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Religious organisations called off an urgent application in the Johannesburg High Court today over an indefinite ban on faith-based gatherings after President Cyril Ramaphosa granted them some relief when he announced amendments to lockdown regulations last night. But while they welcomed the amendments which now permit gatherings at “faith-based” organisations […]
A court order today which allows medical doctors to start treating patients with Ivermectin without waiting for the medicines regulator’s permission is a breakthrough in its fight against Covid-19, says Afriforum research head Barend Uys. The order by Pretoria High Court judge Peter Mabuse gives effect to an interim agreement […]
This past December, I came face to face with my greatest fear – the unknown – and God met me there. On December 21, my husband, Serge, who had tested positive for Covid-19 just two days prior, was suddenly overnight, no longer able to breathe room air on his own […]
By Pearl Kupe News is just in advising that the medicines regulator, SA Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra), will allow the public access to the drug Ivermectin. The CEO of Sahpra, Dr Boitumelo Semete-Makokotlela, announced today that Ivermectin will be allowed for treatment and prophylaxis of Covid-19. She said: ”We […]
Cape Town church leaders Demitiri and Karen Nikiforos have launched a petition calling on President Cyril Ramaphosa to reopen churches in South Africa. In an email to Gateway News Demitiri who leads New Life in Christ Church in Cape Town says the petition campaign aims to unite with Christians and […]
Why are South Africa’s health authorities still refusing to allow doctors to use Ivermectin when so much medical evidence shows the drug is highly beneficial against Covid-19? Specialist physicians and scientists from the US, UK, and Australia are loudly advocating this 50-year-old, Nobel Prize-winning and very cheap drug for use […]
Legal opposition to government pandemic regulations, which amount to an indefinite blanket ban of all religious gatherings in South Africa, is mounting. Last Friday the South African National Christian Forum (SANCF), which represents a number of churches in townships and informal settlements, filed an urgent application with the Johannesburg High […]
It is time for followers of Jesus to face up to the reality of the devil’s severe attack on the Body of Christ through Covid-19 and to unite as never before in fighting the enemy from a place of peace and victory. So says Irma Simpson, who has practiced as […]
Christians across Cape Town have recently been turning out in numbers to pray outside hospitals for revival and for the healing of Covid-19 victims. Part of the citywide hospital prayer surge appears to be a resumption of initiatives which were started in an earlier lockdown phase last year but at […]
On Monday a global initiative of prayer against Covid-19 was launched by Healing the Nation campaign. The initiative was announced at the end of a Zoom meeting to honour Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng for his boldness to stand on the word of God. Mogoeng is currently facing intense criticism over […]