The VOICE of Prophecy! 2025
Monday, 24 November 2025
I AM IN SOUTH AFRICA FOR MY FOURTH VISIT IN THE SPACE OF 20 MONTHS; AND THIS WILL BE MY LONGEST AND MOST EXTENSIVE TRIP ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT YET!
FIRST TRIP
My nephew, Jimoh, and I touched down at O R Tambo International Airport on Wednesday, 28 February 2024. It was the first time either of us had been to South Africa; and we wanted to make the most of it. So, after week in Palmar Apartment Hotels in Johannesburg; during which we visited Pretoria and Soweto; we flew to Cape Town, where we met up with a distant cousin and his family; and climbed (I took the cable car) to the top of Table Mountain.
(As well as my cousin, Michael, Lana and their son Jake; Jimoh and I also met a lovely family in Cape Town, Shaun, his wife Stacey and their 3 children, during our first trip. We were introduced to them by my brother Sam. He had met them in an online bible study group; and we spent our second Sabbath in South Africa with them)
We flew back to Johannesburg on Monday, 11 March, to spend one night at Palmar Hotel, before flying out of OR International Airport on Tuesday, 12 March; arriving back at London Gatwick Airport on Wednesday, 13 March.
On getting back to Lincoln; I immediately had to busy myself with the organising of the funeral of a friend, who had sadly died just a couple of weeks before our departure. The funeral was on Monday, 18 March; and as promised, I played some of Maureen’s favourite songs during the service.
SECOND TRIP
As we flew back Johannesburg to London, I must have been planning my return; as less than 5 weeks later, on Monday 15 April 2024, I was on an Ethiopian airlines flight from Manchester Airport to Cape Town! This time I was coming back for 5 weeks (I’m not a wealthy man, but I had built up some savings, and I would need them all)!
One of the reasons I was so keen to return to South Africa so soon, was my desire to see landlocked Lesotho (why I’m not sure now); which we didn’t have time to do during the 2 weeks of our first visit. This time, travelling alone, after a week in Cape Town, I would hire a car for 4 weeks, and travel to or through each of the 9 provinces of South Africa; and spend 3 days in Lesotho!
From Tuesday, 23 April to Monday, 20 May 2024, I drove a Renault Kwid a total of 7775 km (4831 miles). I had now seen more of South Africa than most South Africans! On returning the vehicle, it transpired it had two dents; I worked out must have been acquired while parked in the secure lot of the Cairns’s apartment complex, where I spent my last 4 days in Somerset West; this was very costly, but fortunately, despite the inconvenience and weeks it took to process my claim, it was covered by my extended insurance cover.
It was a trip full of adventure, with many highs and some lows; but YAHUA is greatly to be praised for guiding and protecting me (sometimes despite myself) every step and kilometre of the way!
Among the highlights of this second trip: being invited by Mr CHOKWE, a teacher at St Matthews Academy whom we met in Johannesburg on or first trip; to play at The All-White, First Gospel Festival at Sorole Park, in his village in Limpopo; and my 3 days in Maseru (all too short), where I met a business partner and friend of Shaun’s, Mr Jokey, and his farming assistant, Andile, who quickly became a friend and guide; and who made my short time in the beautiful mountain Kingdom of Lesotho so memorable and productive.
Andile hoped that I might return to Lesotho. Returning to Manchester Airport from Cape Town International, on Monday, 20 May 2024; having exhausted all my savings; I didn’t know, as I departed, if I would ever return to Africa again in my lifetime, let alone Lesotho!
SELLING MY FLAT
soon after returning from Johannesburg after our first trip to South Africa; I had in March 2024 put in motion the sale of my flat (apartment), back to the Lincoln City Council, from whom I had purchased it in 2016. The property was never available on the open market; as I was keen to return my flat back to the Local Authority housing stock. I also reasoned; it would be the way to expedite the sale, by avoiding unpredictable selling chains. I was wrong about that!
It had always been in the back of my mind (and is still) that I might want to relocate to South Africa; or somewhere on the continent of my origins (notwithstanding the land and ties my family and I have in Jamaica). To my surprise, approaching 68, I found myself planning a house move I thought I would never make; believing that 108 Boundary Street, Lincoln in the UK would be the last address I would ever have!
(Contemplating my life; as I do in my article “I LIVE IN A BOX,“ parts 1 &2, and with the new understanding about the true significance of AFRICA or ALKEBULAN; the stagnation imposed by the satanic systems that govern us had lost their appeal. No longer does it seem acceptable to dissipate my remaining years (be they few or many) on the trivia promulgated by Western hedonism! Ever active in life, I am committed to taking the fight to the enemies door; and not retreat into corridors of a cosy decline!)
A Long Story Short:
In June last year, seeing nothing happening following the initial response and interest given from Lincoln City Council to my offer to sell back my property, I began to chase up the relevant departments. In fact, I had to drive the process every step of the way (South Africa does not have the monopoly on bureaucratic bungling)! Once I had their agreement to buy, which came 8 August 2024, and the value had been agreed; I had made it clear that I would like to exchange contracts by late October 2024; so I could make and extended trip, you guessed it, to SOUTH AFRICA! (The Council did point out that this was quite a tight turnaround)
Skipping all the intricacies and issues I had to overcome; the contract were at last exchanged on Monday, 16 December 2024! You might think I would be on a plane the next week, winging my way from the English winter into the welcoming sunshine of Southern Africa. When I was planning the sale back in March of the year; I imagined that this is how it would be. I forgot to factor in the emotional, physical and practical turmoil of selling up and moving out of a 2 bedroom house, effectively into a bed-sit in the family owned house – it was enormous!
To this day I am forever grateful and indebted to my nephew, brothers, son, daughter-in-law, daughters, ex-wife, and particularly my friend, Paul Bescoby; without whose help I suspect I might still be trying get stuff packed up to hand over the property – vacant possession!
However, it took months to re-adjust and recover from this sudden move; a process that is ongoing, and put any plans to travel were firmly on hold.
THE THIRD TRIP
Now, with a little more disposable “income;” I thought I would be ready to travel in March this year; but not for the 3 months I had originally planned. I calculated, if I was frugal (as I generally am); and with modest income from my busking;taking into account my other financial commitments and responsibilities; I could afford another month in South Africa; but I would focus this time on visiting Johannesburg, Lesotho and Eswatini!
Ethiopian Airlines is becoming my carrier of choice (despite an excess charge of £30 to carry an extra 3 kg onto my flight from Manchester of my first trip); I flew with them in April 2024; and, being among the most competitively priced carriers with a generous baggage allowance, for me it was a “no brainer” to book with Ethiopian again (even if the stop in Geneva en-route before getting to Addis Ababa does extend the journey time by about 90 minutes).
Arriving about 1:30 pm on Monday, 3 March 2025; OR International Airport was beginning to seem familiar to me. However, there was an issue when picking up a Suzuki Swift rental car from FireFly, who didn’t provide me with my cross-border paperwork that I paid for and needed to enter Lesotho (this time for 12 days); and later, to Eswatini.
My first 3 days back at Palmar Apartment Hotels was settling, if more expensive than for previous stays. From Jo’burg I drove to the former capital of South Africa, Bloemfontein, still the capital of Free State, and largely Afrikaans. I stayed for there for 3 days; and purchased an “A” harmonica at Brothners, as wells as a guitar stand; for my much anticipated recording session and performances in Lesotho arranged for me by Andile; who met me at the border crossing in Maseru on my arrival on Sunday, 9 March.
It was a packed 12 days, in which I met and recorded tracks for my new CD, Windows in the Kingdom of the Sky, with T-Man and Skebza on Wednesday 12 March. Andile and I visited Lesotho National University, and narrowly missed and appointment with King Letsie III on Mshoeshoe Day! We also visited Andile’s former school; where I played for pupil and staff who were dressed in their national costumes.
I then travelled 225 km to Qacha’s Nek near the southern border of Lesotho (to spend 2 nights); from which I visited the renowned Sehlabathebe National Park, 100 km to the East – What a drive – on a brand new Chinese built mountain road!
In a change of plans, I returned to Maseru; rather than driving the 327 km, an extra 2-3 hours, to get to Chocks Guest House in Ha Lajone, where I had booked in for 1 night. As luck would have it; I was able to move my book back a day, and spent my final day on Thursday 20 March in Ha Lejone, where I visited the Katse Dam and recorded many songs with the dam’s lakes as a backdrop.
It was a long, 560 km, drive from Ha Lajone, via Maseru to Partridge Place in Kempton Park, Johannesburg, where I spent 3 nights before my visit to Eswatini; arriving on Sunday 23 March. I stayed 4 nights at the rustic, Buhleni Farm Chalets in Esulwini. In this second landlocked country for my first time; I spent the afternoon on day 2 at the shopping mall (where I had hoped to find a busking pitch); but after doing a big shop, I raced back to the chalet to stow my goods, and hurry on to visit the Cultural Village, one of highlights of my trip.
On day 3 in the former British Colony, again I was hoping to busk; but I was also determined to explore as much of the terrain as I could; which I did by taking M3 and M9, about 120 km, south to Nhlangano; and from there(where I was tempted to busk outside the shopping precinct), I drove east, a further 90 km to Lavumisa; where I found little more than a petrol station and the southern border crossing back into South Africa! Then, it was 127 km on the east side of Eswatini, north on the M8 and north-west on the M3, back to Bhuleni Chalets in Ezulwini.
Leaving Eswatini on Thursday 27 March, I took my only opportunity to explore the capital, Mbabane (if only for a couple of hours); where I had hoped to pick up some souvenirs. Finding no indigenous craftwork, such as I’d passed often along the roadsides in my travels; I bought a few, inexpensive hats (only one of which made it back to England with me). Thinking I would need cash to possibly buy craftwork along my route out of Eswatini; I made the mistake of going into a bank to change £45 into Lilangeni (local currency) – I was the only customer in the branch; and it still took 40 minutes to make the exchange!
My tour was entering the home stretch: as I journeyed north from Eswatini to stay overnight in Neilspruit, South Africa; a city I had also visited in 2024. Hilat Hotel in Johannesburg did not have electricity when I arrived at noon the following day; a situation they were trying to fix. When at 5 pm, the power had come on and gone off again; I decided I’d had enough, and despite the proprietor’s refusal to refund my money (paid in cash on arrival), I booked into another hotel, also close to OR International airport. (But at Hilat, I had produce stolen from the communal fridge, and “lost” several hats I had bought as gifts; which I only discovered after arriving at my new hotel!)
I returned the car to the airport at about 11 am; this time without incident; and was safely on my flight back to Manchester on Ethiopian flight ET808, departing at 2:30 pm; which after stopping in Addis Ababa and Geneva again, put me back in Manchester at 8:15 am, on Monday 31 March. After 2 days at my brother Rick’s house in Manchester; I returned to Lincoln by train in the evening on Wednesday 2 April; the first day of Unleavened Bread.
THIS TRIP!
SO I AM BACK IN SOUTH AFRICA – THIS TIME FOR THE LONGEST TIME! – BUT WHY?
Keep in mind that in October 2023, I was in Jerusalem for a second visit in as many years; observing the Feast of Succoth; and was seriously thinking about relocating to Israel/Palestine! At that time, I still believed it was the “Holy Land;” NOT ANY MORE – YAHUAH has opened my eyes and shown me the real “apple of His eye” is here in the African Continent!
I am among thousands in the “diaspora” being drawn back home, to the African continent. But I am also here on a mission! It is the same mission I have been pursuing for the past 40 years; only now it is directed at the peoples YAHUAH wants to engage with the most – Who have been estranged from Him for the longest time; but whom He is now inviting back into a covenant relationship; in this time of restitution!
My purpose and intentions are best explained in my letter to the four heads of state of the Southern African countries I will be touring with my new album (Windows in the Kingdom of the Sky): Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho and South Africa.
I also sent a copy of the same letter to Captain Ibrahim Traore, President of Burkina Faso; because I believe if I am to make a fifth visit to Africa, my journey may well start in the Land of Upright People:
PHIL J KING
4 ESSEX STREET
SOUTH AFRICA7405, CAPE TOWN
To: +27 77 374 XXXX
The VOICE of Prophecy! (2002)
www.the-voice-of-prophecy.co.uk
[COPY TO]
Le Président du Faso, Chef de l’État,
le Capitaine IBRAHIM TRAORÉ
Burkina Faso. OUAGADOUGOU,
BURKINA FASO +226 25 36 36 71
Wednesday 19 November, 2025
Dear President Traore, [COPY]
GREETINGS in the Name of YAHUAH, through the grace of His Son, YAHUSHA; whom He raised from the dead to sit at His Right Hand, to be the Judge of the living and the dead!
It is my pleasure to announce my intention to be a visitor in your great country, and with your permission; to share the GOOD NEWS and GLAD TIDINGS of the imminent Restoration, Revival and Redemption of YAHUAH’S chosen people in His promised land!
I do not come bearing gifts (apart from the small, token CD, I enclose); I COME WITH GOOD NEWS and GLAD TIDINGS; not of babe born in a manger to a mother, immaculately conceived : there is NO QUEEN IN HEAVEN – but of a KING, WAITING IN THE WINGS; who will soon take His sceptre to Himself; and return with a sharp, two-edged sword to render His Judgements on this evil age under Satanic systems of “the god of this world!”
Since November 1992, I have been writing to the Queen, heads of state and business titans. A quick perusal of my website (www.the-voice-of-prophecy.co.uk) will alert you to the many Presidents, Prime ministers, kings and queens to whom I have given this message over the past 33 years and more. In the early days, as an Englishman by birth, my focus was on “Warning the Western World!” But from 2019 onwards, YAHUAH began to make me understand: that His message needed to go to the African and Caribbean leaders; and His true name, YAHUAH Elohim, rather than those names substituted in bible translations.
Following the “Plandemic” which I fiercely resisted (even though I did contact Covid); I began to question everything I thought I knew; this after over 25 years of earnest publishing! The result was The VOICE of Prophecy! The final Jubilee Edition: 20/22
I was in Jerusalem on 7 October 2023, keeping the feast of Succoth; and witnessed Hezbollah rockets flying overhead. I wanted to visit the Black Hebrews in Dimona – but with mass murder taking place in southern Israel, it was unsafe to do so. I, like thousands of other visitors in Israel, was stranded when commercial airlines ceased to fly! This experience was a pivotal point, after which YAHUAH awakened in me, like the continent itself,to a greater awareness and knowledge about the land of my origins Alkebulan, AFRIKA.
I am not at all a wealthy man,as this world counts wealth; but I am rich in favour with our Elohim; He has never failed to provide the resources needed to fulfil my needs (if not my wants), and more importantly, to carry out His Will!
The VOICE of Prophecy! Restoration Edition – 2008/2019
The VOICE of Prophecy!, page 2
When it became clear that Yahuah was calling me back to the continent of Africa; having last been here in 1985 with the Worldwide Church of God, during the Feast of Tabernacles in GHANA; I was reticent at first. But knowing in my spirit that the so-called “Holy Land” in Palestine is anything but, and more like a glorified theme park; I had to come to find out if Africa is the true promised land of the bible, as growing numbers believe it to be!
So, with the same determination given me since first publishing The VOICE or Prophecy! in November 1992, delivering it by hand to Buckingham Palace; that spirit which has compelled me promulgate this warning message in print and online over the past 4 decades; I am here in “Afrika,” to let its wayward leaders know – THEIR TIME IS UP!
If you read my publications (available online), which are uncompromising in tone; you will understand why very few world leaders acknowledge receiving them let alone respond to their content. But among the few positive responders are NELSON MANDELA (through his Foundation), Jerry Adams (the former IRA “terrorist”) and Jair Bolsonaro, the previous president of Brazil (despite his native language being Portuguese)!
Whether world leaders respond or notisn’t my concern; I have discharged my duty and done what the Ruach HaChodesh of YAHAUH compels me to do. THEY HAVE BEEN WARNED!
But I detect a change in Africa. A new crop of leaders, rising like the cream of their generation to the top; to push aside the sour curds clinging to office; acolytes to their colonial masters; who continually smother and stifle their own people. My heart weeps with joy when I see and hear men like Ibrahim Traore in Burkina Faso, Duma Boko of Botswana; and women like Netumbo Ndaithwah in Namibia, and Arikana Quao, former Ambassador to the UN; leading the charge for African sovereignty and indigenous growth.
We have understood the problems facing the African continent for decades (if not the best part of a century); and if we did not, they are being ably articulated by men like PLO Lamumba, Joshua Maponga and Julius Malema, among others; whose mouths ooze with wisdom born of lifelong experience and the knowledge of our ancestral roots.
But let us not make the mistake of replicating the facile economies of the West; based on conspicuous consumption in high-end shopping malls; ignoring the essential for the none-essential. For then we would remain under the influence of the “Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,” the Evil Elites and incestuous bloodlines – And we are not ignorant of their devices!
I’m not in Africa to make money, create a following, win or save souls –this has never been my Way! I believe I have been led here by the Spirit of YAHUAH to shine a light through my music and my website on His message of hope and redemption! YAHUSHA IS COMING TO BREAK THE SHACKLES OF THE OPPRESSORS; and we can either join Him or be a casualty in the process!
Yours faithfully,
I’m announcing that this too is a day of “salvation;” all we need to do is RETURN, REPENT and RECEIVE REDEMPTION (remission of sins) through the grace of YAHUSHA, our master and soon coming KING! But for those who will not or cannot enter into the covenant with YAHUAH, the future is bleak; and money will not save them!
Phil J King
Enclosure
Monday, 24 November 2025