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CHURCH BLESSES PASTOR!

   

By  Ntsako MabundaFriday, September 16, 2016 12:30

Apostle Vorster VV Hlongwana gives his new car the thumbs up.

The pastor in his smart car.

 

EVERY YEAR the congregation collect to let their pastor know how much they love him. 

So they collected enough money to buy him the car of his dreams . . . 

AND THEY HAD ENOUGH MONEY LEFT OVER TO GIVE HIM R3 MILLION IN CASH! 

The Mercedes Maybach S600 was delivered to Harvest Time Church, in Section E, Giyani, Limpopo. 

It is an appreciation from his loving congregation to their pastor, Apostle Vorster V.V Hlongwana.

The congregation of Apostle V.V, as he is affectionately known, expressed their gratitude when he turned 50 in August. The church celebrated by combining his birthday with their annual pastor’s appreciation. 

The manufacturer didn’t deliver the car on time, but it was worth the wait.

Akani Mabunda (28) has been a member of the church for two years. 

He told Daily Sun the church secretly collected individual donations or pledges without their pastor knowing about it. They only realised later that they had collected enough to get him the car as well as a gift of R3 million. 

“It was our way of saying thank you to our loving pastor for his dedication to serving the church and the community,” said Mabunda. 

“Apostle V.V announced in December that 2016 would be his year, and indeed it is.” 

The list of features of the Mercedes Benz Maybach AMG V12 Biturbo 6L car is endless. 

It has a full driver assistance package, magic body control, 7G-Tronic transmission with shift paddles and many other technical miracles.

The minister was very happy with the surprise his church gave him. 

“God does great things for people who humbly serve him,” said Hlongwana. 

“It’s not all our rewards that we’ll get here on Earth. Some of them we’ll receive in Heaven.” 

Hlongwana joked with the church members. He said they must not come to him for loans because he is not a financial service provider. 

Hlongwana thanked his wife, Pastor Esther Hlongwana for believing in him and supporting his calling when they had nothing. 

When the church began in 1999, Pastor Esther was not working and they already had two children.

“By God’s grace our children are now four,” said Apostle V.V 

“We also have an additional bonus of our son-in-law, Silas Mabunda, who is married to Rhandzu,” said Hlongwana. 

According to church elder Tsakani Masebenza, this is not the first gift the church has offered the apostle but each year they raise the standard.

Masebenza felt the gifts were nothing compared to the impact the apostle had made in their lives and families. 

Not everyone is happy though, Khanyisa Mhinga (28) whose mother attends the church, feels hurt that her mother’s pastor is turning the calling he had into a profit. 

Sunday World

Ray Phiri weds 24-year-old bride

SEP 12, 2016 | NGWAKO MALATJI |

Jazz and mbaqanga mega star Ray Chikapa Phiri got married in a shotgun wedding after robbing the cradle.

Picture credit: Mabuti Kali

 

Phiri, 69, put the lyrics of his iconic song Whispers In The Deep into practice when he got hitched for the third time in his life a fortnight ago.

Some of the lyrics in the popular song say "phinda mzala", loosely translated meaning "do it again".

The madala tied the knot with his Venda sweetheart Rabelani Mulaudzi, 24, in a low-key traditional wedding held in Tshisauli village in Venda.

Phiri, who is 45 years older than Mulaudzi, declined to comment on his nuptial.

"Who are you and what gives you the right to talk to me? I don't want to talk to you, thank you," he said.

Mulaudzi confirmed she wedded the dance wizard but refused to answer further questions about her pregnancy and the wedding ceremony.

"No no no, I don't want to talk about my marriage. Where did you get my number from? I'm not willing to talk openly about my marriage. I don't want to sound rude to you but I'm gonna get off the phone if you keep asking me questions about my marriage," she said when probed.

News that the former Stimela band member was chugging down the panties of a woman 45 years his junior was revealed by musicians close to him.

One musician, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Phiri and Mulaudzi got hitched after dating for almost two years.

The musician said the two met at one of Phiri's concerts in Mpumalanga early last year.

The artist said it was love at first sight and the two immediately started dating.

Another musician said Phiri decided to tie the knot with Mulaudzi after knocking her up.

"She was pregnant when they got married and they are expecting a kid," he said.

The musician said this will be Phiri's third marriage.

His first wife Daphney died in a car accident in Barberton in Mpumalanga in 2003.

Phiri was travelling on a gravel road when the vehicle overturned several times, instantly killing his wife.

His second wife Phumzile died of anemia last year.

ngwakom@sundayworld.co.za

           

Sowetan

Pupil's lips bitten off in fight over shoe polish - Teacher suspects Satanism

By Ndivhuwo Mukwevho | Sep 16, 2016 

A fight over a tin of shoe polish left a Grade 9 pupil at a Limpopo school without both lips after they were allegedly bitten off by her classmate.

The two Grade 9 pupils at Tshilala Secondary School near Thohoyandou allegedly fought over a tin of shoe polish inside a classroom when the 14-year-old bit off both lips of her 13-year-old peer, which left the entire school in shock.

The 14-year-old allegedly chewed the lips but spit them out when she realised teachers and pupils had gathered. Both teenagers are residents of Dumasi village, near Thohoyandou.

Despite efforts by principal Khamusi Siobo to rush the victim to Tshilidzini Hospital, doctors were unable to stitch the lips back together.

The incident, which happened on Wednesday, left pupils and teachers believing that the 14-year-old was under the influence of Satanism as they do not believe a normal person could commit such an act.

The victim will today be transferred to the Polokwane Provincial Hospital as doctors are still trying to figure out what they will do to fix her lips.

The victim's angry parents are yet to open a criminal case but told Sowetan that they were disappointed that the alleged perpetrator's parents were yet to visit them or try to make contact.

The victim's best friend and classmate, also aged 14, who tried to intervene during the fight, said: "I no longer feel safe at school as I fear that the same incident might also happen to me. What I witnessed will stay in my mind for the rest of my life. It was like I was watching a horror movie.

"I think we all need serious counselling in order for us to forget about what happened to our classmate".

A teacher who also witnessed the incident said: "We're now even afraid to go to classes to teach after the gruesome incident. It'll take months for us to forget about the whole ordeal."

The teacher continued: "Personally, I think the young girl did what she did under the influence of something as a normal person cannot do something like that.

"A normal person cannot bite off someone else's lips in the manner she did."

Thohoyandou police spokesman Avhafarei Tshiovhe said no case had been opened yet.

Siobo is yet to decide on what will happen to the two pupils as he is scheduled to meet their parents today.

Peggy Mulaudzi, a social worker in the Vhembe area, said the entire school, including teachers, would need professional counselling in order to forget about the ordeal and be able to concentrate on their school work.

"After witnessing incidents such as this pupils, especially the ones in Grade 9, must be provided with special counselling as this ordeal might stay in their minds for the rest of their lives," said Mulaudzi.

Sowetan

Black man who gave Verwoerd orders

By Fred Khumalo | Sep 16, 2016 | 

To mark the 50th anniversary of Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd's death, last week I wrote a newspaper piece in which I mentioned in passing that when this architect of apartheid was not in church, he would consult a black inyanga.

Both my Twitter and Facebook accounts have been deluged by requests for more on Khotso Sethuntsa, the inyanga behind Verwoerd's power. Some thought I'd mentioned the inyanga in jest.

I was not joking when I pointed out that both Verwoerd and another erstwhile prime minister of South Africa, JG Strijdom, consulted this multimillionaire inyanga in the build-up to the National Party's victory in 1948.

When I was growing up, the story of Khotso and his relationship with Afrikaner politicians - and how he'd used his magic to prop them up - was spoken of openly in black South Africa.

But in white South Africa it was only in recent times - especially with the 2007 publication of the well-researched and academically astute book The Extraordinary Khotso: Millionaire Medicine Man from Lusikisiki by Felicity Wood and Michael Lewis - that the dark side of Verwoerd came to light.

Sethuntsa, who preferred to be called by his first name was, by all accounts, a colourful character. He had 23 wives and bragged to all and sundry that he could satisfy them in bed because he used a magical potion called ibangalala.

People flocked to his headquarters in their hundreds to seek ibangalala; but some went so he could help them engage in ukuthwala. For the uninitiated, ukuthwala is a dark ritual where a person would go to the inyanga to obtain a potion of muthi to make him rich and powerful. Sadly, this specific ritual mostly entails the sacrifice of a human being - usually a relative of the client.

Khotso himself was extremely wealthy, a living advertisement of his muthi; it was easy to believe that he could make others rich.

According to the book by Wood and Lewis, Khotso delighted in the purchase, every year, of a new Cadillac at the Kokstad Agricultural Show. Khotso would arrive at the show with his coterie of bodyguards. They carried suitcases stuffed with banknotes. When they paid for the car, counting the banknotes would begin in earnest. Khotso did not trust banks. That's why he kept his money at home, and had to carry it in suitcases when making a big purchase.

Though it exasperated the white people who worked for the car dealership, they couldn't do anything about it. This was, after all, Khotso - a connected black man who was also a reliable customer of long-standing.

The relationship between the inyanga and the racist demagogue is fascinating if you consider the face that Verwoerd did not think highly of black people. He thought they were socially inferior and incapable of reaching certain levels of intellectual maturity.

In his justification of Bantu Education, he once said, "There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour. What is the use of teaching the Bantu child mathematics when it cannot use it in practice? That is quite absurd. Education must train people in accordance with their opportunities in life, according to the sphere in which they live."

But how Verwoerd died is fascinating. On April 9 1960 Verwoerd had gone to Milner Park, Johannesburg, to mark the jubilee of the Union of South Africa.

Just after he had delivered his opening address, David Pratt, a rich English businessman and farmer, pumped two bullets into the prime minister. One bullet penetrated his right cheek, and the second went through his ear.

Khotso's reputation soared. His muthi had saved Verwoerd.

Then on September 6 1966, Verwoerd, secure in parliamentary chambers, was knifed to death by Dimitri Tsafendas. Tsafendas, who worked as a messenger, had fooled managers into believing he was white, when in fact he was the product of a union between a Greek man and an African woman.

If you found the relationship between Khotso and Verwoerd bizarre, you have to read the erudite Charles van Onselen's The Seed is Mine.

In this book he writes about Kas Maine, a black farmer who also dabbled as an inyanga. "His reputation as a herbalist was slowly percolating through the district, and . he now found a few bashful Afrikaner males appearing amongst his more regular clients. His introduction to this less privileged and educated element of Boer society came via the white man whom he knew to have the greatest possible respect for the mysteries of black culture, Hendrik Swanepoel."

As the ancient Romans used to say in admiration: ex Africa semper aliquid novi - from Africa always something new. 

Fred Khumalo's new book #ZuptasMustFall and Other Rants is now available at bookstores

Sowetan

Senzo's dad hits back at Kelly Khumalo: 'How does she dare speak so ill of my child?'

By TMG Entertainment | Sep 16, 2016 

The father of slain Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa has hit back at Kelly Khumalo‚ claiming that the songstress was talking “nonsense” during her recent tell-all interview with talk show host Anele Mdoda.

Kelly was a guest on Real Talk with Anele this week‚ where she held nothing back about her relationship with Senzo and the Meyiwa family.

In the gripping interview‚ Kelly openly rebuked Senzo’s family for airing their grievances with her in public and said that the family could “forget about” ever meeting their granddaughter Thingo.

Senzo's family will never see my child‚ says Kelly Khumalo

But speaking to The Mercury after the interview‚ Sam Meyiwa hit back at Kelly‚ saying she would have to someday tell her daughter the truth about what happened the day her father died.

“She (Kelly) is speaking nonsense. That child has Meyiwa blood. I am not bothered by what she said. When the child grows up she will ask questions about her father. Kelly will have to tell her who killed her dad and where he was killed. I am now pinning my hopes on this child. She is growing up and one day she will learn how her father was killed at her mother’s home. She will come back to tell us everything‚” Sam told the paper.

Sam admits that the family has not seen their granddaughter for some time‚ but says that she did visit for a ritual to be done when she was very young.

Senzo’s father also went on to slam Kelly’s comments about his son‚ saying that she not disrespect the slain footballer.

“She has recently said that being in love with Senzo had been a waste of her time. How does she dare speak so ill of my child who died?‚” Sam told the paper.

In July‚ Sam Meyiwa told Sunday Sun that he was willing to put his turbulent relationship with Kelly behind him for the sake of his granddaughter

“I’ve realised that as much as there’s a level of hatred towards Kelly‚ I can’t punish my granddaughter for her mom’s sins. I can’t just let life continue without loving my granddaughter — she’s the happiness for both her parents‚” he told the paper at the time.

The Bafana Bafana captain was killed on 26 October 2014 during an alleged armed robbery at Kelly’s family home in Vosloorus.

Senzo’s father has on numerous occasions lambasted Kelly for her involvement with his son‚ often blaming her for his death

In her interview with Anele on Thursday‚ Kelly said that she has learnt to block out the negativity.

“I had to decide for myself‚ I don’t care how you see me‚ or what you expect from me. I’m going to do me; the same way I would have done when Senzo was alive. When Senzo was alive I blocked out everything negative about him and focused on loving him‚ so that’s what I did‚” Kelly said.

Sowetan

It's not his time. He still has a purpose: Mandoza's wife

By Tmg Entertainment | Sep 16, 2016

Mandoza’s wife‚ Mpho has poured her heart out for the first time about dealing with the musician’s renewed cancer scare as a family.

It emerged last week ago that Mandoza had been diagnosed with cancer for the second time in a space of a year‚ after doctors found a tumour in his brain.

However‚ the kwaito star is determined to put up a fight.

And the ailing musician’s will to beat this disease‚ took centre stage at the controversial Thank You SABC Concert this past weekend‚ where Mandoza performed.

In an interview with Drum magazine this week‚ Mandoza’s wife‚ Mpho opened up about how they firmly believe that he will beat the cancer.

Mandoza paid in full 'because of his illness'

Mpho also set the record straight on the type of cancer Mandoza is suffering with. He has been diagnosed with pharyngeal carcinoma‚ which is a type of head and neck cancer‚ that generally starts in the throat and nose.

“The tumour is pressing on the brain but it’s not brain cancer‚” Mpho said.

She added that even though Mandoza has been robbed of his sight‚ and doctors have ruled out the possibility of an operation — they remain optimistic about the future.

“I’m not even thinking about death. We want to destroy this cancer forever. I know that eventually we all leave this earth but I say this is not the time yet. He still has a purpose. We still have kids to raise‚” she added.

The Nkalakatha hitmaker’s family broke the news to fans in the form of a press statement initially stating that the musician was “fighting for his life“.

However‚ a few days later Mandoza’s family returned to social media explaining that his condition is serious but not critical.