Zimbabwe will never go to the dogs

Zimbabwe will never go to the dogs. "Munyika muno makafira munhu mukuru. Mwari haangatenderi kuti anyadziswe" (God will not allow this country to go to the dogs because a very important person died in this country. He will not allow his name to be put to shame.)


This was the response of an elder of the Zion Christian Church when I asked him whether the prophecy from the church that Zimbabwe was going to regain its status as the region's breadbasket and its currency was going to regain its strength and compete against the South African rand, the Botswana pula and the United States dollar would be fulfilled.

That was six years ago, and he was talking about Samuel Mutendi, the founder of the ZCC, who died in 1976 and has been replaced by Nehemiah.

The prophecy came when Nehemiah decided to build a temple which accommodates up to 18 000 people at Mbungo Estates, the administrative headquarters of the church.

Construction of the church started in October 2005. Things were already tough then but nobody knew that they would get worse. But Nehemiah knew because he told his people that he was launching the construction of the church when things were tough to prove that nothing was impossible before God.

He even refused donations from outsiders because he insisted that the church must be built by church members so that when it was completed each would receive his or her own blessings.

As a journalist, I had to battle every day with what my church told me and what was on the ground. Things seemed to be going in completely different directions.  

Inflation at the time was 11 000 percent. I did not think it would get worse, but it did, reaching officially 231 million percent, but one American analyst put it at 6.5 sextillion percent at its height- which meant 65 plus 20 zeros after that or 6 500 000 000 000 000 000 000%

The only person who seemed to be enjoying himself at the time was United States ambassador to Zimbabwe, Christopher Dell. He said it was now only a matter of months, if not weeks before President Robert Mugabe was kicked out.

“People have completely lost faith in the currency and that means they have completely lost faith in the government that issues it," he said.

Six years have gone by, Mugabe is still in power but the Zimbabwe dollar is no more. Inflation is currently 2.49 percent probably the lowest in the region.

Agricultural production is slowly picking up but there are some people fighting to rubbish this because it means something else. Instead of celebrating that the country is becoming the region’s breadbasket again, they would rather bury their heads in the sand because it also indirectly means that the land reform programme is beginning to bear fruits.

But the Zimbabwe dollar is still nowhere to be seen. Some quarters say it won’t be brought back for another five years. The first inclination would be to say the prophecy was wrong. After the trials and tribulations that I have gone through which are tabulated in my eBook, I have no doubt it will come back, probably sooner than most people else think.

See, I have been asking myself, are this year’s elections, the watershed elections? Why are they being held this year? These elections were supposed to be held in 2010- that is 18 months after the formation of the inclusive government, but they were not. 2011 came and went, and so did 2012.

Why 2013? This is a scared year because this year the Zion Christian Church is celebrating its centenary-to mark 100 years of true prophecy.

Is it just a coincidence that the elections are being held when the ZCC is celebrating 100 OF TRUE PROPHECY?

I am not supposed to mix church and politics, but remember I am a journalist. I am just asking questions.
As a Christian I cannot forget: “God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfil?”- Number 23 vs. 19.

But more importantly that we are celebrating 100 YEARS OF TRUE PROPHECY.