Search / Buria
Man murders wife in South Africa, flees to Zimbabwe
A 25-year-old woman from Entumbane suburb in Bulawayo was stabbed to death allegedly by her Zimbabwean husband in Cape Town, in South Africa, before he reportedly fled to Harare. The inc...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 07:00hrs | 2828 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe obstinate in death as in life
Although the deposed late former President Robert Mugabe was finally buried at his rural home in Zvimba, tongues will continue waging. As I see it, his snubbing the National Heroes Acre, a shrine he i...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 08:53hrs | 9 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Grannies 'steal' US$17k+ burial money
TWO elderly women from Bulawayo allegedly stole US$17 160, R4 800 and RTGS$14 000 from their burial society. Dorcas Machengo (72) and Evelyn Chapepa (78) from Magwegwe suburb allegedly betraye...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 06:43hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
Tragedy as Zimbabweans are robbed of their culture and traditions
Zimbabweans in the UK are seriously shocked by the loss of culture In Zimbabwe. Most Zimbabweans had cultivated the thought of sending their kids to Zimbabwe for cultural lessons.&nb...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 05:48hrs | 373 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Grace Mugabe's problems mount by the day
Former first lady Grace Mugabe risks losing one of the properties that forms part of her family's sprawling residence in Harare's leafy suburb of Borrowdale - famously referred to as the Blue Roof - f...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 07:12hrs | 20781 | by Staff reporter
Dilemma over Grace Mugabe's farm grabs
What goes around comes around, so the cliché says. That summarises Grace Mugabe's situation even as she is mourning her husband, Robert, the former president who passed on last month.Credib...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 07:15hrs | 15558 | by Tawanda Majoni
2 women jailed for stealing cellphones during burial
TWO women from Bulawayo have been sentenced to nine months in prison for stealing cellphones during a burial at Luveve cemetery. Nolwazi Dube (18) and Minenhle Mare (25) from Pumula suburb sto...Published: 12 Oct 2019 at 10:28hrs | 503 | by Staff reporter
NPRC prepares for Mugabe-Mnangagwa victims' exhumations, reburials
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has started preparing for exhumations and reburials of Gukurahundi victims, a senior official has said. NPRC chairperson Retired Justice...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 06:43hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
Grace may have tampered with Mugabe's body ahead of his burial?
In stranger than fiction new revelations, former first lady Grace Mugabe apparently performed bizarre rituals on the remains of her late husband, Robert Mugabe - and also barred close family members a...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 20:33hrs | 8108 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe took part in bizarre rituals
In stranger than fiction new revelations, former first lady Grace Mugabe apparently performed bizarre rituals on the remains of her late husband, Robert Mugabe - and also barred close family members a...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 07:26hrs | 14487 | by Staff reporter
Govt fails to identify 114 exhumed bodies
The National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe (NMMZ) eastern region director Paul Mupira has said they are facing challenges in identifying 114 war victims whose remains were exhumed from Odzi Ardwel...Published: 08 Oct 2019 at 06:48hrs | 890 | by Staff reporter
Grace battles to keep Mugabe empire
Former first lady Grace Mugabe (pictured right) fears that the government will go after her husband's sprawling empire that consists of commercial farms and a mansion in Harare, it has been revealed....Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 15:39hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
Cracks emerge in the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission
The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has allegedly been rocked by divisions with some commissioners said to be unhappy over the government's lack of commitment in addressing past hu...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 15:29hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
The Mugabe legacy, the ignominy of failed G40 politicking
The controversy and contradiction surrounding the memory of the late former President Robert Mugabe is telling of the extent to which his legacy was abused both in life and in his afterlife.Th...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 15:06hrs | 55 | by Lewis Matutu
Mystery of Mugabe's 'multiple' caskets unravelled
Although former President Robert Mugabe was buried last week, the story of his caskets has remained subject of much debate, adding to the "controversy" surrounding his burial.Many ...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 15:05hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter
Inside Robert Mugabe's casket mystery
Former President Robert Mugabe was last Saturday buried in a centimetre-thick copper and steel, square-cornered casket with a five-mm thick inside glass compartment and airtight gasket, presumably mea...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 07:36hrs | 3678 | by Staff Reporter
Robert Mugabe was 90% correct and 10% wrong
The legacy of former Zimbabwe President Robert Gabriel Mugabe remains a contested terrain and it ought to be understood within the context of colonialism and neo-colonialism. The deconstruction of the...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 09:48hrs | 1037 | by Jerry Matebesi
Grace Mugabe accuses Leo of bribery
FORMER President Robert Mugabe's nephew, Leo, and some close relatives snubbed the former president's burial in Zvimba last Saturday after being accused by ex-first lady Grace Mugabe of taking bribes ...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:54hrs | 2439 | by Staff reporter
'G40 bigwigs seek to capitalise on Mugabe death'
Self-exiled members of G40 want to gain cheap political mileage by taking advantage of former President Robert Mugabe's death, at the same time using his burial site in Zvimba as a money-making scheme...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:02hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to open ZMF conference
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to deliver a keynote address at the Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) annual general meeting scheduled for November 5 to 6 at the Gweru Convention Centre in Gwe...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 19:52hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter
Government speaks on Robert Mugabe's body parts
Deputy Government Spokesperson Energy Mutodi has denied that the Harare Administration needs the body parts belonging to the late former President Robert Mugabe to run government. Mutodi was r...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 16:08hrs | 29 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa unleashes gold panners on Mugabe dairy farm, orphanage
A dairy farm and a children's orphanage owned by the family of former president Robert Mugabe could soon be overrun by gold panners after President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government gave a greenlight fo...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 12:41hrs | 1405 | by ZimLive
Grace Mugabe facing eviction
Former first lady Grace Mugabe risk losing all her properties in Mazowe - including her famed Gushungo dairy operations and top-notch school there - after the government indicated that it could re-all...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 07:57hrs | 12596 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe family changed burial place after Malema visit
SOUTH African opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema's visit to Zimbabwe could have influenced former First Lady Grace to change her mind about former President Robert Mugabe'...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 07:33hrs | 681 | by newzimbabwe
Joshua Nkomo could be exhumed from Heroes Acre
The family of liberation icon Joshua Nkomo says it is not ruling out exhuming his body from the National Heroes Acre in Harare for reburial at his homestead in Kezi, Matabeleland South.Nkomo's...Published: 02 Oct 2019 at 20:59hrs | 3278 | by ZimLive
G40's hatchet job on Mugabe's legacy
Former president Robert Mugabe was buried at his Zvimba rural home last Saturday, three weeks after his passing on September 6 in Singapore. The Generation 40 group of self-exiled former ZANU-...Published: 02 Oct 2019 at 06:33hrs | 402 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Grace Mugabe, Gono in serious fallout
Former first lady Grace Mugabe and ex-Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono reportedly had a massive fallout over the decision to bury the late president Robert Mugabe in Zvimba, it has emerge...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 13:20hrs | 4422 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa halts Mugabe mausoleum construction
GOVERNMENT has stopped construction of what was supposed to be late former President Robert Mugabe's mausoleum at the National Heroes Acre two days after he was buried at his rural Zvimba home, NewZim...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 07:37hrs | 2506 | by newzimbabwe
Dear Strive Masiyiwa
I greet you cordially.I just want to let you know that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and President ED are moving fast to destroy your cash cow Ecocash. It has come to my attention that they banned ...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 22:10hrs | 3724 | by Don Chigumba
Malema credited with helping Mugabe's family with burial wishes
Robert Mugabe's nephew, Patrick Zhuwao, has credited EFF leader Julius Malema for pushing Zimbabwe's government to honour his uncle's burial wishes.Mugabe died in a Singapore hospital on Septe...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 21:40hrs | 2480 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF spoils for new fight with Mugabe family
Zanu-PF has set itself on a new collision course with Robert Mugabe's family after the party announced plans to convert the former president's sprawling Borrowdale home into a museum.The plan ...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 19:47hrs | 5345 | by AFP
What Mugabe feared most
Former Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe has finally been buried at his rural Zvimba home, bringing to an end the dramatic and bitter disputes between his surviving spouse Grace and President Emmerson Mna...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 16:54hrs | 2393 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's bizarre burial revelations
The body of former president Robert Mugabe was buried yesterday at his rural home in Zvimba in a low-key event.Mugabe's family gathered at Kutama village where they witnessed his burial under ...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 16:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chronicling the G40's hatchet job on Mugabe's legacy
Former President Robert Mugabe was buried at his Zvimba rural home last Saturday, three weeks since his passing on 6 September in Singapore. The former liberation icon and Zimbabwe's founding fa...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 14:58hrs | 1155 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mugabe looked after his own
THE drums reverberated at the home of the late former President Robert Mugabe as boys from the Roman Catholic-run Kutama Boys High Mission sang in smooth innocent majestic voices to bid farewell to a ...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 07:35hrs | 2470 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's body parts on demand, buried in a steel coffin
The bizarre burial of Robert Mugabe saw the former Zimbabwean leader interred in a steel-lined coffin under a layer of concrete on Saturday, following a bitter dispute over his resting place between g...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 07:32hrs | 5761 | by Peta Thornycroft
Gushungo clan chiefs snubbed Mugabe burial
Chiefs from the late national hero Robert Mugabe's Gushungo clan of Zvimba were conspicuous by their absence during his burial yesterday, amid indications that they failed to agree with the family on ...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 07:32hrs | 3106 | by Staff reporter
Mutodi under siege over Zanu-PF 'dunderheads' tweet
Information deputy minister Energy Mutodi is skating on a thin ice after the youth league in his home province came out against his recent labelling party youths as dunderheads. Provincial you...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 07:24hrs | 3684 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa humiliates wife?
MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has come under fire from many social media users after a video went viral of him arbitrarily grabbing a microphone from his wife, Sithokozile, while she was...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 06:47hrs | 3468 | by Staff reporter
Grace's insecurities & scheming derailed plans to bury Mugabe at the Heroes Acre
THE founding father of Zimbabwe and former President Robert Mugabe, who died in Singapore three weeks ago, was laid to rest at his Zvimba rural homestead on Saturday, putting to an end squabbles among...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 06:35hrs | 1357 | by Editorial - chronicle
Grace wanted to exhume the body of Mugabe's mother from Zvimba
EVENTS leading up to the burial of the country's founding President, Robert Mugabe, at his rural home in Zvimba yesterday - 22 days after his death in Singapore - betrayed former First Lady Grace Mug...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 22:55hrs | 8073 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's burial site invokes a debate of what makes a hero?
THE imbroglio of Robert Mugabe's burial site invokes a debate of what makes a hero? Is it the land on which one is buried or it is the people who emulate the "late" who define and describe heroism? I ...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 12:42hrs | 2352 | by Michael Mhlanga
Mugabe private burial belittles icon, says Zanu-PF
THE ruling Zanu-PF has expressed disappointment over the uncommunicated disregard of the agreement between Government and the late former President Cde Robert Mugabe's family for his remains to be int...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 12:41hrs | 1695 | by Staff reporter
Man jailed 20yrs for poisoning father
A 23-YEAR old Zimunya man who poisoned his father during a cleansing ceremony along Mpudzi River has been slapped with a 20-year jail sentence by a Mutare High Court judge.Dereck Chitakatira r...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 12:30hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe buried in a 'specially constructed site'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Government has granted former President and national hero Robert Mugabe his death-bed wish for his remains to be interred at his rural home in Kutama, Zvimba, Mashonalan...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 12:18hrs | 709 | by Staff reporter
Shocking details surrounding Mugabe burial
Events leading up to the burial of the country's founding President, Robert Mugabe, at his rural home in Zvimba yesterday – 22 days after his death in Singapore – betrayed former First L...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 12:14hrs | 443 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe made choice to be buried in Zvimba'
LATE former State President Robert Mugabe is the one who expressed a wish not to be buried at the National Heroes Acre, confiding in close family members that he had been humiliated by the 2017 coup t...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 12:12hrs | 274 | by newzimbabwe
Shocking details on Mugabe burial, Grace tries to exhume Bona's remains
EVENTS leading up to the burial of the country's founding President, Robert Mugabe, at his rural home in Zvimba yesterday - 22 days after his death in Singapore - betrayed former First Lady Grace Muga...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 11:28hrs | 9035 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe buried in courtyard of Sally's house
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Government has granted former President and national hero Robert Mugabe his death-bed wish for his remains to be interred at his rural home in Kutama, Zvimba, Mashonalan...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 11:14hrs | 3614 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's burial a cause for concern as Gucci 'won' Zimbabwe's game of thrones
Grace Mugabe got one more chance to spite the men who betrayed her husband and won this round in Zimbabwe's game of thrones. Gucci's decision lately to refuse the burial of her husband at the national...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 10:54hrs | 3459 | by Georgia Marlins
Load More Stories
