Bushiri says not surprised with fresh arrest warrant over rape claims: ‘South Africa media trial’

Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) leader prophet Shepherd Bushiri says he is neither shocked nor surprised with media reported warrants of arrest because they are just part of the larger crusade to try and persecute his name in the media by a team of same white police officers notably from the Hawks.

Bushiri: Its manufactured consent and media trial in South Africa

South Africa media is reporting that three warrant of arrest have been issued against Prophet.

In a statement, Bushiri wondered why the arrest were issued in the media when it is trite law that when a warrant of arrest is issued, law enforcement agencies proceed to effect arrest; not leaking information to the media as my case has always been with these white police officers.

“These are white police officers that I opened extortion and corruption cases against in 2018 after they tried, unsuccessfully, to extort about R10 million from me. At the time, they were not diffident and on record saying that “failure to pay the R10million would result in making my life a living hell,” he said.

He added despite having confirmed that such cases were opened, South African Authorities haven’t taken any relevant steps to bring to book these white police officers.

“Instead, these officers are let loose, riding on the back state resources, and embarked on a crusade to cover up their crimes by launching and issuing numerous warrants of arrests against me.

“For the record I reiterate and confirm that the very same white police officers are same police officers who arrested me in Feb 2019. As though is not enough, they are again same white police officers who arrested me in October 2020, and, again, without any official confirmation I bet it’s the same police officers behind these warrants of arrest.

“I have been advised—which advice I accept—that rape cases are not handled by hawks but South African Police (SAPS) designated unit known as Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences (FCS).

“I have since launched complaints on how Hawks or same white police officers were recruiting girls to fabricate charges of rape and to date no reprieve for me. Some of these were confirmed through various videos of those who came back to confess such wrongful conduct,” he said.

He added that during his public address on Saturday, 21 Nov 2020, he pertinently and persistently stated that as long as these officers are not recused, there is no way he can receive fair trial in South Africa, simply because those white officers are surely and evidently so driven by vengeance, not justice.

“That is why these fresh warrants of arrest are neither a shock nor a surprise to me but mere confirmation of every detail I shared with regard to spates of injustice i left in South Africa.

“But above all, as a revered man of God, a husband and father who understands that rape “is an abominable crime that goes against everything that I stand and believe in.

“As Keen as I am to clear my name in SA, I unequivocally refuse to feed the media spectacle created by white police officers bent to cover up their crimes. My conscious is very clear and so it shall remain.”

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45 replies on “Bushiri says not surprised with fresh arrest warrant over rape claims: ‘South Africa media trial’”

  1. I have read a number of very silly comments on this article that bordered on the farcical. The facts are the following :

    1. Mr Bushiri ran a massive church in SA with many South african followers who then and some still now admired him greatly.
    2. The money laundering charges in the initial case arise in 2019 and you can find a timeline of all arrests and court appearences can found at the SABC news portal that has a timeline of all events. SEE http://www.sabcnews.com
    3. South Africa has thousands of foreigners that live extremely well in our country without feeling as if they are disliked or discriminated against based on their nationality.
    4. The reason Mr Bushiri fled is very clear to us since during the bail application the State Prosecutor mentioned to the court that they are investigating Rape allegations against him. Why is that important ? Recently Pastor Timothy Omotoso brought his third application for bail on charges of rape and bail was denied.
    5. Bail is not easily granted for these types of offences especially when the alleged perpetrator was in a position of trust and fearing pre trial incarceration Mr Bushiri chose to flee. That was his choice and now he will face the consequences thereof.
    6. Ask yourself who forfeits a R6.500 000 home to the State nless you are very , very scared and he is very scared but not because his life is in danger but because his freedom is.
    1. The main reason Bushiri fled is because he commited Immigration fraud. The case is clear cut. He was facing permanent ban from entering SA. He fled on wednesday because on Friday Pretoria High Court was going to rule in the favour of Home Affairs to act on its findings which is to arrest him and have him deported.

  2. Don’t be surprised with the addition charges including rape, timakuonanitu every Sunday after service mmene mumavinila ndi a azimayi pa protea fire and ice hotel menlyn here in Pretoria, we new that soon or later they will come out. Its a shame the way you drag God’s name into the mad. Surely ur a total disgrace.

    1. ndipotu the God we are playing with has his own way of revealing truths. What happened to the children of Eli, what happened to David(Uriah saga). Palie chobisika Mulungu will come out and set the record straight. Ali ena akanangokhuzumuka apa osati flying around kuti atchuke. ku South Africa kuli Amalawi ambiri achina danwood chirwa oti akhalitsako why not them only him.

  3. I believe those white officers are police officers not judges right? A black judge gave you bail, so why did you skip it? Are you saying the judge and these white police officers you are referring to work together? Don’t blame white police officers just refer them as police officers. If they were black what were you going to tell us?

  4. Bushiri don’t be a racist. Its not white police officers who are looking for you. You had committed a crime in RSA and even you need to give us details on how you had acquired diplomatic passports when you are not a diplomat.

    It is your doing that has brought you to where you are so please don’t shift the blame to white police officers its just police and this is not a persecution rather itsvthe reality of what happens when you misuse your position. You have two questions to answer and we are waiting patiently. Am black and I want to know where you got the diplopassports and why?

  5. Now i got the real true story here,this goes down to History, its not that you are from malawi but
    That country has long history of opression ,apartheid etc,the people who were doing that are still alive and not happy with the progress you are making world wide, just move on the world is Big
    And you have arleady make a mark, thats just one small country on this planet.God is Great.

  6. If you are old enough, you can recall stories of Malawians going to South Africa with various scams. Selling traditional medicines, car jacking, stealing from shops and so on. We have seen and heard people being killed and bounties being put on their heads. Some crooks have never gone back to South Africa because of fear of being killed.
    I am sorry to say, this case of Bushiri looks simmilar to what Malawian crooks have done in South Africa. These things have never and will never be sustainable. There is always a sad ending.

  7. SA just last week extradited a 40yr old man who had fled to Brazil 9 years ago. He had murdered his girlfriend and skipped bail. Another case is of Shrien Dewani was suspected of murdering his wife in 2010. He went back to the UK but was extradited in 2014 and faced trial. Bushiri is definately going to be extradited. He ran a US$6.5m pyramid scheme, some families have been torn apart because of this. Should the govt of Malawi “protect” him from facing the full might of the law, I definately see visa restrictions on Malawi passport holders entering SA. I also forsee scores of Malawians with refugee status having it revoked since they are economic refugees.

    What surprises me is Bushiri has a lot of legal problems: fake permanent residence, unlawfully exporting his cars, rape cases and this pyramid scheme. He ran because his time was up. He will never preach in SA churches but prison.

  8. The Prophet and his spiritual sons know very well what used to happen behind those walls in Sheraton Hotel in Pretoria. One on one sessions with young light skinned girls were surprising

  9. Uyu asatinyanse ndi nkhani zakezi. Wakawaputa dala ma bunu uko nkuthawa kuti adzitsokosa ali ku mphanga atabisala ku Malawi kuno?
    Boma lilore South Africa adzamutenge, ngati si olakwa amusiya koma ngati akumukakamira choncho, chilipo chimene iye, mkazi wake ndi anthu ena angapo amapanga nao zachabe akudziwa.
    Ng’oma yoliritsa….

  10. Malawi is a great nation and is proud to produce a genuine prophet of God who is loved by many people globally. It’s a small Israel in Africa. SA should not be used by these Bhururus to divide black people. Africa has got its own billionaires who want to invest in their own countries why should we always look for investors from Europe who, at the end of the day, take our money’s back to their country. We have our own major prosperous prophet who helps the poor and we can’t afford to lose him. Politicians come and go but men of God will be with us for life. Let him have peace and do what God sent him for. You black people must not be used by some white media people or demonic influence. Mind you that media houses is SA are largely owned by white people ND they use black journalists to attack on each other in order to sell their newspapers. They know they make business when they put Bushiri name on on the first page of their newspapers. Viva Malawi. Together we stand as Malawians together we win.

  11. Bushiri is a crook ,how can a man of God run away from answering charges leveled against him of which indeed he tells the whole world he didnt commit them.
    Rape case ,its another river to cross ,bushiri used all his financial muscle to do anything with any lady ,have we already forgotten the case in zimbabwe which bushiri was being accused to have slept with a married woman .
    Have we forgotten the case in mzimba which bushiri slept with a girl and impregnated her .and the case ended in court .

    Have we forgotten the 2 little children that resemble bushiri ,are those children from fake prophetess ,mary hahahahah work up you didimz
    If we say this man has been using Gods name to amass his wealth in an incorrect way .stupid and blind people doesn’t believe.

    Bushjris friends and and his spiritual father verbert engel run away from zimbabwe because of his crooky activities .
    Ginimbi zimbabwean reach man died recently was bushiri friend ,how can prophet befriending a shampaign and shampopo man, partying man hahahah,passion java another friend of bushiri and many more whose source of their wealth are all questionable in nature

    Bushishi is in occult brother hood and he was sent to deceive real Christian with his prophetic gimmick ,Bushiri doesn’t prophecy rather use juju he got from darkness to foresee things ,sometimes by corniving with some people to pretend as if they are in that situation for him to score a mark in his ministry.

    Do you remember when bushiri decieved to the world that he walks in the air ,do you remember when bushiri lied to have lit the fire on charms the member had in the church ,did you saw ,what really happen to the fire the it started ,….go into lab you will find an answer and the tricky bushiri did .

    Bushiri coming to malawi is is the begining of his downfall because his time he made convenient with satan has now expired ,time to deceive the children of God is over time to steal from people is over he cant do any more sacrifices to sustain his fame.
    He will loose fame and loose his properties across the countries he invested and he will never have those power he used to have and he will be bankrupt .
    That the work of the devil
    Bushiri giving up his million mashon and cash bond he gave to curt to be forfeited is a sign of his down fall returning his short time earned wealth he got from satan
    “”REMEMBER WHAT HE SAID DURING PRESS …MY LIFE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THOSE PROPERTIES ….Bushiri new he will not survive if he cling to those properties ,he will die hence left the country I an dramatic way
    The work of the devil

    1. my brother dont lie .bushiri never slept with amarried women in zimbabwe. am a zimbabwean and i am atrue son and discple to my father bushiri.this is just a storm ,it will all come to rest.i wish him all the best,we will continue to offer our prayers for him.but may you stop your fake comments about our father.

    1. If you people are Christian then we need to love one another regardless of our different churches that we belong who are we to judge by the way I support the decision that he made and I don’t think it is right for our government to send him back here.if he is a true man of God I can grantee you people no matter how many your are but you can’t win who can fight with God and win ,mind your comments for it is asin to lie against men of God.

  12. Fugitive prophet of god: your story is full of contradictions (1) you are wondering why the recent warrant of arrest was not issued to you personally – this does not require a rocket scientist – simple answer is because you are on the run and you are hiding man of god. You are not at the address you provided the court. (2) everyone knows here in South Africa that the likelihood that the white police officer would ask a bribe from you is very very slim. And the likelihood that 5 police officer would ask bribe from you is next to impossible. The gospel truth is that you Sir have been bribing black (corrupt) police officer to throw away your cases for the past few years, now the hawks realised and replaced the corrupt ones with these 5 white officers whom you have since failed to bribe. That’s the reason why the five have been handling your cases. Now your strategy is to demonise the 5 police officers…..it is not going to work. The hawks are ahead of your thinking. (3) it is not you personally who reported the so called corrupt officers to the hawks, it was your lawyer. And since 2018 the hawks have invited you to go and identify the so called officers and you have since ignored the call. You did that because you knew there is no umboni. You created this story. (4) by the way don’t create an impression as if you are the only one with money here. There are people with serious money here and they earn them in the right way not stealing from poor people. How many people have private jets here? How many many people stay in luxurious estates like silver lakes, mooikloof, wood hill, Cornwall hill, etc where the average of houses are more than R10m. Stop lying to Malawians just come and answer your charges here. Rape is very serious charge. I would be worried if I were you.

    1. Typical of the ‘prophet’, he always tries to take advantage of ignorant people. There are hundreds of ‘foreigners’ in South Africa today who have more money than him, why is he special to have several warrant of arrests on rape, and not every rich person? Because am sorry to say he is a clown, who takes himself far too important when he is just a nobody, and only have money by his tricks to gullible people. Extortion happens only to those with unclean money. The white police officers will not easily be bribed. Even if he opened cases against anyone prosecuting him, it will be up to the judge to see if he is guilty or not. Unless if he opened cases against the judges too. He must learn to shut up. The courts won’t be moved by his public outbursts but his defense in courts.

    2. Nanunso muzimvetsa zinthu. Who told you that white are not corrupt? Mbuzi iwe!!! Azungu ndiye ma makhuluku

  13. Am not surprised too and I do not side with Bushiri ,what I noticed southafricans at every level in society they hate foreign nationals doing well whatever you do good or bad .
    They have the mentality that every Malawian coming to RSA must be a gardener.
    Make no mistake if you are successful in RSA don’t show off.

    1. Every level of society? You are talking hogwash.

      Why are the attacks which I condemn in the strongest terms don’t happen in suburbs where there are middle class South Africans and middle class foreign nationals?

    2. Thats the negative side of SA people, they don’t want to see you prospering in their eyes other wise they will create a case against you

    3. SA is a very free country and open society, there count less millionaires of foreign origin enjoying their wealth in that country, Bushiri decideds to do crime and the law is now after him and you people are now crying foul, how many years have bushiri been showing off his posche life style in SA? And what have they done to him? Now that he is a fugitive some like you are start making noise about it… Let the man clear his name if he is innocent indeed

    4. For the record, This man was informed of an impending arrest for being in RSA illegally which means all his activities were not on board as he used the “visit visa” which did not allow him to operate any activity. His legal team then informed him that as a result of this new information he will lose the bail as he is an “illegal immigrant”, the matter refers; Case Number: 43470/2020 ZAGPPHC 21 October 2020 (Residence status) at the North Gauteng High Court. Him fleeing RSA was primarily the effects of his thuggish behaviour which was at odd with the existing rules of law in the country, and mind you there are a number of foreigners in RSA who are doing well in their endevours through legitimate ways than scamming people and when caught through the tracks start playing victimhood. And the hypocrisy with which this con artist displays when caught is beyond imagination given that when he plied his dubious activities ” (he is an african fellow in south africa but when cornerd and confronted, he is a malawian national who strongly belief in the constitution of malawi, the irony)”.

    5. I dont agree with you, I bet you were never here in this country you rely on media i guess … SA is a beautiful place , things you see on TV are isolated. People live with each other people love hate jealous its human nature dint nationalize your opinion

    6. Malawians will do the same if anyone comes here and start scamming locals. It is not hating foreigners, it is hating scammers.

  14. All what is happening in Shepherd Bushiri by Republic of South African Government is corruption and intimidating. As Malawian County it has to find out the main source of everything and why RSA government is most need this man, should not just bow to them correct and incorrect things.

  15. These 5 white police officers are the same ones that refused a bribe of 10 million rands sound more like it. The same 5 white police officers are the same 5 Russians that came to Malawi Kkkk. Pepani bwana. Of course zina mwanamiziridwapo.

    1. There is a serious fight back machine employed by Bushiri and his team. The use of “5 white police officers” is not by mistake.

      With South Africa’s history, he is stroking racial issues to get black people on his side regardless of the seriousness of the crimes he is being accused of.

  16. Koma who ever you upset Mfumu. Kapepeseni. They will not stop, they cant stop till heads roll. Facts. This is a witch hunt.

  17. South african conspirators after budmshis wealth because he is a foreign national. I m not a proud south african

  18. No one is plotting u, u runaway with our money u promised it will be doubled while sitting at home drinking coffee, now took our money to malawi, u are coming nonsense saying ppl are plotting nonsense jou domkop we need our money

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