Blue
Roof
visit
…
Gore
Mukondiwa
was
arrested
after
refusing
to
leave
former
first
lady
Grace
Mugabe’s
residence
HARARE
–
A
man
claiming
to
have
the
power
of
prophecy
was
arrested
after
demanding
to
see
former
first
lady
Grace
Mugabe
at
her
Blue
Roof
residence
in
Borrowdale
Brooke
in
Harare,
a
court
heard
on
Thursday.
Gore
Mukondiwa
was
denied
entry
by
police
officers
guarding
the
residence
but
was
insistent,
eventually
leading
to
his
arrest.
He
has
been
charged
with
criminal
trespass
over
the
unwelcome
visit
to
Mugabe’s
sprawling
mansion
on
October
29.
Harare
magistrate
Sharon
Rakafa
remanded
him
in
custody
to
November
7
after
giving
an
order
that
Mukondiwa
should
undergo
an
examination
under
the
Mental
Health
Act.
The
court
heard
that
the
former
first
lady,
who
was
entertaining
visitors
at
the
time
of
Mukondiwa’s
visit,
refused
to
see
him,
dismissing
him
as
a
“nuisance.”
Mukondiwa
was
claiming
he
had
a
prophecy
that
he
wanted
to
deliver
to
former
President
Robert
Mugabe’s
widow.
In
the
dock,
Mukondiwa
appeared
surprised
that
a
mental
examination
had
been
ordered,
telling
the
magistrate
that
he
was
a
“spiritual
guide”
and
of
sound
mind.
Mukondiwa
is
not
new
to
controversy.
In
2022
he
threatened
to
dethrone
the
current
chief
of
Marange
in
Manicaland,
Bernard
Makungauta
Murwira,
while
claiming
to
be
the
heir
apparent.
Mukondiwa,
of
Gonon’ono
Village
under
Chief
Marange,
claimed
his
namesake
and
great-great
grandfather,
Gore
Mukondiwa,
who
allegedly
was
once
the
leader
of
the
Marange
people
in
the
1800s,
was
dethroned
and
murdered
by
the
current
chief’s
great-great
grandfather.
He
claimed
that
his
great-great
grandfather’s
spirit
was
now
manifesting
and
demanding
that
he
(Mukondiwa)
be
installed
as
the
leader
of
the
Marange
people.
He
told
the
Manica
Post
that
he
has
been
single
since
2004
when
he
divorced
his
wife
because
his
namesake’s
spirit
had
rendered
his
family
members
single
through
unexplainable
divorces.
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