MZINTI – The MEC for health and social development,Ms Candith Mashego-Dlamini, has called on churches to rebuke evil spirits causing road accidents which are claiming the lives of people in the province.
Mashego-Dlamini was speaking last Thursday during a mass memorial service held at the Holiness Union Church Mzinti church centre in the Nkomazi Municipality for the nine people who died in a horrific accident on the Mzinti Road.
According to Mashego-Dlamini this accident had shocked the entire leadership of the provincial government as it came not long after the funerals of 30 people who died in Kwaggafontein on the Moloto Road. A mass funeral was held for the deceased on Saturday. Mashego-Dlamini said the premier, Mr David Mabuza, was devastated and rendered powerless by the series of fatal accidents in the province. “We are coming from Moloto where 30 people were killed last week. We were at a mass funeral, burying 30 community members of Mpumalanga. The premier was speaking there, and not a week later we are here in Nkomazi where nine of our people have left us as a result of a road accident.
We are doing all the things we should as government. Children wrote their exams peacefully, our municipalities are delivering services peacefully without any problems, the very roads causing accidents are roads in conditions of being roads (sic),” Mashego-Dlamini said. Government was prepared to continue helping people although it could not prevent death, it was ready to help the families.
“Government must stand together with the community. Government cannot function above its ability, all that government does is what the community wants. However, when the enemy has come which burdens us with the spirit of death, government is unable to rebuke this spirit. We are asking churches to stand as Christians to rebuke these spirits.
“Let us all rebuke these spirits which take the lives of our loved ones, these spirits can be rebuked if community members come together and rebuke these spirits (sic),” Mashego-Dlamini said.
Furthermore, she asked affected families to forgive both drivers of the involved vehicles saying that there was very little they could do to prevent the accident once the enemy had
come in.
