Zion Christian Church Founder Foretold My Rise To Power In 1964: Mnangagwa

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said that his rise to power was foretold in 1964 by Zion Christian Church (ZCC) founder, the late Bishop Samuel Mutendi. Speaking at the memorial service of for his nephew Garikai Nyathi on Saturday which was attended by thousands of ZCC congregants, Mnangagwa said,

Let me tell you in 1964 when I still did not understand these things (prophecy) I was with my colleague recruiting young men and women to join the liberation struggle at Nyika, you know Nyika (in Bikita)… We went there and my uncle the late Bishop Mutendi called me and my colleague.

We stood up, and holding his famous staff in one hand, he said referring to me and my colleague, ‘you are in a race but in a race there are some who win and others who fail to make it, yet all of you will be part of the race,’ up to now I do not know what he meant. He said to the two of us, ‘between you two, one will win but another will fail in the race that you are participating. … I now know that as a man of God he was talking about what awaited us in way into the future and what he said was fulfilled and today I am here with you.

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