The Chronicles of Load-Shedding . Harold Mawela

The Prophetic Grammar of Your Life: How Your Words Decode Your Destiny A strange silence descends upon our street in Akasia. The familiar hum of appliances ceases. The lights flicker and die. It’s load-shedding again—a South African ritual as predictable as the summer thunder over Pretoria. In the sudden quiet, I hear my neighbour’s voice through the wall: “Ag, man. This country is falling apart. Nothing ever works. We are doomed to darkness.” His words hang in the still, dark air. They are not just a complaint; they are a prophecy. And I wonder, sitting there in the tangible blackness, how much of the darkness we endure is not from Eskom’s failing grid, but from the failing power station of our own mouths? We live in a society shouting itself into chaos, from the violent headlines on News24 to the toxic streams on social media, and then we wonder why our world feels so fractured. The ancient proverb declares with startling simplicity: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue” (P...

The Battle for Your Mind: A Defence Against the Spiritual Anesthesia of Our Age A Personal Dispatch from the Front Lines in Akasia Early this morning, before the Pretoria sun had burned through the Highveld haze, I did what I do every day: I put on the armour. Not the ceremonial garb of a theologian, but the practical, scarred gear of a soldier in a war most have forgotten we are fighting. I stood in my small study in Akasia, looking north towards the Magaliesberg, and I declared war. My first conscious thought was not a wish for a good day, but an act of strategic defiance against an enemy whose primary tactic is to make you believe he does not exist. This, I have learned, is the first law of spiritual reality: Your greatest vulnerability is not your acknowledged weakness, but your unrecognized battlefield. Our nation is convulsing with visible wars. We read reports that 957 women were murdered in just three months, a harrowing statistic of a society at war with itself. We see politic...