Photos: Church members demands the removal of their pastor over alleged affair with a member's wife.

Angry members of a church in Soweto, South
Africa on Good Friday protested, waving
placards and calling for the removal of their
pastor for allegedly wrecking a family he had
counseled.

Ezekiel Letlape ,45 from Dobsonville, Soweto
claimed that his wife was cheating on him with
the pastor. He even showed the SunTeam the
loving SMSes (pictured) sent by his wife to the
pastor. He said he tried to speak to the pastor
but didn’t get straight answers...

"Then I took the matter to senior church
members and asked for help." He said the
pastor had helped him and his wife in the past.
"Whenever there was a misunderstanding
between me and my wife he would come and
speak to us."

Letlape said he looked on the pastor as his
father.

"I didn’t know that he was a wolf in sheep’s
clothing. He has torn my family apart," he said.

When Daily Sun SA spoke to Ezekiel’s wife
Sentebaleng Letlape, 42 at their house, she
admitted to sending loving SMSes to the pastor
but she said she was not sleeping with the
pastor.

"I was just flirting with him because I felt lonely
and neglected by my husband. The pastor is
very nice to everyone," she claimed adding that
she and her husband have not slept in the same
bed for two years because he was a serial
cheater.

"He would sleep out and only come back the
next morning. He didn’t want to sleep with me
until one day I cheated on him openly to give
him a taste of his own medicine."

Ezekiel confirmed that he had cheated on his
wife in the past and it was the same pastor who
counselled them about it.

When the SunTeam went to his office, the
pastor asked not to be photographed and told
the church secretary to speak to the paper. She
said the pastor could not comment on the
allegation against him because the matter was
with the presbytery.

Church member Tebogo Sebokwane ,62 vowed
there will be no service until the pastor steps
down.

"We have evidence of the allegations and it is
sad that he is implicated in such damning
claims," he said.

Johannes Tlhapi