The Gospel According to Honorable Wiwa Sikhala

📅 Published: August 17, 2025

Curated by AllZimNews.com

He declared that the man’s condition was “the wages of sin. ” In that instant, I saw not the defender of democracy but a man laying down a theology of vengeance.

It is worth pausing on that phrase, “the wages of sin. ” It sounds biblical, almost righteous, but behind it lies a crude worldview.

It assumes that illness, weakness, and aging are punishments for moral failure.

It strips away the complexity of life and replaces it with a blunt verdict: if you are suffering, you must deserve it.

For someone who supposedly aspires to lead the people, this is chilling.

Zimbabwe is a country of hospitals that cannot heal, clinics without medicine, and a generation broken by poverty.

If misfortune is proof of guilt, then what future awaits the sick and the poor under the gospel according to Sikhala?

What makes his words dangerous is that they mirror the same logic of those who once tortured him.

Authoritarianism begins by marking people as guilty before any evidence is heard.

The state’s victims were not human beings in need of dignity but criminals, traitors, and sinners in the eyes of power.

Sikhala himself was dragged through that system.

And yet, with a single triumphant post, he reaches for the same weapon.

He takes another man’s decline, parades it before the public, and claims divine justice has spoken.

In doing so, he shows us how easy it is for the oppressed to become comfortable with the tools of oppression.

This is not a question of sympathy for a man with a terrible record.