Preacher stripped, bashed in Mambo over adultery with teacher

A lay preacher with the Dutch Reformed Church was on the receiving end of mob justice last Tuesday after he was ensnared via WhatsApp to meet his girlfriend’s husband, The Midlands Monitor has established.

Photos of the naked adulterer (name supplied) went viral on the social network soon after the incident, showing the man, in his fourties, half-crying after mob chastisement. Sources told this reporter that the preacher, who works at Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) at Insukamini, some 20 kilometres along the Lower Gweru Road, had been in love with a Mambo woman for some time.

“All hell broke loose when the adulteress, a teacher at a Lower Gweru school, left for Kwekwe on Tuesday, leaving her smart phone behind. All along the hubby had been suspicious of her wife’s movements. He pried on her phone leading to the discovery of WhatsApp texts revealing intimate details of the two love birds’sexcapades.

Further revealed our source, who is related to the cheating woman: “At first the husband wanted to commit suicide but his ghetto-wise friends from Mambo’s Norah Road urged him to entrap the preacherman through WhatsApp, pretending as if he was his wife, and scheduled an appointment with him. That was as easy as ABC.

“When he realized that he had been trapped, the preacher is said to have attempted dashing to his Toyota Corolla vehicle, but he was accosted by the mob justice seekers, we were told.

“Takamubata, tikamubvisa hembe kwakumuzvindikita nekumushagada maningi (We seized him and gave him a sound beating after taking off his clothes,” revealed another source, only identified as ‘Nigger’.

“He was left injured and bleeding, as he cried for both forgiveness and help.” This is not the first time perceived married men of God have been reported to have been avidly reading the centre pages of married, or single women.

The Midlands Monitor has to date highlighted dozens of such cases, some of which include prominent Gweru clergyman Bishop Christopher Choto, who has since broken ranks with the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) church to start his own church, and some ZAOGA deacons who were caught in the very act of adultery inside, of all the places, a Senga tuckshop.

Church leaders have criticized our ‘bad publicity on the men of God,’ but The Midlands Monitor editor and publisher Tendai Marobana argues that the organization acts as a mirror of the society.

“The media is here to highlight social evils with a view to correct them. Sweeping the cases under the carpet will not solve anything. False prophets and chancers, wolves and sheep, need to be separated from real, called and sent men and women of God,” she defended.- Midlands Monitor

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