Joburg’s fake sangoma vanishes with Ebony Park couple’s R550k

The acting station commander of the Ivory Park SAPS, Colonel Baba Mpotoane, is, once again, appealing to residents of Ivory Park and other policing precincts to refrain from consulting bogus Inyangas and Sangomas to avoid being victims of fraud, Tembisan reports.

A couple from Extension Four, Ebony Park near Midrand has become the latest victims in the area. The couple was instructed by a bogus healer to sell their house as it had a Tokoloshe inside.

Once the house was sold the proceeds were handed to the healer for ‘cleansing’ after which the bogus healer vanished with all the money, R550 000. The couple is now penniless and homeless.

Captain Bernard Matimulane, the communications officer for Ivory Park SAPS, said in the past three months another man from Ebony Park lost all his pension money after falling for one of these quacks who, after receiving the money, disappeared with more than R1-million.

“The couple has since opened a case of fraud at the Ivory Park SAPS and the police are investigating.

The ‘healer’ has, since accepting the money, disappeared from his consulting place in the area and his cellphone is switched off,” said Matimulane.

Mpotoane added that it is sad that there are still people in the communities who are gullible enough to believe that money can be multiplied by the touch of a healer or prophet.

“Such miracles are not possible and anyone promising people such things are nothing but a fraudster and people should stay clear of them,” said Mpotoane.