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Although over 70% of South Africans, of all race groups, call themselves “Christians”, this is of course not the case at all, and only refers to nominal “Christians”, not true ones. The vast majority of blacks who profess Christianity remain committed to the heathenism and witchcraft of their ancestors. And today, as Christianity comes under increasing attack at the hands of SA’s radical Marxist leaders, and as all heathen religions are being promoted as equal with Christianity, including by the liberal, Gospel-denying wolves in sheep’s clothing of the South African Council of Churches, we are seeing a massive resurgence of open heathenism. And with that, a correspondingly huge rise in the most degraded, abominable sins: witchcraft, bestiality, and cannibalism.

Witchcraft

In August 2005, in Pietermaritzburg, three red candles were placed in the garden of a black police officer; and he immediately knew that someone wanted him dead. The candles had black cotton tied around them, a sign that the person who planted them wanted the police officer to commit suicide by hanging himself. So what did the shocked man do? He immediately took his own muti (magic potion) and sprinkled it on the candles. His neighbours told him that they feared the candles were the work of a witchdoctor, and that lots of other people had found red candles in their yards in that area. The man called his family’s inyanga (a traditional healer) because he wanted him to apply muti that would make the witch return to his yard during the night and freeze until the morning! He was thus as much a believer in witchcraft as those who were using witchcraft to put a spell on him (Echo [Witness Supplement], August 25, 2005). Such is the superstition that abounds in black Africa.

The police officer said that in 1997 he was attacked by inyoni – a stroke believed to be the result of witchcraft.

The president of the KwaZulu-Natal Traditional Healers Council (yes, there are such organisations, and they are gaining increasing recognition even by certain black people in high-up positions within SA’s medical profession!) said he was sure that the police officer was in danger, and advised him to find muti with which to defend himself before it was too late. He said, “That witch wants that man dead or mad. Red candles are used to cast a bad spell. The law cannot be used to fight such a practice because the people who practice it cannot be caught without using a traditional trap.”

This is just one example of the widespread belief in, and use of, witchcraft among blacks. Numerous others could be given.

Bestiality

Bestiality is an abomination committed frequently in South Africa by some members of black tribes. In recent years a man in the Transkei, part of the Eastern Cape province, was sentenced to twelve months in jail for committing bestiality with a sheep; some youths in Grahamstown were caught committing this abomination with a dog; and a 23-year-old farm worker in the Free State province was arrested after passing motorists saw him committing bestiality with a cow (The Witness, August 31, 2005).

In 2004, a committee of politicians on a fact-finding tour in Limpopo province heard from the police station commander in Maake that bestiality in his area “was resorted to by young boys who were practising and to avoid getting HIV/Aids.”

In early October 2005, a Zulu teenager in KwaZulu-Natal province was caught committing bestiality with a goat, and was ordered to appear in court (The Witness, October 5, 2005).

In January 2005, a man allegedly committed bestiality with a goat. He was arrested and is facing a bestiality charge. But here is an example of just how deeply superstition runs amongst many of the black folk in South Africa. The goat gave birth to two kids; but the kids were unable to spend much time alone with their mother as they were frequently surrounded by local residents, who came to stare at them to see whether the kids bore any resemblance to the man who was caught committing bestiality with the animal! The goat’s owner said, “The goat gave birth to two healthy kids despite her ordeal and now people come to the house to see if the kids have any human features such as a nose or ears that resemble a human being. I assured them that there’s nothing unusual about the kids and that they look and behave exactly like other goats” (Echo [Witness Supplement], August 25, 2005).

So far, bestiality is still a crime in South Africa. But given the very rapid moral degeneration that is occurring, with sins such as sodomy no longer considered crimes but in fact legalised and protected by law, one wonders how long it will be before bestiality and other such abominations are decriminalised. Many would say, “Impossible! It will never happen!” Really? Already there has been at least one newspaper article asking the question, “Should bestiality be a crime in SA?” And here is something even more disturbing: in 1999 a project committee convened under the aegis of the SA Law Commission to examine sexual offences; and in its report, in the section dealing with bestiality, it stated that criminal law is not “the device through which standards of morality can or should be endorsed”, and added that it was reluctant to express an opinion on whether the offence should be repealed. The committee chairwoman, Joan van Niekerk, who is also the national co-ordinator for Childline South Africa, said in an interview that the committee debated bestiality “at some length”, and that some felt the law was unnecessary! She said, however, that the committee was unanimous that both adults and children should be protected in law from any act – involving bestiality or not – that sexually abuses or exploits them (The Witness, August 31, 2005).

This just shows the incredibly fuzzy and confused thinking of so-called “experts” today. They have rejected the only eternal moral standard – the Bible – which leaves them with no idea of what is right and wrong. The Bible is very clear about bestiality: “Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion” (Lev. 18:23); “Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death” (Exod. 22:19). But if the law of God is abandoned, then every man will do that which is “right” in his own eyes (see Judg. 21:25).

She added that whether or not bestiality is decriminalised in SA, Childline will discourage sexual activity with animals because of its association with similarly depersonalised sexual abuse of children.

Do you see the utter lack of any solid moral foundation here? These people are floundering in the quicksand of their own amorality. They don’t really know why they should be opposed to bestiality! They have no idea why it should be opposed for the filthy, disgusting abomination that it is!

As further evidence of the utter confusion that swirls around in the heads of so-called “experts” on this matter, here is the statement from another member of the committee, the former dean of law at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg, Prof. John Milton. He said that the High Court has already decided that it is not unconstitutional to prosecute someone for bestiality (Oh, how magnanimous of them! In their “wisdom” they have “decided”, have they?). Then he said: “So the issue in a sense has been decided. But I was never quite sure why it should be regarded as a crime other than the moral abhorrence people might feel about it” (The Witness, August 31, 2005).

He was “never quite sure”? A man, to satisfy his perverted sexual lust, lies with a beast; man, the glory of God’s physical creation, who was commanded at the beginning of the world to “cleave unto his wife”, a human being like himself, so as to become “one flesh” with her (Gen. 2:24) within the bonds of holy matrimony, sinks so low in depravity that he sexually joins himself to a beast of the field – and this professor was “never quite sure why it should be regarded as a crime”?

He added that he understood the need for intervention if there is an element of cruelty to the animal; but that there was no need for the sexual act itself to be made illegal! “I’m not entirely sure why people get prosecuted for it,” he said.

Think about what this man was saying! Society has become so perverted, so debauched, its morals so twisted, that some would actually believe that the only time bestiality is really bad is if there is cruelty to the animal! Now certainly, any unnecessary cruelty to an animal is contrary to God’s Word (Prov. 12:10); but the suffering of the animal in this case, while certainly wrong, is hardly the real issue! For many decades now, “animal rights” activists have been spouting their upside-down “moral outrage” and have in fact enforced much of their nonsense upon society, to the point that these days animals often appear to have more rights than humans; and here is yet another warped example of this. This law professor does not want the sexual act of bestiality to be illegal; he is apparently quite happy for men to have sexual intercourse with beasts; as long as no animal is harmed during the commission of the act! The only tiny drop of morality in his statements is his concern for the well-being of the animal! Do we detect even the slightest hint of any concern for the well-being of humans, or of society in general? Not in the least. He is unmoved by the fact that if men can lie with beasts, they have not only sunk to the level of those beasts, they have sunk even further, as not even the beasts desire to lie with any but their own kind.

Consider the High Court decision itself, which the confused professor was referring to. It was handed down in September 2004 by two judges in the Bloemfontein High Court. They ruled that “unlike consensual sex between people of the same gender, sex between a human and an animal ‘is regarded as unnatural by most people in South African society at this time’” (The Witness, August 31, 2005).

Apart from the fact that the judges were very wrong – most people in South Africa also regard consensual sex between people of the same gender (sodomy, as the Bible calls it) as unnatural, and are disgusted by the fact that it is no longer illegal – their statement shows that bestiality may, at some future date, be decriminalised just as sodomy has been! For all they said was that it is regarded as unnatural by most people in South African society at this time. The implication is very clear: should this situation change in a few years’ time, bestiality will in all likelihood be decriminalised.

And let it be clearly understood: the so-called “experts” will not necessarily wait till society has come to accept it (as terrible as that will be); they may very well force the change upon society, and then say that this is “the will of the people”! This is what happened with homosexuality. The vast majority of people in South Africa do not view homosexuality as normal and are disgusted by it; but the powers that be, influenced by the militant sodomite lobby and all their fellow-travellers, have ignored the will of society and rammed through some of the most pro-homosexual legislation in the world. South Africa’s Communist authorities have never let what society really wants keep them awake at night. They do exactly what they want to do.

The judges also said in their ruling that the law against bestiality was discriminatory; but this discrimination was justified because the court has to give expression to the “fundamental values” of society, and also because “an animal cannot consent to the act and sex between different species is unnatural.” Again, note how the emphasis was on the animal – not the consequences to the human being, nor to society in general. They should have paid far more attention to what a judge in an earlier case had said, whose words they actually quoted in their ruling: “unrestrained licence has always been the mark of a society in decay.” Amen!

For many years I have been saying that, horrifying as it is to people right now to believe that it will ever happen, the day is coming when such abominations as sex with children, bestiality, and other sexual perversions, will no longer be an offence, and will in fact be condoned and even encouraged. People react with horror and say, “Never! They won’t sink so far!” But it was only twenty years ago or so that people were saying the same thing about sodomy. And today? Today it is legalised, encouraged, condoned – and those who speak out against it are viewed as the criminals who should be punished!

As an indication of what is coming, consider the following very carefully (italics added): “This social conscience against the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents, however… is apparently eroding, this regardless of the fact that the vast majority of citizens do overwhelmingly abominate the thing. For elsewhere in the public square, the defense of adult-child sex – more accurately man-boy sex – is now out in the open. Moreover, it is on parade in a number of places – therapeutic, literary, and academic circles; mainstream publishing houses and journals and magazines and bookstores – where the mere appearance of such ideas would until recently have been not only unthinkable, but in many cases, subject to prosecution” (article, “Pedophilia Chic”, by Mary Eberstadt, published in the Weekly Standard, Jan.1/8, 2001, Vol.6, No.16; reproduced in The Pink Agenda, pg.118, by Christine McCafferty, Christian Liberty Books, Cape Town, 2001).

“The arguments from ‘experts’ defending paedophilia today are the very same arguments used to defend homosexuality thirty years ago” (The Pink Agenda, pg.123).

And: “Those who advocate these two behaviours [paedophilia and bestiality] are already working toward having them accepted as normal. The word ‘zoophilia’ is even being used instead of bestiality in an attempt to make it sound more acceptable. Frighteningly, paedophilia (and pederasty, the crime of molesting a child of the same sex) is also being described and even glorified in non-judgemental terms like ‘adult-child sex’, ‘male generational intimacy’ and ‘child sexual liberation’. People who disagree with them are accused of being not homophobes, but ageists” (The Pink Agenda, pg.49).

Cannibalism

KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa, heartland of the Zulu nation, has had much experience with cannibalism in its turbulent past. At the time of the tyrant King Shaka, for example, as his Zulu army smashed into surrounding tribes and sent tens of thousands of people scattering in all directions, many of them sought refuge in inaccessible places, and then resorted to cannibalism as the food ran out. Cape Town has its famous Table Mountain, but there is a smaller, lesser-known Table Mountain not far from the city of Pietermaritzburg, capital of KwaZulu-Natal, and this mountain became a refuge for people fleeing Shaka who turned to cannibalism.

But in recent times, reports of cannibalism are surfacing across the province – not as the result of hunger, but for other, sinister purposes. And it is not just occurring among the Zulus: members of other tribes are committing this abomination as well.

In Harding in July 2005, a three-year-old girl was murdered by her cannibal uncle. The man allegedly hacked the child to death, dismembering her limbs, and cooked some of her remains. He was later arrested and faces a murder charge (The Witness, August 17, 2005).

About two months previously, in Mkhuze, police caught a 33-year-old man gnawing the face of his murdered common-law wife. His child, who allegedly witnessed her father killing the woman, raised the alarm; but the man allegedly choked on the woman’s flesh and died on the spot when police attempted to arrest him.

Two years ago, a 46-year-old man from Mozambique allegedly killed a woman and cooked parts of her body in KwaZulu-Natal. He was also linked to the murder of another woman whose body was found with some parts missing.

Perhaps some would like to believe that these are just very isolated incidents. Actually, they are not. Those in the know say that these cases are in fact nothing new. It is a widespread belief that eating human flesh gives one special powers.

The chairman of the KwaZulu-Natal Traditional Healers Council, Sazi Mhlongo, associated cannibalism with witchcraft, adding that witches always seek to destroy other human beings. He said they are sometimes influenced by muti (magic potion) to do such things, and some of them prescribe concoctions of muti that contain human flesh and sometimes blood.

Retired Zulu historian, Reggie Khumalo, agreed that witchcraft was behind the latest cases of cannibalism – not hunger as some were saying. “There is not much hunger these days [i.e. in KwaZulu-Natal] that can justify people killing and eating others. However, there are witches who advise other people to use human flesh in umuthi cocktails. That is pure witchcraft,” he said.

Khumalo was adamant that cannibalism had not died out by any means. “People have been doing it surreptitiously,” he said.

It is believed that unreported cases of cannibalism could be occurring in isolated parts of the province. In the area where the Mozambican allegedly cooked parts of a woman’s body, parents are very reluctant to send their children out alone. The dead woman’s brother said, “We cannot even send children to buy bread, out of fear that they might be snatched by another cannibal. It is a scary thought that haunts parents every time…. Some parents even escort their children to school and back.”

Conclusion

European missionaries brought the Gospel of Jesus Christ to Africa, and the darkness of heathenism was banished from many hearts by the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ. Africans were converted, witchdoctors lost ground, and gross abominations ceased wherever men believed in Christ. But today even those who claim to be His ministers (agents of Satan!) are encouraging “interfaith”, a religious syncretism, and calling for a merging of African witchcraft and ancestor worship with elements of “Christianity”! And with the rise and spread of such “baptized paganism”, heathenism masquerading as Christianity, we are witnessing a corresponding rise and spread of the abominations detailed above. The heart of man is desperately wicked (Jer. 17:9), and men will, if left to themselves, sink lower and still lower in depravity. Perversions which, a mere few years ago, were looked upon with abhorrence by society, will be embraced, justified, even gloried in. Only the Gospel of the grace of God, going forth with power under the blessing of the Holy Spirit of God, can prevent it. The enemy is coming in like a flood; how Christians need to pray that the Spirit of the Lord would lift up that glorious standard against him, the Lord Jesus Christ in His Gospel! (Isa. 59:19; 11:10,12)!

9 November 2005

Shaun Willcock is a minister of the Gospel, and lives in South Africa. He runs Bible Based Ministries. For other articles, as well as details about his books, tapes, pamphlets, etc., please visit the Bible Based Ministries website.

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