soon after, he met alice mofutsanyana – mother of thabo mofutsanyana who was an author, politician and secretary of the communist party of south africa. he soon started consulting people at the mofutsanyana house. it is however unknown why matitta had been invited to live in the mofutsanyana residence. people began to flock their place of residence instead of the church. matitta then decided to open another branch of the moshoeshoe berean bible readers church. due to this, the reverend of the church matitta had been attending, sent him police which forced matitta to hide in leribe which is a small village in qwaqwa. he later went to natal where he became part of the shembe church.