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Law enforcement agents have come under fire for alleged selective application of the law after allowing thousands of Johane Marange followers to hold their annual pilgrimage at Mafararikwa village in Bocha, Manicaland province, at a time when all public gatherings are banned as a COVID-19 containment measure.
Death in a family is heart-numbing and if there is anything that can be done to prevent it the majority will choose to do that. However, this is not the case for an Apostolic sect family in Gwambe in Bulilima District, Matabeleland South Province that shuns hospitals.
Tens of thousands of Johane Marange Apostolic Church members gathered at their Holy Shrine in Marange as part of their annual pilgrimage which is held every July. President Robert Mugabe hijacked the gathering to campaign for himself and his Zanu PF party.
Zanu PF’s campaign strategy ahead of the forthcoming general elections will hinge on infiltration of churches, neutralisation of civic society and use of traditional leaders to whip the rural electorate into line, internal party documents have revealed.