South Africa: Residents terrified after ‘satanic’ murders

The South African Council of Churches’ Gauteng secretary, The Reverend Gift Moerane, was going to hold a prayer service at the place where the bodies of schoolgirls Thandeka Moganetsi, 14, and Chwayita Rathazayo, 15, were found in a ditch after an apparent satanic ritual killing.

Moerane said families had to be mindful of the activities in which their children were involved. He slammed individuals and groups who killed in the name of Satan. “There is this campaigning and movement of people who claim they are Satanists, which I don’t support. We don’t have a religion in this country called Satanism. It’s the behaviour of people who support the wrong spirits and think that this country is a banana republic,” he said.

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