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PLEASE LET US PRAY Call to reopen school-based churches as Covid-19 infections and deaths soar CHANELLE LUTCHMAN Supplied A GROUP of Durban pastors are lobbying the government to be allowed to reopen their churches which are based at schools. They believe the government is exaggerating the Covid-19 pandemic to instil fear in people. Since the lockdown was eased, the infection rate in South Africa has been soaring. So too is the death toll. However, one of the pastors, Eugene Perumal, from the United Christian Association of South Africa, believes churches are not Covid-19 carriers. His church is based at a primary school in Chatsworth and is one of many churches in KZN that use school facilities for their weekly sermons. For years, they have leased classrooms, multipurpose rooms or school…
Chatsworth pastor reported to SAHRC CHARLENE SOMDUTH THE South African Hindu Maha Sabha has reported a Chatsworth pastor to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) for allegedly associating the Kavady festival with curses and spirits in a video on social media. In the 16-second clip, Reverend Llewellyn Joseph, of Revival Ministries, is heard praying for a congregation of worshippers. He is the son of Dr Allen Joseph, the pastor and founder of the church. During his prayer, he calls out for a congregation member who feels a sense of heaviness on his or her home and family when Kavady is being observed. Joseph said: “The fear that the curse of those spirits (is) working in and throughout the home and every time when it comes that Kavady time, the…
Family grieves as a member dies from Covid-19 and others are infected CHANELLE LUTCHMAN ON TUESDAY afternoon, the remains of Janishwa Sanyasi Naidoo were cremated at the Clare Estate Crematorium. Naidoo, who was the head of planning at Telkom, tested positive for Covid-19 and died on Saturday morning. He is among more than 1 500 people in South Africa who have died as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. While family were seeing to his last rites, his wife, a teacher at Apollo Secondary School, was on a ventilator in hospital fighting for her life. She tested positive for Covid-19, prompting the closure of the Chatsworth school shortly after schools were set to reopen. The couple’s daughter, 22, tested negative. However, two other relatives (a married couple) tested positive. Both…
Star best remembered for his humility LATOYA NEWMAN Supplied AS NEWS around the unexpected death of Bollywood star Sushant Singh Rajput continued to make headlines this week, South Africans recalled meeting him. On Sunday, the news broke that Rajput, 34, had committed suicide. According to police reports, the actor hanged himself at his home in Bandra, Mumbai. He did not leave a note. IANS reported that Rajput’s brother-in-law, OP Singh, who is the additional director-general of police and posted as special officer in the Haryana Chief Minister’s Office, suspected foul play. It was reported that he sought a thorough probe into the incident. The autopsy report on Monday cited asphyxia as the cause of death. The police have questioned Rajput’s friends, Rhea Chakravarty and Mahesh Shetty. Others are likely to…
Gandhi statue ‘must go’ THANDEKA MGQIBI YUI MOK PA via AP THE Leicester City Council in England has received calls for Mahatma Gandhi’s statue to be removed. According to bbc.com, an online petition to remove Gandhi’s statue received more than 6 000 signatures. The petition, titled “Remove Gandhi Statue in Leicester”, alleges that Gandhi was a “fascist, racist and sexual predator” and, therefore, the sculpture should be removed. Following the petition, people gathered to symbolically protect the statue as an appeal against the petition. Keith Vaz, a former Leicester East MP, who reportedly attended the unveiling ceremony in 2009, said: “It is going nowhere. All of us are here symbolically to protect it.” A council spokesperson said although the petition had not yet been submitted to them, both representations would be…
NEWS ‘Health ninjas’ mobilise to build a better country JANINE MOODLEY Supplied WHEN a young Westville philanthropist heard President Cyril Ramaphosa’s “Thuma Mina” (Send Me) plea during his election campaign in 2018, she heeded the call. The campaign was about patriotism and a call for South Africans to work together to build a new and improved country. Shriya Misra, 24, a post-graduate chemistry student, decided to teach and train unemployed youth to become leaders in health care and wellness in their communities. She was exposed to health-care systems while working as a research assistant during her studies, and she focused on teaching communities about communicable and non-communicable diseases. “There was a need for advocacy and awareness around communicable and non-communicable diseases. Prevention is always better than cure, and education is…
