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Zimbabwean family buries Lesotho citizen in tragic body mix-up
A family from Cross Roads, Mangwe, was left in shock after discovering they had buried the wrong body two months ago, a mistake that saw them laying to rest a Lesotho citizen instead of their relative...Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 16:58hrs | 1248 | by Staff reporter
Sihlangu Dlodlo predicted his death?
The tragic passing of Sihlangu Dlodlo, the late CEO of Highlanders Football Club, has taken a chilling turn as it has emerged that he seemingly predicted his own demise in a haunting Facebook post jus...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 07:38hrs | 901 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabweans stand with grieving Malawi
Zimbabwe stands in solidarity with Malawi following the tragic death of Vice President Dr. Saulos Klaus Chilima and nine others in a plane crash, President Mnangagwa has announced. The crash, which oc...Published: 16 Jun 2024 at 09:00hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Prophet' nabbed after failing to resurrect dead body
There was drama in Glendale on Wednesday where an alleged apostolic church prophet shocked mourners who were awaiting body viewing claiming the dead man was alive and he would resurrect him.Th...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 18:13hrs | 10 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Drama as funeral is temporarily stopped
THERE was drama in Bulawayo's Gwabalanda suburb when the burial of a 12-year-old girl was temporarily halted on Thursday after the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) said the burial could not go ahead wi...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:37hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Funeral parlours mix up bodies families fear identifying relatives because of Covid-19
The third wave of coronavirus has been unforgiving. There has been an explosion in infections and deaths since mid-June.In the 54 days from June 19 — when fatalities rose to double digits â€...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:30hrs | 2 | by Bishop L
Demand for graves surges in Gweru
THERE has been a surge in demand for graves in the city of Gweru amid indications that from January to date, 65 people have been buried at council cemeteries compared to 45 the whole of last year. ...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 07:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Family exhumes father after hospital morgue mix-up
A Mhangura family recently had to endure the pain of exhuming and re-burying the body of their father which had earlier been interred elsewhere, in a case of mistaken identity. The man had suc...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 07:35hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Forget about traditional funeral rituals, says Omega Sibanda
THE death of five people in Lower Gweru from Covid-19 after performing body viewing of a deceased relative from South Africa has raised concerns over rites traditionally observed upon the passing on o...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:07hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Body viewing claims five people
Five villagers from Lower Gweru succumbed to Covid 19 after attending a funeral service and conducted body viewing of a deceased person from the village who had died in South Africa of the virus last ...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 17:19hrs | 2 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
5 die of Covid-19 after attending funeral
Five villagers from Lower Gweru under Chief Sogwala have died of Covid-19 in a space of a week after attending a funeral service for a relative who had succumbed to the virus. According to the local l...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 07:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo rolls out jabs for all adults
BULAWAYO Province is today expected to start mass vaccination of all adults. The jabs will be accessed at all council clinics and hospitals across the city as the country received two million Sinovac ...Published: 12 Jul 2021 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says doctors, nurses deserve better
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said doctors and nurses in the country deserve the highest quality working conditions and support, hence Government's swift move to rehabilitate doctors' quarters that we...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Funeral at 'killer's' house
THE family of a murdered Bulawayo man held his burial service at their neighbour's home in Pumula South suburb yesterday accusing them of fatally beating him. Blessing Zikhali (30) died on Wed...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 07:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Family buries wrong body, forced to exhume
A FAMILY from Lobengula West suburb was left speechless after they were given a wrong body by a funeral parlour and had to travel all the way to Plumtree to exhume the body of their loved one for rebu...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:29hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
The weaponisation of Covid-19 in Zanu-PF factional wars
A new deadly political threatTHERE is a new and dangerous security threat in Zimbabwe's politically dysfunctional post-November 2017 military state, under an increasingly factionalised Zanu-PF...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:50hrs | 18 | by Jonathan Moyo
Funeral drama at cemetery
THERE was chaos at a Bulawayo cemetery yesterday when the family of a deceased injiva blocked undertakers from removing a coffin from a hearse in protest over the funeral parlour's refusal to allow th...Published: 08 Feb 2021 at 05:46hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans now opting for traditional remedies
AS Zimbabwe continues to record an increase in Covid-19 cases and deaths, many people, especially those in the country's informal sector, are contemplating downgrading on funeral and medical aid cover...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 06:46hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to cut his leave
President Mnangagwa will cut his leave tomorrow to preside over the joint burial of national heroes Moton Malianga and Dr Ellen Gwaradzimba at the National Heroes' Acre, showing the importance he atta...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 denial rife in Bulawayo
FEAR of losing loved ones is the only force that could motivate Bulawayo residents to change their behaviour and follow Covid-19 prevention measures. Over 27 000 people have contracted Covid-1...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Movement of corpses clarified
Bodies can be buried outside the city or town of death, and repatriation of Zimbabweans for burial will continue, but under strict health protocols, Government clarified yesterday. The new pro...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 08:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police ban movement of dead bodies to contain COVID-19
Zimbabwe police have banned the movement of dead bodies from place to place for burial in an effort to limit the spread of Covid-19. Burial will now take place where one would have died. ...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 21:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Worthwhile Mugabe buried
Worthwhile Mugabe who died on New Year's and was laid to rest at Umvutsha Park Cemetery in Bulawayo yesterday.Mugabe succumbed to Covid-19, two days short of his 53rd birthday at the prestigio...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 07:36hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Flamboyant send-off for Ginimbi
THE late socialite and businessman Genius Kadungure, popularly known as Ginimbi has proved to be a character larger than life itself as this Friday thousands of people thronged Doves Harare street to ...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 19:19hrs | 3 | by zbc
100 people for Ginimbi burial
A maximum of 100 people will attend the funeral of businessman and socialite Genius 'Ginimbi' Kadungure tomorrow at his mansion in Domboshava, in line with Covid-19 regulations, and the mourners will ...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 05:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Programme for late National Hero: Dr Dumiso Dabengwa : 9:00 - 13:00
A memorial service for the late national hero Dumiso Dabengwa will be held in Bulawayo on today, ahead of his burial in Ntabazinduna on Saturday.Bulawayo residents will get an opportunity to p...Published: 31 May 2019 at 08:21hrs | 1 | by DD Trust
Mnangagwa calls on Zimbabwe to desist from dividing country
President Mnangagwa has called on Zimbabwe to desist from practices and attitudes that divide the country. The Head of State and Government said dialogue was a central plank in the Second Republic. ...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Shock at funeral: Body viewing cancelled as corpse bleeds
MOURNERS at a funeral gathering in Emncwazini Village in Figtree, about 40 kilometres south east of Bulawayo had the shock of their lives when body viewing was cancelled amid claims that the corpse wa...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 07:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Wrong body buried, family forced to exhume
A NKAYI family in Matabeleland North has been forced to exhume a body of a Mosotho man it buried in December after it emerged that they collected a wrong body from a South African funeral parlour. ...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
43 buses for Tuku's rural home burial
NATIONAL hero Dr Oliver Mtukudzi will be buried tomorrow (Sunday) at his rural home in Madziva. The international music icon died at the Avenues Clinic in Harare on Wednesday after battling di...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 17:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Oliver Mtukudzi's full burial progam
The Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Hon Monica Mutsvangwa on Friday gave a press conference on the funeral programme for the late National Hero, Dr Oliver Mtukudzi....Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 17:43hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ginimbi buries brother, Marry Chiwenga attends burial
The year 2019 has started on a bad note for Harare businessman Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure who lost his brother Andrew Kadungure on New Year's Eve. Andrew died during the early hours of Monday ...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 20:37hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Corpse changes attire in hearse
MOURNERS were forced to wait as relatives of the deceased changed her clothes in a hearse at a graveside before burial at Glenville Cemetery on Wednesday. The body of the late Agnes Mabvira, w...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 20:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Makhurane buried
The founding Vice Chancellor of the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) Professor Phineas Makhurane has been laid to rest at his rural home in Gungwe, Gwanda South.Professor M...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 15:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mathuthu gets hero's send-off
THOUSANDS of people yesterday thronged the National Heroes' Acre in Harare to pay their last respects to national heroine Thokozile Angela Mathuthu. Mathuthu died last week after battling cancer. ...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland North bids Mathuthu farewell
MATEBELELAND NORTH yesterday bade farewell to the late former Provincial Affairs minister and Zanu PF deputy secretary in the women's league, Thokozile Angela Mathuthu who succumbed to cervical cancer...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mathuthu's death blow to Matebeleland region development'
MATEBELELAND North provincial leadership has described the late former Provincial Affairs minister Sithokozile Mathuthu's death as a blow to the development of the region, as she worked hard towards t...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa bemoans siphoning of cash out of Zimbabwe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has expressed concern at the tendency by Zimbabweans to siphon cash out of the country, saying it is hampering efforts by the government to address the current cash shorta...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 14:26hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Emotions run high at Bongo burial
A POPULAR cross-border transporter (umalayitsha) Bongani "Bongo" Ndlovu who was killed at a Bulawayo nightspot recently was buried yesterday at West Park Cemetery in the city in a highly emotional cer...Published: 07 May 2018 at 07:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Village chief demands money for body viewing
Chief Marange was allegedly humiliated and asked to leave at the funeral of Never Chinowaita in Bocha Marange under Chinowaita village yesterday. Never Chinowaita suddenly died while serving a...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 19:10hrs | | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Women eat body parts from dead relative
THERE was drama in Ndangara Village under Chief Chireya in Gokwe, Midlands province when two women allegedly connived to eat body parts they had harvested from a body of their male adult relative at a...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chaos erupts as Tsvangirai body arrives - Khupe, Mudzuri booed
HARARE - A bitter family feud over Morgan Tsvangirai's widow - Elizabeth - accompanying her husband's body into the One Commando Barracks forced government to step in yesterday and take charge of the ...Published: 18 Feb 2018 at 15:05hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Boycott Mugabe 'body viewing' rally
OPPOSITION parties in Bulawayo yesterday threatened to mobilise their members to boycott President Robert Mugabe's scheduled youth interface rally at White City Stadium on Saturday.The parties...Published: 02 Nov 2017 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe wants return of death penalty
President Robert Mugabe has bemoaned the increasing cases of murder cases, calling for the return of the death penalty for offenders.Mugabe made the remarks while concluding his speech during ...Published: 01 Nov 2017 at 15:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Body viewing in progress - Two bodies waiting for burial
Body 1 – ED's Body Is Being Paraded to the Public The recent political outburst clearly shows that ED is politically finished. When these so called yo...Published: 08 Oct 2017 at 13:25hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Man inspects sibling's privates to stop family from burying wrong body
A Shurugwi family nearly buried a wrong body of a relative who was severely dismembered by a debilitating cancer had it not been for the twin brother who checked for several marks on the deceased's bo...Published: 02 Oct 2017 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa back at work after poison saga
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has returned to work after spending weeks away from his official duties following emergency surgery prompted by a suspected and alleged poison attack at a youth inter...Published: 30 Aug 2017 at 13:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe blasts witch-craft mentality
President Robert Mugabe has warned people to desist from the tendency of attributing every sickness to witchcraft, saying it is lack of ideological clarity.Speaking at the National Heroes Acre...Published: 27 Aug 2017 at 17:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF leaders accusing Mugabe of witchcraft
President Robert Mugabe yesterday waded into the controversy that followed Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa's sudden illeness, saying some Zanu-PF leaders are now accusing him of witchcraft.P...Published: 27 Aug 2017 at 12:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
LIVE: Naison Ndlovu burial at Heroes Acre
13:34 The National Anthem is now being sung to mark the end of proceedings here at the national shrine. That concludes our updates. Thank you for joining us.13:25 President Mugabe is now leadi...Published: 03 Jun 2017 at 13:23hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
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