{"id":43230,"date":"2024-02-01T17:54:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T15:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/cityvision\/pastor-blasts-police-20240131\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T02:58:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T00:58:02","slug":"pastor-blasts-police-20240131","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/cityvision\/pastor-blasts-police-20240131\/","title":{"rendered":"A Langa pastor blasts police after suspected burglar was &#8216;released&#8217; due to &#8216;lack of evidence&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A Langa pastor is spitting fire after a man suspected of breaking into the church was allegedly released by police due to \u201clack of evidence\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rev Lizo Ndemka lambasted Langa officers and accused them of siding with criminals instead of protecting their victims.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>City Vision<\/em>\u00a0sent a media enquiry to Langa Police Station on Monday 22 January regarding the incident and they failed to respond.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>A Langa pastor is spitting fire after a man suspected of breaking into the church was allegedly released by police due to \u201clack of evidence\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rev Lizo Ndemka lambasted Langa officers and accused them of siding with criminals instead of protecting their victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Methodist Church in Africa leader said the officers had failed him and his family when they needed them the most. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said thieves had broken into his mission house in Sigcawu Street while he was away on holiday in the Eastern Cape last December and stole his belongings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ndemka said he had to cut his holiday short to attend to the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe received a call on Thursday 21 December from one of our neighbours who was looking after our house while we were on holiday,\u201d he related.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe told us there had been a break-in at the house and almost all our belongings were stolen, including two cases of alcohol, a&nbsp;gas cylinder, blankets and other stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe did not sleep in the house. He would come and open it during the day and go to sleep in his house at night.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ndemka said the neighbour saw the mess when he opened the premises in the morning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He informed him that the criminals had entered through a back window. \u201cWe arrived&nbsp;on&nbsp;Sunday 31 December from the Eastern Cape and opened a case at the police station the following&nbsp;day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From that day to this, not a single officer has come to my house to investigate or update us on the case. On Friday 5 January,&nbsp;I went to the station to find out what was going on, but was told the detective in charge of (the case) was not in the office.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ndemka stated a suspect was identified and one day his wife bumped into him at a local clinic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was on Friday 12 January when my wife saw the suspect,\u201d he said. \u201cI went there and caught him, and took him to my house. 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