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A Durban bus preacher has had a revelation from God that President Jacob Zuma must “pay back the money” or “face a bitter end”.
Sipho Vusumuzi Khuzwayo (55), who started the Seven Buses a Day Kingdom of Heaven Crusade in 2012 after having a vision, this week sought out City Press after divine intervention from the “Holy Spirit of Almighty God” earlier this month instructed him to do so.
Khuzwayo from Inanda, north of Durban, said that at 9pm on June 7 he experienced the revelation that the head of state must own up to “the consequences of his crimes, or face the wrath of the Almighty”.
The revelation, Khuzwayo said, told him of a “storm in Parliament” facing Zuma and that “unless he [pays for state-sponsored upgrades to his private Nkandla home], he will meet a bitter end”.
A second revelation three days later told Khuzwayo to approach the print media and, in particular, City Press so that “other evildoers could be warned”.
He said there were many “evil doings” and that, in the case of President Zuma, these included “these crimes when he started to be elected and everything that happened during those times and the latest events concerning him as well, concerning his home”.
Khuzwayo said the “Nkandla issue” was included in the revelation in which he said God told him that the president “must just pay what is due”.
“When the vision started, I saw something like a storm in Parliament. Then I saw the phrase ‘he will have a bitter end if he does not do as he is told’,” said Khuzwayo.
“Some kind of misfortune” would result from noncompliance with the divine message, Khuzwayo added.
“After the storm, while I was wondering what was going on, a voice came to me,” he recalled.
Khuzwayo, who said he was neither mad nor joking, told City Press he had “no choice” but to communicate his vision to Zuma through the media and that he had the second revelation telling him to take this route on June 10.
Khuzwayo said he was not afraid about a backlash over the content of his revelation and that the president was “lucky” to get such a “warning” from God through him rather than being taken by surprise “like most people”.
“I am not scared; not at all,” he said.
Khuzwayo, who lives in Inanda Mission, is a former wedding photographer who gave up his profession to preach full time. He conducts his ministry on the city’s municipal buses to and from seven of Durban’s townships, including Umlazi, Ntuzuma and Inanda, six days a week. Khuzwayo preaches on seven buses a day and attends church at Inanda Newtown on Sundays. He survives on donations from his commuting faithful and his business cards have his banking details on the back in case believers don’t have cash on hand and want to contribute on payday.
Khuzwayo’s first vision, when he was 15, took place in a tea room on Durban’s Beatrice Street. In it, he saw the shopkeeper give two men, who were “evil”, R1 000 change for R100.
“Nobody else could see it. I was young and all I could do was cry,” he said
