Prophet of Doom:

I will do even more crazy things’

THE “Prophet of Doom” has dared government to arrest him, saying that being behind bars will not stop him from performing miracles.

Lethebo Detective Rabalago, 24, of the Mount Zion General Assembly, said during an interview with Sowetan on Friday that God would enable him to disappear from jail.

He was speaking ahead of his appearance in the Limpopo High Court in Polokwane today.

The provincial health department took Rabalago and his church to court after pictures of him spraying people with the insecticide Doom during a prayer service in Mookgophong went viral on social media in November.

“There is no department in South Africa that can stop me. If they want to stop me they must arrest me and put me in a jail cell but I will continue [doing miracles] in jail.

“Even in a jail cell God can make me to disappear. With God all things are possible,” Rabalago said.

He is expected to convince the court that an interdict by the provincial health department ordering him to stop spraying people with Doom should not be made final.

But the prophet has also promised to unleash an avalanche of more shocking miracles this year.

“I’m still going to do even more crazy things this year as long as God permits,” he said.

Rabalago said his legal team was strong, adding that he was expecting people from across SA to show up to support him in court.

A recent post on his Facebook wall shows that a meeting was called on January 14 for residents in Zebediela who are interested in joining the “Hands off our Prophet Lethebo Rabalago” campaign in preparation for the court case.

He posted directions to the high court as well as images of the building on Biccard Street in Polokwane.

Rabalago said during the interview that it was disappointing that the department was wasting taxpayers’ money on the case while there were many people who needed his healing prayers.

He said it pained him that he was being prevented from helping the sick and doing “God’s work”.

“I cry day and night. I cry that all of us may know the will of God upon our lives,” Rabalago said.

He challenged pastors who have spoken out against his practices.

“There are pastors who have stood up and said this is Satanism. Let them prove it. Let them come and pray for me,” Rabalago said.

In court papers the department urges the court to intervene by warning of health complications as a result of Rabalago’s practices.

“The applicant harbours fear that at any moment the respondent may expose an innocent child – brought to his tent crusade for healing – to Doom insecticide, which may result in killing the child,” it states.

Departmental spokesman Derrick Kganyago said he would not comment on the case.

“We will allow court processes to unfold,” Kganyago said.

Last year Sowetan spoke to Rabalago’s followers, who defended him, claiming that they had been healed after he sprayed them with Doom during a prayer meeting.

This, however, did not stop the whirlwind of public outrage among organisations speaking out against Rabalago’s practices. Tiger Brands, which manufactures Doom, and the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities have both condemned Rabalago’s methods.