I cured Aids – Mogoeng

‘BY PRAYER’: EVIDENCE HE CITES IS THAT THE THIN COUPLE ARE NOW FAT

Only scientific test- ing provides proof – public health prof.

Former chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng claims he has cured a couple of HIV/Aids. Mogoeng said this during a religious address in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape on 22 November. He claimed they were cured after he prayed for them.

“When I was a young Christian, my employee and his wife were struck with HIV/Aids and their child died. They became thin. I said let me pray for this. ‘In the name of Jesus the spirit of HIV/ Aids leave’,” said Mogoeng.

Mogoeng said the proof he had that the couple were no longer infected was that he saw them a while later looking “fat”. The couple reportedly told him they had not taken any medication and their health was restored after he prayed for them.

Mogoeng also said he healed a relative of the couple who was too weak to lift herself out of bed.

He also said that prayer did not always work. “I don’t know why, but sometimes it works,” he said.

But Walter Sisulu University head of public health in the faculty of health sciences Professor Francis Hyera reportedly said there was no evidence to back up Mogoeng’s claim that he had cured HIV/Aids.

Hyera said Mogoeng could not say the couple was cured because they had gained weight and that he needed to provide scientific evidence. “There are many people in many countries claiming they cured HIV/Aids with prayer, but what they all lack is evidence.”

This is not the first time Mogoeng has made controversial comments. In December he was criticised for suggesting Covid vaccines were associated with the devil.

“If there is any vaccine, I don’t want it. I’m crying unto God. These are the end times according

to we, Christians, so if there is any vaccine with 666, I want God to destroy it. If there is any vaccine meant to corrupt the DNA of the people, I’m asking God [to deal with it],” Mogoeng said.

In Christianity, 666 is thought to be the mark of the devil.

In November, Mogoeng criticised government’s handling of Covid. He cited government’s reliance on the Disaster Management Act and the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) to manage the virus. He said parliament should be holding the executive accountable for decisions regarding lockdowns and vaccines and not the NCCC which, he said, was an unconstitutional body.

In March, Mogoeng was ordered by the Judicial Conduct Committee to retract pro-Israel utterances he made last year at a webinar hosted by The Jerusalem Post. He was asked to comment on the diplomatic relationship between South Africa and Israel and whether he agreed with the former’s foreign policy in relation to the latter.

He had said: “I cannot, as a Christian, do anything other than love and pray for Israel because I know hatred for Israel by me and my nation can only attract unprecedented curses upon our nation.” –