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On Sunday around noon a congregation of the Zion Apostolic Church (ZAC) was seen on Jan van Riebeeck Drive with colourful gowns that swished and swirled in the dust kicked up by dancing feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was an awe-inspiring sight that triggers one\u2019s curiosity as to the meaning behind this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The congregation\u2019s head, Marshall Todowa, said the meaning of the dance ceremony to the beat of a drum and a horn, was due to a fellow member who had fallen ill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe was unable to attend today\u2019s gathering because of her illness, and so we are engaging in this song and dance as part of a healing ceremony,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is also a form of prayer for God to watch over, protect and bless them, Todowa added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Zion

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This ZAC-congregation danced in fath to the beat of a drum and the sound of a horn.<\/div>\n
<\/span>Photo: Heleen Rossouw<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

In a study called Song, Dance And Worship In The Zionist Christian Churches: An Ethnomusicological Study Of African Music And Religion<\/em><\/span>, by author Elliot Sagila Pewa (1997), he unpacks the relationship between music and worship in contemporary African society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pewa writes: \u201cDancing and singing together is a symbol of unity and solidarity and that is how the Zionists use dancing to fight evil.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also sites other authors that dance and song play an important role when group solidarity and harmony are most necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom the Zionist point of view, if a song is not danced to, it creates a feeling of emptiness which does not lead to the envisaged climax. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe climax is the point where some worshippers begin to speak in tongues which is the attainment of the Holy Spirit called umoya<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe arrival of the spirits means that the one who is possessed can start with the healing ritual. It is at this point where an outsider, that is, the westerner, can view Zionist worship as chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing is certain from the Paarl Post\u2019s<\/em><\/span> observation of this practice \u2013 each and every member partaking in this healing ceremony was driven by conviction, determination and unity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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