A woman who calls herself “Alice the Prophetess” issued “passports to heaven” to an estimated 100,000 Africans who joined her holy war of rebellion against the Rhodesian government.

The forty-five-year-old woman claimed she died, went to heaven, met the big black god, and came back to earth to preach the truth. Then she whipped her followers into a frenzy by standing with her “Twelve apostles” atop ant hills, playing records of the World War II speeches of Winston Churchill. “Churchill,” she said, “was the voice of God.”

Before her capture by government forces, the fanatical prophetess led bloody attacks that caused the deaths of hundreds of Africans.