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This book Divorcing My Deceptive Husband is about my ex-husband, Katalay from Congo. When I met him he was a refugee. His status changed when we got married. This book is not about criticizing him or destroying his character. I have no intentions to destroy his character at all. I fear God who create lives and owns all souls. What I discuss in this book is how women citizens can be deceived by desperate refugees who prey on such women to gain citizenship. It is not only in the Republic of South Africa but in Europe and United States as well. Recently I met a Black South African man. I ...

This title My Trials, My Tribulations, My Triumphant Ascending to Heaven is to encourage fellow Believers that we should not lose heart and let our love for God grow cold. We do and will go through trials and tribulations but let us focus on God and not on what is going on in the world and around us. So that we can have our triumphant ascending to heaven when God calls us home. Our triumphant ascending to heaven could be after we are martyred for our faith in Jesus Christ of Nazareth. The triumphing does not imply dying in peace while asleep. What we strive for is to stay in faith until our...

This poetry collection entitled First The Black Tax Then After Tears Party is about a practice in South Africa amongst some Africans and Coloreds families who party after burying their loved ones. This practice is said to have started in Soweto. Amongst Africans it′s unheard of to publicly celebrate death of a sibling, relative, enemy or neighbor. Some of the death celebrated is because the person was killed in crime or through witchcraft. Those who celebrate have gain in wealth through life cover insurance policies, burial clubs, village burial contribution, properties and assets. While ...

The title Last Meal Last Drink is poetry collection is about men who died prematurely. Let me clarify, when the deceased complained to say “I have been poisoned” or those who poisoned the person boast “I personally believe that is premature death”. God laid upon my heart to write these poems when I was grieved by the death of my father who complained that he was poisoned and my cousin whom there were rumors that he was poisoned. I was told that in villages some wicked people poison marula beer it is more dangerous when mixed with poison. What worries me is that nobody stand up to ...

My Once Depressed Soul is a collection of poems that I wrote about my own depression in the past and depression of people that I have met. Depression is not something new that attacks human beings. We find people in both the Old Testament and New Testament of the Bible who were depressed. In this poetry I express my views as an Author and not a medical Doctor – looking at depression from a spiritual point of view. I personally view Depression as a defeated spirit that can see, hear, eat and breathe. To addresses it is not a once off action but makes a repeated command it by faith against ...

"Soulish Prayers Dangerous Prayers" is a book about soulish prayers that some Christians are praying. Soulish prayers sounds like one is praying to God but unfortunately they are not. With many Prophets rising in the last days. I speak not ignorantly but from personal experience. I was once amongst those who prayed soulish prayers. Chanting the Name of Jesus Christ and the Blood of Jesus Christ. God laid it upon my heart to write about this issue. In this book I discuss my personal experience and that of others. Those who pay Pastors and Prophets to pray for someone. Just like Balak hired ...

Beyond Death is a collection of poems that I wrote when I heard of so many people dying from various diseases, car accidents and violence related murder. I sat down to pray and ask God to search me and show me my heart. I asked God also to show me where I and my child need to repent of our sins. I also asked God to use His Holy Spirit to help us to prepare for the coming our Messiah, LORD Jesus Christ. The Bible says the “power of life and death is on the tongue”. Whenever I meet with people I talk about the coming of our LORD Jesus Christ, some are Christians, some have given up on ...

Women Without Wombs: Lamentation of the Childless is a collection of poems that I wrote after undergoing hysterectomy myself. I met fellow Black ladies who had womb problems. Some had cancer, some had fibroids, some had conception and problems. There is such fear, so little knowledge about womb disease out there. Some married women had challenges of their husbands cheating or even divorcing these tormented women. To remove a womb amongst some of us Africans it's still a taboo thing. The woman is called names. One Zimbabwean said in her area the woman is called "a mine". There is this ...

I wrote these poems after observing how some single mothers go all out for their married boy-friends. Some of these women are over 60 years of age but behave like young women. Their dress code is the same as that of young women. These are women who pay their lovers. I hear some people say “I will die for him or her. You only live once therefore enjoy your life". There is no need for you to die for someone because LORD Jesus Christ already paid the price. There are single mothers who love their boy-friends more than their own children. Some of the boy-friends are married men. Such women ...

What is the Color of Souls is poetry about love between a Black and White person. Though there are many Coloreds in the world some people still find it difficult to accept marriages between different race groups. My grand-mother was a White woman and my grand-father was a Black Mozambican Changaan. They were never married for various reason one of them being that my grand-father was married and also it was during Apartheid which forbidden marriages of Black and White. Growing up in that environment I learned the joys, tears, criticism of interracial relationships and marriages. Besides all ...

These are poems about children brought up in single parent homes. This is due to various reasons including divorce, death of one parent due to HIV/Aids. Some of the children get involved in crime, drugs and alcohol. However some of these children succeed in life.

This is a collection of poems that I wrote about trials and tribulations that we experience on the earth but not loosing focus on “pressing towards the mark of the higher calling of Jesus Christ”. Here there are poems like “the Deceiver dethroned” referring to Satan who was defeated on the Cross of Calvary by Lord Jesus Christ. I wrote “love too deep to fathom” The love of God our heavenly Father is too deep to be understood by a human mind. Also I wrote “when the blind go to war” this is to indicate that the spiritual war that we all have to engage int. As Christians we ...

The book you are about to read is based on my painful experience with my mother, sibling, relatives, some members of churches and communities I lived in. Even though I suffered in some churches and under some preachers who call themselves servants of God I continue to serve God and have fellowship with brethren in a church. This book is one of those difficult ones for me to write. I delayed for a while when God instructed me to write about my own personal abuse. To tell the truth I did not think, great book to write Father, I will start right away. God showed me my rejection by my mother ...

The title Venom in the Heart of a Woman is about women who can be very wicked towards their own children, grand-children, relatives and people in general. I met people who are so cruel they don’t reverence God. They regard themselves so powerful as though they will not die one day. I personally believe that men can be cruel but not like women. I thank God of heaven for giving me, my husband and daughter life and really protecting us day and night. While writing about the bad things my mother and people did to me, God laid upon my heart to write this book. In this book I talk about my ...

This book Souls Amongst Lions: Battle In The Valley Of Death is about my own experience of others I met who suffered in the hands of their mothers, siblings and in-laws. In this book I touch on marriages between refugees and citizens. My own experience and that of my husband and child has been a painful one. My mother rejecting me for marrying a foreigner. Ganging up with her children, their spouses and children against me, my husband and child. Also recruiting her relatives, friends and some people in the community to reject me. She also hired some stalkers to monitor me and my child. She ...

I wrote these poems when someone said to me “Doreen, just be content it is not yet time for you to prosper”. Another person said to me “my Pastor said an elephant is pregnant for 18 months. So don’t’ rush to want to prosper”. I told the person, I’m not an elephant but a human being. I did not have any source of income, begging for accommodation, food and clothing. I no longer had the luxury of buying myself clothes but wore second hand clothes some were too small or too big. I was told “remember beggars are not choosers”. These poems are not only of my personal life but of...

These are anthologies about domestic workers and their madams. I worked a few times as a domestic worker and experienced hands on hardship of what these determined women go through. Being shouted by madam, her husband and children. It surprised me that in South Africa have 22 years of democracy but still have madams who call their domestic workers “girls”. I mean a 40 year woman being called a “Girl” by a 24 year woman. You find an old man called a “garden boy”. Madam’s kids calling the domestic worker by name not showing respect. I worked for one old woman who demanded ...

This book is based on my experience and of fellow South African citizens who are employed, married to and renting accommodation from refugees. Xenophobia attacks in South Africa took place in May 2008 and there have been some attacks since then. It is important for citizens to live harmoniously with foreign nationals and learn skills and business acumen from them. The aim of this book is to challenge Black South Africans to forget the past damages caused by Apartheid and face the challenges of unemployment, lack of skills, poverty and HIV/AIDS through persevering to be better. For Black ...

Dethroning Poverty from the Golden Throne is a book written by Doreen based on her personal experience and that of people she met from South Africa and African countries such Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo Brazzaville, Angola, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda and Cameroon. Poverty is a complex matter to discuss. Doreen suffered poverty as a child and as an adult. She lived in a village where people suffered poverty and in the city where she experienced poverty as well. The aim of this book is to share insight of what poverty does both spiritually and physically. It...

Poems written during a time of hardship and pain. Inspirational, motivating during a time of discouragement and despair. As long as a person is alive there is hope for a miracle in Jesus Christ. The complete fulfillment of one's body, soul and spirit is in Jesus Christ alone. I would not have made it during the trials of witchcraft, poverty, unemployment and rejection without Lord Jesus Christ.