Things are not going well for a Zimbabwean pastor who recently prophesied that President Robert Mugabe will die this year.
Pastor Patrick Mugadza
A Zimbabwean activist pastor, Patrick Mugadza, appeared in court on
Wednesday after police arrested him for predicting that President
Robert Mugabe would die in October this year.
Patrick Mugadza, a preacher in the tourist resort town of Victoria
Falls, told journalists last week that he had received a prophecy from
God that Mugabe would die on Oct. 17.
Mugadza was arrested on Monday after appearing at the magistrate
court on a separate charge of abusing the national flag. He also faces
another charge of public nuisance after holding a one-man
anti-government protest last year.
Prosecutors could not formally lay charges of criminal nuisance on
Mugadza because his lawyers objected to an additional charge of “offences to persons of particular religion or race.”
He will return to court on Thursday.
Zimbabwean police often arrest political activists for insulting or
undermining Mugabe’s office, but most of the cases have been dismissed
by the courts.
Mugabe has since December been in Singapore on his annual holiday. He traveled to China and Mali in between.
-NAN
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