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Sangoma has a message for Mnangagwa
Munetsi Masheedze, widely known as Murandawashe, has resurfaced with a familiar declaration — he says he has a message for the President of Zimbabwe, this time Emmerson Mnangagwa, claiming it is fro...Published: 05 Jul 2025 at 10:16hrs | 580 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa duped by form 2 dropout?
In an embarrassing turn of events that echoes the infamous 2007 Rotina Mavhunga Chinhoyi diesel scam, Zimbabwean inventor Maxwell Chikumbutso has been caught misleading President Emmerson Mnangagwa wi...Published: 31 Jan 2025 at 07:47hrs | 3689 | by Staff reporter
Pandemonium at Chief Chivero's village court
There was mayhem at Chief Chivero's village court in Chingwere (Mhondoro) yesterday where self-imposed Chief Chivero, Cornelious Chengera was humiliated by his family members who claim he is not an el...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 09:35hrs | 1730 | by Simbarashe Sithole/ Gideon Madzikatidze in Mhondoro
Parly petitioned over ancestry constitutional recognition
The Hweva Association, an organization advocating for African traditional religion, has petitioned Parliament to amend the Zimbabwean Constitution to explicitly include and honor ancestors and ancestr...Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 07:10hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
Sangoma at home, artiste on stage
Musician Evias Bhebhe, popularly known as Dziva Lemvula, takes great joy when listeners become possessed by their ancestral spirits while listening to his music. Bhebhe, who performs with Gogo Awakhiw...Published: 14 Jul 2024 at 09:50hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's traditional healers take to TikTok
WEARING a stylish black leather jacket and a red blouse, a denim sun hat covering her dreadlocked head, Gogo Mafirakureva goes live on TikTok.In just the first few minutes of her livestream, a...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 18:01hrs | 47 | by Staff reporter
Naked 'wizard' caught in the act
IT was at the crack of dawn when the screaming villagers drew the attention of an elderly man to a homestead, a few metres away from his.Mackenzie, as he described himself in a video that has ...Published: 02 Mar 2024 at 20:04hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Believing in ancestral spirits is a myth
At death the body and spirit or the material and immaterial separate. In African society the spirits of the dead, variously known in sub-Saharan Africa as amahlozi or amatongo (Zulu), Xhosa), balimo (...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 17:59hrs | 1653 | by Dr Onesimus A. Ngundu
Maintaining graves is not Bulawayo City Council's job
THE Bulawayo City Council has urged residents with relatives buried at different cemeteries in the city to constantly check and maintain the graves as it is not the duty of the local authority to do t...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:36hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers arrested despite paying sangoma
Three armed robbers targeted a businessman at his residence in the Mahatshula suburb, purportedly making off with US$6,000 and P110,000, while also offering a traditional healer 1,800 pula as a gestur...Published: 21 Oct 2023 at 21:01hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Kwamu Kwamu: An album of apologies, disclaimers
LAST month, Rhumba musician Madlela Skhobokhobo launched his much-anticipated album, Kwamu Kwamu in Bulawayo. Madlela is a very funny man and with this offering, comic relief was achieved with...Published: 09 May 2023 at 06:03hrs | 4 | by Mbulelo Mpofu
Zimbabweans must stay away from occult wealth seeking
IMAGINE being instructed by an inyanga or sangoma to take soil from a stranger's grave that will be used to perform a ritual to invoke the spirit of a dead person to help you get instant wealth and po...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 08:02hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cops flee Ganja farming ancestral spirits
TWO police officers fleeing down a flight of stairs with stark terror written on their faces at the crack of dawn is not an everyday occurrence.What was supposed to be a routine arrest went so...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chief who pushed for Mugabe's exhumation and reburial dies
CHIEF Chidziva of Zvimba, born Johannes Jenami, has died after a long battle with a kidney problem.He was aged 92.Son to the late chief, Gibson Jenami, confirmed the passing on of his ...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 21:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Manjuzu' craze hits Harare
IN one of his letters to Timothy, a fellow brother in the Christian faith, Apostle Paul (previously known as Saul of Tarsus) offers counsel to a brother.Writes Paul in 1 Timoth 6:10: "For the ...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 07:04hrs | 68 | by Staff reporter
Govt to correct Battle of Pupu story
GOVERNMENT has taken a bold step to correct a one-sided narrative of the famous Battle of Pupu, which for many years deliberately overlooked the African perspective. Under President Mnangagwa, the Sec...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ndebele King says his legitimacy was confirmed by Njelele
CLAIMANT to the ancient Ndebele kingdom, Stanley Raphael Khumalo, who has christened himself King Mzilikazi II, has claimed his legitimacy as a king was confirmed by ancestral spirits at the sacred Nj...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 20:38hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chief who called for Mugabe's genocide reburial succumbs to Covid-19
A ZIMBABWEAN chief, who was spearheading the reburial of the late former President Robert Mugabe's remains, has succumbed to Covid-19 with some of his subjects claiming that the Mugabe ancestral spiri...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Hichilema invites regional opposition leaders to inauguration
Zambia's incoming president Hakainde Hichilema sent dozens of invitations to foreign leaders for his inauguration on Tuesday, but breaking with tradition, he is also inviting opposition leaders from Z...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 17:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mukanya drafts 'retirement' plan
CHIMURENGA musician Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo says he is setting up an arts and culture centre in Domboshava on the outskirts of Harare as part of his departure from the mainstream music industry, whic...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:14hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa claims credit for good rainy season
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has sensationally claimed that he was the force behind the good rains enjoyed in the country this season, in that he allowed traditional chiefs to conduct rainmaking ritua...Published: 23 May 2021 at 07:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cancer patients face stigma from loved ones
HARARE - Nobody gets nearer to her. She has become a loner, with the television turning into her only friend yet 60-year-old Tendai Makuwana is a cancer survivor.For Makuwana, pounded with can...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 12:09hrs | 1 | by Ropafadzo Mapimhidze and Dr Masimba Mavaza
Prophet uses social media to diagnose
JUST a name and surname as well as a picture on WhatsApp is enough for Musawenkosi Vundla, a Victoria Falls-based prophet to "diagnose" and tell one's problem or misfortune. Vundla, who calls ...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 04:55hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Why I am teaching Shona philosophy in the UK
Philosophy deals with the "big questions" that concern us all, such as: what can I know, how should we live, and how should society be organized? But arguably the greatest of the big questions are to ...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 14:16hrs | 26 | by Professor Lloyd Strickland
Open letter to Dr Lovemore Kurotwi
Dear Esteemed Dr Kurotwi my first port of call is to school you on what an opinion piece is. (Ah! Cry the journalistic profession, no sir !!) Dr Kurotwi sir, an opinion is a view or judgement formed a...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 10:20hrs | 10 | by Nicholas Ncube
Obert Mpofu brushes off graft charges
Obert Mpofu, under pressure to vacate his Zanu-PF secretary for administration post over corruption allegations, has said he won't be stopped from reporting for work by anyone as a graft inquiry gets ...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 08:56hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Is Obert Mpofu corrupt?
The nation and the world have been made to believe that Obert Mpofu is corrupt, evil and arrogant. All this is the proud achievement of one man in particular Lovemore Kurotwi.The Kurotwi - Mpo...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 11:17hrs | 4 | by Nicholas Ncube
Jesus Christ and Ancestral Spirits
There is an old song - Amandla amasha - by Steve Kekana that I love. Loosely translated, the song's lyrics go: 'I see that you are on my case, and you are targeting me with renewed energy. ...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 11:32hrs | 1 | by Amandla Amasha
Zanu PF turns to spirit mediums
ZANU PF has resolved to honour the ancestral spirits and seek their direction in correcting "wrongs" perpetrated after the country's independence in 1980.This is according to the superstitious...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 16:59hrs | 3 | by newzimbabwe
King Mzilikazi and the Mambo people created a nation
The nation needs to congratulate the movers for the creation of the Mambo Dynasty Trust and indeed the creation of the BaKalanga Movement, if I have quoted the names of the organisations correctly. It...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 13:20hrs | 481 | by Prince Zwide Peter Khumalo
Cremations 'threaten' Zimbabwe's ancestral spirits
Cremation is provoking a huge debate in Zimbabwe, bringing cultural and religious beliefs to the fore, journalist-turned-barrister Brian Hungwe writes from Harare."For you were made from dust,...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 06:12hrs | 2 | by Brian Hungwe
How one could be ZIPRA, without being ZAPU
Last week, Comrade Agrippah Gava (born 1956) narrated how ZIPRA gunned down Rhodesian Viscounts in 1978 and 1979 and went on to give details about ZIPRA's plan after this attack.In this interv...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:44hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zipra's plan after downing Rhodesian Viscounts
Last week, Comrade Agrippah Gava (born 1956) narrated how he left Tekwane High School with a group of 34 other students to join the liberation struggle in 1976. He narrated how he went for military tr...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:01hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri speaks on White City bombing, blast Chihuri
ZANU PF chairperson Oppah Muchinguri has opened up for the first time on the Bulawayo explosion that left her and many others seriously injured during a ruling party campaign rally addressed by Presid...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The speech Chamisa must have delivered in UK
AFTER the long Chamisa 14 hour trip to the UK, the much anticipated hype that turned to be a zero, Chamisa lost an opportunity to bring all Zimbabweans together as one, especially the majority Ndebele...Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:50hrs | 2 | by Simangaliso Fifinyana
Pupil bites 14 classmates
A FORM One pupil at Tshazi Secondary School in Filabusi, Matabeleland South, allegedly bit 14 of his classmates, seriously injuring one amid suspicions that he is rabid.School authorities yest...Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 07:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's untapped tourism potential
With dozens of tourist attractions, each having a rich history and remarkable diversity of culture, Bulawayo — Zimbabwe's second largest city — as well as its hinterland should have no problem att...Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 09:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'I will be back to rejuvenate Zimbabwe and Zanu PF,' says Mnangagwa - the dictatorship only, yes!
"I have been accused of committing treasonous acts dating back from 1980," complained Mnangagwa from his hideout in SA, according to press reports. I would not want to comment on merits or oth...Published: 08 Nov 2017 at 22:51hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'It's not Nehanda and Kaguvi only who liberated Zimbabwe'
Musikavanhu constituency legislator Prosper Mutseyami said marginalisation of some Zimbabwean tribes is historical requiring the re-writing of the liberation struggle and post-independence narrative....Published: 04 Oct 2017 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
This is Zimbabwe, We should back Strive Masiyiwa
Children of Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana and King Lobengula Khumalo can you hear the new Zimbabwe echo from rock to rock and shrub to shrub in the wet and weathered hills and ridges and slippery slopes ...Published: 29 Aug 2017 at 07:49hrs | 2 | by Tafi Mhaka
Man calls wife granny
A Kuwadzana 50-year-old man who labelled his wife a granny told the court that his spouse was possessed by spirit mediums and was making it difficult to live harmoniously in their matrimonial home....Published: 26 Jun 2017 at 22:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Malawian sangoma causes stir in Harare
A Malawian born Harare based traditional healer, Kamwelo Banda has caused a stir at his Cranborne shrine where surprisingly hundreds are flocking daily.The art of black magic and voodoo practi...Published: 31 May 2017 at 15:28hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Game changer or another Zanu-PF dummy?
IT is almost impossible to dispassionately describe the panorama. But elementary geography informs that some inestimable years ago, igneous rock lava inruded into this part of the world, resulting in ...Published: 26 May 2017 at 07:05hrs | 6 | by Staff writer
Burundi and the Comoros: A time for SADC to show its mettle
The Hutus and Tutsis appear to be a quarrelsome lot. In Rwanda the cousin tribes engineered a world famous genocide that wiped a million people in nine months. Just 270 days my people! This tran...Published: 28 Mar 2017 at 13:34hrs | | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
Juvenile sex business rampant at Mataga
An increase in the juvenile sex workers at Mataga in Mberengwa has been reported amid concerns that most of the culprits are school drop outs due to poverty.Media reports state tha...Published: 17 Jan 2017 at 03:48hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Sex workers in a fix, offer sex for 40c
Scores of female prostitutes especially young school dropsouts are selling sex in Mataga area in Mberengwa district for a mere plate of sadza.Commercial sex workers say business is...Published: 14 Jan 2017 at 10:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Mugabe anointed by ancestral spirits'
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's leadership was brought by ancestral spirits, with apostolic sects anointing him to the throne, according to claims by one of ruling party's top officials.T...Published: 11 Jan 2017 at 06:49hrs | 2 | by AllnetAfrica.com
Webster Shamu back with 'Cremora' praise singing
Reformed former Zanu-PF commissar, Webster Shamu, who was recently readmitted into the ruling party's central committee, last week shocked mourners at the late national hero Peter Chanetsa's funer...Published: 09 Jan 2017 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sex for a plate of sadza at Mataga Growth Point
The economic hardships at Mataga Growth Point in Mberengwa have become so acute that commercial sex workers and hordes of little girls that have dropped out of school as a result are engaging in sex j...Published: 14 Dec 2016 at 03:47hrs | 14 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe music instrument takes US by storm
TACOMA, Washington - Two master players of the African mbira - a metal-keyed instrument used by the Shona people of Zimbabwe in sacred ceremonies - Erica Azim and Fradreck Mujuru are on a national...Published: 13 Nov 2016 at 09:37hrs | | by pugetsound.edu
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