In video interview, Zimbabwean archbishop admits he had affair

Published: 2008-03-25

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS) -- Zimbabwean Archbishop Pius Ncube, who resigned as archbishop of Bulawayo last year after a sex scandal, has admitted he had an affair with a woman. The archbishop, one of the most outspoken critics of Zimbabwe's political leadership, made the admission to Frontier Africa TV, an independent film production company, in Zimbabwe before he boarded a plane for Rome in November 2007. One of the directors of Frontier Africa TV, Fred Bridgland, released the archbishop's remarks from the interview in a March 23 story in the Scottish newspaper The Sunday Herald. In the piece, Archbishop Ncube also spoke out against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who was widely expected to win re-election March 29. "It is true, I do admit that I did fail in keeping God's commandment with regard to adultery," Archbishop Ncube said. "Having failed in keeping the Seventh Commandment ... I would like to apologize to you (the people of Zimbabwe); I'd like to apologize that so many of you were praying for me, for the fact that so many of you standing with me in fact suffered so much," he said.

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