Mariannhill, 22 April, 2022 / 9:00 pm (ACI Africa).
A Catholic Bishop in South Africa has challenged citizens of the African nation to respond to the aftermath of the deadly floods in parts of KwaZulu Natal Province “in a new way” and that they should not “go back to building houses on sand”.
In an interview with ACI Africa, Bishop Neil Frank used the Easter context to reflect about the impact of the recent floods resulting from heavy rains across KwaZulu-Natal in Southeastern South Africa that, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), claimed the lives of at least 443 people and left thousands displaced.
“As people of the resurrection, we have got to find new ways to do the new things that are radically different from the past”, Bishop Frank said.
The Coadjutor Bishop of South Africa’s Mariannhill Diocese added, “We can't go back to building houses on sand. To say literally, as well as metaphorically, we, as people of the resurrection, must respond in a new way.”
“The newness has to go all the way back to 1994 and reconstruct the moral fiber and the commitment to building South Africa”, he said during the April 19 interview with ACI Africa.