Prophet curses The Monitor

| Monday June 9, 2014 16:55

 

When The Monitor phoned the prophet of WCCC Tabernacle, LT Justin, for a comment, he screamed, “I warn you to desist from reporting about my church or your organisation will not prosper, tell that to your boss”.  He then abruptly cut communication.

The WCCC Tabernacle could be demolished as the Tlokweng Land Board moves to fight illegal land allocation to the foreign-led church where Tlokweng chief Rammonye Matlapeng, who claims traditional rights to the land, is also a church elder. Judgement is expected next week.

Last week, the church withdrew from the Land Tribunal case, saying it was not an affected party. But the church was warned that withdrawal means an appeal from them would not be entertained. Following The Monitor exposé, the Tlokweng Land Board applied for a court interdict to force the church to remove illegal fencing around what an earlier court order had declared government land, as well as for allocating itself the land on which its gargantuan structure now stands.

The church claims that the Matlapeng family allocated it the land but the land board has furnished the Land Tribunal with a 2010 High Court order that bans the Matlapeng family from claiming that piece of land.

The church fenced off the disputed land, measuring 2km by 1km, two weeks ago, enclosing 70 households, a number of undeveloped plots, as well as blocking the road used by residents in Metlhabeng ward.

 The church had claimed to have been asked by the Matlapeng family to fence off the land on their behalf.