Prayer needed for Nkomazi roads
A mass funeral service for the six learners and the driver will be held tomorrow.
With the escalating number of road accidents which continue to claim the lives of many in Nkomazi Local Municipality, the executive mayor Johan Mkhatshwa called on pastors and churches to pray for the roads.
Mkhatshwa spoke at the memorial service of the six learners and a driver who were killed during a head-on collision between a taxi and a bus at KaMdladla on August 31.
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“As a municipality we are not pleased to gather in such a manner to bid farewell to our people who died on the road. The municipality stands because of its people, so losing them on the roads is not good at all. Let us pray, if this is a demon covering Nkomazi let it be chased away by prayer. Let us all hold together in prayer against the spilling of blood on our roads,” he said.
Mkhatshwa added that if it calls for the municipality to hold a mass prayer and fasting for the roads, they will eagerly do so.
A mass funeral service for the six learners – Simphiwe Hlophe, Zinhle Mhlongo, Simphiwe Mpapane all grade 12 learners at Gebhuza Secondary, Nompumelelo Mashaba a grade 11 learner, Mbuso Sithole a grade nine learner and Sinenhlanhla Masuku and grade 4 learner – together with the driver, Nhlanhla Mabuza, will be held on Saturday morning at the Light Christian Fellowship Church at KaMdladla.
