JONATHAN JANSEN: A better education would protect us from dodgy pastors and other charlatans
The supporting acts were even funnier — the near-fainting aunties in grief, the white man staring intently as if there was some great miracle about to unfold and the voices of praise from those with hands raised using holy names in vain.
Pastor Alph in bright blue apparel moves his hands up and down the length of the coffin and then over the suited corpse with such dramatic flair, the Oscars beckoned.
Not since Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead have South Africans been so intrigued by the resurrection of a man, this time at the hands of locally based Congolese pastor Alph Lukau. It was hilarious from beginning to end, or the other way round, from the end to new beginnings. A black man in an all-white suit is found lying dead still in a coffin until you see him swallow and immediately you smell a rat. The supporting acts were even funnier — the near-fainting aunties in grief, the white man staring intently as if there was some great miracle about to unfold and the voices of praise from those with hands raised using holy names in vain. Pastor Alph in bright blue apparel moves his hands up and down the length of the coffin and then over the suited corpse with such dramatic flair, the Oscars beckoned. On cue, the dead man rises with an expression on his face that made a mockery of rigor mortis. Looking left and right, the former corpse stares into space with seeming bewilderment. A ...
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