AS news filtered at Chikurubi Maximum Prison that President Robert Mugabe had pardoned hundreds of convicted criminals, incarcerated Johanne Masowe eChishanu apostolic sect leader Ishmael Chokurongerwa was eager to know if his stay in jail had been cut short.
Chokurongerwa, popularly known as Madzibaba Ishmael, gained infamy after he and fellow church members ran amok and attacked riot police, members of the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe and journalists at their Budiriro shrine in 2014.
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