‘Defiant’ bishop appears in court after month-long manhunt Bishop Bheki Ngcobo, of the SA Zionist Church, had allegedly been on the run shortly after he made the worship call to his flock and reasoned that Ramaphosa was not god in an interview.
Ngcobo was arrested at his Bluff home. He said he had returned from a mountain where he was praying and fasting for 21 days but after Ramaphosa extended the lockdown, he decided to stay there for another three weeks.
Ngcobo said churches should be reopened to seek God’s intervention to fight the disease through prayer. But before Ngcobo could go inside the court, there was confusion, with officials trying to regulate the crowds after the court was temporarily shut down after a magistrate tested positive for Covid-19 last week.
The bishop was charged with contravening the Disaster Management Act and was held at SAPS Isipingo police station before being released on R3000 bail last Sunday. The relative of Ngcobo who owned the Ulundi home denied that Ngcobo had visited the home. Instead, the relative told police that a friend of the bishop had parked his car there on behalf of him a day earlier.
The team were then drawn to Esikhawini and interviewed a pastor who was an office-bearer in Ngcobo’s church.
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