Quiet contemplation this Easter - The Mail & Guardian

On a normal Easter long weekend, the news in South Africa is a mixture of religious ceremonies and macabre statistics of bus- and car-crash death tolls. Ours is a country where people have, for decades, been forced to move for work. The apartheid bantustan system, as well as the use of labour from countries such as Lesotho for the mining industry, has meant we are often far from home.

This year Easter will have to be celebrated at a distance. On April 1, data prices at the two largest cellular-service providers dropped by a third. Fibre-internet providers have given users free upgrades. Internet providers have noted that traffic has increased up to 50% since the lockdown began., our newspaper is being published on Thursday so the people who make and distribute the paper do not have to work on the long weekend.

“What we have experienced is we cannot reproduce the Sunday service. And we’re not trying to do that. But rather we’re trying to bring back the concept of church at home, with families being and worshiping together. And we pay special attention to those who are alone.” Before the lockdown he produced a seven-word service with seven ministers in his district. The service will be posted on Facebook and YouTube on Friday morning. And he has also been distributing DVDs to those people, mostly the elderly, who do not have access to social media.

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This is the war South African are winning, we fought against so many injustices, so Covid19 will be deteated, we not shaken

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