{"id":226061,"date":"2021-03-22T16:20:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T15:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/?p=226061"},"modified":"2021-03-22T16:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T15:22:17","slug":"what-happened-to-prophet-shepherd-bushiri-massive-house-and-car-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/what-happened-to-prophet-shepherd-bushiri-massive-house-and-car-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened To Prophet Shepherd Bushiri\u2019s Massive House and Car Collection?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Prophet Shepherd Bushiri, popularly known as ‘Major 1’, is the founder of the South African-based church, Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG). He has attracted the attention of a lot of people around the world with his luxurious lifestyle and acrobatic ‘miracles.’ Prophet Bushiri is one of the spiritual sons of UK-based clergy, Prophet Uebert Angel, and is speculated to be among the richest pastors in Africa and also one of the most affluent people in South Africa.<\/p>\n
Since 2015, the prophet had faced a lot of career-threatening controversies but finally, in 2019, he started facing what looks like one of the most serious scandals that led to his arrest (with his wife, Mary Bushiri) on February 1, 2019. They were released days later, on February 6. However, Prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife were re-arrested in October 2020 on fresh charges. He consequently jumped bail and fled South Africa to his home country, Malawi, where he was also arrested in November 2020.<\/p>\n
Before his arrest by South Africa’s Directorate for Priority Investigations also called HAWK and subsequent disappearance from the country, Prophet Bushiri had been able to build a net worth of $150 million and is known for wearing expensive designer shoes and suits, some of which are coated in diamonds. Bushiri also owns a fleet of very expensive cars like a Royce Rolls, Aston Martins, and Mercedes Benz. He also owns expensive houses, hotels, and some businesses which he claims are the sources of his wealth.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n In 2017, Bushiri gifted his five-year-old daughter a Maserati luxury vehicle, a very unconventional gift to give a five-year-old. Bushiri also owns private jets. It is important to note that his acquisition of the jet is one of the reasons he and his wife are currently undergoing trial.<\/p>\n On the 1st of February 2019, Bushiri and his wife were arrested at their R1.3 billion South African resort, Sparkling Waters Hotel and Spa, in Rustenburg, the North West, for money laundering, fraud, and theft. He was also arrested for contravention of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act (POCA), which he was said to have committed in 2015. As a result of his arrest, his church members launched a protest on the streets of South Africa, claiming that their pastor had been arrested because he is rich. They even threatened to boycott the country’s elections, if he was not released.<\/p>\n Before his arrest, a lot of controversies surrounded Prophet Shepherd Bushiri. In 2015, he was said to have contravened<\/a> exchange control regulation by paying a swooping sum of $1,147,200 in cash as part payment for his private jet.<\/p>\nBushiri Was Arrested For Fraud and Money Laundering<\/strong><\/h2>\n