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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>The Limpopo government on Friday held a provincial “Day of Prayer”, seeking divine intervention to resolve the many social ills, which were described as having reached “pandemic proportions”.<\/p>\n

The event was organised with faith-based organisations to pray for an end to gender-based violence (GBV), substance abuse, road accidents, and crime and corruption, among others.<\/p>\n

Addressing the crowd at the Old Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane, Premier Stan Mathabatha said the province was facing trying times, which required agility, resilience and prayer.<\/p>\n

“It was during our engagements (with faith-based organisations), which was largely about socio-economic development in our province, that we collectively got touched by the growing number of fatal accidents in Limpopo.<\/p>\n

“Hence, we felt that there was a need to collaborate in this manner and seek divine intervention from the God of our forefathers,” Mathabatha said.<\/p>\n

He said the abuse of women in the province “was a pandemic worse than Covid-19”.<\/p>\n

He said:<\/p>\n

He was also worried that the province would continue to record a high number of horrific road accidents.<\/p>\n

The latest accident claimed the lives of 22 people, including seven schoolchildren, after a minibus taxi collided with a truck and another minibus in Sekhukhune in early March.<\/p>\n

Also, late in February, 22 people died when a bus they were travelling in plunged into a river after colliding head-on with a cash-in-transit van on the N1, outside Makhado.<\/p>\n

“A dark cloud has befallen Limpopo. It is with great pain that, as community activists, we lose our loved ones every day,” Mathabatha said.<\/p>\n

Transport and Community Safety MEC Florence Radzilani said motorists were to blame in 80% of the road accidents.<\/p>\n

She said the Vhembe district was leading in terms of the high number of reported GBV cases.<\/p>\n

“In the past two weeks (in Vhembe), four women were murdered,” she said. “The people of this province and the country are very impatient with one another.<\/p>\n

“We should start to respect each other. There should be peace in the society at large.”<\/p>\n

Various pastors delivered messages to seek divine intervention in Limpopo.<\/p>\n

Local gospel artists performed at the event, where the spirit was not dampened by intermittent thundershowers.<\/p>\n

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