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The MK Party and the contestation of history
An angel of history is haunting the ANC - the spectre of the historical uMkhonto Wesizwe. The announcement of the MKP on December 16, 2023 by President Jacob Zuma conjured certain spirits or the ghost...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 20:11hrs | 453 | by Sankara Bizela
Brothers stab 2 to death over woman
TWO brothers from Silobela allegedly ganged up and stabbed two imbibers to death in a major fight over a woman.The tragic incident occurred at Crossroads Business Centre on Friday.The ...Published: 31 Jan 2022 at 05:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Terror in Seychelles Zimbabweans in crossfire
THIS is the second in a three-part series about the hijacking of an Air India Boeing 707 flying from Harare to New Dehli India on November 26, 1981. The plane flew into a coup attempt in the S...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Reliving Gukurahundi and need for reparations by
It is now nearly four decades after the Gukurahundi genocide that saw more than twenty thousand people killed in a seemingly ethnic cleansing act in the Midlands and Matabeleland north provinces. Ghos...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 14:33hrs | | by Makho Precious Moyo
Welcoming new president of Zimbabwe
Just before the sun had started its journey across the African cold sky, I jumped, tumbled and scrambled into my rambled clothes, cat licked my face and legs and soon I was in the kitchen preparing fo...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 09:13hrs | | by Tanatswa Chikuku
Reliving Gukurahundi and need for reparations
It is now nearly four decades after the Gukurahundi genocide that saw more than twenty thousand people killed in a seemingly ethnic cleansing act in the Midlands and Matabeleland north provinces. Ghos...Published: 29 May 2019 at 13:22hrs | | by Makhoprecious Moyo
Divorce isn't a solution
MARRIAGE is an interesting union, two people of opposite sex who are not even related coming to live together, brought together by love and this time it is not agape but the "phileo" kind of love, aff...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 14:30hrs | 6 | by FGK
PHOTOS: Makandiwa builds a house for a homeless grandmother
Prophetess Ruth Makandiwa has presented a 4 bedroomed house to an elderly lady who had no proper home to stay. Under her Agape Family Care, in late 2018, Ruth Makandiwa sent a construction tea...Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 10:36hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Prophet Makandiwa donates to Childline Zimbabwe
United Family International Church (UFIC) leader Emmanuel Makandiwa's wife, Ruth, through her humanitarian organisation Agape Family Care, has donated a container, sanitary pads and groceries worth $8...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZAOGA: Celebrating 70 years of Non Stop Preaching
The seventy years of non-stop preaching have necessitated the birth and establishment of a great ministry called ZAOGA Forward In Faith Ministries International. ZAOGA FIF has various ministri...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 08:09hrs | 9 | by Brian Mutembedza
ZEC hires Zanu-PF activist as election presiding officer
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) hired a known Zanu-PF activist as presiding officer for a Bulawayo polling station in the just ended harmonised elections, it has emerged.This came out ...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 12:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophetess Dr Ruth Makandiwa an epitome of God's love
The Webster dictionary defines the word unsung heroine as a woman whose heroism and achievements are unacknowledged, unrecognized and unappreciated though it should be the opposite. A lot of negative ...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:39hrs | | by Knowledge Hakata
Yes, we can dream big once more
Zanu-PF stole people of Zimbabwe's dreams for so many years. Some did not realize their full potential because they had put in place a system based on Zanu-PF patronage not on merit. When the situatio...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 08:13hrs | | by AT Kadada
Kalawa Homecoming pandemonium
IT was meant to be the event of the year but in the end it was characterised by shoddy preparations and a weak line-up that left many questioning if the Kalawa Homecoming would be ever be the same aga...Published: 31 Dec 2017 at 08:35hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
If all these Churches were companies Zim will be flourishing- Barbara Nyagomo
Progressive Democrats Zimbabwe leader Barbara Nyagomo has compiled a list over 559 Churches in Zimbabwe and expressed her wish that if these denominations were companies in the country the nation will...Published: 08 Jan 2017 at 05:30hrs | 10 | by Stephen Jakes
Chinotimba appeals to Makandiwa
Buhera South Zanu-PF member of parliament Joseph Chinotimba yesterday made a passionate plea for assistance from the United Family International Church to complete the construction of a clinic in his ...Published: 18 Jan 2016 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet Makandiwa donates $30,000 to Chikurubi
United Family International Church leader Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa and his wife Prophetess Ruth this week donated food to Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison and handed over a water system they constr...Published: 14 Nov 2015 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet caught pants down servicing deaconess
A SHAMED preacher who s-exually assaulted members of his flock is back in the fold at the church he helped create.Self-styled "prophet" Walter Masocha dodged a jail term earlier this year for ...Published: 02 Oct 2015 at 15:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Flea Market space baron's grave tempered with
RELATIVES of the late Sakubva Flea Market space baron, George Tsaura Gambe, who died were last months shocked to find out that his grave grossly violated.Manica Post reported that apart from s...Published: 15 Aug 2015 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Cuthbert Dube jailed for rape
A self-styled prophet from Nkayi, Cuthbert Dube, was yesterday sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for raping a woman in a church building at knife point. He raped the woman minutes after proph...Published: 15 Jul 2015 at 08:49hrs | | by Thandeka Moyo
Zimbabwean 'Prophet' avoids jail over UK sex attacks
STIRLING, UK - A church founder and self-styled "prophet" avoided jail after he was convicted of sexually molesting his parishioners.Walter Masocha, archbishop of the Stirling-based Agape for ...Published: 17 Jun 2015 at 07:54hrs | | by BBC
Zimbabwean Bishop further charged with three more indecent assault crimes
A UK -based Zimbabwe born bishop who was convicted of sexually abusing members of his church has today been formally charged with three more offences of indecent assault.Walter Masocha a ...Published: 07 Jun 2015 at 13:35hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Unsung hero of Zimbabwe's 'dissident era' speaks out
BULAWAYO - A village elder in Nkayi who shocked many in the district by confronting hardcore dissidents and persuading them to surrender to authorities in 1988 says the government must honour communi...Published: 29 May 2015 at 18:54hrs | 1 | by Thabo Kunene
Knife wielding prophet up for sex attack
A SELF-STYLED Nkayi prophet allegedly raped a woman at knife point inside a church after "prophesying" that her relatives were making her sleep with a monkey, a court heard yesterday.Cuthbert ...Published: 21 May 2015 at 08:21hrs | | by Thandeka Moyo
Sex shame preacher Masocha abused women who worshipped the ground he walked
SHAMED preacher Walter Masocha abused the trust of women in his flock who literally worshipped the ground he walked on.A disillusioned member of his church told how he surrounded himself ...Published: 17 May 2015 at 09:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
New sex charge for Scotland based Pastor Masocha
MASOCHA has been charged with another sex offence.He will be sentenced on Tuesday for preying on two members of his Agape for All Nations church.But we can reveal he has been reported ...Published: 17 May 2015 at 09:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean prophet guilty of sex attack in Scotland
A ZIMBABWEAN church leader who called himself "The Prophet" has been convicted of molesting members of his own flock in Scotland.Walter Masocha, founder and Archbishop of the Stirling-based A...Published: 28 Apr 2015 at 16:36hrs | | by BBC
Makandiwa's wife blesses orphans with goodies on her birthday
United Family International Church (UFIC) Prophetess Dr Ruth Makandiwa recently celebrated her birthday in her trademark fashion, by donating groceries worth US$11 000 to orphans and widows....Published: 13 Sep 2014 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Yeukai Karengezeka and Victoria Ruzvidzo
Prophet Makandiwa's wife awarded doctorate
International Institute of Philanthropy (IIP) yesterday conferred Prophetess Ruth Makandiwa, wife to United Family International Church (UFIC) founder and leader Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa, with an Ho...Published: 05 Jul 2014 at 15:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Missing' Zim election report resurfaces in SA
The ongoing saga surrounding a Zimbabwe election report, which has been kept secret by the South African Presidency for over a decade, has taken a fresh twist after the 'missing' document resurfaced....Published: 28 May 2014 at 06:34hrs | | by Alex Bell
Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa taunts church leaders
United Family International Church (UFIC) leader, Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa, has castigated congregants and church leaders for not looking after their parents.He was speaking at a church ser...Published: 12 May 2014 at 14:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Men flock to pastor who 'revived' man's manhood with prayer
The story of 53-year-old Khazamula Nobela, whose manhood was allegedly revived by Pastor Munyai has men from all over South Africa to seek help. The SunTeam saw hopeful men aged between 2...Published: 27 Mar 2014 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim woman collapses & dies during Agape church service in Scotland
Tragedy has struck the embattled Agape church in Scotland after a woman collapsed and died just before giving a testimony.She is said to have been in her late 30s and in a press release...Published: 03 Mar 2014 at 13:42hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
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Zim bishop faces sex charges in Scotland
A Zimbabwean Archbishop of a church based in Stirling, Scotland, appeared in court this week charged with two sexual assaults.Walter Masocha (49), leader of the Agape for All Nations Ministri...Published: 07 Feb 2014 at 05:38hrs | | by Stirling Observer
Agape for All Nations Ministries International, leader arrested
Agape for All Nations Ministries International's church leader Archbishop Dr Walter Masocha was Thursday arrested in Scotland and charged with sexual and other offences.Dr Masocha is report...Published: 01 Feb 2014 at 04:51hrs | 1 | by Moyo Roy
UK based Zimbabwean church accused of abusing congregant
A 31-year old UK mother told one of Zimbabwe's online news portals, Nehanda Radio that she was abused by the Zimbabwean church based in Scotland "Agape for All Nations Ministries International" led b...Published: 09 Oct 2013 at 17:19hrs | | by Lance Guma edited by Moyo Roy
Prophet Angel confirms he owns a $1 million Lamborgini
Charismatic preacher Uebert Angel Mudzanire has confirmed that he owns a Lamborghini - a supercar, which costs nearly $1 million to import into the country.With a 2012 version of the La...Published: 07 Feb 2013 at 09:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA Deputy Minister Ntuli to Host Dialogues With Non-Profit Organisations (NPOs)
PRETORIA, South-Africa - The Deputy Minister of Social Development, Ms Maria Ntuli, will meet and interact with North West NPO sector through dialogues. Lack of...Published: 10 Jul 2012 at 10:59hrs | | by APO
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