{"id":200740,"date":"2025-06-23T13:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T11:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-prophetess-8-congregants-arrested-after-forcing-man-to-drink-deadly-concoction-to-exorcise-demons\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T13:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T11:38:11","slug":"zimbabwe-prophetess-8-congregants-arrested-after-forcing-man-to-drink-deadly-concoction-to-exorcise-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-prophetess-8-congregants-arrested-after-forcing-man-to-drink-deadly-concoction-to-exorcise-demons\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Prophetess, 8 Congregants Arrested After Forcing Man to Drink Deadly Concoction to Exorcise Demons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has arrested a self-proclaimed prophetess, Charity Mafirowanda (46), along with eight of her congregants following the death of Micky Chuma (54), at a church shrine in Mbizo, Kwekwe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The eight congregants are, Talent Khumalo (42), Bongani Paraffin (33), Admire Makota (23), Ronald Mandiedza (24), Margret Zireba (21), Lyton Ndlovu (19), Arnold Mashiri (23) and Pauline Banda (33).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">In a statement, police said they suspect Chuma&#8217;s death was caused by a harmful&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506230181.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has arrested a self-proclaimed prophetess, Charity Mafirowanda (46), along with eight of her congregants following the death of Micky Chuma (54), at a church shrine in Mbizo, Kwekwe. The eight congregants are, Talent Khumalo (42), Bongani Paraffin (33), Admire Makota (23), Ronald Mandiedza (24), Margret Zireba (21), Lyton Ndlovu (19), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,4304,51709,15885,9555,12762,26201,26386,15344,6867,257,51708,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-200740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-concoction","tag-congregants","tag-deadly","tag-demons","tag-drink","tag-exorcise","tag-forcing","tag-man","tag-news","tag-prophetess","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}