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Makandiwa “Fake Miracles”: 8 Months On
6 February 2016
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Controversial Harare preacher Emmanuel Makandiwa’s miracle fat belly stunt proved to be fake June last year, has seen the preacher 7 months later failing to produce medical evidence of the “healings.”
To date there is not one single paper or professional testimonial that has been produced from any of the “patients” prayed for by the man. The development has left many raising questions on Makandiwa’s conduct as an honest man of the cloth.
At the bottom of this article, were comments released on the man….

In 2012-13, Makandiwa shot to fame raking millions of dollars in donations after thousands of Zimbabweans flocked to his meetings when told they could receive instant miracle cash. The frenzy even caught Zimbabwe’s former Reserve Bank Gideon Gono who himself ended up joining the prophets, going to the extent of passing his seal of approval.
But soon after journalists began investigating the incidents and started interrogating the preachers, two years later there is not a single mention of any such miracle.
In the same vein, a miracle baby Makandiwa claimed to have been born 3 days after sex, died and the preacher conducted a secret burial for him where journalists were barred from filming. This reporter followed up with Makandiwa and was for several days kept waiting as his staff members blocked any contact with the man of the cloth.
In June 2015 ZimEye.com exposed another scam by Makandiwa which involved fake fat belly miracles. Soon after that the Kwekwe woman Makandiwa used to stage one of the acts, evaded questions when asked for her medical records to prove she had indeed been healed and that she had of a truth suffered from a fat belly condition. “Don’t you have any other stories to investigate?,” she said.

She continued,
“It seems you are now spending your life studying Mai Muza,” Betty Muza said much to Makandiwa’s humiliation.
The development has seen prominent theologian, elder with 25 years of ministry experience and upstanding church founder, Dr. Noah Pashapa blasting Zimbabwe’s fake prophets.
Episode 5 of Tonight With Zororo (Makamba) focused on the evolution of the church in Zimbabwe, and Zororo started off by recounting his personal experience after visiting one of the popular Pentecostal churches in the country.
“When Papa would say something that resonated with his audience, members of the congregation would spontaneously stand up, and splash money on the stage,” Makamba said.
He went onto close his animated monologue by saying Prophet can now easily be mistaken for the word profit.
In the last few years, Pentecostal churches in Zimbabwe have grown tremendously. The three religious leaders at the centre of the growth are Prophets Emmanuel Makandiwa of UFI Ministries, Walter Magaya of PHD Ministries and Spirit Embassy founder Ubert Angel.
When describing the character of his religious counterparts Pashapa said they lacked a depth of understanding in a number of things.
“They (prophets) lack philosophy of religion, training in theology and understanding of the polity of the church.
“’These chaps are briefcase church leaders who have spent a few weeks, months at most, in ‘theological’ school,” he said.
Many workers and companies are feeling the pinch of the current economic hardships and have flocked to the church in pursuit of a change in fortune.
 
COMMENTS:

  • From my observation of this video I can see that Makandiwa is pretending not to have seen the Zimeye video. Its so unnatural his reaction. He said his media team called him on the phone to tell him but he told them he had no time, so how did he get the time in front of the congregation? 

    Thank you Sir , you have given us a very sober analysis , which points to someone who is not prepared to defend himself .

    Time is always a good reveler of truth and lies. For me, I can’t see any strings in that video supporting ZimEye’s argument but however, I don’t also conform to this lunatic fallacy suggesting this video to be a miracle. I don’t know this guy called Makandiwa, I’m not one of his followers both actively or passively, I’m not here to dis his mission nor curse him, rather I’m just tryna make sense out of this nonsense. Like I said earlier, time always defines an individual’s true persona.
    If greatness is defined by performing petty and questionable miracles on stage then ehh ndonyika yacho.
    I watched your entire video about your response and frankly you said just about nothing at all. The guy that stood up to ‘brief you’ about the report came out as rude if not arrogant towards anyone that disputes this miracle for a fuss, come-on now, is that how a man of God should reacts to a dispute…
    My suggestion Makandiwa, perhaps there’s better places in Zimbabwe in serious need of miracles, and God in general…Like hospitals, orphanages, slums, the starving (hey, maybe you can turn stones into bread as well).
    You do that for a week, and by the way…you don’t have to perform miracles, just talk and pray with the sick, and I will follow you!

10 Replies to “Makandiwa “Fake Miracles”: 8 Months On”

  1. Be Warned • 6 hours ago
    All that happens I. The dark will come to light one day . Mwari haanyeperwi. As one said above . Time will tell.

  2. Be Warned • 6 hours ago
    All that happens I. The dark will come to light one day . Mwari haanyeperwi. As one said above . Time will tell.

  3. Makandiwa challenged those who doubted the miracle to bring someone they know who has a big belly. Until now no one has taken up the challenge…only writing the same old stories claiming that his miracles are fake. Just take that relative of yours with a big stomach to Makandiwa, then come write a story based on your experience.

  4. Makandiwa challenged those who doubted the miracle to bring someone they know who has a big belly. Until now no one has taken up the challenge…only writing the same old stories claiming that his miracles are fake. Just take that relative of yours with a big stomach to Makandiwa, then come write a story based on your experience.

  5. All that happens I. The dark will come to light one day . Mwari haanyeperwi. As one said above . Time will tell.

  6. All that happens I. The dark will come to light one day . Mwari haanyeperwi. As one said above . Time will tell.

  7. I think ZimEye you just are getting personal with Makandiwa. Please try to be objective, can you

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