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Popular Madzibaba dies in car crash
The apostolic sect has been plunged into mourning following the death of a popular Johanne Masowe eChishanu leader, Madzibaba Edward Manyara. He was 67. Madzibaba Manyara was one of the sect's five-ma...Published: 19 hrs ago | 1554 | by Staff reporter
Johanne Masowe eChishanu leader dies
Johanne Masowe eChishanu apostolic sect leader Edward Manyara has died.He was 67.The leader popularly known as Madzibaba Edward died upon admission at Avenues clinic yesterday after be...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 20:32hrs | 838 | by Staff reporter
Kisinoti Mukwazhe dies
Opposition Zimbabwe Development Party (ZDP) party president Mr Kisinoti Mukwazhe died last night at Karanda Mission Hospital after a short illness.He was 49.Mr Mukwazhe died after bein...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 18:54hrs | 4542 | by Staff reporter
King Mzilikazi 11 mourns Xhosa King
KING Mzilikazi II, (Stanley Raphael Khumalo) of Matabeleland has sent his condolences on the passing on of South Africa's AmaXhosa King, His Royal Majesty King Mpendulo Zwelonke Sigcawu,The Am...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 19:18hrs | 1056 | by Staff reporter
8 Beitbridge bodies face pauper's burial
GOVERNMENT officials in Beitbridge, who are grappling with a mortuary crisis following the suspension of morgue services at the 160-bed Beitbridge District Hospital last week, are seeking authority to...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:29hrs | 588 | by Staff reporter
MDC snubs Mnangagwa to bury cadres
THE opposition MDC yesterday continued with its protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's legitimacy and snubbed the 2020 national budget presentation over his presence in Parliament.All...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:25hrs | 707 | by Staff reporter
Mob tries to burn hearse at border
CHAOS broke out at Beitbridge Border Post yesterday when a mob of cross border drivers attempted to burn a Toyota Quantum carrying the body of a gang leader accused of unleashing a reign of terror aga...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 05:32hrs | 2433 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe attacks Mnangagwa?
The escalating row over a farm in Harare's Pomona area, involving Grace Mugabe and a number of land claimants, has now placed the erratic former first lady in the gun-sights of the ruling Zanu-PF. ...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:53hrs | 14025 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge Hospital shuts down mortuary
INCESSANT power cuts have forced Beitbridge District Hospital to shut down its mortuary leaving members of the public at the mercy of private players who are offering the services at exorbitant prices...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:35hrs | 201 | by Staff reporter
ANC denounces sanctions on Zimbabwe again
ZIMBABWE should be allowed to solve its problems without the interference of external forces and illegal sanctions imposed on it by Western countries must be lifted, South Africa's ruling African Nati...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:33hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
Court stops Grace Mugabe farm eviction
Three farmers seeking to evict former president Robert Mugabe's widow from a farm in Mazowe must wait until his estate is registered before pursuing the matter, the Harare High Court ruled on Monday....Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 18:11hrs | 9983 | by ZimLive
Mugabe mausoleum construction underway at Heroes Acre
CONSTRUCTION of a mausoleum at the National Heroes Acre in Harare which was meant for the burial of former President Robert Mugabe is currently underway. Construction work started in September...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 06:32hrs | 5232 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga in remarkable recovery, returning home soon
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga, who was airlifted to China from South Africa in July amid poisoning fears, is preparing to return home after making a remarkable recovery at a top hospital in Beij...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 05:18hrs | 1892 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's sons snub late father's memorial service
A memorial service for the late former President, Mugabe, was secretly held on October 19 by a section of his family, but many of his close relatives, including his sons, did not attend.The ma...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:30hrs | 3195 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, Gen Sibanda in secret pact to hand Zimbabwe power to each other?
COLOGNE - Military czar Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga and Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Commander, General Philip Valerio Sibanda, reportedly made a secret pact to hand Zimbabwe pow...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 07:46hrs | 30677 | by Itai Mushekwe
Khami Road crash kills 3
THREE people died, two of them relatives to the late national hero Sikhanyiso Ndlovu when the vehicle they were travelling in veered off the road and overturned along Khami Road. Brother to th...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 06:30hrs | 792 | by Staff reporter
Suicide at lover's doorstep
The lady whose boyfriend committed suicide at her doorstep following a dispute, has broken her silence giving a detailed account of what transpired on the night.It is suspected that Byron Nyev...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 09:41hrs | 498 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wife's cancer programme divides Mugodhi church
A VISIT by First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa to Mugodhi Apostolic Faith Church in Wedza on a cancer screening awareness programme has divided the church, with one faction accusing the late founder Tandewu...Published: 26 Oct 2019 at 07:40hrs | 1925 | by Staff reporter
Chaos at Mugodhi sect leader's burial
CHAOS reigned supreme at the late Mugodhi Apostolic sect leader Tandewu Mugodhi's burial in Wedza on Saturday after two factions clashed over the burial site and the appointment of his son as heir app...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 11:39hrs | 3582 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP booed for Mnangagwa praise during funeral
ZANU-PF Tsholotsho North MP, Sibangumuzi Khumalo was Sunday booed at a funeral in Mswigana village in Tsholotsho when he tried to praise President Emmerson Mnangagwa's leadership.According to ...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 11:38hrs | 3681 | by Staff reporter
Player collapses during soccer match
THE Bulawayo football fraternity has been plunged into mourning following the untimely death of 18-year-old Talen Vision defender Cedric Dube, who collapsed during a league match and was pronounced de...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 07:13hrs | 1060 | by Staff reporter
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 | 3107 | 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 | 13 | 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 | 268 | 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 | 485 | 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 | 21591 | 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 | 15852 | 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 | 511 | 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 | 244 | 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 | 8194 | 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 | 14560 | 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 | 904 | 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 | 742 | 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 | 162 | 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 | 63 | 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 | 214 | 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 | 3726 | 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 | 1060 | 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 | 2467 | 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 | 21 | 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 | 520 | 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 | 121 | 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 | 1424 | 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 | 12690 | 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 | 699 | 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 | 3301 | 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 | 417 | 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 | 4452 | 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 | 2513 | 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 | 3751 | by Don Chigumba
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