Pastors Against Church Closure spokesperson MoAfrika Maila says they have been to police watchdog IPID and the Public Protector but nothing has been done.
CYRIL VULA CHURCH GATES! 24 January 2021
Comments A pastorprays for the unbanning of churches at Church Square in Tshwane on Friday. Photo by Karabo Rammutla.
PASTORS want President Cyril Ramaphosa to lift church closures in seven working days or face court.
Pastors met at Church Square in the Tshwane CBD on Friday, 22 January under the banner Pastors Against Church closure.
They prayed under police guard before 10 of them were taken to the Union Buildings to deliver a memorandum.
Spokesman Pastor Moafrika Maila said the closure affected pastors financially, but that wasn’t the main reason for the protest.
“People who work in churches such as gardeners, cleaners and workers are also suffering. Our members are still faithful with their tithes and offerings but other people are suffering.”
WATCH: Pastors march to Union Buildings want Ramaphosa to allow churches to reopen under level 3 lockdown
By Rapula Moatshe
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Pretoria - A group of pastors marched to the Union Buildings, where they demanded President Cyril Ramaphosa to reopen churches under the adjusted level 3 lockdown.
At least 100 of them congregated at Church Square in the morning to pray for a divine solution to Covid-19 before departing to hand over a memorandum of demands to a representative from the Presidency.
Only ten of them were, however, allowed to make their way to the Union Buildings in the company of the SAPS officers and metro police.