OVERJOYED mum Cherris says God has answered her prayers about her dead son. Debaba died after a car crash nearly four years ago.
BUT NOW, SHE SAYS, HE’S ALIVE AND BACK HOME! Today, Cherris Maluleke (55) of Chiawelo, Soweto, can’t stop praising the Lord. She told the SunTeam she never gave up hope of seeing Debaba again after his death and burial in 2011.
Cherris said her prayers were answered this Sunday when she found Debaba (22) wandering in Joburg’s Braamfontein.
Now he’s happily back home with his family in
Chiawelo, she said.
Debaba died in September 2011 after a terrible car crash. He was 18 years old.
He was on his way to a big music festival in Giyani, Limpopo, when the car rolled and fell off a bridge.
Cherris said: “My son died at Nkhensani Hospital that day.”
The family buried Debaba a week later.
And then a few months later she started seeing him in her dreams, asking to come home as he was tired of wandering around.
She went to sangomas and prophets that year and Cherris said they confirmed her suspicion that her son was still alive.
One sangoma took Debaba’s clothes to use to bring him back.
“I left everything in God’s hands,” said Cherris.
“I told myself that if Debaba had died so be it, but if he was alive I would see him again.”
Nothing happened until last Wednesday, when Pastor Enoch Mashasule of the Gospel of Jesus Ministries in Chiawelo said special prayers for Debaba.
Cherris fasted and prayed every night. “I prayed for my dead son to return to life,” she said.
“And then this Sunday on my way to work I found him carrying a black plastic bag in Braamfontein.
“I called his name – and he called my name.
“I hugged him as I realised he was indeed my dead son,” said overjoyed Cherris.”
She said she also recognised her son by marks on his stomach and the back of his body.
“I am so happy that God gave me my son back,” she said.
“It has been a long wait for four years, but it was worthwhile!”
Cherris took the young man at once to her church to be prayed for.
Then she took him home for a warm bath and a hearty meal with his brothers and sisters!
Pastor Enoch Mashasule said: “I am happy that she found him herself and that they are reunited again. That was what she was longing for.”
When the SunTeam questioned Debaba he could only nod or shake his head to signal yes or no.
Cherris said she will take him for a DNA test to prove he really is her son, come back from the dead.
BUT NOW, SHE SAYS, HE’S ALIVE AND BACK HOME! Today, Cherris Maluleke (55) of Chiawelo, Soweto, can’t stop praising the Lord. She told the SunTeam she never gave up hope of seeing Debaba again after his death and burial in 2011.
Cherris said her prayers were answered this Sunday when she found Debaba (22) wandering in Joburg’s Braamfontein.
Now he’s happily back home with his family in
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| A PRAYER FOR MY SON: Pastor Enoch Mashasule and Cherris Maluleke pray for the young man she says is her son who is back from the dead. Photos by Lucky Maibi |
Debaba died in September 2011 after a terrible car crash. He was 18 years old.
He was on his way to a big music festival in Giyani, Limpopo, when the car rolled and fell off a bridge.
Cherris said: “My son died at Nkhensani Hospital that day.”
The family buried Debaba a week later.
And then a few months later she started seeing him in her dreams, asking to come home as he was tired of wandering around.
She went to sangomas and prophets that year and Cherris said they confirmed her suspicion that her son was still alive.
One sangoma took Debaba’s clothes to use to bring him back.
“I left everything in God’s hands,” said Cherris.
“I told myself that if Debaba had died so be it, but if he was alive I would see him again.”
Nothing happened until last Wednesday, when Pastor Enoch Mashasule of the Gospel of Jesus Ministries in Chiawelo said special prayers for Debaba.
Cherris fasted and prayed every night. “I prayed for my dead son to return to life,” she said.
“And then this Sunday on my way to work I found him carrying a black plastic bag in Braamfontein.
“I called his name – and he called my name.
“I hugged him as I realised he was indeed my dead son,” said overjoyed Cherris.”
She said she also recognised her son by marks on his stomach and the back of his body.
“I am so happy that God gave me my son back,” she said.
“It has been a long wait for four years, but it was worthwhile!”
Cherris took the young man at once to her church to be prayed for.
Then she took him home for a warm bath and a hearty meal with his brothers and sisters!
Pastor Enoch Mashasule said: “I am happy that she found him herself and that they are reunited again. That was what she was longing for.”
When the SunTeam questioned Debaba he could only nod or shake his head to signal yes or no.
Cherris said she will take him for a DNA test to prove he really is her son, come back from the dead.
