LIMPOPO – Africa now has its first African Catholic saint in the form of Blessed Benedict Daswa of Mbahe village near Thohoyandou.
Daswa was beautified in a ceremony near Thohoyandou on Sunday.
‘The Blessed Benedict Daswa’s life and death should serve as a reminder to South Africans to oppose ritual killings and witchcraft,” said Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Daswa was brutally murdered on 2 February, 1990 by a group of people who clubbed him to death with knobkerries and poured boiling water in his ears and nostrils to ensure that he was dead.
According to Chris Mphaphuli, who was Daswa’s friend at the time, he was murdered because he refused to accept the power of witchcraft or participate in witch hunts.
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