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That was six years ago, and he was talking about Samuel Mutendi, the founder of the ZCC, who died in 1976 and has been replaced by Nehemiah.

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Charles Rukuni

The Insider is a political and business bulletin about Zimbabwe, edited by Charles Rukuni. Founded in 1990, it was a printed 12-page subscription only newsletter until 2003 when Zimbabwe's hyper-inflation made it impossible to continue printing.

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