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Hmmm...Pastor Lesego Daniel, General Overseer of Rabboni Centre Ministries in Pretoria, who�s name became very popular in the last one week over his instructional �Eat Grass and Get Healed� miracle session is in the news again, Pastor Lesego Daniel who told his congregation to eat grass boasts about how he can throw people to sleep. �Sleep,� he screams. Six people in the marquee immediately go into deep slumber. The �miracle man� orders other congregates to slap and trample on them. But the sleepers remain rigid and unresponsive. Several minutes later, he yells: �Wake up,�and they break out of their deep sleep. �You can leave them like this for six months. I love this, I don�t want to be bored. You can even make police go to sleep when they come to arrest you,� the �miracle man� preaches as he paces around the marquee. The pastor�s �miracles� attract people from all walks of life, including teachers, nurses and accountants, whose luxury German sedans adorn the church�s parking lot. �Yes, we eat grass and we�re proud of it because it demonstrates that, with God�s power, we can do anything,� says Rosemary Phetha. A 21-year-old Unisa law student says she had been battling a sore throat for more than a year. She claims it was healed after Daniel �turned me into a sheep and instructed me to eat grass�. Her testimony is shared by 27-year-old Doreen Kgatle, of Ga-rankuwa, who suffered a stroke two years ago. �I could not walk but soon after eating the grass, as the pastor had ordered, I started gaining strength and an hour later I could walk again,� said Kgatle, clad in the ministry�s R150 T-shirt.