Pumza Myemane, wife of controversial leader of the 7000-strong Jesus Christ Family Church (JCF), Andile Myemane, has broken her silence on an inter-family love affair that wrecked her marriage.
The two pastors have been married since 1989 but things went sour when her brother, Phangalele Sisilana, died in 2008.
Sisilana was married to Nombuzo Sisilana, who is now rumoured to have married Myemane in a private ceremony on April 21 attended only by the respective families and some church leaders.
In an exclusive tell-all interview with the Saturday Dispatch at her home in Beacon Bay yesterday, Pumza called her husband a “cheat and a liar”, who had been having an affair with her brother’s wife behind his back.
When the Dispatch asked Myemane for his side of the story yesterday, a fellow leader of Myemane’s NU3-based Jesus Christ Family Church, Enoch Tshibilili, sent the Dispatch an e-mail accusing the newspaper of “hacking” into the church’s e-mail system.
Tshibilili and Myemane did not answer the Dispatch’s questions, but alleged the Dispatch had broken the law.
Tshibilili did not say which law had allegedly been broken.
A visibly hurt Pumza Myemane said the stress of her brother knowing that his wife was cheating on him with his brother-in-law may have contributed to her brother’s death.
She now doubts that her husband is still “in tune” with God. She spoke about how Nombuzo had betrayed her by “taking” her husband.
“My husband and I were happy and we were always together until Nombuzo came between us. I saw them kissing three weeks after my brother died.
“I have since learnt that she is devious because she stabbed me in the back by taking my husband, the father of my child and the leader of a church,” the estranged wife said.
Pumza said: “At the time I was focusing on the death in our family and I did not realise there was the devil next to me,” she said.
In 2010, the Dispatch exposed that Myemane intended leaving his wife for his sister-in-law.
He denied this and accused the newspaper on trying to destroy the JCF church which he had built with his wife Pumza.
In April, the Dispatch reported that Myemane had left his luxurious marital home in Beacon Bay to live with his mistress, Sisilana, also in Beacon Bay.
“I discovered that he was lying to me. He would tell me he was going to a meeting or going to pray, but when I followed him I found that he was at her house. It was soon after that that he took my car away,” she said.
The Dispatch is in possession of a letter dated April 24, purporting to be authored by Pastor Enoch Tshibilili, who is the events manager at JCF.
Tshibilili informs Bishop Charles Matonda that Myemane “recently got married to Miss Nombuzo Dlova on April 21.
“This was a private wedding ceremony attended by the Myemane and Dlova families.”
Yesterday, Pumza said she heard about the wedding as well as her husband’s proposal to Sisilana in front of their Mdantsane congregation.
She was told in a letter “from the leadership” that she was “relieved of her presence in the church”, which she understood to mean that she had been kicked out of the church.
The Dispatch checked with the Department of Home Affairs a month ago and was told that Myemane was still married to Pumza while Sisilana was recorded as a widow.
Myemane has now filed for divorce and Pumza has filed a notice to defend the action.
Pumza said: “He has stripped me of everything we accumulated together. He took everything from couches to the kitchen utensils. I have nothing.”
She described her husband as a very intelligent man who was also a “manipulator”.
“There were times where I would listen to him preaching at church and I wished I could keep him there because once he got off that pulpit he became a different man.
“When we first started the church he was in tune with God but as soon as the money started coming in, he became very greedy.
“Now he has another spirit in him. I do not know what it is, but it is not the spirit of God,” she said.
“Spiritually, he just wobbles.
“He always said money shows one’s true character and now I have seen it with him. I cannot defend him now that I have seen his true colours,” she added.
“I am not stupid, I have been silent because I want to deal with this with wisdom from God,” she added.
Pastor's wife tells of sex and lies
The two pastors have been married since 1989 but things went sour when her brother, Phangalele Sisilana, died in 2008.
Sisilana was married to Nombuzo Sisilana, who is now rumoured to have married Myemane in a private ceremony on April 21 attended only by the respective families and some church leaders.
In an exclusive tell-all interview with the Saturday Dispatch at her home in Beacon Bay yesterday, Pumza called her husband a “cheat and a liar”, who had been having an affair with her brother’s wife behind his back.
When the Dispatch asked Myemane for his side of the story yesterday, a fellow leader of Myemane’s NU3-based Jesus Christ Family Church, Enoch Tshibilili, sent the Dispatch an e-mail accusing the newspaper of “hacking” into the church’s e-mail system.
Tshibilili and Myemane did not answer the Dispatch’s questions, but alleged the Dispatch had broken the law.
Tshibilili did not say which law had allegedly been broken.
A visibly hurt Pumza Myemane said the stress of her brother knowing that his wife was cheating on him with his brother-in-law may have contributed to her brother’s death.
She now doubts that her husband is still “in tune” with God. She spoke about how Nombuzo had betrayed her by “taking” her husband.
“My husband and I were happy and we were always together until Nombuzo came between us. I saw them kissing three weeks after my brother died.
“I have since learnt that she is devious because she stabbed me in the back by taking my husband, the father of my child and the leader of a church,” the estranged wife said.
Pumza said: “At the time I was focusing on the death in our family and I did not realise there was the devil next to me,” she said.
In 2010, the Dispatch exposed that Myemane intended leaving his wife for his sister-in-law.
He denied this and accused the newspaper on trying to destroy the JCF church which he had built with his wife Pumza.
In April, the Dispatch reported that Myemane had left his luxurious marital home in Beacon Bay to live with his mistress, Sisilana, also in Beacon Bay.
“I discovered that he was lying to me. He would tell me he was going to a meeting or going to pray, but when I followed him I found that he was at her house. It was soon after that that he took my car away,” she said.
The Dispatch is in possession of a letter dated April 24, purporting to be authored by Pastor Enoch Tshibilili, who is the events manager at JCF.
Tshibilili informs Bishop Charles Matonda that Myemane “recently got married to Miss Nombuzo Dlova on April 21.
“This was a private wedding ceremony attended by the Myemane and Dlova families.”
Yesterday, Pumza said she heard about the wedding as well as her husband’s proposal to Sisilana in front of their Mdantsane congregation.
She was told in a letter “from the leadership” that she was “relieved of her presence in the church”, which she understood to mean that she had been kicked out of the church.
The Dispatch checked with the Department of Home Affairs a month ago and was told that Myemane was still married to Pumza while Sisilana was recorded as a widow.
Myemane has now filed for divorce and Pumza has filed a notice to defend the action.
Pumza said: “He has stripped me of everything we accumulated together. He took everything from couches to the kitchen utensils. I have nothing.”
She described her husband as a very intelligent man who was also a “manipulator”.
“There were times where I would listen to him preaching at church and I wished I could keep him there because once he got off that pulpit he became a different man.
“When we first started the church he was in tune with God but as soon as the money started coming in, he became very greedy.
“Now he has another spirit in him. I do not know what it is, but it is not the spirit of God,” she said.
“Spiritually, he just wobbles.
“He always said money shows one’s true character and now I have seen it with him. I cannot defend him now that I have seen his true colours,” she added.
“I am not stupid, I have been silent because I want to deal with this with wisdom from God,” she added.
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