The show exposed a 52-year-old Durban businessman in a hotel room with a teenager.
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A LOCAL reality show has exposed the alarming trend of older men targeting teenage girls for sex, as community leaders in Durban step up to report predators.
The show Manyonyoba first aired on DStv in 2023.
Recently clips of the 2023 series began circulating on social media, showing men in their late thirties to fifties waiting in hotel rooms for girls, aged between 14 and 17 years old.
The show has since been inundated with calls from local community leaders, providing tip-offs about child sex predators in their community.
The show’s host Bishop Julius Moloi, told the POST that this was a reflection of a serious problem in the community.
Moloi said the investigative reality show, which aired on DStv’s Channel 157, exposed sexual predators who preyed on young children for their own sexual benefit.
He said the show was reliant on tip-offs from community leaders and concerned parents who had evidence of paedophiles targeting young girls.
In one episode, a well-known 52-year-old Durban North man was found in a hotel room with a 17-year-old girl.
When Moloi asked him what he was doing with a child, he said she was “massaging me”.
The show’s host, Bishop Julius Moloi.
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At the time, the man said he was married and had a 14-year-old daughter. He said he had spoken to the girl on WhatsApp and offered her work.
“I wanted her to market for me to repair cars. I am not a mechanic, but I work for a company that repairs cars. I do not have the power to offer anyone jobs at the company,” the man said in the video.
He admitted to speaking to the girl on WhatsApp and asking her for a “boob massage”.
He said the girl told him that she was 17.
When Moloi questioned him about the responsibility he had as an adult parent, he said he should not have “done it”.
“What would you do if you found your daughter locked in a room with a man your age asking your daughter for a boob massage, trying to kiss your daughter and lying half naked on the bed with your daughter? How would you feel?” Moloi asked.
The man said: “I am sorry boss”, while shaking his head.
A 33-year-old Kempton Park man was caught with a 16-year-old girl.
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Moloi asked him if he knew that he was a paedophile.
He said: “I did not look at it like that."
Moloi then asked the man to call his wife and "explain to her exactly what you did”.
The man said: “Boss, I am going to end up getting divorced."
When the man called his wife, he said: “I ran into a little problem here in Durban North. I met this young lady, and I came upstairs with her, and she was going to give me a massage
“Then all the cops and all came because apparently she is 17 years old. I will explain to you when I come home."
When Moloi walked in on a 33-year-old Kempton Park man with a 16-year-old girl in another episode of the show, the man started crying immediately.
He said he wanted to have sex with the girl, and was sorry.
He said he was a decent person, and that he had asked the girl if she wanted to be there.
He told Moloi that he would give the girl money.
Moloi told him to call his mother, but he said he did not want to give her a heart attack.
“Mommy, listen here quickly. Mommy, I met a girl. I found out that she is 16. Now they have caught me, Mommy. I knew she was 16 and I still came to visit,” he said.
He told his mother that he had met the girl on a WhatsApp chat group.
Moloi, 44, said as a father of five, he had to emotionally detach from the cases he dealt with, but he also felt and imagined what the parents of the young girls felt when he questioned the perpetrators.
He said none of the victims were directly involved in the “trapping” of the men who targeted.
“The show invites residents from communities to give us information about paedophiles, and our team gets into action to verify the information. Usually, we have complaints of an elderly man chasing after someone's daughter, sister or niece. We do, however, require some tangible proof of this.
“If a pervert has made sexual advances towards a child, then they would go after any child. A paedophile is a paedophile. Once we find tangible evidence, we send researchers to find out about the guy, and where he lives.
“The plan is set in motion for the person to come to our place. Usually they are very keen. Once they think they are going to have a good time, they forget to check the most basic things. They will go anywhere as long as there is hope that they will sleep with a child.
“We have a network of young girls who work with the show, and help us lure the perpetrators. The men are trapped with these girls, and not the actual victims. The girls are trained on how to react, and they are never left in danger. They are monitored at all times, and our team swoops in before the girl is in any direct danger or violation. We work with bouncers and security, and before the perpetrator can even cough, we will be there.
“When the person is caught red-handed with the girl, then we report them to the police,” Moloi added.
He said they also made the perpetrator call his wife if he is married, or his mother if he is unmarried, and explain to her what they did and what they were caught for.
“The men also offer us money as a bribe – 90% of them are scared of their wives, but not scared enough. We go to what they are scared of. If they tell us to not tell their wife, we make them call their wife. If they worry about their mother, we will make them call their mother to tell her what they have done.
“The men usually take us to court and try to throw the Protection of Personal Information Act at us. They try to do everything in their power to stop us from airing the show, but this only causes a delay in airing and does not stop the show from airing.
“Due to the high number of calls from the Durban communities, we will be back in the area during the filming of season 3. We urge residents, community leaders and parents to call us with their concerns. They must remember that if there is no evidence, then there is no case,” Moloi added.
To send tip-offs to the show, call or WhatsApp 083 362 2265.