An East London church leader and his wife have been arrested by the Hawks and charged with theft and fraud. Pastor Thandile Kupiso and his wife, Nosiphiwo, of the Real Vision in Christ Ministries, appeared in court last week.
The Hawks said Thandile was facing two counts of fraud and his wife was facing one.
The couple allegedly lured their victims by pretending to be healers with the power to cure, among others, HIV/Aids, TB, high blood pressure and strokes.
Hawks spokeswoman Captain Anelisa Feni said the couple had initially been arrested in 2013, but the case had been struck from the roll due to legal technicalities.
“Thandile Kupiso and his wife, Nosiphiwo, were arrested by the commercial crime unit of the Hawks in October 2013,” Feni said.
“They were arrested for allegedly defrauding an Alice pensioner of about R568 000.
“They allegedly convinced this woman to give them the money between August 2013 and October 2013, promising that they would cleanse her house of witchcraft.”
The couple’s court appearance last week came a week after Kupiso appeared in the East London Magistrate’s Court for allegedly defrauding an East London businesswoman of R900 000….
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