Covid-19 postpones trial of alleged Joburg church attackers

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Four church members were killed and set alight inside a vehicle and a fifth person - a security guard - was shot and killed in his car.

SANDF and SAPS search congregants for firearms outside the International Pentecostal Holiness Church. Pictures: Tracy Lee Stark

The case of 41 people accused of killing members of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church was postponed in their absence in the Westonaria Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. The killings took place on Saturday at the church’s headquarters in Zuurbekom, west of Johannesburg. Members of the police’s Specialised Task Force rescued scores of people, including women and children, who were taken hostage.Cops, soldiers and correctional services officials among those arrested in Zuurbekom hostage drama

 

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