{"id":7736,"date":"2025-07-17T09:33:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T09:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=7736"},"modified":"2025-07-17T09:33:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T09:33:33","slug":"people-stopped-following-me-because-i-support-mnangagwa-i-dont-care-prophet-makandiwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=7736","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;People Stopped Following Me Because I Support Mnangagwa &#8211; I Don&#8217;t Care&#8221; &#8211; Prophet Makandiwa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Harare Correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harare \u2013 United Family International Church (UFIC) founder Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa has revealed that some followers abandoned him due to his public alignment with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, declaring he &#8220;doesn&#8217;t even care&#8221; about their departure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a recent church service, the charismatic preacher stated:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I have people that probably used to follow me, that stopped following me because they saw that I was aligned to the President. They don&#8217;t have the church at heart &#8211; they are not my children.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Makandiwa, known for his prosperity gospel teachings, argued that Zimbabwe would be worse off without Mnangagwa&#8217;s leadership, calling it the &#8220;current manifestation&#8221; of God&#8217;s will for the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prophet criticized those opposing the ZANU-PF leader:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Some people hate Mnangagwa because they don&#8217;t have access to other versions of Zimbabwe. Zimbabweans complain due to their blindness &#8211; they should have taken advantage of this current manifestation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His comments come amid ongoing economic challenges and political tensions in Zimbabwe, where religious leaders&#8217; political affiliations often draw public scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Social media reactions have been divided:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Supporters applaud his &#8220;bold truth-telling&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Critics accuse him of &#8220;mixing religion with partisan politics&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Analysts note growing trend of clergy-political alliances<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Religious scholar Dr. Tinashe Gumbo commented:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;When spiritual leaders openly endorse politicians, it inevitably affects their congregational dynamics and public perception.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News\u00a92025<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harare Correspondent Harare \u2013 United Family International Church (UFIC) founder Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa has revealed that some followers abandoned him due to his public alignment with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, declaring&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7738,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736\/revisions\/7738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}