Police whisk away cult ‘leader’

News24 (South Africa), June 27, 2003
http://www.news24.com/

Umtata – Eastern Cape police rescued religious cult members from an angry mob baying for their blood outside the Umtata District Court on Friday.

The incident occurred minutes after the investigator officer, Detective-Inspector Bongani Ntanjana, urged magistrate Molden Hower to keep the accused in custody because police feared for their lives should they be granted bail.

All accused were loaded in police Inyalas and dropped off outside town.

Three bakkies belonging to cult members that were parked in front of the court were also driven away by the police after the mob threatened to vandalise them.

A middle-aged woman in her 50s was besieged by a chanting crowd following claims that she was one of the most senior members of the cult.

She was whisked away from the scene in a police van.

During the bail application hearing the accused conceded that their lives were in danger and would not be able to return to the compound.

Three senior members of the cult appeared in court on Friday in connection with the discovery of eight bodies exhumed from shallow graves in a church compound this week.

They were granted bail of R500 each.

Read Another Article

Plea bargain rejected in molestation case against Nuwaubian leader
Cult could have killed more

Related News Articles Topic(s): Nokulunga Fiphaza Subscribe to Religion News Blog updates Subscribe to Religion News Blog [What is this?] Get Religion News Blog's headline by Email [What is this?] Follow Religion News Blog at Twitter Find Related Information Use our custom search engines to find additional research resources on religions and cults: ApologeticsSearch.com: Search for apologetics articles, books, videos, and other research resources across 135 Christian apologetics websites and blogs. CounterCultSearch.com: Search for information about (religious) cults, cult-like organizations, and cults experts -- as well as paranormal-, New Age, and pseudoscientific claims -- across 260+ websites, blogs and forums dedicated to cult research, spiritual abuse, ex-cult counseling & support. Find Related Religion & Spirituality Books at Amazon.com Nokulunga Fiphaza Possibly related... or Most Popular Religion News Articles Kent Hovind: Evangelist arrested on federal charges Beast’s real mark devalued to ’616′ Muslim Woman Gives Sex Advice on Arab TV Michael Jackson Confirms Conversion to Islam Kent Hovind, ‘Dr. Dino,’ guilty on all counts The fall and rise of Carlton Pearson Search False prophet Harold Camping sets another date for rapture: May 21, 2011 Watch the film Theo van Gogh was murdered for Kent Hovind — Dr. Dino — sentenced to 10 years in prison

Search Religion News Blog