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Zimbabwean comedian Tanaka Dube has found himself at the centre of a social media storm in South Africa after internet users noticed his striking resemblance to the late Eliot Moyo, the Zimbabwean man who became internationally known following a controversial alleged resurrection in 2019.
Dube, who has been gaining attention online, was recently mistaken by some social media users for Moyo, with several people convinced that the comedian was the same man who became the subject of one of South Africa’s most widely discussed alleged miracle incidents.
However, the two men are not the same person.
Moyo, whose full name was reportedly Thabiso Proud Mlanje, became known publicly as Eliot Moyo after a video showing Pastor Alph Lukau appearing to resurrect him went viral in February 2019.
The incident took place at Alleluia Ministries International in Johannesburg and quickly attracted international attention. In the widely circulated footage, Moyo was presented as a dead man inside a coffin before Lukau appeared to pray over him and declare him alive.
The incident sparked widespread debate, with many people questioning the authenticity of the supposed miracle.
Critics accused the church and those involved of staging the incident, while church representatives disputed allegations of fraud. The resurrection claim also attracted attention from South African authorities and religious organisations, amid broader concerns surrounding alleged fake miracles in some prosperity-gospel churches.
The controversy surrounding Lukau’s alleged resurrection became so widespread that it was discussed in the South African media and academic circles as part of wider debates about religious exploitation, prosperity gospel ministries and claims of miraculous healing.
A 2019 analysis by Professor Tinyiko Maluleke, published shortly after the incident, described the alleged resurrection as a fraudulent stunt and argued that controversial miracle claims could attract large numbers of desperate followers seeking healing and financial relief.
The incident also generated a huge amount of humour on social media, with South Africans turning the bizarre episode into memes and jokes.
Moyo later returned to Zimbabwe after becoming widely recognised from the controversy.
Reports circulating at the time claimed that he died in Zimbabwe later in 2019. However, some of the details surrounding his death have been reported inconsistently over the years, and claims that he was poisoned have circulated without being firmly established as fact.
Despite this, his name remains strongly associated with the 2019 resurrection controversy.
That history is now resurfacing because of Tanaka Dube’s physical resemblance to Moyo.
Photos and videos of Dube have prompted some social media users to jokingly suggest that the comedian is actually Eliot Moyo and that the famous resurrection story somehow had a second chapter.
But there is no mystery behind the apparent resemblance.
Tanaka Dube is a Zimbabwean comedian and is not Eliot Moyo.
The two are separate individuals, and Moyo died in 2019 according to reports published at the time.
The renewed comparison has nevertheless demonstrated how quickly old internet controversies can return when a person who resembles a figure from a famous viral story suddenly starts trending.
For many social media users, Dube’s resemblance to Moyo has provided an opportunity to revisit one of the strangest and most controversial religious stories to emerge from South Africa in recent years.
The 2019 incident remains a notable example of how alleged miracle claims can spread rapidly online, attract millions of views and generate intense public debate long after the original event has taken place.
For Dube, however, the attention appears to be coming from an unexpected source — looking remarkably similar to a man whose name became synonymous with one of South Africa’s most controversial alleged miracles.
