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A South African court has fined a self-styled prophet who sprayed his followers in the face with insecticide as a supposed cure for illness.<\/p>\n

Pastor Lethebo Rabalago was found guilty by a court in the northwest town of Limpopo of five charges of grievous assault and contravening chemicals laws .<\/p>\n

He used \u201cDoom\u201d, a household insecticide on his followers, earning the sobriquet \u201cProphet of Doom\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Sowetan daily reported Wednesday that the presiding judge jailed Rabalago to four years or a 21,000 ($1,700) fine.<\/p>\n

Lawyer Edmund Lubusi said Tuesday his client would pay the money.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have made an arrangement that my client will pay 3,000 rand in instalments every month until the fine is fully paid,\u201d Lubusi told the paper.<\/p>\n

Photographs of Rabalago spraying volunteers at his church in Limpopo spread on social media in 2016.<\/p>\n

The pastor claimed that some people were healed of various medical complaints after he had sprayed them.<\/p>\n

However some suffered the effects for several months.<\/p>\n

Rabalago said at the time he was \u201cglorifying God\u201d by spraying his congregation at the Mount Zion General Assembly (MZGA) church.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything here on Earth belongs to God. Petrol belongs to God. Doom belongs to God,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Brand Tigers, which manufactures the spray, had issued a statement calling on Rabalago to halt his ritual healing and stressing the dangers of using their product on humans.<\/p>\n

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