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Another one of Timothy Omotoso s alleged victims took the stand in the High Court on Tuesday.
Sarah Mafikeng testified how she was convinced to move to Durban and how she escaped being sexually assaulted by the pastor.
She told the court Omotoso grabbed her while she was massaging his feet.
Sarah Mafikeng appeared before Judge Irma Schoeman in the Port Elizabeth High Court on Tuesday to give testimony in the trial of rape accused televangelist Timothy Omotoso.
Omotoso and his two co-accused – Lusanda Sulani and Zukiswa Sitho – are on trial on 97 charges, including rape, human trafficking and racketeering.
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Ralton Juan Christopher Koetaan, 34, of Port Elizabeth, has admitted to killing his client Jean Lombard, 69, with a grass slasher handle after the small-scale farmer failed to pay him.
The two came to know each other in 2016 when Koetaan, who worked for a garden services company which Lombard was a client of, did lawn maintenance at Lombard s Hookai Farm.
Things took a deadly turn after Lombard told Koetaan that he didn t have money and that he would pay him the next time he came around.
Port Elizabeth man Ralton Juan Christopher Koetaan, 34, has admitted to killing his client Jean Lombard, 69, with a grass slasher handle after the small-scale farmer failed to pay Koetaan for having performed a sex act on him.
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“I decided to leave because I was tired of always being scared [and] not being able to live my life freely.”
These were the words of former
Idols SA contestant Anele Mxakaza, who was testifying against rape and human trafficking accused pastor Timothy Omotoso in the Port Elizabeth High Court on Thursday.
Mxakaza, 26, said she had joined Omotoso’s Jesus Dominion International [JDI] church in April 2013 with the hope of joining the Grace Galaxy singing group headed by Omotoso, but after she and her twin sister were allegedly threatened with “being cursed” she had decided to leave for good.
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CAPE TOWN - The long-running criminal case of Pastor Timothy Omotoso and his two co-accused is set to resume in the Port Elizabeth High Court on Tuesday.
Omotoso was arrested in 2017 and has been behind bars ever since.
Co-accused Lusanda Sulani and Zukiswa Sitho have been out on bail.
The trio face a string of charges, including rape, human trafficking and racketeering.
One delay after the other has dragged it out into 2021 and the COVID-19 lockdown hasn t helped matters.
Last November, an application brought by Omotoso, Sulani and Sitho to try to have the evidence of two State witnesses ruled inadmissible was dismissed by the High Court in Port Elizabeth.