Durban prayer day event resembles ANC rally

22 May 2016 - 17:21
By Nivashni Nair

At least 8‚000 people gathered at Durban's Growthpoint Kings Parks stadium on Sunday to join President Jacob Zuma to pray for rain‚ peaceful local government elections and national unity. The national prayer day‚ organised by the Department of Social Development‚ resembled an ANC rally with thousands of attendees sporting ANC T-shirts in stark contrast to a few hundred congregants dressed in white‚ barely filling up one section of the stadium.

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