers taken away. The Civil Union Amendment Bill, was lodged with the Office of the Speaker of the…
Johannesburg – The South African Council of Churches has threatened to act against Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane if she fails to explain her call for the terms of reference for the state capture inquiry to be expanded beyond the remedial action in the State of Capture report. In a letter…
Pretoria – The listeriosis death toll has risen to 61 since the outbreak was announced in early December last year, Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi said on Monday. Motsoaledi also said genome sequencing was being carried out to shed light on the source of the outbreak. Gauteng still has the…
Canberra — An Australian lawmaker giving a speech on same-sex marriage proposed to his gay partner on Monday during Parliament’s debate on a bill that is expected to soon legalise marriage equality across the country. Tim Wilson, a 37-year-old lawmaker in the conservative coalition, was among the first lawmakers to…
Nelspruit – Police have launched a manhunt for two suspects who attacked and robbed a couple at a farm in White River, north of Nelspruit, in Mpumalanga. The two suspects allegedly robbed the couple of their vehicle, firearms, ammunition and a telescope on Saturday, said Colonel Mtsholi Bhembe on Monday.…
Durban – A 65-year-old farmer who fought off a bush knife-wielding attacker is nursing his wounds in hospital following a farm attack on his farm in Paddock, south of KwaZulu-Natal, police said on Friday. Lieutenant Colonel Thulani Zwane said the farmer heard his dog barking at about 22:50 on Thursday…
Pietermaritzburg – Two men have been convicted of murder, kidnapping and robbery with aggravating circumstances following a farm attack earlier this month in Eensgevonden in Vryheid, police said on Friday. Sibusiso Mbatha, 23, and Ayanda Mncube, 21, pleaded guilty to the all the charges in the High Court in Pietermaritzburg…
Pietermaritzburg – As tensions between ANC factions in the Moses Mabhida region escalate to the point where there are fears that blood may be shed, rival groups have resorted to hiring armed guards for protection at heated branch meetings. The meetings, called branch general meetings (BGMs), are being called to…
Pretoria – Private forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan says he will not back down until certain “corrupt” people are behind bars. “We are dealing with criminals – criminals with badges and criminals with gowns. They are going to go to prison for what they did. I will not stop,” O’Sullivan said…
Pretoria – Residents from Pretoria have been warned to brace themselves for the National Taxi Alliance (NTA) march, to the Department of Transport and the Union Buildings, on Wednesday. Senior superintendent Isaac Mahamba of the Tshwane Metropolitan Police Department (TMPD) said affected road users would have to make use of…
Johannesburg – President Jacob Zuma’s birthday parties in 2015 and 2016 were sponsored by controversial facilities management group Bosasa. Bosasa, led by CEO Gavin Watson, was found to have bribed prisons officials for tenders by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) and is currently under criminal investigation by the Hawks. News24…
Texas — A man opened fire inside of a church in a small South Texas community on Sunday, killing 26 people and wounding about 20 others in the deadliest mass shooting in the state’s history, the governor said. Officials didn’t identify the attacker during a news conference on Sunday night,…
Ficksburg – An attack at a farm near Ficksburg on Thursday has left a farm manager in a critical condition in hospital, one suspect dead and another seriously injured, police have confirmed. A farmworker, who was also injured during an ensuing scuffle, has received treatment for his injuries. Three suspects…
Durban – The Madadeni High Court in KwaZulu-Natal has sentenced a 38-year-old man to two life terms in prison for the murder of two men on a farm in Swart Umfolozi. Thulani Hloniphani Sibiya was also sentenced to an additional 40 years in jail for attempted murder, armed robbery and…
Port Elizabeth – Nigerian pastor Timothy Omotoso will have to wait another month while the State finalises investigations relating to charges of him being in possession of fraudulent visa documentation. The charismatic televangelist is facing charges of human trafficking, sexual assault, and the rape of young girls, but had another…
Vryheid – A member of the Vryheid community policing forum says the attack on Bokkie Potgieter, 73, who died after allegedly being repeatedly hit with a panga on Monday, was so brutal that his face was left unrecognisable. The man who killed him was also apparently beaten by residents after…
Johannesburg – Two people have been arrested in connection with the killing of a 63-year-old farmer near Fochville on the West Rand. The incident occurred on Tuesday – a day after #BlackMonday, when protests were held against farm attacks and killings. Gauteng police said the farmer and a farm worker…
Cape Town – Activists from #UnitedBehind are on Wednesday expected to march from Central Methodist Mission in Greenmarket Square in Cape Town to an undisclosed location to demand the arrest of President Jacob Zuma. An organiser with the movement, Bruce Baigrie, said the march was expected to begin at around…
Cairo – Egyptian state security prosecutors have extended the pre-trial detention of a young man arrested on charges of “promoting deviance” after fans waved rainbow flags at a rock concert last month.Lawyer Hoda Nasrallah says on Monday that the hearing for her client, Ahmed Alaa, took place a day earlier.…
Durban – A 73-year-old man has been hacked to death on a farm in Vryheid, northern KwaZulu-Natal as the #BlackMonday protest against farm murders continues around the country. Police spokesperson Captain Nqobile Gwala told News24 that the suspect also died when he crashed the deceased’s Ford Bantam bakkie into an…
Johannesburg – South African human rights lawyer Sibongile Ndashe and her 12 colleagues, who were arrested by Tanzanian authorities on October 17 for “promoting homosexuality”, have been released on bail, a colleague has confirmed. Senior lawyer and spokesperson at the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in South Africa (ISLA), Matilda Lasseko…
Pastor Sifiso leans back into an ample leather armchair and prepares to explode what he sees as the misconception that a rich man cannot enter heaven.”Listen, the bible tells us that the streets of heaven are paved with gold,” he says. As the young preacher speaks there’s a glint…
The SA Council of Churches was neither informed of nor invited to the recent formation of the National Interfaith Leaders Council (NILC), it said on Wednesday. “Although we do not presume that our exclusion was malicious, but the SACC is disappointed at not having been offered the courtesy of invitation,”…
Controversy McCauley has been a controversial figure in South Africa. Rhema Ministries has been accused of being a proponent of the prosperity gospel. McCauley has led a controversial lifestyle, with many alleging that he leads a millionaire’s lifestyle. McCauley has defended himself on numerous occasions with the argument that he…
New Chapter in the Evolution of the Interfaith Movement CRATA facilitated the interaction of the NRLF, NILC, civil society organisations and government departments with a view to enhancing the development role or the religious institutions. In August 2010 the National Heritage Council hosted a national conference on the values of…
History The National Religious Leaders Forum (NRLF) interfaith body was formed in post-apartheid South Africa. When President Jacob Zuma took office in 2009, Pastor Ray McCauley of Rhema Bible Church formed a new interfaith organization called the National Interfaith Leadership Council (NILC) which subsequently merged with the National Religious Leaders…
Ministry McCauley attended bible college with his first wife Lyndie at Rhema Bible Training Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma during 1978/9. On their return to South Africa the McCauleys started Rhema Bible Church under Rhema Ministries SA in the home of his parents, Jimmy and Doreen, which 13 people attended. Membership…
Johannesburg – President Jacob Zuma has reshuffled his cabinet, adjusting six portfolios including the Ministry of Energy, in a move analysts say is linked to a contentious nuclear energy deal with Russia. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Presidency said it had moved David Mahlobo, former minister of state security…
Potchefstroom – A man believed to be in his 70s was found dead on Friday night in an alleged farm attack, on a plot outside of Potchefstroom.ER24 spokesperson, Russel Meiring, said paramedics had arrived on the scene and found an elderly man lying outside. Local security forces were already on the scene.…
Cape Town – “He saved all of us,” says the wife of a farmer who was shot dead while defending his family and guests, most of whom were teenage girls, at a farm near Philadelphia in the Western Cape. Mark Fagan was shot around 00:00 on Saturday when he approached…
Cape Town – A farmer in the Koue Bokkeveld, 50km from Ceres, is in a critical condition in hospital after he was repeatedly stabbed by two suspects on Monday evening, Western Cape police said on Tuesday. The suspects forced a bag over Wilhelm van der Merwe’s head and dragged him…
In October 1998, the Dalai Lama’s administration acknowledged that it received $1.7 million a year in the 1960s from the U.S. government through the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). When asked by CIA officer John Kenneth Knaus in 1995 to comment on the CIA Tibetan program, the Dalai Lama replied that though…
The BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA) is a framework for the provision of support through liquidity and precautionary instruments in response to actual or potential short-term balance of payments pressures. It was established in 2015 by the BRICS countries Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The legal basis is…
Johannesburg – A 96-year-old wheelchair-bound farmer has been robbed by six men who broke into his house in Bothaville, Free State police said on Thursday. Two of the six men attacked two of the farmer’s security guards with a hammer, injuring them, at about 20:20 on Tuesday, said Captain Stephen…
06 July, 02:48 PMSanef has successfully made a case at the Johannesburg High Court for urgency in the BLF matter, with judgement being handed down on Friday. Black First Land First (BLF) leader Andile Mngxitama responds outside court. Sanef and a group of respective journalists and editors have asked…
Johannesburg – Journalists and editors have alleged that their reporting on state capture and the Gupta family is the real reason why they are being targeted by Black First, Land First. This emerged in several affidavits by some of the 11 journalists who BLF had previously alleged were working in…
2015-07-01 09:30 Pietermaritzburg – Four men were on Tuesday found guilty of the brutal murder of Winterton man Mohamed Engar, 67, and of a robbery in which his wife, Razia, was burnt with an electric iron in 2013. The incident, which occurred on the evening of December 5, 2013, took…
2015-07-02 13:07 Pretoria – This year alone there have been 116 recorded farm attacks with more than a fifth resulting in deaths, AfriForum said on Thursday. There had been a rise in farm murders since 1990 with 23% of those in 2015 ending in death. The organisation said 27 farm…
2015-10-12 10:00 Pietermaritzburg – The men suspected of murdering Camperdown farmer Krishnadhaven Govender last month “for R300” have been arrested. Last month the well-known farmer and family man was shot and killed by armed robbers when they broke into his house after an attempt to break into his neighbours’ property…
2015-11-02 10:07 Pietermaritzburg – One of the killers of 65-year-old David Maratos on a farm in Greytown in 2013, has been jailed effectively for 25 years. Maratos was looking after the property on behalf of the owner when he was stabbed to death .Judge Jacqueline Henriques on Friday sentenced Bheki Qwabe…
2016-03-07 18:10 Durban – Six people have been arrested for the murder of 67-year-old farmer Anton Phillip Verwey in Ixopo, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Monday. He was found lying on his stomach with two open wounds to the abdomen early on Monday, Major Thulani Zwane said. Six people, aged between…
2016-03-15 17:53 Johannesburg – The police have not yet made any arrests in connection with the murder of a Randfontein family on their farm near Doornfontein. Captain Tsekiso Mofokeng said on Tuesday investigations were continuing. He said it was unclear how many people had attacked the family, beating them to death last Wednesday…
Durban – Police are investigating a double farm murder in northern KwaZulu-Natal in which a farmer and his father-in-law were killed in a hail of bullets on Tuesday night. Vryheid Neighbourhood Watch spokesperson Adriaan Botha said the brutal attack had left the community reeling. “Last night we got wind that there…
Durban – Two men arrested in connection with the murder of a KwaZulu-Natal farmer last week have been remanded in custody after a brief appearance in the Greytown Magistrate’s Court on Monday. Police spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Thulani Zwane said the two would appear in court again next week when they are…
Polokwane – A relative of the farmer killed at his smallholding near Thabazimbi on Friday has been arrested following a chase in which the suspect shot himself, Limpopo police have confirmed. The 25-year-old man sustained a bullet to the head when officers cornered him and pulled him off the road…
Founded The South African Council of Churches was founded in May 1968, during one of the darkest periods of South Africa’s history. At the time, the National Party had been in government for 20 years and its policy of apartheid was severely restricting the rights, associations and movements of the…
A African Apostolic Church, Taba Nchu, Free State, 073 4885000, Minister: Isaac Moshoeshoe African Church (Living Word Parish) Tsakane 011 7367622 Minister: David Molefe African Church (St Mary’s) Atteridgeville, Pretoria, 012 373 8400 Minister: Ishmael Chimeloane African Church (St Peter’s),Ga-rankuwa, 0725782780 Minister: Rev Ishmael Mokolokolo African Church (St Phillips), Kimberley,…
Pretoria – Moral regeneration, corruption, crime and orphans were discussed at a meeting between President Jacob Zuma and the national Interfaith Leadership Council on Tuesday. Speaking in Pretoria, Zuma said the meeting had been “very successful” with good synergy. “We think we need a united formation of religious leaders working…
The ANC has marginalised the South African Council of Churches in favour of Pastor Ray McCauley’s National Interfaith Leaders’ Council because it refuses to cosy up to the ANC, SACC leaders said this week. Two SACC sources told the Mail & Guardian that the council felt it was being punished…
South Africa’s top religious leaders who include well-known former anti-apartheid church activists, have called on President Jacob Zuma to “do the honourable thing” and resign. In a joint statement, the leaders said Zuma has lost all moral legitimacy to govern and therefore should do the honourable thing and step down.…
Johannesburg – The South African Council of Churches (SACC) will no longer sit on the sidelines while society suffers, its senior Vice President Reverend Frank Chikane told journalists on Saturday. “Today it’s a beginning of a new thing,” Chikane said at the SACC’s June 16 commemoration in Orlando Stadium. “The…
Johannesburg – The South African Council of Churches has called for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) into corruption following the release of the State Capture report on Wednesday. “The Gupta chapter is only one part of the larger tapestry of possible corruption and improper influence, and that for South…
Soweto – The South African Council of Churches has warned that the country risks collapsing if the ANC does not act on the “systematic siphoning of state assets pivoted around President Jacob Zuma”. “The country is going to collapse. It is difficult to rebuild once you go into lawlessness,” SACC…
Pretoria – The African National Congress might not have placed the South African Council of Churches (SACC) report into state capture on their agenda, but it can still be used in debates during its national executive committee (NEC) says ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe. He was speaking on the sidelines of…
The SA Council of Churches is hoping to meet with President Jacob Zuma over his “problematic” statement that a vote for the ANC will get people into heaven, it said today. “We work on a daily basis with scores of people who are hungry, unemployed and homeless. These are our…
