The church of a controversial South African preacher has been burned down after he allegedly wielded machetes at a major faculty and forcibly eliminated his grandchildren.
Pastor Mboro’s Unbelievable Happenings Church was set alight by indignant schoolchildren on Tuesday, native studies mentioned.
The day earlier than, a extensively circulated video appeared to indicate Pastor Mboro – actual title Paseka Motsoeneng – waving blades throughout a tense stand-off with lecturers in Katlehong, a township simply exterior Johannesburg.
He’s flanked by a person carrying what police have since recognized as a duplicate firearm.
Provincial authorities mentioned the 2 younger kids filmed being eliminated are on the centre of a custody battle after their mom handed away.
5 folks had been arrested following the incident on the faculty, police mentioned.
They mentioned the video confirmed “acts of intimidation and violence” and males “harassing learners and lecturers”.
Separate video footage exhibits Pastor Mboro’s church, housed in a marquee tent, going up in flames as thick, black smoke billows from it.
Pupils at school uniform had been seen working from the church, which was additionally looted, News 24 reported.
Authorities within the district of Ekurhuleni, the place the church is situated, mentioned on social media platform X: “Anger erupted after Mboro wasn’t arrested following yesterday’s incident, resulting in the tent burning.”
The publish mentioned Pastor Mboro was arrested on Tuesday morning, however the police haven’t confirmed if he was one of many 5 folks detained.
Pastor Mboro is a self-styled prophet with hundreds of followers throughout South Africa.
He has claimed to carry out miracles resembling therapeutic folks throughout sermons and delivering a fish from the womb of a pregnant girl.
South African training minister Siviwe Gwarube commented on the incident on the major faculty, posting on X: “I’m completely incensed by this assault on our colleges, workers and learners.
“Nobody – completely nobody – ought to break into colleges with weapons interrupting educating and studying time and terrorising kids.”
Police mentioned these arrested have been charged with crimes resembling assault, intimidation and malicious harm to property.
