Times Of Swaziland: PROPHET GCINA’S FAMILY SUMMONED

PROPHET GCINA’S FAMILY SUMMONED
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BY KWANELE SIBIYA on 04/12/2019 01:30:00


MANZINI - In a twist of events, Liqoqo Council has summoned the Mthethwa clan to
assist in locating self-proclaimed Prophet Gcina Mthethwa.
This comes after the prophet left the country and went to neighbouring South
Africa after allegations that he was wanted dead by certain people.
However, it should be noted that the alleged death threats were never proven to
be true.
The Mthethwa family from Ngungwane was summoned by the council to Ludzidzini
Royal Kraal on Sunday at around 2pm. However, the meeting was said to have not
materialised. Information gathered from a reliable source was to the effect that
the agenda of the meeting was solely centred on Gcina’s outbursts in the media
as well as social media, where he was critical of the country’s authorities.
He would often claim to have received prophecies regarding how the country was
being managed.
Division
It was reported that at first, there was allegedly a division among the family
members concerning the summon, as some felt that it was at short notice, yet
there was no urgency on the matter as the message could be relayed any day and
anytime.
Liqoqo Chairman Paul Dlamini, when contacted yesterday, confirmed that the
council had summoned the Mthethwa clan with the intention to discuss the matter
in question; however, he said the deliberations did not proceed.
He highlighted that the deliberations were stalled by the passing away of one of
the Mthethwa family members. Details relating to the death could not be
ascertained though.
When probed about the intended agenda of the meeting, the chairman was quick to
mention that it had everything to do with Prophet Gcina’s inability to adhere
to the country’s protocol when expressing prophecies directed towards the
country’s authorities.
Dlamini said as per the country’s protocol and laid down procedure, in the
event someone had a prophesy from God regarding the country’s authorities,
that individual had to approach Liqoqo Council to deliver the prophecy. He said
if need be, the council would then be mandated to usher that particular
individual to His Majesty King Mswati III, where he would then be in a position
to deliver the prophecy. He described what Gcina did as unethical and uncalled
for.
Protocol
“What Mthethwa (Gcina) did was contrary to the country’s protocol and
procedure. As a result, the council deemed it fit to summon the Mthethwa clan to
the royal kraal to assist in the matter,” he explained.
When asked about the charges which were likely to be preferred against the
prophet should it be found that he allegedly violated certain procedures,
Dlamini mentioned that such would depend on the deliberations they would have
with the family but for now all he knew was that what the prophet did was
totally wrong.
He mentioned that they were still eager to find out the motive behind the
prophet’s action of uttering the prophecies in the manner in which he did.
“We are still curious to find out the prophet’s exact motive in connection
to the prophecies, whether he was being driven by ignorance or he just did it
intentionally,” Dlamini said.
On the other hand, Mathokoza Mthethwa confirmed that the family had been
summoned to Ludzidzini.
He said the council (Liqoqo) had summoned them with the intention to ask them to
help them in locating Gcina. He also confirmed that the meeting was stalled by
the passing away of one of their own. When asked about the new date on which
they would report back to the council, he stated that there was no specific date
given to them by the council as yet.
He mentioned that as a family, they were also in the dark concerning the
prophet’s whereabouts.
He did, however, mention the fact that as a family, they were also looking for
him and he assured that in the event they located him, they would hand him over
to the country’s authorities.
“We have been searching for Mthethwa (Gcina) as well and once we locate him
and if the authorities of this country still need him, they could contact us and
we would be pleased to hand him over to them,” he said.
Efforts to obtain a comment from the prophet proved futile as he left the
kingdom for neighbouring South Africa amid claims that he was wanted dead.  It
is worth noting that the prophet was from time to time seen in the midst of the
public sector associations (PSAs) in their quest for a cost-of-living adjustment
(CoLA).
Exile
Also during his last interview with this publication before he left for South
Africa, Gcina claimed that he was heading for exile in the Republic.
Meanwhile, the self-proclaimed prophet once prophesied that accidents will not
stop and prominent people will continue to die until he relayed the message from
God to the authorities of the country.
Gcina had said this following a tragic accident that happened at Manzini Bus
Rank one fateful Tuesday afternoon where a runaway bus crashed and killed two
people. He then claimed that God told him a message for the country and said he
must convey it to the country’s authorities.
He said after telling him, the Lord came to him again and told him that since he
had not relayed His message to the authorities of the country, the accidents
would not stop and He (God) would shift His anger to a place he (Gcina) would
not mention because he might be jailed. However, the self-proclaimed prophet
said the effect of God’s anger in the place he would not mention had already
started. He emphasised that he would not mention the nature of the anger of the
Lord where it was experienced.
Message
“As we are talking, the anger of God has started hitting where He said He
would direct it and it will happen every week. To be certain, every week, there
will be lives lost until I am given the opportunity to convey the Lord’s
message for the country to the authorities.
“I have a good message for the country but the Lord instructed me to deliver
it to the authorities of the country. One person once asked me why I was not
going to the authorities to deliver the message but the reason is that the Lord
told me that I must wait for them to call me,” he claimed at the time.
The prophet said two prominent people, who could not be mentioned, have already
died and before one of them could be buried, another would pass on. He had
claimed that this would happen until the authorities called him to deliver the
message from God.  He said good things from God came with certain commitments
and in this case, the commitment was for the authorities to call him, not him
going to them to deliver the message.
Gcina claimed that there was nothing he could do to help the situation as it was
not done by him but it was the anger of the Lord.
In one of his recent interviews, he further challenged the nation to kill him if
the Tinkhundla system of governance was still operational in 2020.