BY OBEY MANAYITI
MALAWI’s controversial prophet, Shepherd Bushiri, has thrown the MDC-T
in a delirium after he recently prophesied the “rebirth of Zimbabwe with
new upmarket cities and modern infrastructure”, which the opposition
party claims signalled its imminent victory.
MDC-T leader Nelson Chamisa has of late become a butt of jokes,
especially from Zanu PF leaders, who accuse him of leaving “in cloud
cuckoo land” following his pledge to modernise the country’s
infrastructure, including providing spaghetti roads and bullet trains
soon after winning this year’s presidential race.
Addressing his congregants in South Africa on Sunday, Bushiri said:
“God is doing a new thing in Zimbabwe. Hear me, as I speak as a prophet.
God is about to exalt the land of Zimbabwe. We must pray for the land
of Zimbabwe and I saw something about Zimbabwe very interesting.
Zimbabwe has been a sleeping giant, but now the sleeping giant is going
to rise.
“I am seeing a land that looks like Dubai. I am seeing a new city in
Zimbabwe, it looks like Dubai and God is saying to me, ‘I am about to
bless this land’.”
Bushiri won most Zimbabweans’ hearts early last year when he
prophesized the ascendency of Kembo Mohadi to the presidium at a time
Zanu PF’s vanquished G40 faction and former President Robert Mugabe were
firmly in control of the governing party.
In his latest prophecy, Bushiri added: “God said tell the people of
Diaspora, who are struggling in other nations, in other countries, that
you are about to return home and be rich in their home. You are about to
become rich in Zimbabwe because God is working on Zimbabwe. In the next
six years from now, you will have something that looks like Dubai being
built.”
He, however, warned that the country’s political transformation would be a result of collective effort.
“God is about to promote the land of Zimbabwe and He will not do it
with an individual, he will do it with Zimbabweans. No one man, not one
woman, not one politician, not two politicians, but all of them
together. God is doing a new thing in Zimbabwe,” he said.
MDC-T acting treasurer-general Charlton Hwende immediately took to
social media platforms to celebrate the prophecy as pointing to a
Chamisa victory.
He tweeted: “Pastor Bushiri is also now talking about spaghetti roads
and a city like Dubai to be built in Zimbabwe in six years’ time. When
president Nelson Chamisa talked about these issues, he was vilified.”
His tweet attracted several responses from party sympathisers, although some cautioned against premature celebrations.
Source: Newsday
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