20 February 2016 1 Min Read
Church’s cultish practices labelled inhumane, illegal
in News by Sikho Ntshobane
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- STATEMENT: A sign and words painted by Angels Ministry on a mountain behind Khalinyanga village Picture: SIKHO NTSHOBANE
- JOYOUS: Angels Ministry members dance after a visit by social development MEC Nancy Sihlwayi this week
- INSIDE OUT: The gated compound of an Ngcobo church which is under investigation after claims emerged that adults were kept from working and children were not allowed to go to school Pictures:SIKHO NTSHOBANE
- MOTHER’S ANGELS: The Mancoba family, who have been running a controversial church for 30 years. From left are brothers Ephraim, Phuthumile, Banele, Philile, their mother Nombongo, Thandazile, Benjamin and Xolisa Picture: SIKHO NTSHOBANE
- RESCUED: Social workers, accompanied by police, remove a group of 18 children from the controversial Angels Ministry Picture: SIKHO NTSHOBANE
- CONTROVERSIAL: Angels Ministry in Ngcobo Picture: SIKHO NTSHOBANE
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“I am not doing anything about it. My child is safe. Andinaxhala (I have no worries). She will be strong. I know she is a heroine in the Kingdom of the Holy Spirit.”
They say it was an instruction from the Holy Spirit and that they had informed the village’s sub-headman about the church and the painting.
But elderly villagers who are members of a sub-headman’s committee have denied this.
One of the leaders, Philile Mancoba, said the painting had been there for many years but it had been small.
That was until they received word from the Holy Spirit to go and make it bigger, he said.
Asked how they managed to climb down a cliff, he said: “We used ropes.”