A video showing businessman Wicknell Chivayo and his wife, Lucy Muteke, participating in an altar call has resurfaced following their deaths in a helicopter crash. The couple were attending a church service in South Africa when they joined other worshippers, according to iHarare News. The video has taken on new significance in the wake of the tragedy, with Chivayo having stated, 'I need prayers from every corner of the world.' The strategic vulnerability lies in the public's attempt to reconcile the businessman's controversial legacy with this final spiritual act.
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Pope Leo XIV expressed his 'profound grief' to Zimbabwe over the Lake Kariba ferry disaster that has killed 95 people. The papal sympathy starkly contrasts with the government's slow and opaque response, adding mounting international pressure to address systemic failures in public safety.
Businessman Wicknell Chivayo has pledged a US$1 million donation to United Family International Church (UFIC) and gifted founder Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa a Rolls-Royce Cullinan. Chivayo praised Makandiwa as a leader of integrity and faithfulness in a lengthy social media post. The announcement has drawn mixed reactions, with critics questioning the source of Chivayo's wealth amid his past legal troubles.