Lazarus Dithagiso

SEBOKENG. – A member of a charismatic church, Emmanuel Christian Ministries in Zone 10 Extension 1 has come out in public to tell on how she, together with her pastor, betrayed her unemployed husband and the congregation’s trust.

Earlier this year Sedibeng Ster reported on how Emmanuel Christian Ministries Prophet Paul Mpobole divined the presense of a “supernatural snake” (Prophet points out ‘cursed’ snake, 28 February 6 March 2018) that could take on “a human form” in a couple’s wardrobe in Boiketlong. The snake was indeed ‘found’ and burned. Over the weekend, the wife Dieketseng Malelaleng (35) came out and revealed how this was all an orchestrated plan and that she was the one, together with Mpobole and his wife, who put the snake in the wardrobe in the midst of the night for it to be ‘revealed’ the following day.

She also worked as Mpobole’s domestic worker and this was where they apparently hatched the plan without her husband, Mokete Koloi’s (41) knowledge. According to Malelaleng the aim of the plan was for the prophet to single out her husband during a church service and reveal the snake to be the cause of their marital problems, that it (the snake) was also disfiguring his face while he was asleep and that their family was bewitched making the congregants believe in Mpobole’s powers. Malelaleng made the confession on Murendeni Live Show at the Maranatha Church in Zone 13, Sebokeng, over the weekend. She claimed to have done all this because of poverty.

It is not known if she was paid for her actions. The full show will be broadcast on Sedibeng FM this Sunday.

A former spokesperson of the church known only as Pastor Chabalala said he had resigned from the church following numerous deceptions being practised on the public. “That church is a money-making scheme.” Commenting on the serious allegations Mpobole said that he never brought the snake to the couple’s shack. “How would I benefit from that? Malelaleng and our former keyboard player are trying to destroy my church but what is built by God, no one will destroy. In my church I do not allow adultery. Both the keyboard player and herself were dating and once they were called to order, they resigned. Suddenly they lie and speak badly of the church,” said Mpobole.