MEMBERS of a small doomsday cult in the Eastern Cape province have quit work and taken their children out of school to wait for Jesus. The cult, which has no name, has between 70 and 100 members, most of whom live at their church, a tiny house in a squatter settlement outside the town of Umtata, the Sunday World and City Press newspapers reported. It is headed by former nurse Nokulunga Fipaza, who preaches against education, sex, marriage, medicine and family bonds. Police, mindful of the killing this year of nearly 1000 members of the Ugandan Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments, said they were watching the religious group but had no reason to act against it. At least 10 children belonging to cult members have been taken out of school and are forced to join their parents for prayers five times a day, the reports said. The congregation survives on offerings placed in a wooden box. Some members have sold their assets and apparently given their money to the church, which buys their food and clothing. Fipaza said that in May 1997 God revealed to her that the world would come to an end. About 80 percent of South Africans profess to be Christians. Extremist doomsday cults are rarely heard of.