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By Zelda Venter 
10h ago
Controversial Prophet Shepherd Bushiri has lost the first round of his legal battle against Prophet Paseka Motsoeneng, known as the Prophet Mboro, for technical reasons, as the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, deemed the matter not urgent.
Judge David Makhoba did not rule on the merits of the case and simply removed it from the list for lack of urgency.
Bushiri, however, will have to pay the legal bill for this round.
Bushiri requested an urgent provisional injunction to gag Mboro, as well as former taxi owner Felicia Sibeko and her husband Arthur, for speaking ill of him on social media and in public.
He also wanted them to remove all offensive statements they had made about him from social media.
The Sibekos claimed that Bushiri had cheated them out of their life savings, and had made a public statement referring to Bushiri as, among others, a thief and a con man.
Mboro spoke his voice this week outside of court in his crusade against Bushiri, where he continued to make various statements against Bushiri.
He seemed to have a lot of followers who agreed with his feelings.
A crowd that gathered around him nodded and applauded from time to time when Sibeko said that he stood up for the poor and couldn’t understand how they could be swindled with his money.
A lively Mboro said that many of the older parishioners also lost their money and that he, Mboro, has to donate food to them.
While Mboro is not gagged at this stage to speak out against Bushiri, the latter plans to continue his legal search at a later stage, in which he will ask the court to declare the statements made by Mboro and the Sibeko couple against him. . be defamatory.
If he was successful with that request, he demands a public apology from them, as well as a million rand in damages.
Attorney Dali Mpofu, who appeared on behalf of Bushiri, argued on Wednesday that, in addition to making false and defamatory statements against Bushiri, Mboro is also making xenophobic comments in relation to him (Bushiri).
These include statements such as that Bushiri is “a liar and must return to Malawi.”
Mboro’s attorney argued that the horse has been shot and the statements are now available, so there is nothing else to do.
But Mpofu said that until the matter is finally heard in court sometime later, when his claim for compensation is dropped and the statements are found to be defamatory, Bushiri’s name is tainted if Mboro is not gagged.
The Sibekos claimed they had lost their life savings – R130,000 – by investing in Bushiri’s gold commodities and currency scheme.
Bushiri said that he himself is a victim of the scheme, which later appeared to have been a scam.
Meanwhile, it emerged that he returned the money to the Sibeko couple, as well as an extra 5,000 rand.
Mpofu questioned in court that if the couple was returned, why they continued their campaign against him in which they branded him a fraudster and a thief.
Pretoria News
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