Mtukudzi warns of false prophets

Celebrated Zimbabwean music icon Oliver Mtukudzi has poured cold water on a local pastor's prophecy that he was in a "health scare" but instead warned the country of false prophets.

Harare pastor Ishmael Mangwanya recently asked an interdenominational congregation to pray for the superstar as he had prophesied him in a critical condition.

But Tuku as Mtukudzi is affectionately known countered saying, "maybe the time for false prophets has come."

Mtukudzi, a member of the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe said if the prophet was genuine, he should have approached and told him and not "preach to the whole world."   

"Who knows when I am sick...Is it the prophet or me? Maybe he was referring to another Mtukudzi and not me," he said.