Pastor Chirwa from Malawi killed in Cape Town as Bushiri claims death threats

November 16, 2020 Chomi Khumalo - Nyasa Times 68 Comments

Barely four days after Prophet Shepherd Bushiri of the Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) Church skipped bail and returned  to his native country, a Christian pastor  from Malawi,  Blessing Mduli Chirwa has been shot dead in South Africa during the night of Saturday, November 14, 2020.

 Malawian pastor Mduli Chirwa killed in Cape Town

Pastor Chirwa, a Malawian national, was killed in Cape Town area a called Deft.

 According to information gathered by Nyasa Times, pastor Chirwa before he went to Deft, he was staying in Joe Slovo Park.

Chirwa was reportedly  shot by armed robbers in Deft because he resisted them from stealing his car.

The Church of Central African Presbyterian (CCAP) in Joe Slovo  where he belonged were busy preparing his burial arrangements.

This follows Bushiri’s claims he had left South Africa because he had received death threats.

The preacher, who was on bail and awaiting trial for money laundering and fraud, had previously said he wanted to clear his name.

The Bushiris ‘miracle escape’ has already caused a diplomatic uproar with Malawi’s foreign minister Eisenhower Mkaka who reportedly met Bushiri in Pretoria- shortly before the prophet exited the country – told the BBC that he thought the South African authorities suspected the Malawians were trying to smuggle out the controversial preacher.

“When we were coming to Malawi leaving South Africa, we were exposed to stringent checks. It is just now that we are beginning to realise that maybe there was a suspicion that we were trying to smuggle Bushiri out of South Africa,” Mkaka is quoted by BBC as saying

On Monday morning he then complained, very publicly,  issuing a statement on Twitter about the seven-hour delay to the president’s journey, which included “vague security reasons” for thorough checks of the presidential plane.

Mkaka noted that the South Afrcain authorities had categorically stated that the controversial preacherhad not escaped on the presidential plane.

But he described South Africa’s treatment of President Chakwera as “improper”.

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68 replies on “Pastor Chirwa from Malawi killed in Cape Town as Bushiri claims death threats”

  1. My God this People in south africa are indeed the decedent’s of Shaka zulu the same spirit is working on them, what happened to apostle Paul in act 19 is what has happened to Our Father Major 1, Our Father is a spirit he does not just hear from men but God in heaven, papa victory in jesus name, no one fight grace and win, to pastor chirwe revelation 14;13

  3. thats another mentality default we Malawians have ….Y do we mixup issues .Here we are to pay or pass our condolenses to the Chirwa family and relatives (spiritual &physical) ones …Dont relate it to a corn man /a fugitive who lives on shortcuts way of life .

  5. Sorry Africa and The rest of the world to what happened to Bushiri we as few of true Christian s we believe all that is happening to our Pastor now are the acts of the devil but thanks to Malawaian Government for protecting the prophet of the lord. God bless Africa.🙋

  6. May the soul of Pastor Chirwa rest in peace.
    From my perspective, more Africans and descendants of Africans are being hired in very visible positions of employment. People are taking note of how intelligent and excellent you are.
    May the matter with Prophet Shepherd Bushiri, Prophetess Mary Bushiri, President Chakwera and the South African authorities be resolved peacefully (and in favor of Prophet and Prophetess Bushiri). The world is watching.

  7. Wisdom is lacking in our judicial systems today. U see how evil has criped in because the government refused to use wisdom on high issues. Before u take a final decision on anything, u should always think on the unintended consequence.
    The government was first to threatened his life. Someone is yet to be proven guilty but u went ahead asking for collateral if he leaves the country. Africa Africa Africa please return home with wisdoms of our fore fathers

  9. My deepest condolences extend to the family, friends and well-wishers of Pastor Chirwa. May he sleep in Jesus.
    Many of us are elated that Prophet Shepherd Bushiri and Prophetess Mary Bushiri are out of harm’s way.
    Africa has intelligent and rich people there. I believe that Africans and African descendants are receiving even more respect in the USA. The matters concerning Prophet Shepherd Bushiri, Prophetess Mary Bushiri, President Chakwera, the authorities from the RSA etc. are able to intelligently resolve the problems.

  12. Even Elijah escaped the prophet Elijah it’s in the Bible he ran away from Jezebel.
    Now in our generation Jezebel is a system it operates systematically as a spirit and uses human to operate and today Prophet Bushiri runs away.
    Is it wrong for him to run the answer is no.
    If he was to be killed who will attest that he was inocent this is not a personal battle is spiritual warefare and it’s colonialism were Malawi and are treated harshly in South Africa there on a trial for survivor when they wake up they praise God daily.
    And someone says government must not come in then why are we citizens of a spicified Country if all they do is look and pay a blind or listen and pay a deaf ear.
    Why is Cabinet there? They were voted by people to defend and council if this just goes minus government action it’s best there’s no member of Cabinet in Malawi.

    1. my brethren even when our Lord Jesus was a child is the angel of the Lord who came to jesoph and told him to take the child and run from Egypt and even when they wanted to throw Him into the valley the bible say Jesus narrowly escape.Papa u did the right thing

      1. It very sad to see how South African treat others fellow African,if we want to talk about xenophobia in the world we see South African , look the way they treated the prophet I believe South Africa will pay for they are action

        1. Condolences to his family, kindly be reminded that there are many Malawians convicted of these heinous in South Africa. It’s therefore possible that criminals who took this man of God’s life could be non- South Africans.

      2. Leave God out of this. Are you sure God sent your papa to Pretoria? Neither did the government of Malawi. Papaooo, went there for business in the form of religion.Unfortunately he chose a wrong venture. Now, God instructed Joseph because Joseph was a godly man his Devine Security Detail was God’s. Papa’s security, oooh, zimathananatu ndiye zambirimbiritu…eish. Papa amapikisana ndi achina Sean Combs kumakhala ndi line ya perfume as in brand name. A man of God sakajampa bail…mayazi!

    2. One of the most important priorities for each and every government is the protection of its citizens. Every government works to make sure that it’s citizens are not unfairly treated and they are safe under the international law and for the sake of their national interests as a government.

      However, it is again the government’s responsibility to ensure that citizens are not exploiting these protection privileges to engage in criminal activities and seek the government’s cover.

      Does it mean that Bushiri is a criminal? Absolutely not. We can’t say that until he is proven guilty. Which is why it’s very important for him to go through trial.

      If the government gets involved with this, really it should be to ask for some sort of documented assurances from the South African authorities that Bushiri will be protected just as any other suspect is entitled to. Once that assurance has been provided, basi azipita.

      We are such a hypocritical society. If the person caught up in this was poor or one with no name, we would’ve been busy packing their suitcases and sending them back to go and face justice.

      Dear government, please aim to close this saga as soon as possible. There is a lot we need to be focusing on as a country. Pali ana amasiye. Pali masukulu owonongeka, paliso miseu togumuka. Kwinaku ndiye pali nkhani ija inawakanika anachoka aja, nkhani ya magetsi. Komansotu paja inu mwabwela ndi yanu ya 1 million jobs.

    3. Scripture out of context, Jezebel was hunting Elijah because he had slain the prophets of Baal. Bushiri is wanted for dishonesty. Draw a difference.

      1. Thanks Bwana Kabelo for the correction I so yearned to make to Nkambule. The Scriptures have been taken out of context including those comments that followed supporting Nkambule’s. We need to draw a line between our emotions and the truth on the ground. You may just be sympathetic to the man of God but the truth is he is on the wrong side of things, don’t mistake it as persecution ‘for the sake of Christ ‘, miles away from that. Elijah was being persecuted for standing up for God, not that he had done anything wrong, Jesus’s parents ran away with baby Jesus not that they had done anything wrong but were standing up for God.

        1. You are taking things and issues out of context yourself. Wrong or right, that you do not know. Jesus was not accused of the good He did, they had to make up stories to justify their actions to the people. Even when no fault was found, He was still convicted and send to the cross. It was allowed to run smooth as it in the process fulfilled the order of God.

  14. Nyasa Times never reported that Bushiri was smuggled by the President, it clearly reported that he didn’t come with Chakwera but arrived earlier

    1. If the president and his delegates felt harassed in a short period of time what about The Prophet who stayed amongst them. South Africa is cursed they jailed their own and killed them innocently Nelson Mandela and our forefather’s , they killed innocent blood because of Xenophobia, threatened to kill Prophet Bushiri many times and their government never said anything, woooow. South Africa you are cursed and your poverty will increase one day you will come to our countries to seek help but you will find it anylonger. Africa helped you when you were in desperate need during the time of apartheid you forgot so quickly.

  16. (May his Soul Rest in Peace’)Prophet Bushiri did better to escape-Some people think like lions’ May God reverse the Situation…

  17. We can speak daily about this individual called themselves prophets and they forget that is Almighty God when God Anger touches you I’m telling you is not going to be good then fear inter you will run like chicken!! God is alive he looking at your Evil ways.

  22. I hear a lot of ugly stories which Malawians pass through in this country.But there is only one thing that I know that there shall never be a country occupied by only one nationality.RIP my brother

  23. the almighty god will protect bushiri from danger. god is with him he will be protected by the holy spirit wherever he goes. satan will lose the battle.

  24. Read John 8:59, for example, you will see that you can not judge whether Bushido is a man of God or not by the only reason of his escape from this killer country, for even Jesus Christ escaped danger by running away from stoning in a temple through multitude of people……s

    2. We know of his thefts and crooked ways and the same can not be said about Jesus Christ. There’s absolutely no comparison between the two.

  25. This is purely a hijacking incident and has nothing to do with Bushiri, etc. Stats SA provides that 2018/19 there was an estimate of 83,000 motor vehicle theft incidences and also an estimate of 32,000 vehicle hijacking incidents. This is a common problem here in RSA and it is a big problem controlled by well organised syndicates. And it is sad that our Malawian brothers, Zimbabweans, Mozambicans and local South Africans form part of these vehicle hijacking syndicates. Some of these vehicles are driven by influential people in the SADC region, vehicle of which somebody lost life.
    Rule of thumb here is if you are cornered by hijackers do not fight, let them take the vehicle – it can always be replaced or recovered. Your life is more precious. Look after yourselves and your families.

  30. Bushiri could be involved to justify his running away from South Africa. He will be saying, “I told you”. These prophets are thieves and they take advantage of ignorance and poverty. If they claim to be men of God why are they do they not get devine intervention. God is angry with them.

  31. This guy just needs to be handed over before things get out of hand. Sometimes we always think ” we are covered by the law” and we forget that lawlessness also exists.

    1. As much as I am not a fan of Bushiri, I don’t think he was going to get justice in South African courts. It was in his best interest to escape to Malawi. There is another fake preacher here called Omotoso has been on remand for 3 years for flimsy excuses. There is xenophobia even in the justice system because it is a reflection of the society.

  32. May the Soul Rest In Peace. My condolence to the family and the church. These Pastors are the ones sent by Bushiri to convince there followers to join Bushiri investment scum. Now today people have been scumed. They are angry. They can’t get there money back the only thing they can do is to deal with the pastor. So don’t complain that ECG pastors including Bushiri are treated badly in South Africa pay back the money you stole from your members in the name of investment then u will have pece. But without that u will not have peace

  34. Shame. SA thugs can be so reactive, irrational and so brutal. It’s a shame. Yes the Bushiris might be fraudsters but this is not accepted.

  36. ECG people still in RSA must take responsibility for their safety there. Osakomedwa ayi. If the situation is not friendly, just come back home to poverty but freedom and safety

  37. The problem of choosing wrong people in high position. They will keep on embarrassing the Leaning President. How can you be surrounded with people without any experience in running government? Mkaka is no material.

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