The Killing Fields of South Africa - by Bishop Louis Michael Green

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The Killing Fields of South Africa

Foreword – by Bishop Joseph D. Guthrie[i]

Epigraph: "Do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good." – Romans 12:21 (NIV)

It is a profound and solemn honour to pen these few words that introduce a work of such searing truth and unwavering moral courage. “The Killing Fields of South Africa” is not merely a book; it is a testament, a prophecy, and a piercing cry from the heart of a nation that stands at a precipice. In these pages, Bishop Louis Michael Green does what few dare to do: he holds a mirror up to the soul of South Africa, and the reflection we see is both a haunting reminder of a painful past and a chilling warning for a future that is yet unwritten.

I have had the privilege of knowing Bishop Green for many years—as a fellow Pentecostal Jesus Name brother in faith. His life is a living archive of the South African story. From the forced removals of District Six to the pivotal negotiations that birthed our democracy, he has been both a witness and an architect. He has felt the sting of injustice and has helped draft the laws meant to forever banish it. This unique vantage point—from the dusty streets of Bonteheuwel to the polished floors of the Constitutional Assembly—lends his voice an authority that cannot be ignored and a compassion that cannot be feigned.

When a shepherd speaks of the wolves devouring his flock, we must listen. When a builder sounds the alarm that the foundation of the house is crumbling, we must act. Bishop Green is both that shepherd and that builder. With the meticulous eye of a lawyer and the broken heart of a pastor, he documents the catastrophic collapse of our social contract. He lays bare the sinister symbiosis between criminal syndicates and a corrupted state, the devastating plight of forgotten communities on the Cape Flats, and the brutal, targeted violence on our farms that threatens the very sustenance of our nation.

Yet, this book is far more than a catalogue of despair. It is a clarion call to our collective conscience. It is a powerful reminder that the right to life, to dignity, and to security—rights we fought for, rights we enshrined in what remains one of the world’s most beautiful constitutions—are being rendered meaningless for millions of our people. 

This is not the South Africa for which we struggled. This is not the future for which so many sacrificed.

What makes this work so essential, so inspired, is that it is rooted in a defiant, active hope. Bishop Green does not simply diagnose the disease; he offers a detailed, clear-eyed blueprint for its cure. He channels his anguish into action, transforming personal lament into a powerful international petition. This book is the embodiment 

of that petition—a formal, dignified, and desperate appeal to the global community to bear witness and to intervene where the South African state has so utterly failed.

To read this book is to be unsettled. It is to be angered. It is to be moved to tears. But above all, it is to be called to action. It is a demand that we, as South Africans and as global citizens, refuse to become numb to the horror, that we reject the normalization of violence, and that we reclaim the noble dream of a just, peaceful, and prosperous nation.

The Killing Fields of South Africa is a difficult, necessary, and ultimately hopeful book. It is Bishop Green’s greatest sermon, delivered not from a pulpit, but from the pages of history, and it deserves to be read by the world.

Bishop Joseph D Guthrie 

Head Pastor of First Apostolic Church (F.A.C.)

Diocesan Bishop for the P.A.W. 30th Episcopal District

Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Email: drjdguthrie@yahoo.com
 
[i] Bishop Joseph D. Guthrie and his family met the author in the corridors of Parliament in 1995. It was there and then that their friendship started. They exchanged business cards and he invited the author to the USA to attend his first convention of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World (P.A.W. Inc). Their 30-year friendship continues to this day.