Prayer Guide for South Africa
Sometimes people ask how to pray for the Nation.
I thought I would write down a few names of the tribes and ask you to pray
for peace within them. Also there is a lot of tribal warfare, rituals, jealousy,
and ancestral worship. One thing that needs to be learned within the tribal
people is forgiveness.
The main tribes and people are:
1. Pondo
2. Tswana/Sotho - 2,400,000 South Soto 2,200,000
3. Bahlaloga
4. Veidas - 594,000
5. Swazi tribe
6. Ndebele 340,000
7. Lavedu
8. Bosotho
9. Shangaan/Tsonga - 1,200,000
10. Bhaca
11. Abantwane
12. Pedi - 2,800,000
13. Bushman
14. Zulu
15. Xhosa - total of all black communities is 23,360,000
16. Coloured or mixed race 9 % of population - descendants
of slaves with black, Khoi Khoi (Hottentot),
European and Asian blood. -2,880,000
17. White - Afrikaners 2,700,000 total white population is
approx. 4,800,000
18. there is a large population of Asian Indians - 920,000
19. there is a large population of Muslims & people who
are Hindu. 62% of Asians are Hindus, only 19% are Muslims
20. Portuguese 650,000
21. English 1,800,000
22. German 45,000
23. Greeks 40,000
24. Chinese 11,000
There are only approximately 1,310 missionaries
in over 80 reported agencies reaching South Africa. However within
South Africa itself, they say 1,020 are serving within the borders and
240 are serving outside of SA. That's 1 missionary for every 24,000 people.
We need to pray that more people will be willing to get out of their seats
and get busy for Jesus and GO GO GO!! or SEND SEND SEND THEM OUT TO WIN
THE LOST!!!
Just for fun - there are 10 National States/Independent
states within the area of SA. Bophuthatswana - pop - 1,490,000;
Ciskei pop - 738,000; Gazankulu pop - 618,000; Kangwane pop - 185,000;
KwaNdebele pop - 173,000; KwaZulu pop - 3,940,000; Lebowa pop - 2,020,000;
Qua-Qua pop - 185,000; Transkei pop - 2,562,000 and Venda
pop - 349,000. There are 25 languages or more in SA and only 13 of those
have a complete translation of the Bible with the New Testament.
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