Tolerating the Indefensible

Mugibelo, it appears, said in regard to the WUC’s billing system,’ there is no possibility of wrongly charging customers.’ He made this quite outrageous claim when commenting on Scara Aphirie’s reproduced water bill, which showed that he owed P21,000. (The Voice November 24). Soon after I arrived in Mochudi, the people at the DR Mission told me about Rev. Willie Neethling who fell in 1897 from the church gable on which he had been working.

When people got to him as he lay dying on the ground, he had the time to make the very strange comment, ‘God makes no mistakes’, a comment which unsurprisingly entered immediately into DR church mythology.