Fire church in land grabbing scandal

The church's security chasing The Monitor team away yesterday
The church's security chasing The Monitor team away yesterday

A Tlokweng fire church known for its huge following, miracles and operating its own Television station has been caught in a land grabbing scandal after it allocated itself a huge chunk of land where it has built its magnificent structure, without approaching the land board.

Now the Fire church, known as World Community Counselling Centre (WCC), owned by a foreign pastor, has allocated itself a huge stretch of land approximately measuring  2kms by 1 km at Metlhabeng area, which it began fencing recently. On Saturday when The Monitor team sought to speak to the pastor, his church stewards arrogantly said he had gone to heaven.

The fenced chunk of land paradoxically has  about  50 households and several undeveloped plots, as well as a new gravel road recently developed by the Tlokweng  council for the households there.

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