A South African self-styled prophet who claimed the insect repellent Doom could heal cancer and HIV has been found guilty of assault, local news sites are reporting.
Lethebo Rabalago was arrested after it emerged he had used the product to "cure" his followers of various ailments in 2016.
At the time, he told the BBC's Nomsa Maseko in Johannesburg he had sprayed the face of one woman because she had an eye infection and claimed the woman was "just fine because she believed in the power of God".
He also claims the spray can heal cancer and HIV.
Mr Rabalago's case had been delayed on a number of occasions, most recently when his lawyer forgot his glasses.
Today, at Mookgopong Magistrates Court, in Limpopo province, he was found guilty of five counts of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, and one of contravening the agricultural stock remedies act, national broadcaster SABC reports.
Magistrate Frans Mahodi told the court the fact the five complainants "were sprayed on their faces with Doom makes this offence [the] worst of its kind".
He also revealed some had suffered "detrimental side effects... like coughing for more than seven months” after the incident.
A sentence is yet to be handed down.
Source: BBC
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For lack of knowledge my people perish. ***barred word*** die in search of wisdom (Robert Nesta Marley)
I am sure if the pastor tried to spray the insecticide on a goat it would have run away...to safety. I therefore find it mind-boggling that a human being created in the image of God and with intellect will submit herself/himself(herself first because they are usually women!)to be sprayed in the eyes with insecticide! Do you have insects or pests on your face? Has religion made us lower our self-worth below the level of non-human species? And some pastors too go about washing the vajaays of women in order to grant them fruit of the womb! And these women find nothing wrong with that! A pastor asks you to eat grass and you think it is alright. Are you a ruminant? He walks on you whilst you lie prostrate on the ground all in the name of religion! What at all is wrong with Africans? No wonder it was so easy to colonize us! Sometimes such things make me question our qualifications as homo sapiens! Whilst the pastor should be put away for good those who patronize his 'services' should be arrested as accomplices to the crime of barbarism he committed! What is all this!
Hahahahahahahahaa. He used produce evidence to back his claim, but if there is no evidence, he should be put in for life.