According to reports, the family of a deceased man has come forward, claiming that he died because he believed that controversial South African based prophet, Pastor Alph Lukau had healed him of HIV.
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Ndaba said her brother, Zakhele, stopped taking his HIV medication
after Pastor Alph Lukau laid his hands on him. Lukau made headlines last
month after he claimed that he had raised a Zimbabwean man from the
dead although he later retracted the claim and accused the family of the
“dead man” of staging the miracle.
According to Ndaba, her late
brother was a ‘staunch follower’ of Lukau’s Alleluia Ministries Church
which he joined in 2016. She added that even when Zakhele was sick, he
would attend every service, not skipping one.
She went on to say
that two months before his death, the family got a visit from home-based
care workers who wanted to know why Zakhele was no longer showing up at
the clinic to collect his medicine. Despite being counselled and
advised to take his medication, Zakhele refused to listen to the
care-workers insisting that he had been cured. He died in December at
the age of 34.
A video from the church supports the narrative as
it shows Zakhele lying on a hospital bed with Pastor Lukau praying for
him. After the prayers, he starts walking around and a message appears
which reads: “He’s healed of TB, diabetes and HIV.”
However, Alleluia Ministries International church’s spokesperson, Busi Gaca, denied that Zakhele had been healed saying,
At no stage does Pastor Lukau tell the man he’s healed. It’s rather his own testimony that he has received a miracle from God.
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