Methodists pull plug on Joburg church slum

Johannesburg - Bishop Paul Verryn will give his last Sunday church service at the infamous Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg after the church’s leadership ordered that the building be vacated after people living there ran up a R2m electricity bill.

According to the Sunday Times, the church, which has housed over 30 000 people over the past six years will on Wednesday lock out the remaining 500 refugees living there.

Numbers swelled in 2008 during the height of the xenophobic attacks after Verryn, the church’s superintendent, gave refuge to thousands of Zimbabweans at the time.

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