For Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
The recent Lake Kariba ferry disaster, which has tragically recorded at least 46 casualties, stands as a heart-wrenching national tragedy.
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Scores of innocent lives, embarking on what should have been a routine transit across the waters, were needlessly cut short.
It is utterly undeniable that state negligence and ferry officials were squarely to blame for this catastrophe.
The government has inexplicably kept a dilapidated, 1980s-era vessel in service, dangerously transporting citizens who have little alternative.
To compound this systemic failure, the boat crew knowingly overloaded the ferry past its safe capacity.
They recklessly proceeded into turbulent, hostile waters despite obvious red flags and desperate warnings from passengers who sensed imminent danger.
When the inevitable occurred, the official state emergency response proved shockingly pathetic.
The heavy lifting of initial rescue efforts was left to brave private operators and local responders, while heartbreaking accounts emerged of woefully inadequate life jackets on board.
Yet, as devastating as this administrative failure is, such catastrophic disasters lay bare another insidious, underlying crisis gripping Zimbabwe: the rampant prevalence of false prophets.
These self-styled clerics have built massive public profiles and amassed astronomical wealth, largely by manipulating and misleading their millions of desperate followers.
These individuals have become wildly famous—and to many discerning observers, deeply notorious—for declaring alleged “prophecies.”
They routinely claim to foretell personal destinies, perform theatrical revelations of strangers’ private pasts, predict contested election outcomes, forewarn of presidential deaths, and even proclaim the winners of international soccer matches.
In all this theatrical grandstanding, these figures woefully fail to foretell what actually matters.
To be entirely honest, why should any sensible person care to know their future in such trivial detail?
What practical or spiritual benefit is there in knowing months in advance who will lift the 2026 World Cup trophy—unless these self-proclaimed prophets are suggesting that the Almighty functions as a celestial sports bettor?
Would the true God, Jehovah, not care infinitely more about the preservation of human lives created in His own image and likeness?
Is that not precisely why He revealed an impending seven-year famine to Pharaoh through a dream interpreted by Joseph?
That divine revelation served a clear, life-saving purpose: enabling a nation to stock up grain during seven years of plenty so that millions would not perish.
Our Jehovah is not a vain God.
He does not waste His divine power on trivial football fixtures or proving His omniscience by telling a congregant what they ate for dinner last night.
He may warn His people of impending disaster or an imminent accident to spare them from harm.
What kind of God sends a messenger, not to impart spiritual wisdom or salvation, but merely to announce that someone ate sadza the previous evening?
Throughout the Scriptures, Jehovah dispatched His genuine prophets with a distinct mandate: to rebuke His people from going astray, to call them to repentance, to warn them of impending destruction so they could take evasive action, or to reveal His grand redemptive plans.
Why, then, would God send modern-day “prophetics” to proclaim that Spain will lift the 2026 World Cup, as though Heaven endorses sports gambling?
Why would He declare the winner of a political election as if divine decree exists to satisfy political gossip?
Yet, in the midst of all these trivial revelations, He somehow “forgets” to warn His people about a ferry capsizing on Lake Kariba and claiming over 46 souls?
That is not how Jehovah operates.
This stark contradiction should compel every thinking citizen to deeply question these self-appointed prophets.
If these men were genuine spiritual watchmen, they would have foreseen this tragedy, just as Joseph foresaw the Egyptian famine.
It is the absolute height of absurdity for a prophet to produce a polished video—preaching behind an air-conditioned pulpit after a disaster has occurred and lives have already been lost—claiming they vaguely hinted at it years ago.
If these prophets were truly sent by God on August 11, 2026, they would have been at the Kariba docking bay, shouting at the top of their lungs to stop people from boarding that doomed vessel.
We should have seen viral videos of a man desperately pleading with passengers, physically trying to halt the ferry from leaving port.
At the very least, on the eve of that fateful day, social media should have been flooded with explicit warnings urging the public not to board the Mbuya Nehanda.
Had that happened, many would have taken these spiritual claims far more seriously.
As a devout Christian who firmly believes in Jehovah God and the reality of true prophecy, I am deeply infuriated by charlatans deceiving vulnerable people.
None of those warnings happened.
This tragedy must serve as a sharp wake-up call to all believers: be extraordinarily wary of wolves in sheep’s clothing.
Remember the sobering warning of Jesus Christ: many will declare that they prophesied in His name, only to hear the final judgment: “I never knew you; depart from me.”
Tendai Ruben Mbofana is a social justice advocate and writer. Please feel free to contact him on +263715667700 or mbofana.tendairuben73@gmail.com
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