Zondi, a student and aspiring musician, said her sexual and emotional abuse started when she was 14.
“I trusted and [he ] was supposed to be a mentor and a man of God,” Zondi said.
The young student said she was groomed to obey him before being lured to live with him.
“If I went to buy bread, I had to tell him. If I spoke to a boy at school, I had to immediately tell him,” she said.
Anele and Nelisiwe Mxakaza, who auditioned for Idols in 2013, also spoke of their abuse.
“He told me to rub his feet. He told me to go higher. I was scared. He told me to come to the bed. He went on top of me and told me to take off my pyjamas and I did so,” Nelisiwe said.
“He would ask God to forgive us. It made me angry. I didn’t do anything.”
Pastor Omotoso's 'victims' tell all
The alleged victims of Nigerian pastor Timothy Omotoso have warned people not to fall prey to “fake pastors”.
Sheryl Zondi, 22, and twins Anele and Nelisiwe Mxakaza, 22, spoke at the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL) dialogue for abused people in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, last week.
The girls told of the alleged abuses they suffered at Omotoso’s home in Umhlanga, KwaZulu-Natal.
They gave testimonies to warn other young people from falling into the same trap as they had.
Zondi, a student and aspiring musician, said her sexual and emotional abuse started when she was 14.
“I trusted and [he ] was supposed to be a mentor and a man of God,” Zondi said.
The young student said she was groomed to obey him before being lured to live with him.
“If I went to buy bread, I had to tell him. If I spoke to a boy at school, I had to immediately tell him,” she said.
Anele and Nelisiwe Mxakaza, who auditioned for Idols in 2013, also spoke of their abuse.
“He told me to rub his feet. He told me to go higher. I was scared. He told me to come to the bed. He went on top of me and told me to take off my pyjamas and I did so,” Nelisiwe said.
“He would ask God to forgive us. It made me angry. I didn’t do anything.”
The twin sisters were accompanied by their distraught mother Gloria Mxakaza who spent years trying to get her daughters out of Omotoso’s clutches.
She said that it was difficult because of the powerful people protecting him.
Omotoso is expected to stand trial in July on charges of human trafficking, rape and sexual assault.