{"id":224084,"date":"2026-02-18T00:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-religious-conflict-magaya-claims-prosecutor-is-on-a-mission-for-makandiwas-ufic-demands-her-removal\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:40:05","slug":"zimbabwe-religious-conflict-magaya-claims-prosecutor-is-on-a-mission-for-makandiwas-ufic-demands-her-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-religious-conflict-magaya-claims-prosecutor-is-on-a-mission-for-makandiwas-ufic-demands-her-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Religious Conflict &#8211; Magaya Claims Prosecutor Is &#8216;On a Mission&#8217; for Makandiwa&#8217;s UFIC, Demands Her Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Prophetic Healing and Deliverance leader Walter Magaya has formally requested that the Prosecutor General recuse Chief Director Tendai Shonhayi from his rape trial, claiming her affiliation with Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa&#8217;s UFIC church has created a personal bias aimed at his destruction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Magaya claims Shonhayi&#8217;s judgment is obscured by a biased agenda, arguing that her involvement prejudice the proceedings and denies him a fair hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">In a letter to the Prosecutor General dated 17 February&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602170371.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>Prophetic Healing and Deliverance leader Walter Magaya has formally requested that the Prosecutor General recuse Chief Director Tendai Shonhayi from his rape trial, claiming her affiliation with Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa&#8217;s UFIC church has created a personal bias aimed at his destruction. Magaya claims Shonhayi&#8217;s judgment is obscured by a biased agenda, arguing that her involvement [&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":[258,256,8117,2444,6979,24801,53680,6161,257,8084,7994,9598,254,53681,4686,421],"class_list":["post-224084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claims","tag-conflict","tag-demands","tag-magaya","tag-makandiwas","tag-mission","tag-news","tag-prosecutor","tag-religious","tag-removal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ufic","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224084","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=224084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224084\/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=224084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}