Court refuses Mboro’s request to pray in the dock

A frustrated and angry self-proclaimed prophet, Paseka ‘Mboro’ Motsoeneng, told journalists outside the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court that it was his godly right to pray in court.

This came after Magistrate Ipfi Mammburu asked him to stop praying and look at him.

Mboro, who faces accusations of threatening teachers at his grandchildren’s school with pangas and guns, stressed that he had spent 40 days and nights burdened by the case, and that the court should at least allow him to pray.

“I’ve just spent 40 days on this case and they keep lying every day in court,” he said. “I’ve been in jail already. I didn’t look at the magistrate; I looked up. I didn’t know it was against the law not to look at the magistrate because if I did, people would say I was intimidating him. I was just tired and lifting my hands, and he knew that once you put your hands together, it was clear I was praying, so he thought I wasn’t listening, but I was. He was just repeating my bail conditions,” he explained.

“I stay in Jesus for me, not for business; it’s not my choice; if I don’t stay close to him, I’ll end up violent,” he added. Mboro, his son Revival, and bodyguard Camillot Baloyi appeared in court today on multiple charges, including kidnapping, possession of dangerous weapons, and assault.

They were arrested in August following an incident at a school in Katlehong, East Rand, which was filmed and shared on social media.

The video showed Mboro brandishing pangas at the teachers while his bodyguard appeared armed with what seemed to be an AK47. The case has been postponed to 26 November and transferred to the regional court.

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