Columnist / Tendai chara
Prophet by day, sangoma by night
At first glance, Bishop Cuthbert Nyaruvenda, the founder of Sangano Dzvene Revapostori Church, looks like an ordinary person next door.Alighting from his car clad in a blue T-shirt and matchin...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:22hrs | 3 | by Tendai Chara
Lockdown brews teen pregnancies
The prolonged period of inactivity spawned by the Covid-19-induced lockdown, which began on March 30, is brewing cases of juvenile delinquency, with a local organisation reporting a 60 percent rise in...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:29hrs | | by Tendai Chara and Veronica Gwaze
Famous ghosts that saved lives
Though stories of the dead returning from the afterlife to involve themselves in the affairs of the living are as old as humanity, they still send chills down many people's spines.When terrify...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:12hrs | | by Tendai Chara
School graft: More can be done
Although stakeholders in the education sector applauded the efforts being made to curb abuse of funds by school heads and bursars, calls have been made for Government to show a political will to curb ...Published: 17 Apr 2016 at 09:52hrs | | by Tendai Chara
A haven of fake products
As the Christmas shopping season begins in earnest and the public scouts for the best bargains, there is need to be on the lookout for fake products.Investigations carried out by The Sunday Ma...Published: 13 Dec 2015 at 08:57hrs | | by Tendai Chara
A 'ghost prostitute' called Peggy
It is in the early 1980s. A man is downing a beer at Machipisa Shopping Centre in Harare's Highfield suburb.As the nightclub closes, he wanders along Mangwende Drive, hunting for a little acti...Published: 15 Nov 2015 at 08:11hrs | 12 | by Tendai Chara
Zimbabwe's witchcraft capital
Gokwe, the cotton-producing district in Midlands province, has become synonymous with witchcraft and the occult. Basing on the number of reported cases, Gokwe could easily compete with the lightning-m...Published: 12 Apr 2015 at 08:32hrs | 4 | by Tendai Chara
Regrets of a 90 something-year-old man
At 92 years of age, Sekuru Moses Gwasira of Zuze Village in Rusape regrets never confronting the British to return the head of the executed Makoni chief, Chingaira.Chief Chingaira was decapita...Published: 16 Nov 2014 at 13:35hrs | | by Tendai Chara
'More Zimbabweans could have died in Prophet TB Joshua's church disaster'
A sombre atmosphere engulfed the home of 40-year-old Catherine Ndlovu of Mpopoma, Bulawayo, following the news that the mother of two was among more than 115 people who died when a guest house belongi...Published: 28 Sep 2014 at 13:07hrs | | by Tendai Chara
Prophet TB Joshua: God's will or a fake prophet?
The death of 115 congregates and the injuries sustained by several hundred others in the collapse of a guest house near the church run by Nigerian preacher TB Joshua has divided public opinion, igniti...Published: 28 Sep 2014 at 12:47hrs | | by Tendai Chara
Of professional mourners, lavish funerals
Gone are the days of a funeral wake where mourners are "burdened" by traditional rites, laid-down burial procedures and a sombre atmosphere throughout the proceedings. Today, people outshine each oth...Published: 12 May 2013 at 06:23hrs | 6 | by Tendai Chara
Men's Clinic Zimbabwe gains popularity
The establishment of the Men's Clinic Zimbabwe, a clinic that specialises in men's sexual health problems, has, to a greater extent, helped in the demystification of issues to do with men's sexual hea...Published: 17 Mar 2013 at 06:50hrs | 5 | by Tendai Chara
Tantalite: Zimbabwe's latest discovery
In the Bible, God promised the Jews the land of milk and honey. If the promise were made to Zimbabweans, it would probably be that of vast mineral resources. For such minerals as diamonds, gold and pl...Published: 20 Jan 2013 at 10:21hrs | 2 | by Tendai Chara
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