Prophet Mboro offers R5k reward!

PROPHET Paseka Mboro Motsoeneng is offering a reward.

He is offering an R5 000 reward to anyone who knows or can identify perpetrators who burned down his church in Katlehong, Ekurhuleni.

Mboro said the damage to his church and equipment cost over R1 million.

Speaking during a media briefing outside his home at Albemarle Estates in Alberton on Wednesday, 18 September, the leader of Incredible Happenings Ministry said those who set his church alight should be arrested.

"I'm going to give a R5 000 reward to anyone with information that will help the investigating officer in this case. I know pupils burned the church, and I don't blame them, but I want to know who organised them because it's clear there were forces behind the burning of the church," said Mboro.

Mboro was granted R3 000 bail on Thursday, 12 September, while his co-accused bodyguard, Vincent Baloyi, was released on a warning with strict conditions.

Magistrate Katlego Mokoena said the two accused should not make any contact with witnesses and should not send WhatsApp, text messages, or any other communication to witnesses.

The matter was postponed to 21 October for further investigations.

During the bail hearing, state prosecutor Pheello Vilakazi told the court he received instructions from the Director of Public Prosecution that the case is not a Schedule Five offence but a Schedule One offence.

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Mboro, Baloyi, and his relative were arrested on 5 August after a video went viral, in which they are seen attacking teachers at Matsediso Primary School in Katlehong, armed with semi-automatic rifles and two pangas.

Mboro demanded that his two grandkids be released into his care.

His church was destroyed by fire at Monaheng Section in Katlehong, Ekurhuleni, on Tuesday, 6 August.

It's alleged angry pupils from different schools in the area set the Incredible Happenings Ministry Church on fire.

Positioned merely 50m from the Katlehong North Police Station, the church was reduced to ashes and looted by some locals.

While some residents took items from the church, others sold their loot at the local scrapyard.

A case of arson was opened at Katlehong North Police Station.

Ekurhuleni district commissioner Major-General Anna Sithole, who went to the scene on 6 August, said pupils from neighbouring schools had started the blaze.

Sithole added that those who had started the fire and others who looted items in the presence of the local police would be arrested.