An Eastern Cape teacher, who was having financial difficulties, resigned and paid more than R510,000 of her pension money to a traditional healer on the understanding she would receive a gratuity of R5-million from her ancestors. Instead, her money disappeared along with the "healer", known as Yanja.Now Bukeka Mashiya has laid a charge of fraud against her former lover, Kayiwa Haddi, allegedly a member of a Ugandan syndicate that preys on vulnerable women to get their money.Mashiya had gone to the healer in May last year, allegedly on Haddi's advice, after finding herself in financial straits.She was allegedly advised by the healer to resign, cash in her pension fund and invest the money with the healer, ostensibly on the advice of her ancestors.She handed over the money - contained in a safe she had been instructed to buy - to the healer. Shortly afterwards, the healer, the safe and the money disappeared.Haddi, 30, who has been in South Africa since 2007 and lives in Beacon Bay with his wife, a local woman employed at Mercedes-Benz, is charged with fraud.According to commercial crimes prosecutor Wayne Jafta, the syndicate preyed on women to extract their money and Haddi was a member.Jafta told Haddi's bail hearing in the East London Magistrate's Court that the accused's role was to ensure vulnerable women fell in love with him so he could influence them to consult with his associates.Haddi's role in the alleged scheme to defraud Mashiya had netted him R160,000, which he used to buy a car.He said two other Ugandans faced similar charges.Haddi told the court he had been tortured by investigating officers to make certain concessions about the claims against him.Asked why he had not also invested money with the healer, he said: " I didn't know him."The accused said he and Mashiya were "still talking nice as lovers"...