Nthebolang recently instructed the Health officials to remove two congregates from the Antiretroviral (ARV) programme stating that the woman and her child had been healed by prayer. In March, Nthebolang made news after revelations that she told an HIV afflicted mother and her 10-year old son to stop taking ARVs as God had healed them from the disease.
The issue became contentious and flared into a public health concern, which involved District Health Management Team, the police and social workers. District authorities ruled that tests must be conducted to check the HIV status of the family and the results proved the family was still HIV positive. However, Nthebolang stood her ground insisting that testing was against God’s will and was tantamount to challenging the power of God to heal. Social workers had to be firm and it was explained to the prophet and her followers that the state has powers to protect the child by putting him on medication. But the mother continued without taking the drugs to date. In a statement to The Monitor recently, Nthebolang insisted that the child has been healed. She said tests conducted on the minor proved that he has a CD4 count or white blood cells of more than 850 from 295 at the time she prayed for the family. She added that no HIV positive person could have a count of more than 850.
