The families and colleagues of the five Ngcobo policemen who were shot dead in cold blood in 2018 in an attack on their police station have reacted with shock to the news that one of their killers, Siphesihle Tatsi, was jailed for an effective 18 years rather than getting life imprisonment.
The Eastern Cape High Court Mthatha on Tuesday asked the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to rescue children still living at the Seven Angels Ministry in Ngcobo, Eastern Cape, after a 23-year-old church member testified how the church elders forced him to commit murders and other crimes.
Siphesihle Tatsi, 23, the youngest accused member of Mancoba Seven Angels Ministries, told the court of his life as a slave to his church before he was sentenced to 239 years for his role in the February 2018 attack on the Ngcobo police station and a spree of robberies and murders.