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“And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the Judgment.” Hebrews 9:27

It Is Appointed for Men to Die and Face Judgement
To some the doctrine of Eternal Judgment is a great comfort. To others it is a terrifying concept. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God.

Man Knows Not His Time
The world was informed that the longest ruling dictator in Africa, Marxist terrorist, Robert Mugabe died in a hospital in Singapore. How various people reacted to this news speaks volumes.

DA Leader Praises Murderous Dictator
DA leader, Mmusi Maimane, sent his condolences to the family of “former President Mugabe. May his soul rest in peace.” Mmusi Maimane claims to be a Christian and a democrat, yet he calls the brutal dictator “President” and assumes that “his soul [will] rest in peace!” DA leader, Mmusi Maimane also described Mugabe as “a liberator!” One wonders where Maimane has been since 1980? Has he not noticed the tragic destruction of neighbouring Zimbabwe under the despotic tyranny of ZANU and Mugabe?

How Are We as Believers to Respond to Death?
The Bible mandates capital punishment for murder, rape and kidnapping. Believers are to pray the imprecatory Psalms of justice against the wicked. God will ensure justice in eternity. “For I, the Lord, love justice. I hate robbery.” Isaiah 61:8

The Choices Before Us
We are in the middle of a world war of worldviews. A battle for the mind. A battle for the heart.
A battle for the future. The choice before us is clear:
The lies of the world, or the truth of the Word of God?
Indoctrination or education?
Communism or Christianity?
The broad road to destruction, or the narrow way to life?
Heaven or hell?
The grace of God, or the wrath of God?

Is Jesus Christ your Saviour and Lord?
If not, He will be your Judge.

“It is appointed unto men once to die and after that to face Judgement…” Hebrews 9:27

Dr. Peter Hammond
Frontline Fellowship
P.O. Box 74 Newlands 7725
Cape Town South Africa
Tel: 021-689-4480
Email: mission@frontline.org.za
Website: www.FrontlineMissionSA.org
www.hmsschoolofchristianjournalism.org
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See also:
Zimbabwe Celebrates as Mugabe Falls
Mugabe’s Blood Diamonds
Mugabe Tsunami in Zimbabwe
The National Suicide of Zimbabwe

​​Breaking the Silence
The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Zimbabwe produced a document Breaking the Silence with 2,000 names of known Matabele victims of the Gukurahundi. In February 1983, the International Red Cross produced documentation of 1,200 Matabele murdered in just that month alone. In 2005, the International Association of Genocide Scholars estimated the death toll in Matabeleland as at least 20,000.

How Liberators Become Oppressors
Elections in Zimbabwe have been dominated by state violence and blatant electoral fraud. Even when defeated, such as in the 2002, 2008 and 2013 presidential elections, Mugabe stayed in power and continued to brutalise and terrorise the population that he claimed to serve. 

​“How long will the land lie parched and the grass in every field be withered? Because those who live in it are wicked, the animals and birds have perished...” Jeremiah 12:4
 
How to Destroy Any Economy
As Robert Guest, the African Editor of The Economist, observed in his book, The Shackled Continent: “For half a century now, the continent has been deluged with Foreign Aid, but this aid has failed to make Africa any less poor… it has bankrolled tyrants… or idealists with hopeless economic policies… both types of aid have been wasted… doing business in Africa can be tricky. Bad roads, punctured by road blocks, manned by bribe-hungry policemen, make it slow and costly to move goods, even short distances… local firms, meanwhile, have been held back by arbitrary government regulations, dysfunctional legal systems and the difficulty, without political connections, of raising capital… if Africa was better governed it would be richer… Africans are poor, largely because they are not yet free. They live under predatory, incompetent governments which… impoverish them in many ways: through corruption, through bad economic policies and sometimes, as in Zimbabwe, by creating an atmosphere of terror…” “They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity…” 2 Peter 2:19

​“See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil, in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess. But if your heart turns away so that you do not hear, and are drawn away, and worship other gods and serve them, I announce to you today that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to go in and possess. I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live.” Deuteronomy 30:15-19
 
Dr. Peter Hammond
Frontline Fellowship
P.O. Box 74 Newlands 7725
Cape Town South Africa
Tel: 021-689-4480
Email: mission@frontline.org.za
Website: www.frontlinemissionsa.org
 
See also:
Zimbabwe and Zambia - A Tale of Two Countries and Three Religions
Mugabe's Tsunami in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe - A Lesson in How to Destroy Christian Civilisation
Hope for Zimbabwe
Renewing Minds for Reformation
Fraud, Failure and Farce in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe at the Crossroads
Crimes Against Humanity in Zimbabwe
Evicted Farmers Continue to Feed Zimbabwe
Power Failures in Zimbabwe
Chinese Colonialism in Zimbabwe
The 11th of November
Who Won the War and Who Initiated the Peace?
How the Greatest Century of Missions Was Derailed Into the Worst Century of Persecution

The destruction of the homes and informal businesses of over 1.5 million people in Zimbabwe was only the most recent example of the destructive policies of a callous government. For 25 years Robert Mugabe has been the President of Zimbabwe.
Initially Mugabe was held in very high regard by the West. He was knighted by the Queen of England, given official visits to the United States and Britain and many lifted him up as an ideal example of a wise and moderate African leader. Some even hailed Mugabe as “a modern day messiah.”
When Mugabe's ZANU-PF Marxist revolutionaries were handed power in Zimbabwe / Rhodesia, Bishop Tutu, of the South African Council of Churches, effused that this was: “The arrival of the Kingdom of God in Zimbabwe!” (Ecunews Bulletin, 11/1980).
Tremendous PotentialInitially optimism was high for Zimbabwe. The vicious war had come to an end and a peaceful settlement had been enforced by Britain. Foreign aid, especially from Britain, America and the European Union flooded the country. Zimbabwe at Independence had so much going for it. It had one of the most productive and efficient agricultural economies in Africa. There was tremendous tourist potential with magnificent scenery, well stocked game reserves, spectacular tourist attractions, such as the Victoria Falls, a pleasant temperate climate, tremendous natural resources, gold, platinum and other precious ores, a modern banking sector, skilled manufacturers, and an efficient road and railway network. The Zimbabwean people were also amongst the best-educated people in Africa.
Homes DestroyedToday, a quarter of a century later, that once prosperous nation has been impoverished. The initial optimism and enthusiasm at Independence has vanished and been replaced by disillusionment, despair and desperation. Just in June, 2005, over 1.5 million people in Zimbabwe had their homes and informal businesses destroyed by Mugabe's army and police.
Church RaidedSome churches, which had taken in these homeless and destitute people, experienced police raids in the middle of the night. The refugees were then forced onto open trucks and not seen since. Zimbabwean police attacked 400 women who gathered for an all-night prayer meeting and severely assaulted them, 38 were so severely injured that they had to be hospitalised. The focus of this womens’ prayer meeting was to pray for peace. Pastors have been arrested for“subversive prayers.” Many Christians have been arrested, tortured and murdered.
“Remember the prisoners as if chained with them - those who are mistreated - since you yourselves are in the body also.” Hebrews 13:3
A Criminal EnterpriseCollen Makumbirofa of the Foundation of Reason and Justice, reports: “The recent Operation Murambatsvine (literally ‘drive out the filth’) which left millions homeless was brutal…the Zimbabwean Communist government is waring against God and His people…the military government uses force to manipulate the ballot. In an immoral society where power is controlled by a few, the ballot can be made to speak anything. The Zimbabwean government is a criminal enterprise that is guilty of corruption, mismanagement, misguided policies, oppressive laws, murder, lies and institutionalised theft…the Zimbabwean economy has collapsed completely due to state terrorism, diabolical expropriation of White owned farms and massive corruption.
“The manner in which the government is running the country is wicked and anti-economic progress. Fundamental to Communism is the starving of all dissenters. This accounts for the expropriation of farms, destruction of the means of livelihood and homes, exorbitant import duties and quotas…
“Human rights abuses in Zimbabwe are considerably worse than ever occurred in Apartheid South Africa…freedom of movement and assembly has been curtailed…people are beaten and arrested for being seen in company of three. To those who work, more than half of their pay goes to the government through taxes…thousands are rotting in prison…thousands who are being robbed of their possessions by the police, soldiers and militia, have nowhere to appeal to. Thousands are dying every week…because hospitals and clinics have no medicine. Millions are starving because their homes and means of livelihood have been destroyed completely…
Robbing the Poor“Robbing the poor is one of the greatest evils under the Sun…The selfish world is not interested in giving practical help to the sick, prisoners and starving. Even those in the Free World…are inconsiderate and have closed their ears to the cries in Zimbabwe. Women are being robbed and raped every day, men have been disempowered, children, including the unborn, suffer much pain as their mothers have no food…
Aiding the Oppressed“The oppressors are seeking finance from South Africa and more alliance with the crooked Chinese politicians to increase their capacity to oppress God's people…money that will be given to Mugabe will be used to please dissatisfied soldiers, militias and police who are being used as hired guns to oppress innocent people.” (www.forjustice.atspace.org)
“Hate evil, love good; Establish justice in the gates...” Amos 5:15
Silence is a SinRev. Molefe Tseletse, at a prayer meeting for Zimbabwe in Johannesburg, declared: “It is a lie to say that there is no problem or crisis in Zimbabwe. The Church in Zimbabwe and South Africa must speak the truth even if there might be divisions among us, let there be.”
One of the members of the Pastoral Delegation of the Zimbabwean Churches, reported at this meeting: “The situation in Zimbabwe is getting worse and worse.”
Abusing Asylum SeekersOne Zimbabwean woman stood up at a prayer meeting in Johannesburg and declared: “They have destroyed my home. What will I do? Right now I am in South Africa, the police can arrest me any time and take me to Lindela Detention Camp. I'm sick…if they take me to Lindela I know I will die there.” Lindela is the South African detention camp for illegal immigrants. Human rights groups have documented at least 28 people who have died in this camp.
Collen Makumbirofa reports that more than 2 million Zimbabweans have fled to South Africa to escape the severe political and religious persecutions in Zimbabwe. He writes: “South African Department of Home Affairs deny them asylum permits and refugee status…the go-slow tactics of…the Department of Home Affairs is characterised by unprecedented corruption over asylum seekers and refugees. The Home Affairs officials demand bribes from poor asylum seekers…even the holders of the asylum permits are required to pay bribes by the police…Permit holders who fail to pay bribes end up in the notorious Lindela Detention Camp…I think there is a secret agreement between South Africa and Zimbabwean ruling politicians to inconvenience or cause suffering to Zimbabweans seeking asylum. Most of the people deported to Zimbabwe will be harassed, tortured and beaten by Zimbabwean authorities.
Do You Care?“What also causes much pain to the Zimbabweans in South Africa is the rejection by most parts of the South African society, including most churches. The hardships inflicted on Zimbabweans at the hands of government officials and police is a reflection of the negative attitude of most South Africans towards their neighbours. They love Mugabe more than their Christian brothers.
“A genocide is taking place in Zimbabwe. The African Union and United Nations are useless. These organisations have ignored many genocides in Africa. The suffering that was experienced…in Communist Russia and other Communist nations, this is what the Zimbabwean people face. Millions face starvation. More than 3 million have fled Zimbabwe. What about those…many slaves in Zimbabwe: Do those in the Free World care about us?
“Mr. Mbeki doesn't care about the oppressed people of Zimbabwe. He has been denying that there is even a crisis in Zimbabwe. In March 2005 his puppet observer mission declared the rigged parliamentary elections free and fair before they were even conducted.” (Foundation of Reason and Justice).
As Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin observed: “It is not who votes that counts, but he who counts the votes!”
Paradise Lost“Since Mugabe came to power, Zimbabwe has been transformed from an African paradise with a 4.5% growth rate to the fastest shrinking economy in the world. Three quarters of the population live below the poverty line. Life expectancy has dropped from 59 to 34 more than 400 MDC (opposition) members have been murdered by government militias since 1999…the largest independent newspaper, Daily News, has been bludgeoned, beaten and bombed into silence. Foreign press is absent or rigidly monitored. Any real reporting is done with hidden cameras. Mugabe's anti-Western and anti-White rhetoric has increased…the US has labelled Zimbabwe, with Iran and North Korea, as an ‘outpost of tyranny’.
The North Korean Connection“North Korean advisers are known to have spent most of the 1980's in the country, training Mugabe's infamous Fifth Brigade and his bodyguards…they set up compulsory Indoctrination Centres for young people, teaching them blind loyalty to the ruling party and its leader and hatred of political opponents, especially Whites…they were also inducted into assassination techniques…An ever present scar on the Zimbabwean psyche, especially in Matabeleland, is the memory of the terrible massacres, purge and rape, the Gukurahundi, unleashed during the North Korean era by the Fifth Brigade. No one knows the number of the victims…a scorched land, a ghostlike land of silence and destroyed villages, and survivors too traumatised to speak.”(www.debka.com)
A Struggle to SurviveChurch of England missionary, Rev. Arthur Lewis, who has been dedicated to serving the Zimbabwean people for decades, reports: “Zimbabwe is now in a desperate and chaotic condition, apart from the tyranny and tortures which grows daily. Hunger stalks millions in the country. Commonplace items are often unobtainable…garbage is not collected. Inflation rockets. Britain, colonialism and drought are blamed for everything. But the people did not go hungry during Rhodesia's frequent droughts.
The Jails Are Full“Even worse is the environmental devastation which will take generations to repair. The farmlands are being wrecked, forestlands burned and the game in the reserves are being snared, shot and eaten. Many of the country's assets are being sold off to South Africans, the Chinese or other foreigners. And the Zimbabwean government is intensifying its brutal campaign against its own people, arresting literally thousands of men and women who are struggling to put food into the mouths of their destitute families. Its filthy jails are filled to overflowing…a tortured, starving and unarmed people without friendly neighbours struggles to survive…prayer is strength for those who otherwise have no hope.”
“Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.” Psalm 71:4
Farm InvasionsAt a debate in the House of Commons, in London, the following facts on Zimbabwe were revealed:
7 million Zimbabweans are dependant on external food aid. 75% of Zimbabwe's population are now living below the poverty line. Out of originally 5,500 productive commercial farms, today less than 500 farms are in any way operational. So far the Zimbabwean government has targeted farms, with a total area of almost 12 million hectares, for what they term “resettlement.”In fact what the Zimbabwean government calls “land reform” has proven to be nothing other than farm invasions by mobs who loot, burn and destroy what were once productive farms and then return with their loot to urban areas.
“For I, the Lord, love justice, I hate robbery...” Isaiah 61:8
Communist ChaosThe economy in Zimbabwe is one of the fastest shrinking in the world. Unemployment is officially over 70% (actually 90%). 95% of the food aid is not reaching those in need. People in Zimbabwe have been bluntly told that they will not get any food aid unless they vote for the party of Robert Mugabe, ZANU-PF. Life expectancy in Zimbabwe has plummeted to 34 years for men and 33 years for women. 24% of the population has been recorded as being HIV positive. There are already 700,000 AIDS orphans in Zimbabwe.
CorruptionIn a 2002 report by the European Community's Court of Auditors, it was recorded that 89% of aid money from the European Union had been embezzled by Robert Mugabe and his cronies.
The latest Transparency International Corruption Perceptions index rates Zimbabwe as one of the most corrupt countries in the world, just under Chad, Bangladesh, Turkmenistan, Myanmar, Haiti, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast and Angola. Zimbabwe is described as marked by “rampant” and “severe corruption.”
“Evil will slay the wicked...” Psalm 34:21
TortureAmnesty International has documented over 1000 cases of torture by the Zimbabwean government. Nearly half of the Members of Parliament belonging to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change have been assaulted, mostly by the police. Many of the opposition Members of Parliament have been arrested, some imprisoned and several have been murdered. A quarter of the opposition Members of Parliament have survived assassination attempts. Not only have opposition Members of Parliament been assaulted, but even their lawyers. Human Rights groups have documented literally hundreds of thousands of human right abuses, including severe beatings, abductions, torture and murder, in the last 5 years.
“If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. Deliver those who are drawn toward death and hold back those stumbling to the slaughter.” Proverbs 24:10-11
The Brain DrainOver 4 million Zimbabweans have fled the country. It is reported that 1.1 million Zimbabweans are now living in the United Kingdom. According to SAPA, 500,000 health professionals, teachers, accountants, scientists and engineers have left Zimbabwe. This massive brain drain of the most qualified Zimbabweans, particularly in the health and education sectors, undermines any possibility of reversing the catastrophic collapse of Zimbabwe's economy. According to the Scientific and Industrial Research Centre, most of these health professionals have left the country because of the deteriorating economic conditions, the triple digit inflation, and perennial shortages of basic goods such as fuel.
A survey of final year college and university students in Zimbabwe reveals that 77% of students were being encouraged by their families to leave Zimbabwe. Tens of thousands of Zimbabwean doctors, nurses, pharmacists, teachers and other professionals have already left the country. Most seriously affected is the health sector where 60% of state registered nurses and half of the medical doctors have left the country, just in the last 5 years. 60% of the students said they want to be permanent residents overseas, preferred destinations being: South Africa (36%), Europe (29%) and North America (24%). While most of these students would want to be buried back in Zimbabwe, only 3% were satisfied with the present economic situation there. Over a quarter of the students had already applied, or were in the process of applying, for a work permit in another country.
(The Southern African Migration Project, SAMP).
Racism and LawlessnessZimbabwe Transport Minister, Chris Mushohwe, told a business conference that the government could seize companies owned, or run, by Whites. Robert Mugabe has recently signed into law an amendment to the Constitution that will make it impossible for the thousands of White farmers who have lost their homes and land to contest the take-overs in court(News24). The state run media are continually broadcasting racist hate speech against Whites. The White population in Zimbabwe has been reduced from 300,000 in 1980 to less than 30,000 today. Many of those left are pensioners, economic prisoners whose pensions and savings have been wiped out by Mugabe’s hyperinflation. It is to such destitute people that our missions of mercy smuggle in food and medicines.
“One ordinance shall be for you of the assembly and for the stranger who dwells with you...One law and one custom shall be for you and for the stranger...” Numbers 15:15-16
Police Turn to CrimeThings in Zimbabwe have deteriorated so badly that even Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri, complained before a Parliamentary committee that police officers were so poorly paid that they had to survive on bribes “to buy cabbages for their families.” The Commissioner also complained that state security agencies are paralysed by crippling fuel shortages. The Zimbabwe Republic Police announced the dismissal of 24 officers, including senior officers, for involvement in corruption and unspecified criminal activities. In October, 3 Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) agents appeared in court facing charges of armed robbery. (The Zimbabwe Standard)
Soldiers Turn to CrimeAn army officer interviewed by the Independent Foreign Service, reported that increasing numbers of soldiers and police were resorting to violent crime to make a living. Soldiers recently appeared in court in Masvingo for going on a robbery spree using military weapons. Many soldiers had been sent home because the government had no money to feed them in the barracks. Many soldiers have gone for long periods without any uniforms or training equipment. Insiders in Zimbabwe security forces say that the situation is “wholly unsustainable.”(www.africancrisis.org)
University of Zimbabwe lecturer and social analyst, Eldred Masunungure, has commented that these spate of security force personnel committing armed robberies poses “a serious threat to national security…Who will guard the guardian when the people who are supposed to be protecting the citizens are the ones who are inflicting pain on them?” (The Zimbabwe Standard)
“Destructive forces are at work in the city; threats and lies never leave its streets.” Psalm 55:11
Forests DestroyedVast areas of forest and grazing land in Zimbabwe have been destroyed by uncontrolled fires. The Ministry of the Environment and Tourism Acting Secretary, Dr. Alfred Ncube, reported before a parliamentary portfolio committee that billions of Dollars worth of forestry, nature reserve and farmland had been destroyed in recent weeks by wild fires. 1623 hectares of timber, owned by Border Timbers, and 200 hectares of timber, belonging to the Forestry Company of Zimbabwe had been destroyed, along with billions of Dollars worth of coffee plantations belonging to the Agricultural and Rural Development Authority. 7000 hectares of the Nyanga National Park had also been destroyed. Dr. Ncube reported that these wild fires which had devastated extensive tracts of forest, grassland, wildlife and other precious natural resources, as well as destroying chalets, farm houses and killing and injuring people, had been caused by human factors.
The causes of the fires were: “The smoking out of bees for honey, the lighting of fires at roadsides by resting motorists, careless throwing of burning cigarette stubs and the burning of vegetation by hunters to flush out game.” Illegal settlers at the Chimanimani area were blamed for causing most of the fires.
Mr. Kanyekanye, of Forestry Company of Zimbabwe, reported to the Committee that “There is nothing which is being done to stop the uncontrolled fires.”
The last surviving 1000 wildebeest in Rhodes Nyanga National Park were now in danger as their grazing land had been destroyed. Night after night these wildebeest, and other game in the park, had been seen stampeding from one valley to the other to escape the raging fires. Where there had previously been dense forests, lush green vegetation and an array of savannah grassland valleys with wild animals roaming free, the countryside has now been reduced to black soot. (www.allafrica.com)
“How long will the land lie parched and the grass in every field be withered? Because those who live in it are wicked, the animals and birds have perished.” Jeremiah 12:4
Economic CollapseJustice For Agriculture reports that Zimbabwe has one of the highest inflation rates in the world.“The country's limping economy has been worsened by foreign currency, fuel and food shortages…hamstrung industries, plunging production levels to below 30%.”
Zimbabwean commentator, Eddie Cross, who lives in Bulawayo, noted in August 2005, that since 1997, “the economy has shrunk by over 50%, Exports by 2/3rds and living standards have retreated to levels last seen in the mid-50's - half a century ago. Life expectancies have declined from a high of 59 years on average…to less than 34 years today. No other country in recent history has seen such a collapse in its economic fortunes in peace time.”
“Your silver has become dross...” Isaiah 1:22
HyperinflationI remember, in the 1970's, when a Rhodesian Dollar was three-times stronger than the US Dollar. It would take US$ 3 to buy 1 Rhodesian Dollar. In October 2005 one of our missionaries reported that the official exchange rate was Z$ 27,000 to US$ 1. However, almost anyone in Zimbabwe was ready to exchange Z$ 85,000 to Z$ 125,000 to US$1. One bottle of Coca Cola cost Z$ 60,000!
Economic ParalysisReportedly Zimbabwe's stock market, which still has 82 publicly listed companies, was repeatedly paralysed with days passing with no buyers for the deluge of shares on offer.
Destruction of the FarmsIn May 2005, the governor of the Reserve Bank in Zimbabwe, Gideon Gono, gave a two-and-a-half-hour presentation on the economy. While his audience of cabinet ministers, bankers and businessmen sipped their fruit juice and bottled water and feasted on a huge breakfast, the governor spoke about re-settled farms where the people (who are supposed to be farmers) are cutting down productive orchards to sell as firewood, rooting out mature coffee plantations in order to plant a few maize pips, stripping assets, destroying infrastructure and even moving immovable property in order to sell anything, and everything, that is left on the confiscated White farms they have been given by the government.
In his Monetary Policy statement, Gono described the farm invaders as “criminal economic saboteurs…unruly agents keen on reaping where they did not sow.”
Looting the CountryThe governor spoke of massive environmental degradation and rape of the land so widespread that “there would soon be nothing left for Zimbabwean children to inherit.” Gono said that the farm invasions would rob the country of much needed foreign currency and scare off investors from committing their resources to Zimbabwe.
The Reserve Bank governor reported on people leaving the country with suitcases literally bulging with US Dollars; of false fuel tanks under cars stuffed with foreign currency; of unauthorised charter aircraft flying in to collect shipments of gold. “Almost every sentence contained words like corruption, indiscipline, hoarding and abuse. He spoke about greed that knows no bounds…and impassioned pleas to save the environment and natural resources.”
Vandalism and ViolenceCommentator Cathy Buckle feared that “his words and impassioned pleas to save the environment and natural resources will again fall on deaf ears…many of us had been crying out about the environmental destruction for the last five years, but we have been silenced, called colonialists, racists, imperialists and sell-outs. The facts, however, are there for all to see -Zimbabwe's natural resources are being looted and the environment is being completely destroyed…the rape of the environment has become so widespread…we can only assume that the silence and inaction of our authorities means that they do not want or expect their children to spend their lives in Zimbabwe. If they did then surely, they would do something.”(www.africantears.netfirms.com)
“For the nation and kingdom which will not serve You shall perish and those nations shall be utterly ruined.” Isaiah 60:12
Another Rwanda“It's one hundred times worse than reported…many of you have seen the film Hotel Rwanda and what happened there by the world turning its back on the horror. Please do something about it now…!” The Whites in Zimbabwe are being vilified and targeted just as the Tutsi were in Rwanda.
Politics of HateRobert Guest writes about: “Tribalism, racism and sectarianism…bigotry: treating individuals badly, not because of something they have done, but because they belong to a particular group. People find all sorts of unjust reasons to hate, and unjust governments exploit them all.” Ethnic differences have been “deliberately inflamed by unscrupulous leaders…it is not tribal feelings themselves that cause trouble; it is their politicisation. Most of Africa's ethnic strife has its roots in the manipulation of tribal loyalties by…authorities.” (The Shackled Continent)
Marxist MiseryAnother letter from Zimbabwe pleads: “We are all terrified at what they are going to destroy next…I mean they are actually ploughing down brick and mortar houses and one White family with twin boys of 10 had no chance of salvaging anything when 100 riot police came in with AK's and bulldozers and demolished their beautiful house (5 bedrooms and pine ceilings) because it was 'too close to the airport'…it's genocide in the making and if you do not believe me, read the Genocide Report by Amnesty International, which says we are in level 7 (level 8 is after its happened and everyone is in denial)…We are all in a fearfully dangerous situation here…the pall of smoke all around our city is a reality, the thousands of homeless people sleeping outside in zero degree Celsius with no food, water, shelter and bedding are a reality. Today a family approached me…with two small children. Their home was trashed and they will have to sleep outside. We already support eight people and a child on this property and the electricity is going up next month by 250%, as is water. How can I take another family of four? And yet how can I turn them away to sleep out in the open?
“What is going to happen next? Will they start on our houses? All property is going to belong to the state now…we no longer have short wave radio access, which told us everything that was happening, because the government jammed it out of existence. We don't have any reporters, and no one is allowed to photograph. If we had reporters here they would have an absolute field day…people are shocked, stunned, bewildered and blown mindless by the wanton destruction of everyone's homes…”
Night Raids on ChurchesA press statement from The Churches in Bulawayo (the second largest city in Zimbabwe and the capital of Matabeleland) tells of night time raids on churches and forced removals of old people being cared for.
“The churches in Bulawayo have been working hard to alleviate the suffering of the displaced people. We consulted with the police commissioners and the governor…the churches in Bulawayo were allowed to shelter internally displaced people…on the 20th of July 2005 at about 9:30PM the police forced themselves into a number of churches where these people had been kept. The churches had made plans to move them to the rural areas. They had also prepared food packs, blankets and seed packs to be distributed. In spite of all the arrangements and agreements, that had been made on behalf of these people, the police went on to commandeer them into open trucks. We watched with horror as the operation unfolded.
War on the Poor“Included with these people were the sick…the elderly, women and little children…children who were already asleep were woken up by the riot police and frog marched into the open police trucks…this operation was undertaken under the cover of darkness between 9PM and 5AM. The removal of the innocent, poor, weak, voiceless, and vulnerable members of society by riot police was uncalled for and unnecessary. It is inhuman, brutal and insensitive and in total disregard of human dignity. These people are not criminals, but bona fide citizens of this nation.It seems the crime they have committed is that they are poor…this is evidenced by the destruction of their simple structures and meagre property they owned…people died, some are traumatised, depressed, while others are now insane…
Pastors Arrested“The government misled us to believe that what they discussed with us was in good faith. There was no need to take leadership of the churches in Bulawayo in for questioning and later detention…on spurious allegations…this was uncalled for intimidation and harassment. They handcuffed our pastor and threatened him in a manner that is unwarranted. There is no rule of law…this demonstrates a tyrannical rule in our beloved country…school children have been displaced by this operation, which has denied them the right to education. We call on the government and its officials to abide by the laws and not to be above it. The rule of law must be restored. The churches should be allowed to continue with their God-given mandate and mission…”
Church Schools SiezedZimbabwe Education Minister, Aeneas Chigwedere, has introduced a law, which would place all private and church-owned schools under direct state supervision. If passed, Section 69 of the Education Act Amendment Bill would enable the Minister of Education to prescribe fees and levies of non-government schools, school uniforms, school holidays, size of classes, instruction, qualifications of teachers and all other aspects of church schools. The Minister of Education has stated that he wants all children across Zimbabwe to wear the same type and colour of school uniform and to receive the same education. Many of the country's schools have pass rates of only 3 to 8%. Thousands of children can no longer even afford to go to school at all.
A Deafening SilenceUN Human Rights rapporteur, Miloon Kothani, criticized African leaders for their failure to condemn Mugabe's human rights abuses: “The silence of major governments in Africa continues to be shocking. And influential individuals like Nelson Mandela, I don't understand why they don't speak out.”
Collen Makumbirofa, of the Foundation of Reason and Justice, published an answer to the UN Human Rights experts challenge: “The answer is 'the righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern' Proverbs 29:7. Most of the Black African leaders view Mugabe as their hero irrespective of the fact that there was never a time when a terrorist like Mugabe was right. Leaders like Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, and Obassanjo don't care. It's not in their interest to help millions struggling in Zimbabwe. Most of the time they condemn America and the Western world while right now their neighbour is destroying the lives of millions. If they are truly interested in truth, now is the time to speak out. The condemnation of the Western World by African leaders is rhetoric and a cover up for their own failures.”
Scorched EarthMakumbirofa reports: “In the coldest month of the year, June 2005, Mugabe and his Communist government launched a scorched earth policy with a code name 'Operation Restore Order'. The operation destroyed tens of thousands of homes. More than 1,5 million people were left homeless…currently thousands of people are dying every week due to starvation and diseases. With no homes, food, blankets and drugs in the hospitals, millions have become more vulnerable. Mugabe's government is a criminal enterprise. How can Mugabe fight people just because they don't want him to be their President? Mugabe, like other Communist leaders, believes that denying food to his people, destroying homes and available means of livelihood will sustain him in power.”
War Against God“Mugabe is now refusing food aid into the country…satan came to lie, kill and destroy. We are in a war with satan and his agencies. These dictators fight God and His people…wanting co-existence with dictators is tantamount to committing suicide…Mugabe (Zimbabwe), Thabo Mbeki (South Africa)…Omar Bashir (Sudan), and their governments, are anti-God and a great hindrance to development of Africa as a whole. In most circumstances these leaders support each other. That is the very reason why they cannot condemn Mugabe, instead they blame Britain for what the Communists are doing in Zimbabwe.
Funding Tyrrany“Myself, I only blame the British politicians who paved the way for Mugabe to come to power in 1980. They knew that Mugabe is a Communist being supported by China and Russia. Yet donors continued to pump money to support a new Communist regime.” It is often forgotten that Mugabe's ZANU-PF revolutionaries received United Nations (UN) funding despite its terrorist record of murdering missionaries, bayoneting babies, burning to death congregations of Christians in their church buildings, ambushing of Red Cross ambulances, exploding bombs in public streets, placing landmines in farm roads, and the cold blooded murder of thousands of unarmed civilians. In fact, the World Council of Churches (WCC) also channelled church funds to these Marxists who were murdering missionaries and burning churches.
Lust for Power“The major problem of Africa is Socialism, an insane lust for power, unprecedented corruption and gross mismanagement in Black governments. The Western World is developed because of the legacy of Christian principles of government and economics. In most African nations there is no room for such free trade, free media and free elections. We are a very rich continent, but our governments are our problem and the philosophy of Socialism, which most of our people support in ignorance.
Africa Needs Biblical Justice“God has ordained the government to be a ministry of justice, not to control the economy, trade, education and industries. Socialism is a science that experiments on human beings…the solution for Africa is the spread of true or Reformed Christianity. True Christianity teaches about faith in Jesus Christ and opposes Socialism and madness in Humanistic governments. Most of our church leaders and Christians in Africa don't even know that Socialism is un-Biblical and that its logical conclusion is the destruction of society - Zimbabwe being a good example.
“Ignorance and inactivity continues to undermine development in Africa. The Western World (which is envied by African Communist or Socialist leaders and radical Muslims) owes its success to Christianity. The philosophy that people like Martin Luther, John Calvin and other Christians spread brought balance of power in governments, free market system and respect for human rights. I'm hurt by the destruction of millions of lives in Zimbabwe. Please pray for Zimbabwe. Please try to do something practical for the people dying in Zimbabwe.”(Foundation of Reason and Justice, P O Box 61885, Marshalltown, 2107, South Africa)
Defending the IndefensibleMr. Makumbirofa also challenges the South African President, Thabo Mbeki for criticising the United States of America for listing Zimbabwe as one of the world's “outposts of tyranny.” In its article “America Right! Thabo Mbeki Wrong!” the Foundation of Reason and Justice states:“Thabo Mbeki is prepared to stand with his Marxist brother, President Robert Mugabe, no matter what. It's clear before the world that Mugabe is one of the worst dictators in the world. 'You will know them by their fruit…' Zimbabweans are living in slavery…the land invasions was a government-planned thing…the majority of Black Zimbabweans did not benefit from the expropriation of farms. The so-called war veterans and youth militias who were clambering for land distribution are tools that are being used for attaining the goals of greedy and self-seeking politicians…hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans have been abused, threatened and silenced. Thousands have been tortured by their government. People are dying…speeded by state made starvation. 'Those who call the righteous, unrighteous and the unrighteous, righteous shall be denounced by the people.'
“The God of justice will prove Mr. Mbeki wrong before the world. In fact God is angry concerning the moral support being given to a murderous government. Mr. Mbeki must repent, recant his statement and stop supporting tyranny. 'Then you will know the truth; and the truth will set you free.' John 8:32 'Rescue those being led away to death (in Zimbabwe); hold back those staggering towards slaughter.' Proverbs 28:10-11. The mainstream media (superficial journalism) that has ignored the suffering of Zimbabweans is also ignoring the worst human suffering…”
“You who love the Lord, hate evil!” Psalm 97:10
A Smokescreen for OppressionTapera Kapuya, a former Zimbabwean student leader, who now lives in South Africa, has testified of how he was detained and tortured in Zimbabwe, in 2001. “It's not Blair who razed down people's houses. It's not Bush who tortured people in Zimbabwe.” Kapuya is studying law in Durban and is the African Secretary of the International Union of Students. He sees the blaming of the Whites and the West for the troubles in Zimbabwe as a smoke screen to cover ZANU-PF oppression.
Blaming BritainOn several occasions, President Mugabe has declared: “The epicentre of hell is Britain, and the Queen or King in power at the moment is the devil!” Rev. Arthur Lewis comments: “It is ironic that Mugabe should spew such hatred against the country that, for all practical purposes, installed him into power and even today continues to offer Zimbabwe so much practical help.”
Jailing JournalistsCathy Buckle's weekly internet newsletters have described police attacking women in Bulawayo who publicly carried flowers with the message: “Choose the power of love rather than the love of power.” Two South African trade union groups and another fact-finding delegation were expelled on arrival at Harare Airport. Three Zimbabwean newspapers have been closed down, including the popular Daily News, which was bombed, and more than 70 Zimbabwean journalists have been arrested, many tortured.
Missions BannedCathy Buckle reports empty shelves in Marondera, yet large stacks of grain visible at the local Grain Marketing Board depot. Voluntary organisations and Christian missions which have done so much to support ordinary Zimbabweans in the past are now banned. Only government registered organisations are tolerated. Food aid is being used as a political weapon, denied to opposition supporters and only provided to ZANU-PF members.
Economic SuicideHow did it come to this? How could one of Africa's most prosperous nations have been so mismanaged as to now be one of the poorest nations on earth?
Robert Guest, the African Editor of The Economist, tackled this very question in his book “The Shackled Continent”: Mugabe's ZANU-PF regime in Zimbabwe has impoverished that once prosperous nation. Mugabe “siezes private property, thus sending a deafening warning to foreign and local investors alike: Do not put your money into Zimbabwe! He also tries to alter the laws of economics by decree. He fixes the price of petrol at below what it costs to import it, so the pumps run dry. He tries to create money by printing it, and so causes hyperinflation…He rigs elections to keep himself in power…He regards his opponents as enemies to be crushed.”
Guest notes that Mugabe's anti-White racism, state sponsored terrorism and land invasions have resulted in a national suicide. Mugabe “could only maintain his big spending ways as long as Zimbabwe received large amounts of foreign aid. The longer the Mugabe regime was in power, the more corrupt his cronies became and the more erratic his policies became. Donors grew tired of handing over money only to see it wasted or embezzled, so they became less generous. Corruption, incompetence and bad economic policies can always be relied upon to squander any amount of donor cash.”
Fundamental Foundations For FreedoomSo what does Guest recommend? “Countries need governments that serve their citizens instead of robbing them, and which can be removed without violence…Countries need constitutions that provide reasonable protection for all citizens, regardless of whether they support the ruling party.” These seem very moderate suggestions, so why is it so difficult to have the rule of law and non-racial governments that truly serve their citizens instead of robbing them?
The Root of the ProblemGuest concludes that Africa has: “Two big problems. First, the tendency of African elites to spend other people's money on themselves…Second, the tendency to believe that Africa's problems are someone else's fault.” ( Shackled Continent)
“They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity.” 2 Peter 2:19
Man-Made FaminePeople are dying of starvation in a man-made famine. Vast herds of cattle and wildlife have been slaughtered. Crops and stores burned. Many people beaten or murdered. Thousands of productive farms have been looted by government organised mobs.
Not only did these farms feed the entire nation, but they also exported food, providing the highest percentage of foreign exchange earnings. These commercial farms were also the largest employers of labour in the country and provided homes for up to four million farm workers and their dependents.
State TerrorismYet, President Robert Mugabe, needing a scapegoat for his failed socialism, and military adventurism using the ZNA army to prop up fellow Marxist dictators in Mozambique and the Congo, played the race card and declared: “Farmers are enemies of the state! ... The revolution is yet to be concluded ... We have set the rules! ... Those farmers who resist will die!” In all this Mugabe was following the example of Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin, who in 1930-32 launched the “dekulakization” campaign to “exterminate the Kulaks as a class.” The Kulaks were the reactionary farmers of the Ukraine. Whole farms were razed to the ground, villages destroyed, peasants massacred. Over 6 million died in the man-made famine under Stalin - but Communist control was entrenched. As Lenin taught: “Never underestimate the value of constructive chaos!”
Mugabe declared: “We have degrees in violence!” and “I will be a Black Hitler - ten fold!”
While the country has spiralled downwards into lawlessness and savagery, Marxist President, Robert Mugabe, was being applauded as a keynote speaker at the UN’s World Summit on Sustainable Development. At the same time his supporters were slaughtering endangered wildlife and destroying huge forests and game reserves in Zimbabwe. The brazen hypocrisy, of those who claim to oppose racism, enthusiastically applauding one of the most vicious racists on the continent of Africa defies belief.
“Who will rise up for Me against the wicked? Who will make a stand for Me against the workers of iniquity?” Psalm 94:16
Peace is HellEven under war conditions with total international economic sanctions, Rhodesia had the lowest unemployment and the lowest crime rate in the world. And nobody starved. Today, in peacetime, even with foreign aid, Zimbabwe has one of the highest crime rates, inflation rates and skyrocketing unemployment rates in the world. And its prisons and cemeteries are overflowing.
“Freedom” under Robert Mugabe in peace has proved to be infinitely worse than the“oppression under Ian Smith” during the war.
Serving the SufferingFrontline Fellowship has been working in Zimbabwe since 1982. As the situation in Zimbabwe has deteriorated, so we have increased our activities in that desperately needy country. As a matter of policy, the Zimbabwe government is deliberately starving those in opposition.
In recent years we have distributed many tonnes of emergency relief aid, food and medicines to starving Christians in Zimbabwe. Amidst the state-orchestrated racial hatred, lawlessness and savagery, Frontline mission work in Zimbabwe has become particularly difficult and dangerous.
“You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” Mark 12:31
As we are continuing to conduct mission trips into Zimbabwe, for the safety of our workers and those we serve, we cannot say much about our ministry inside Zimbabwe, but please do continue to pray for our field workers and the evangelists, pastors and teachers whom we are serving and equipping. Pray also for the impact of the tonnes of Gospel literature which we are distributing throughout Zimbabwe.
The only hope for Zimbabwe is sincere Repentance, Biblical Reformation and Spiritual Revival. We tend to get the governments we deserve. An immoral and dishonest people get a wicked and corrupt government. Many in Zimbabwe supported Mugabe even as he was massacring the Matabele and stealing farms from productive White farmers. Only as the economy has collapsed, and their jobs and livelihoods have suffered, have the bulk of Zimbabweans turned against Mugabe. There needs to be an honest admission of the selfishness, greed, covetousness and malice which is at the root of this disaster. Zimbabwe needs to repent before God and rebuild their nation on Biblical Principles.
Prayer and Action NeededPersistent prayer, publicity and pressure provide protection for the persecuted.(Luke 18:1-7) Please distribute copies of this newsletter to friends and family and at your church.Pray for the Christians suffering in Zimbabwe. Mobilise your congregation and Bible study group to pray. And write to your elected representative to urge decisive political and economic pressure to be brought to bear against the Communist ZANU regime in Zimbabwe. Encourageyour church to support missions of mercy to the suffering Christians in Zimbabwe. You could also phone, fax or write to your nearest Zimbabwe embassy to protest against their racist and lawless policies of oppression.
“Open your mouth for the speechless, in the cause for all who are appointed to die. Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.” Proverbs 31:8-9


Do You Want to Change Your World?
If you’re serious about missions, plan now to participate in the next inspiring and life-changingGreat Commission Course (5-24 January 2018). The first part of the GCC will be held on the slopes of a mountain, near the ocean. The Biblical Worldview Summit (5-10 January 2018), will provide an ideal introduction to the Great Commission Course with the theme of Applying the Lordship of Christ to all Areas of Life. Participants of the GCC have come from as far afield as Australia and America, Britain and Botswana, Canada and Congo, Ghana and Germany, Sudan and South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe, Namibia and New Zealand, Malawi and Mozambique. See Upcoming Events on www.frontlinemissionsa.org.za for more information.
Resources for ReformationFrontline Fellowship has a wide selection of books, manuals, CD’s, tracts and videos which can help you in your mission of evangelism and discipleship. Visit www.frontline.org.za for articles, photos and reports. And write to: Frontline Fellowship PO Box 74 Newlands 7725 South Africa and request backcopies of FF News to distribute to your church or school, prayer posters for your mission board, Evangelistic Tracts for your outreaches, manuals for your Bible study group, and a catalogue of available books, videos tapes and inspiring CD’s.
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Having visited this country earlier in the year, and having counted 78 police stops on that Mission, I was rather surprised to count only about 19 this time around. The many road tolls that we went through did not give any problems, the people who were manning the different stations perked up when we handed them a Gospel tract to read. For much of these people’s lives, they either had things taken from them, or had to take items from people, but to receive something as a gift, was something new to them. 
 
During an outreach we put together in one of the cities that we were doing ministry in, people eagerly took the different tracts that we were handing out, some would even stop and have a conversation with us. The most common question that we were asked was “what church are you from?” This question was probably asked with the intent of the individual wanting to go to the church we were representing. This kind of an attitude comes about when prosperity preachers come to town and promise “big” hopes. Our answer to this question was that we were not representing a local church, but seeking to promote the Church of Christ throughout the nation. This response normally earned a look of bewilderment.

Jesus Film
During our Jesus film outreach the weather looked threatening and the clouds began to sprinkle. This gave us some concern for our equipment getting wet. During the setup we kept all the sensitive devices under a piece of plastic. With the prospect of rain and the rural setting of the location, we began to doubt whether this was a waste of time. The handful of people that were already gathering and the folks that had come to help us with the film, were a reminder to us that we should be willing to share the Gospel, in whatever form, to however many people show up. The rain only proved to be a passing shower and by the time the equipment was set up, the cloud had passed, providing a pleasant evening for the movie. Through showing this film we can share the Gospel account of Luke in the local language. At the very end one of us will stand up and give a Gospel challenge. When this time came about 50 people had gathered.
 
A New Drug - An Old Lie
Pornography and sexual immorality has been around since man first sinned and was kicked out of the Garden. In recent years, pornography  has been investigated and has proven to be as harmful to your brain as actual drugs, cocaine, heroin, etc. The idea behind pornography, fornication, adultery, homosexuality and other perverted acts is the erosion, or destruction, of the Biblical family. This is an old tactic, which has regularly been used against Christianity because faithful followers of the Bible seek to conform to the standard of God’s Word. Even though the selling of pornographic material is prohibited in Zimbabwe, most of the people that we talked to had a cell phone, or even a smart phone, which could easily access porn through the internet. 
 
The very first night we dealt with this problem, which is the number one contributor to the propagation of the HIV/AIDs throughout Southern Africa. Right after the Fight the New Drug presentation, I stood up and spoke on Genesis 19, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, explaining that if we do not run away from our sin and become children of God, the only way left is down into the pit of Hell. I pressed home the idea that “soft” pornography will lead to even more perverted acts, until you are in the same situation as the men of Gomorrah. 
 
Suffering and Sickness
I once heard the comment that Christian people want a “spare tyre god.” A god that they can turn to when they are in trouble. On the mission field you better not have this attitude. The Missions that I have been privileged to be a part of, have always been surrounded by prayer. During the first week of ministry our team leader, started to experience some severe headaches. We thought it was dehydration, due to the high temperatures. We could give him some medication that would relieve some of the pain, but that only proved to be temporary. Half way through the first week, another member of the team had food poisoning, leaving him bed bound for the next few days. It is never pleasant to either get sick, or to be sick, let alone being sick in a foreign country, in someone else’s home. But to see the stalwart character that these men had in the face of debilitating sickness, spoke volumes. Our leader continued to be plagued by these headaches for the rest of our Mission, but toward the end something much more severe developed. When we arrived back in South Africa, we were told that he had developed a sinusitis infection.
 
“Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” Job 2:10

51 Years Ago
51 years ago, on Thursday, 11 November 1965, at the most solemn moment of Armistice Day, the 11thhour, Ian Douglas Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, signed Rhodesia’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.

Defiance
This act of defiance, which came after many months of negotiations and fruitless discussions with the British Foreign Office, resulted in a most extraordinary explosion of diplomatic activity, international outrage, economic sanctions and motions of condemnation from the British Commonwealth, the Organisation of African Unity, the United Nations, the Soviet Union, and even from the US State Department.  Incredibly, Rhodesia was labeled:  “A threat to world peace!”  This from nations engaged in nuclear arms races and invasion of other lands! ​

Double Standards
One commentator at the time observed that it was:  “…strange that the United States should spend American blood and money like water in Vietnam in order to deter Communism from spreading a few hundred miles further; but that, due to some strange ethical kink, that same United States should be seeking to clear out of Africa those very people and governments that could effectively and forever bar the advance of Communism in that continent!” A.J.A. Peck, Rhodesia Accuses.

Never Beaten - Betrayed
As the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, Mr. Ian Smith, declared:  “We were never beaten by our enemies, we were betrayed by our friends.”
 
Loyal
In the First and the Second World Wars, and in the Malayan Conflict, Rhodesia had provided more men, percentage to their population, than any other part of the British Empire and Commonwealth to fight for the West.
 
Stabbed in the Back
However, when Rhodesia was targeted by Soviet and Red Chinese trained and supported revolutionaries, their British, Canadian, Australian and American allies not only placed economic sanctions on Rhodesia, but even channeled funds towards the very terrorists who were murdering their people. 
 
Blood on their Hands
It is often forgotten that Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF revolutionaries received United Nations (UN) funding, despite its terrorist record of murdering missionaries, bayonneting babies, burning to death congregations of Christians in their church buildings, ambushing Red Cross ambulances, exploding bombs in public streets, placing landmines in farm roads, and the cold-blooded murder of thousands of unarmed civilians.  In fact, the World Council of Churches (WCC) also channeled church funds to these Marxists who were murdering missionaries and burning churches.
 
Supporting the Murderous Mugabe
Now, the results of US State Department and British Foreign Office policy in the 1970’s continues to wreck havoc on the long-suffering people of Zimbabwe. We need to remember that initially Robert Mugabe was held in very high regard by the West.  He was knighted by the Queen of England, given official visits to the United States and Britain, and many lifted him up as an ideal example of a wise and moderate African leader.  Some even hailed Mugabe as “a modern day messiah.”
 
Blasphemous Idolatry
When Mugabe’s ZANU-PF Marxist revolutionaries were handed power in Zimbabwe / Rhodesia, Bishop Tutu, of the South African Council of Churches, declared that this was:  “The arrival of the Kingdom of God in Zimbabwe!” (Ecunews Bulletin, 11/1980).
 
Failed State
After the war came to an end and a peaceful settlement was enforced by Britain, optimism was high for Zimbabwe.  Foreign aid from Britain, America and the European Union flooded the country.  Today, a quarter of a century later, that once prosperous and productive nation has been impoverished and devastated. 
 
American Recognition of the Fruit of Their Misguided Policy
In the light of the extraordinary international economic and military campaign to bring down Rhodesia and replace it with Mugabe’s Zimbabwe it is most enlightening to read the speech by the American Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Christopher Dell (delivered 2 November, 2005 at Africa University in Mutare): 
“…The growing collapse of the Zimbabwean economy.  Not too long ago, Zimbabwe had a vibrant and diversified economy.  It was a land of great hope and optimism in Africa…A symbol for the rest of the world of what Africa could become.  Today, as you know, it is a country in deep crisis.  I know of no other example in the world of an economy that, in times of peace, has contracted so precipitously in the course of six years…Real GDP fell by 30% from 1997 to 2003…inflation is…triple digits and clearly on the rise.  If the government continues to print money to meet its obligations it could well drive inflation into quadruple digits by years end.  
 
National Suicide
“Manufacturing has shrunk by 51% since 1997 and exports have fallen by half in the last four years…Foreign direct investment has evaporated from UD$444 million in 1998 to UD$9 million in 2004.  Agricultural production – the mainstay of the economy – has collapsed under the violent implementation of…badly thought through land reform.  The government…have continued to expropriate farms without compensation and to distribute these farms in a non-transparent manner to ruling party insiders…not only commercial farm owners have been affected.  This mis-guided and ill-fated land grab also displaced over a million farm workers and their family members.
 
Voting with Their Feet
“The human cost of Zimbabwe’s economic crisis has been extraordinarily high.  The estimated proportion of the population living below the official poverty line has more than doubled since mid-1990’s – it is now about 80% of the population.  At least half the country faces food shortages…well over a quarter of the population has fled the country, according to the last national census…Zimbabwe’s economic crisis has set the country back more than half a century…That’s an astonishing reversal of 52 years of progress in only half a dozen years.  
 
Disasterous
“The flood of economic bad news has been continuous…the World Economic Forum…ranked Zimbabwe as the least competitive of all 117 economies studied…What has caused Zimbabwe’s unprecedented economic descent?  The government’s official position has been that the economic collapse is the result of drought and sanctions imposed by unfriendly Western nations…The CATO Institute in Washington recently published an insightful paper…when rainfall has recovered the Zimbabwean economy nevertheless has continued to decline…it notes that rainfall patterns are regional, yet Zimbabwe’s decline in maize production over the last five years has been dramatically greater than Zambia’s or Malawi’s.  In fact, Zambia’s maize production actually increased…
 
Corruption and Mismanagement
“Zimbabwean firms that are not connected to regime leaders are free to do business with American firms and American firms are free to invest in Zimbabwe and trade with any individual except those top level sanctioned officials…There are no blanket sanctions against doing business in Zimbabwe…what has been the cause of Zimbabwe’s unprecedented economic descent?…Neither drought nor sanctions are at the root of Zimbabwe’s decline.  The Zimbabwe government’s own gross mismanagement of the economy and its corrupt rule has brought on the crisis…The fiscally reckless, massive, unbudgeted payout to war veterans in 1997…Zimbabwe’s costly misadventure in the Democratic Republic of the Congo…the government’s policy of land siezures and tolerance for chaotic disruptions on commercial farms led to the collapse in food production.  The impact of the farm invasions has extended beyond food security, beyond Zimbabwe’s balance of payments crisis, and beyond the plight of the thousands of individual expropriated farm owners.  The land grab has intensified the suffering of Zimbabwe’s most vulnerable segment of society – the rural and urban poor.  ​

​How to Destroy a Once Vibrant Economy
“Fast track land reform, still under way…also had the ugly and debilitating side effect of spurring violence, racial mongering, and the destruction of property and livelihood…riddled with political favoritism…the refusal to admit and correct mistakes…no wrongs are righted; the rule of law is a shambles.  Multiple farm ownership by the politically powerful and their families makes a mockery of the government’s official ‘one man, one farm’ policy.
 
Worthless Currency
“The Reserve Bank keeps the printing press running and the economy suffers through the ripple effects on the value of the currency and on food and fuel supplies.  
 

Chasing Away Investors 
“…nothing rattles investor confidence more than the prospect of expropriation…the Zimbabwean economy appears to be entrenched in a downward spiral, and the abandonment of sensible economic policy has shut off most foreign aid, scared away most foreign investment, and spurred an alarming rate of brain drain…Investment flows to countries with sound macroeconomic policies, where the rule of law is respected and contracts enforced, to countries that offer a good opportunity for generating a healthy return on investments, to countries that do more than pay lip service to the concept of transparency…bad policies have sidelined this country…the outlook for the next years is bleak.  Zimbabwe cannot pull itself out of the hole it has dug by itself…by shortsighted and misguided government policies.”
 
The Catastrophic Result of US Foreign Policy
This courageous and insightful analysis of Zimbabwe’s present crisis is all the more impressive when one realizes that throughout the 1970’s it was a primary goal of the US State Department to replace the strong anti-Communist government of Rhodesia with Mugabe’s Zimbabwe.  In the last quarter century, millions of lives have been ruined, and many tens of thousands of innocent people murdered as a result of this misguided policy.
 
Western Support for a Violent Marxist Revolution
It is not as though ZANU had not clearly identified themselves as a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary movement.  Freely available in the 1970’s, before the hand over of power by the British governor, Lord Soames, to Robert Mugabe, the “Basic Information About ZANU” leaflet stated:  “ZANU is guided by the principles of Marxism/Leninism.  It aims at achieving a socialist revolution.  However, before the achievement of such a socialist revolution, a transitional stage of national democratic revolution is necessary.  The national democratic revolutionary is a necessary preparation for the socialist revolution, and the socialist revolution is the inevitable sequel to the national democratic revolution.  The deeper the national democratic revolution, the better the conditions for socialist revolution.”
 
A Trail of Terror
Aside from the written and public pronouncements of ZANU and its leaders, the facts that they received such massive funding, training and military weaponry from Red China, North Korea and the Soviet Union should have provided some further clues.  The track record of ZANU murdering missionaries, bayoneting babies and burning to death congregations of churches should have been further warning.
 
Accessories to Terrorism
Nevertheless, the United Nations, the US State Department, the British Foreign Office, the European Community, the Organisation of African Unity, the Commonwealth, the World Council of Churches, the Olympic Committee, Time magazine, the Washington Post, and most of the media worldwide united in campaigning for the downfall of Rhodesia and the hand over of that once peaceful and productive country to the violent Marxist revolutionary, Robert Mugabe.
 
Resisting Communist Aggression
This 11 November, as we remember the attempt by Rhodesia to make a brave stand against the advance of Communism in Africa, we should remember the many courageous soldiers and civilians who gave their lives in that fight against terrorism and Marxism, and the many innocent victims of the terrorist onslaught.
  
WHAT DID RHODESIA’S STAND AND SACRIFICES ACHIEVE? 
In 1976, Ian Anderson of the League of Rhodesia wrote the following:  “From Thermopalae (480BC) to Malta (AD1565)…it has often fallen to a small community or people to give a moral examples to its larger and more powerful neighbours…in each case valuable breathing space was gained for other parties to rally to the cause and to complete the task so boldly initiated by faith.
 
Duty and Destiny
“We in Rhodesia have a very strong sense of national purpose.  We feel we have been singled out by Providence to be the stumbling block in the path of Communist aggression.  There is yet time for the Western powers to put Rhodesia’s stand in its historical perspective; but they are leaving it dangerously late…”  (Rhodesia:  Myths and Facts)
 
Holding the Line Against Communist Terrorism
In standing firm against Communist aggression for 15 years, Rhodesia indeed won valuable breathing space for the free world.  In much the same way as the 300 Spartans held up the enormous invading force of Persians at Thermopalae, and as the courageous knights resisted the Islamic invasion of the small island of Malta, I believe that, in time, history will recognise that the sacrifices and courage of Rhodesians in resisting Communist terrorism contributed to the ultimate collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe in 1989.  Had Rhodesia not resisted, the consequences for South Africa could have been absolutely disastrous.  Had South Africa fallen to Communism during the Cold War, the strategic Cape sea route and vital minerals essential for Western industry and defence, would have fallen into the hands of the Soviet Union with catastrophic consequences.
 
Vindicated by History
The reign of terror and state sponsored terrorism of Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF regime in Zimbabwe have only vindicated Ian Smith’s position.  In time it will become even clearer that in no small measure Ronald Reagan’s successful stand against Communist expansion in the 1980’s was made possible by Rhodesia’s stand against Communist terrorism in the 60’s and 70’s.
 
We Need to Learn from History
The history of Rhodesia confirms the disastrous consequences of the unprecedented foreign interference and the rejection of Rhodesia’s internal settlement.  Even more seriously, there is a real danger of Mugabe’s example of racist and lawless land invasions example in Zimbabwe being followed in Namibia and South Africa. 
 
Remember the Persecuted
The Scripture commands us to care for widows and orphans, to love our neighbours, to remember the prisoner, and to serve our brothers and sisters who are being persecuted for their faith. 
 
Serving the Suffering
We also need to intercede for the millions of starving Christians of Zimbabwe today.  Frontline Fellowship has been working in Zimbabwe since 1982.  As the situation in Zimbabwe has deteriorated, so we have increased our activities into that desperately needy country.  As the Zimbabwean government has begun deliberately starving their citizens into submission, we have had to smuggle many tonnes of food, relief aid and medicines to suffering Christians in Zimbabwe.  Amidst the state orchestrated racial hatred, lawlessness and savagery, Frontline Fellowship mission work in Zimbabwe has become particularly difficult and dangerous.  However, true Christianity cares for widows and the orphans in distress.  And we are commanded to love our neighbour as ourselves. 
 
Pray for Zimbabwe
Please pray for the impact of the tonnes of Gospel literature which we are distributing throughout Zimbabwe, and do continue to lift up our field workers and the evangelists, pastors and teachers whom we are serving and equipping. The only hope for Zimbabwe is sincere repentance, Biblical Reformation and spiritual Revival.  Zimbabwe needs to repent before God and rebuild their nation on Biblical principles. Please join us as we commit ourselves, for the rest of this year, to pray, daily, for the removal of the Marxist regime in Zimbabwe.  Join us as we pray through the Psalms, praying for God to expose the oppression and persecution of the anti-Christian regime in Zimbabwe, and as we pray for support and freedom for the long suffering Christians of Zimbabwe.
 
“Remember the prisoners as if chained with them – those who are mistreated – since you yourselves are in the body also.”  Hebrews 13:3.
 
Mobilising Prayer and Action for the Persecuted
Persistent prayer, publicity and pressure provide protection for the persecuted (Luke 18:1-7).  
Pray for the Christians suffering in Zimbabwe.  
Mobilise your congregation and Bible study group to pray.  
Write to your elected representative to urge decisive political and economic pressure to be brought to bear against the Communist ZANU regime in Zimbabwe.  
Encourage your church to support missions of mercy to the suffering Christians in Zimbabwe.  
Phone, fax or write to your nearest Zimbabwe embassy to protest against their racist and lawless policies of oppression.
 
“Open your mouth for the speechless, in the cause of all who are appointed to die.  Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.”  Proverbs 31:8-9
 
Visit www.frontline.org.za for updates and articles on the crisis in Zimbabwe.
 
Yours for Faith and freedom in Zimbabwe

Dr. Peter Hammond
Frontline Fellowship
P.O. Box 74 Newlands 7725
Cape Town South Africa
Tel: 021-689-4480
Email:  mission@frontline.org.za

Ministering to Future Pastors 
Whilst most prospective pastors have left Zimbabwe, there are still a handful that choose to study at the few remaining seminaries in Zimbabwe. We had an opportunity to give presentations at two different seminaries. We met a Missionary from America at a Bible College Consultation earlier this year who is a lecturer at one of these seminaries. He invited us to lecture there for a whole week. David and Joseph gave presentations on Old Testament Survey and also on Expository Preaching. I had an opportunity to give a presentation on Animism (or African Traditional Religion) at both seminaries. We also discussed with the students how the ‘health, wealth and prosperity’ preachers have replaced the witchdoctor in many communities. These fraudulent, so-called ‘men of god’ are thought to get special revelations from God and have special healing powers, using ‘faith’ as a magical force. The students agreed that animism is still a big problem in Zimbabwe. ​

​Confused Students 
Many of the students did not know how Jesus fits in to the Old Testament. Arturo G. Azurdia in his book, Spirit-Empowered Preachingaptly summarises how each book in the Bible points to Christ:

The inscripturated Word centres its attention on Jesus Christ. He is the Seed of the woman who will crush the serpent’s head. He is the Ark to rescue the people of God. He is the holy Angel of Yahweh. He is the Seed of Abraham in whom all the families of the earth will be blessed. He is the Passover Lamb. He is the Prophet greater than Moses. He is the Pillar of Fire in the wilderness. He is the Rock struck by Moses. He is the Heir of the Davidic throne. He is the thrice Holy Lord of Isaiah 6. He is the greater Shepherd of Ezekiel 34. He is Mary’s baby, Herod’s enemy, and Simeon’s joy. He is the twelve-year-old boy in the Temple and the beloved Son to be baptized. He is the Healer of the blind, the Provider of the hungry, and the Friend of the outcast. He is the New Temple, the Source of Living Water, the Manna that gives life, the Light of the world, the Resurrection and the Life, and the Father’s True Vine. He is the spotless Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world and the resurrected Lion from the tribe of Judah. He is the ascended Lord, the Ruler of the Church, and the returning Judge of all men. The Sacred Scriptures are the instrument by which the Spirit of the living God glorifies Jesus Christ. 

David vs Goliath and the Connection to Jesus
I also had several opportunities to give a devotion(or short message from the Bible) at different church meetings. During one devotion I spoke about David vs Goliath. One of  the things we emphasised in our lectures on the Old Testament at the Seminary was that each Book of the Bible points to Christ. In my message, I showed how Christ, the descendant of David, is the Lord of Hosts and the true Deliverer of Israel that David spoke of in 1 Samuel 17:45:

“Then David said to the Philistine, ‘You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the Name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.’”

Government Schools Bureaucracy Restrict Religious Freedom
I tried to get an opportunity to deliver a presentation at a government school. They told me that I must get permission from the Department of Education. After standing in long queues at the Department of Education, they told me I must get a letter from the Department of Education in Harare! It is sad that government bureaucracy is stifling Christian ministry in these schools.

Fight the New Drug at a Christian School
Thankfully, I did get an opportunity to give a Fight the New Drug (freedom from addiction to pornography) presentation at a Christian School in the area. The children at this school were the best behaved I have ever seen compared to all the schools I have been at in South Africa. Even though pornography is illegal in Zimbabwe, many youth are accessing it on the internet or on their phones.

Open-Air Preaching 
During a street evangelism outreach, I took the initiative to open-air preach three times. The only good thing about 90% unemployment in Zimbabwe is that most people have nothing to do and nowhere to go! A tall white man preaching in the streets was a novelty for them, and large crowds gathered to hear the straightforward Gospel message. The street vendors selling everything from fruit to cell phone airtime were also open to engage in conversations. We distributed over 500 Gospel booklets in Shona during this one afternoon. The people literally queued up to get a Gospel booklet! At the beginning of every conversation, people would always ask, “Which church are you from?” They expected us to be recruiting them to a particular church meeting. They were surprised when we told them, “No, we are not trying to get you to join a church, we want to talk with about the Gospel and the Word of God.”

Love Boxes for the Elderly
The elderly in Zimbabwe who did earn a pension, lost all of it when the economy of Zimbabwe collapsed. It was a great privilege to once again deliver boxes of non-perishable foods and other useful items to these elderly folk and to hear their stories.

Innovative Pastor from a Rural Area
With over 90% unemployment in Zimbabwe, some pastors who are not exploiting people through fake “healing and deliverance ministries”, have implemented innovative initiatives to provide for themselves an income. Frontline has ministered at one such pastor’s area in rural Zimbabwe several times and our teams always consider it a highlight of any Zimbabwe Mission to visit his church. Despite the fact that he is also a school principal, he has developed a chicken business to provide himself with extra income.

Enthusiastic Congregation
I was encouraged to see that most of the congregation stayed behind after each presentation or service to discuss the message given and how they are going to apply it to their lives. I gave a devotion on Eli’s Failure to Discipline his Sons and the Responsibility of Parents (1 Samuel 12:12-36) at a meeting and was encouraged by the enthusiastic questions and discussion time afterwards about how they were going to apply this message in their families. It is sad, however, to see so few men coming to the meetings. Even though these people have very little income, these males still manage to get money from somewhere to go and get drunk at the local taverns!

Caring for the Elderly
We also distributed some Boxes of Love to the elderly in this community. We read the Bible with them and prayed for them. One woman cried with joy when we came to visit her. At 93 years of age, she still collects her own water for herself and her animals!

Dry and Thirsty Land
Drought has severely hampered this community’s ability to grow crops. Water from the only bore hole is also taxed and the other bore hole available is unusable due to the fact a pipe fell into it. A new bore hole would be of great help to this community.

Sacrificial Giving
Despite the fact that our host pastor could have sold each chicken for $7 each, we were generously catered for with chicken meat at almost every meal. His reading glasses are old and cracked, and sometimes the lenses fall out, yet he continues to persevere in seeking to uplift his community, seemingly unperturbed by these challenges. I was encouraged and challenged by the sacrificial giving of our host congregation.

Pray for Zimbabwe
Please continue to keep the people of Zimbabwe in your prayers. Pray that the drought and lack of good water sources would remind them to thirst after Living Water. Pray that they would humble themselves, turn from their wicked ways, and seek His face, so that He would hear from Heaven, forgive their sin and heal their land (2 Chronicles 7:14).

Abrie Lourens
Trainee Missionary
Frontline Fellowship
P.O. Box 74 Newlands 7725
Cape Town South Africa
Tel: 021-689-4480
Email:  abraham@frontline.org.za

​Mission to Zimbabwe

"Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your Name? For You alone are Holy. For all nations shall come and worship before You, For Your judgments have been manifested." Revelation 15:4

We serve an Almighty God and Risen Saviour, who has given us Great Commission! Our recent mission to Zimbabwe was blessed with successful ministry, safe passage, revived believers and converted sinners. However, there were many difficulties experienced in addition to these great blessings.

​Zimbabwe's Humanism and Self-deception
group of people in Zimbabwe requested our team to speak to them about Humanism.We informed them about the dangers of this self-destructive worldview, and even showed them how it has influenced the Marxist country in which they live. While I was not blaming this group of people for humanism or socialism, many seemed quite defensive. I further warned them about the dangers of Islam, and how Muslims will propagate their religion through social relief aid and education in their country, which has already begun. Some launched into questions about why the West is so immoral, and they seemed to believe that their own country was not guilty of humanism and of allowing Islam into its midst, building mosques in their communities and persuading parents to sign their children over to them for "education."

From Deception to Understanding
Thankfully, after some discussion, there were certain individuals who seemed to grasp the serious nature and dangerous threat which other religious worldviews present to their country. One man admitted that he had never considered that there may be an agendbehind the relief aid and "education" offered to his people by Islam.

Salvation Issues
Uncritically defending Humanism is only one small part of Zimbabwe's problem. Many people who are church goers are not even Saved, nor do they understand the Gospel. At one rural church, I interacted with the congregation in an evangelistic style. I asked numerous times about how one can be Saved, and I was often given weak or wrong answer. "You have to forgive other people" said one. "You have to pray" said another. Sadly, this has been my experience throughout most of the Country. I took the opportunity to share about the way of Salvation by Grace through faith with this church.

Prophetic Salvation
We took some time to walk through rural village of Zimbabwe where I bumped into lady from an "apostolic" church. As I spoke with her, I asked what her church taught about salvation. She said that "the prophets have spirits and through prophecy they can take any problems you have away". I asked specifically what they do about sin. She said that the preachers will present message and the people can respond. They go to the front and receive salvation. I was able to share the true Gospel with her before she left, and warned that there are no prophets, apostles, or clergy who can save her. I found out later that she had walked very far to retrieve some "blessed" water which would cure her of her problems.

Hesitant to Believe
Pastor friend of mine introduced me to someone from his home village. He introduced himself by saying, "I heard that you are very passionate about the Gospel, and I am not". I accepted his invitation to visit and hear what his story was. He began by asking me questions. First, he asked about the difference between Jews and Gentiles, then about the Sabbath. There were areas of Christianity which he did not understand and desired clarification on. I asked him whether or not he believed in God. He said that he struggled with the idebecause he finds the Bible hard to believe. Then I asked him about how he decides on moral values and pointed out to him that without God there is no need for morals and no basis for any absolutes. He understood what I said. I then took him through the 10 commandments, and he admitted that he was liar, thief, adulterer and murderer at heart. He said that he was deserving of hell, but he was unsure if he believed all that. I explained that he knew God is real and his desire for justice came from God. God is just and He will punish sins. He began with other arguments about the reliability of Old Testament stories, and he said that one day he hopes that he can become Christian, but for the moment he had too many questions. I asked him if his reason for denying God could be that he loved his sins. He said "yes, very much". He told me that he enjoys beer, and he has six girlfriends whom he had been committing adultery with. And he said that "I like it very much". I warned him that if that was the true reason he was staying away from God, he should repent of his sin. We clearly laid the Gospel message out for him, so that he could not have an excuse for his unbelief. The Gospel is the power of God unto Salvation for all who believe. 

Take Time to Teach
Often, in cross-cultural environment, many concepts are misunderstood through miscommunication. One has to take time to sit down with individuals and slowly walk them through new concepts. One pastor of rural church publically challenged me about the way I interpreted passage Scripture. I sat down with him over few meals, and made an effort to explain my viewpoint to him. After lot of backward and forward discussion, he understood the matter misunderstanding. 

"He who disdains instruction despises his own soul, But he who heeds rebuke gets understanding." Proverbs 15:32

The Victorious Gospel
Not everybody received our message with eagerness. It was, at times, difficult. community, we have laboured in before was eager to receive us back. We had previously spoken about the Gospel and the need for evangelism. One man told us that since then, they have been "so passionate about evangelism!"They were even able to plant new church as result of their evangelistic outreaches. 

Pray for Zimbabwe
While we praise God for the spiritual growth of many people in Zimbabwe, there is pervasive amount of corruption and greed both in the political and religious sectors. The ruling ZANU-PF political party uses mass confusion and terror to keep people in state of fear and dependence on the same state which causes their suffering. Within the "Church", multitudes of false teachers and prophets are rising up. These ravenous wolves worship their belly, stealing time and money from their followers. People in Zimbabwe are facing desperate situation with the lack of rainfall during the last rainy season. Many farmers reported to me that they have no crops! By next year, Zimbabwe will need relief aid to feed about 4.5 million people.

Pray that God will continue to raise up firm Gospel preachers who will show Zimbabweans the Way of Truth. Pray that God will destroy the evil works of the ruling political party and grant people discernment to see the tyrannical reign of Robert Mugabe for what it is - ungodly, corrupt, brutal, and satanic. Pray that people humble themselves, seek God's face, and turn from their wicked ways so that their land will be healed. Finally, thank God for the pastors and preachers who know the way of righteousness and are proclaiming it to others. Ask God to strengthen them and give them boldness to face the strong opposition which regularly comes their way.

"All nations whom You have made shall come and worship before You, O Lord, And they shall glorify Your Name." Psalm 86:9.

John Clifford
Frontline Fellowship
P.O. Box 74 Newlands 7725
Cape Town South Africa
Tel: 021689 4480
Email: Jclifford@frontline.org.za