South African women and children have a well-travelled, down-to-earth British granny championing their daily battles.
Margaret Stunt, the internationally renowned motivational speaker and preacher, left for Johannesburg earlier this year to work in South Africa with her goal simply to give women and children "hope in a hopeless world".
Over the past months she has been leading church visits to women at Pretoria Central Prison and children at the Alex Care Centre in Alexandra, north of Johannesburg, handing out gifts, practical motivation tips and scripture.
Not everyone approved when she told relatives and her flock at Dunstable New Life Church. "Our family thought we were mad leaving the United Kingdom to come to Johannesburg. They told us it was the most violent city in the world," she said.
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"I told them teenagers were being stabbed in Britain every day while, in Chicago in the United States, 56 people are killed daily," she said.
"People said, 'Not Johannesburg. Why not Cape Town?' And I told them, 'I am not afraid of anything because, with the Lord on your side, who can one fear?' If I am shot, I win because I go straight to heaven," she said.
"People thought we were crazy but, where the spirit of God abides, there is peace, and we have had nothing negative happen to us since arriving in the country," she added.
"We live in a world where life is cheap; there are places in England I would not go anywhere near, and I cannot drive through London with my handbag on the passenger seat. I had the experience of someone smashing the window and running off with my bag in London," she said.
She said South Africans had a bad habit of looking down on their country. "In England, it is sad really. Crime, especially the recent spate of stabbings, is linked to youths having fun, while in South Africa, it is linked to poverty."
Stunt had taken her inspirational message to America, Australia and Europe before deciding she wanted to work and help improve the plight of women and children in South Africa.
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