Well-placed sources yesterday said the mysterious Wimbo — who is acclaimed for having allegedly foretold that Mugabe would rule Zimbabwe more than two decades before the nonagenarian came to power — "has finally spoken" on Zanu PF's bitterly-contested succession.
The famous seer — who has been subjected to significant abuse in the brawling ruling party over the past few years, as the former liberation movement's major factions fought to control him — had apparently prophesied recently that a new leader would emerge in Zimbabwe after next year's eagerly-anticipated national elections.
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"He has made another prophesy that a new leader will emerge next year, but did not give names. However, he said the new leader is not among the current favourites who are engaged in Zanu PF's succession battles, but is an outsider," one of the sources at the secretive church said.
What Prophet Wimbo said (that the next president is an outsider with a foreign name), tallies with what United Family International Church (Ufic) leader, Emmanuel Makandiwa, prophesied when he waded into the raging Zanu PF succession storm, declaring that President Robert Mugabe will be replaced by a Zimbabwean presently based in the Diaspora.
With senior leaders in the former liberation movement, among them First Lady Grace Mugabe and Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, reportedly angling for Mugabe’s throne, Makandiwa has literally thrown the cat among the pigeons, with a “prophecy” that seems to suggest the current vicious jockeying is in vain.
There is gnashing of teeth among Zanu PF's superstitious bigwigs who are engaged in a deadly dogfight to succeed President Robert Mugabe — after revered prophet, Madzibaba Wimbo, apparently completely ruled out any of them taking over from the wily, but increasingly frail nonagenarian.
Well-placed sources yesterday said the mysterious Wimbo — who is acclaimed for having allegedly foretold that Mugabe would rule Zimbabwe more than two decades before the nonagenarian came to power — "has finally spoken" on Zanu PF's bitterly-contested succession.
The famous seer — who has been subjected to significant abuse in the brawling ruling party over the past few years, as the former liberation movement's major factions fought to control him — had apparently prophesied recently that a new leader would emerge in Zimbabwe after next year's eagerly-anticipated national elections.
"He has made another prophesy that a new leader will emerge next year, but did not give names. However, he said the new leader is not among the current favourites who are engaged in Zanu PF's succession battles, but is an outsider," one of the sources at the secretive church said.
What Prophet Wimbo said (that the next president is an outsider with a foreign name), tallies with what United Family International Church (Ufic) leader, Emmanuel Makandiwa, prophesied when he waded into the raging Zanu PF succession storm, declaring that President Robert Mugabe will be replaced by a Zimbabwean presently based in the Diaspora.
With senior leaders in the former liberation movement, among them First Lady Grace Mugabe and Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, reportedly angling for Mugabe’s throne, Makandiwa has literally thrown the cat among the pigeons, with a “prophecy” that seems to suggest the current vicious jockeying is in vain.
In a Sunday sermon streamed live on YouTube on 10 July last year, Makandiwa told his congregants that he was “seeing a person coming from outside, who was running towards the people of Zimbabwe”.
“This person is running in the opposite direction to people, who are running towards him, I see a spider and this spider is following this person, who is the chosen one to lead the people,” he said.
Makandiwa said if that person were to join a reputable opposition when he returns to Zimbabwe, he would be the leader to take over from Mugabe.
Meanwhile, Madzibaba Wimbo, who correctly predicted Mugabe's rise to the throne in 1957, has emerged as an influential and much-sought-after cult figure in Zanu PF — with party bigwigs firmly of the belief that he will anoint the former liberation movement's next leader.
"The prophet said the person who will next lead Zimbabwe will have a 'foreign name' and that there will be great suffering in the country for some months. He also predicted that the army will intervene in politics," the first source claimed.
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