HEART- BROKEN Sibusiso Simon and Phumeza Paraffin’s photos. Picture by Bongani Mnguni |
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Jehovah’s Witness Sibusiso Simon is demanding his ilobolo moolah back after he was allegedly conned out of R11600 .
In January last year fellow Witness Doris Mahlasela, a clerk at the Kingdom Hall in Soweto, promised him a “good wife” . She told him she had found him Phumeza Paraffin, who lived in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. That is, if he was willing to pay R11600. He says she told him she would handle the ilobolo negotiations and he should deposit the funds into her personal bank account to speed up the process. He says: “Doris said I would have to pay immediately and I could only talk to her after I’d paid at least half the moolah. “I paid R6300 into her account in April last year and in return she gave me Phumeza’s picture and cellphone number. “I deposited R4300 more in July to complete the R11600 and she told me it wasn’t enough and that I had to pay for the engagement party, which was supposed to happen in August last year.” He says when he met Paraffin in August , she said she didn’t like him. “She told me to my face she would not marry me and I told her, the church and Mahlasela to pay me back my money,” he says. Simon adds that Paraffin and the people involved with negotiations changed their phone numbers and he couldn’t get through to any of them. Sunday World tried to contact Paraffin and her uncle with no luck. Mahlasela : “I’m an old woman, bedridden and I could never do something like that. He paid the money because he wanted to and I thought I was helping him.” Meanwhile, the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Soweto have distanced themselves from the matter and have ousted Simon. source: www.sundayworld.co.za/Home/Article.aspx?=1172134 | 
