MBOMBELA – As one iron sharpens another so did married and single women from various parts of the province motivate one another during the Spring Welcoming, hosted by members of Deborah Women’s Club, at KaMagugu Dam.
Attendees were urged to eat healthy and reduce the salt intake in their diet as many people die due to heart-related ailments mainly caused by salt intake.
Sarah Gumede, a locally based health specialist, says over 80 per cent of South Africans die each day by heart-related diseases. “Stats shows that 87 people die each day of heart failure, so everyone needs to be cautious of what they eat.”
Her sentiments were echoed by those of Dr Bongi Baloyi who spoke on the holistic well-being of an individual and called on the government to do something to food manufacturing industries on the amount of salt found in most food. “Something seriously needs to be done, companies need to cut salt from their products, be it bread, snacks, there is just too much salt in our products in this country and salt kills,” she says.
Baloyi also urged women to love and take care of their bodies unconditionally and do their Pap smear yearly and always protect themselves against communicable diseases.
The event was coupled with the club’s celebrations of its seven years of existence. Speakers including pastors, motivational speakers, health specialists, fashionistas and many more, unleashed their experience and knowledge with the aim of helping women to discover themselves in totality, in various areas of life be it their physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.
Past Phethi Phakathi delivered a powerful sermon on the breaking of soul ties, which she said are all the agreements one entered into in the spiritual realm as he or she enters in different relationships with different people of which some had a negative impact on one’s self. Phakathi said one can be only be delivered from such ties through God’s intervention and the power of prayer and fasting.
The attendees were also lectured on the dangers of some of the food they eat and the way they prepare those foods.
Single women were urged to be proud of their status and use it to their advantage by using all the time and freedom they have to please God and improve themselves. “As a single lady know who you are, stand tall be proud of who you are, don’t settle for less and don’t be taken for advantage off, “said Past Ntombifuthi Mahlaba.
