When pastors are bad news

09/08/2015. A preacher at End of Times Disciples Ministries orders the church members to eat leaves from a tree after the EFF and some community members interrupted the service. Picture: Oupa Mokoena

09/08/2015. A preacher at End of Times Disciples Ministries orders the church members to eat leaves from a tree after the EFF and some community members interrupted the service. Picture: Oupa Mokoena

Published Aug 21, 2015

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South African pastors are as colourful as they come.

Recently pastors have dominated the news headlines often for all the wrong reasons. From the obscene to the absurd, the antics a few rotten apples has brought a once revered calling into disrepute.

God-fearing congregants have been told to eat snakes, trampled on and even rode on like horses, all in the name of religion and a chance at salvation. 

The poorest of the poor are financing the lifestyles of so-called men of God who are anything but upright and righteous.

 Yet the churches are growing and the pastors' bank balances too.

We have compiled a list of the controversial activities pastors have engaged in over the past year. 

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