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Holy war victims wait for justice

case struck from roll

THE relatives of five men who were ambushed, shot and burned in an ongoing bloody church leadership battle of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church (IPHC) in Zuurbekom, west of Johannesburg, three years ago are still waiting for justice and are blaming the police for failing them.

The IPHC was founded by the late Reverend Frederick Samuel Modise in 1962, who was succeeded by his son Glayton Modise in 1998, and is one of South Africa’s biggest churches and worth millions of rand.

The five men, all IPHC members, were ambushed while driving to a church branch in

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