WATCH: Mnangagwa in bizarre apostolic rites

As the Zanu-PF war to succeed President Robert Mugabe escalates, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa was at the weekend caught up in bizarre church rituals in Mt Darwin where a popular prophet told the gathered crowd that the VP needed held to ascend to the presidency.

The VP visited the reverend Madzibaba Wimbo shrine after going to Mashonaland Central on Saturday, ostensibly to help raise funds for a new school there.

Wimbo is pivotal in Zanu-PF's fractious succession politics as he is said to have predicted in 1957 that Mugabe would lead the country in 1980.

His multitude of avid followers also believes that he knows Mugabe's successor, although he has not yet definitively pronounced on this.