Mapongo Crawls Back Into Zimbabwe After Failing To Keep Mouth Shut

02 January 2022

Shamila Ntokozo Mdlongwa

Renowned Bishop Joshua Mapongo succumbed to pressure from #PutSouthAfricaFirst campaigners who disliked his involvement in South African issues and has relocated back to his country of origin, Zimbabwe.

The Zimbabwean controversial motivational public speaker, author, musician, social entrepreneur, leader and Bishop based in South Africa was coerced into deportation after failing to keep his mouth shut about South African issues.

He has been living in South Africa for over 20 years and thus says he felt obliged to solve the problems of the country he has been living in.

He was living in South Africa without a resident permit.

The Put South Africa First campaigners have always been vocal on social media on how they did not want him to get involved in thier country’s issues since he is a foreigner and that he should go back and help his struggling country.

In a video on Twitter, Bishop Mapongo was quoted saying:

“If you have been following and watching the discourse I have been having on social media, Yes it’s a fact I have relocated to Zimbabwe for those of you particularly South Africans who have been telling me to go back to my country, I must stop making noise in SA and getting involved in SA issues.”

He concluded by saying that all he wants to do is solve African issues and that South Africa is part of Africa, so SA problems are African problems.

His family (2 daughters and wife) is still in SA and he is making plans to bring them back to Zimbabwe as well.

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Bishop Mapongo is popularly known for his controversial statements and his mixing of politics and religion which once got him suspended at the Seventh Day Adventist church (SDA).

One of his famous statements is, “To milk a violent cow, keep its calves in site”

It was a cleverly put together wise riddle meant for Zimbabweans or foreign nationals living in SA, telling them that if they take or use anything in SA they must leave some for the owners as well.

In his other statement he says, “when you take honey, leave some for the bees.”

His argument / comment while preaching to SDA congregation on decolonization of Christianity that;

“Christianity was not created to serve the black race especially in Africa” got him suspended from his duties as a Bishop at the church in 2020.

His relocation comes at a time when locally based Zimbabweans are calling on Zimbabweans living in the diaspora to come back home and help out the nation.

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