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Mrs. Lufuno

Matsepane

arriages are ordained by God his place and he rejected me. baptized. I also wanted to be baptized
and so are families. As a when I started my menstrual cycle with a
Mbeliever or a born again My mother worked in Johannesburg. desire to wear church ropes as well as
C h r i s t i a n , i t i s y o u r d u t y a n d She left my siblings and I with our the uniform. I then asked my mother to
responsibility to pray for your spouse to grandmother back at Sereni village. My be baptized but for some reason my
receive Christ. The Bible says your mother was the sole breadwinner in our mother refused. She advised me that I
spouse is sanctified through you the family since my father was not involved should grow up first and when I am old
believer. The devil does not like in my upbringing. She was the one who enough I would then decide if I still need
marriages or families, he will always try paid for my education. to be baptized. I was puzzled as I knew
to destroy marriages, but if you pray for she loved that church very much and
your marriage then you can defeat the My late great grandmother was a very thought she would be happy for me to be
devil. Mrs. Matsepane did not give up on big sangoma. I grew up attending a baptized. By the Grace of the Lord I did
her marriage. When she found God, she certain cult church in Limpopo. My not get baptized at that church.
trusted Him to also save her husband, grandparents and my uncles were the
thereby also saving her marriage. The biggest pastors in that church. By In that church, the youth were never
Lord did not disappoint her and she is default, I was also a member of that rebuked for living a sinful life or having
now living in His blessings and church as it was my family church. That boyfriends and girlfriends or fornicating.
abundance. church is the most popular church in It was then easy for me to lead a sinful
Sereni village where I come from. I life and to fornicate. I started dating my
FAMILY would attend church regularly at its then boyfriend and now husband when I
h e a d q u a r t e r s i n P i e t e r s b u r g was in grade eleven.
BACKGROUND (Polokwane).

AND LIFE AT A My family never practiced ancestral EDUCATIONAL
CULT CHURCH worship since we were members of that BACKGROUND
cult church. The only time an ancestral
y name is Fortune Lufuno ritual was performed at my house was started my primary education at
Matsepane. I am the first- when my mother got very sick and after Mawela Primary School and
Mborn child of three in my all the orders from the cult church were Iproceeded to high school at
family. I was born in Venda in a rural area performed for her but could not help. Malovhana and Tshinanga Secondary
called Ha-Masakona and later my family The ritual was performed by my other Schools in Sereni and Masakona villages
relocated to Sereni Village where I grew grandmother and it was very scary for r e s p e c t i v e l y. I d i d v e r y w e l l
up. I was raised by my mother as my me because I had never seen anything academically. I would take first and
father was never involved in my life. like that been done in my family before. second positions from grade 6
Whilst growing up, I would deeply miss throughout. I was a bright student and I
my father to a point that one day when I As a rule, in that church when a young even passed my grade twelve in 1999
was 17 years old, I decided to visit him at girl starts their menstrual cycle they get with flying colours.

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