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Suspected wizards/witches usually found at people's homes suffer from mental health
THE grey-haired, half naked and stumbling elderly individuals who are usually found at people homes in the wee hours are not all wizards and witches but some suffer from mental health.A family...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:54hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Water dragon drowns 3 men in South Africa
Three men were reportedly drowned by a water dragon (inkanyamba) at a tragic incident that happened at Snake Park, in Soweto.The three drowned during a cleansing ceremony in a stream near the ...Published: 01 Jan 2023 at 18:15hrs | 4999 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Family finds blood sprinkled on doorstep
IN a scary incident, a family from Emahlabathini Village in Inyathi, Matabeleland North province woke up to a disturbing scene of blood randomly sprinkled on their doorsteps together with a white bloo...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:20hrs | 2489 | by Staff reporter
Headman, teacher up for stock theft
A headman in Mudzi, a teacher and their accomplice are in trouble after they allegedly hired a self proclaimed prophet to cleanse the home of a senior cit...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 22:37hrs | 1149 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Africans are to blame for soon-coming Nuclear World War III
When human beings were created, there was a certain field of knowledge which they were not supposed to extrapolate into. Knowledge was supposed to be limited for the good and continuity of this Planet...Published: 05 Nov 2022 at 05:36hrs | 4030 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Murdered girl's family demands 60 cattle
THE family of the late Sanele Ndlovu who was allegedly murdered by her boyfriend Tendai Gondo in a domestic dispute is demanding 60 cattle or US$48 000 from the Gondo family as compensation before the...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:17hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa arrives for gukurahundi genocide indaba to cleanse himself
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa landed in Bulawayo yesterday to launch today the traditional leaders-led Gukurahundi public consultations during a meeting that will see the engagements roadmap being outlined....Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 1276 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF is blatantly rigging 2023 and EU gearing to grant it legitimacy under guess of 'constructive dialogue'!
"EU abandons confrontation with Zimbabwe!" screamed The Herald headline! "CHARMED by President Mnangagwa's open door policy and far-reaching economic reforms, more investors will be coming fro...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 23:13hrs | 703 | by Wilbert Mukori
Clueless SRC adamant on ZIFA reforms
THE Sport and Recreation Commission are adamant that the process of reforming local football will only succeed once the ZIFA Congress meet to discuss the forthcoming forensic audit report and recommen...Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 06:04hrs | 90 | by Staff reporter
Witch hunters trigger crisis meeting
CHIEF Bekezela Sibanda Sibasa of Filabusi last week called a crisis meeting with villagers, human rights watchdogs and the police to discuss witch hunters (tsikamutandas) who he said were wreaking hav...Published: 23 Aug 2022 at 06:30hrs | 622 | by Staff reporter
CCC's politics of a scavenging bird
A vulture is a scavenging bird. It feeds from and thrives in the dead, dirt, smelly and foul.A green parrot, on the other hand is an adorable creature of magnificent beauty. It blends with and...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 20:45hrs | 195 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chief summons witch hunter
A TRADITIONAL leader in Kezi, Chief Nyangazonke has summoned a tsikamutanda (witch hunter) operating in the area to explain his activities.Tsikamutandas are reportedly wreaking havoc in Matabe...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 906 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF warns renegades
Zanu-PF has warned fired former party members, Godfrey Tsenengamu and Jimu Kunaka, against abusing the revolutionary party's regalia and trademarks as appropriate action would be taken against them....Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:23hrs | 1263 | by Staff reporter
Storm over Mohadi ZEC appointment
A POLITICAL storm is raging over the controversial appointment of the daughter of Zanu-PF vice-president Kembo Mohadi (pictured) and the ruling party's Beitbridge senator Tambudzani Mohadi, Abigail Mi...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:36hrs | 2436 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Exemption Permits court challenge, Whites are fond of slavery
THE news that the Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) has taken our government to court to overturn the termination of the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEPs), while infuriating, should not come as a surprise...Published: 06 Jul 2022 at 18:52hrs | 2753 | by Mogomotsi Mogodiri
Sperm harvesters on the loose in Bulawayo
A GROUP of female sperm harvesters is on the loose in Bulawayo after three women reportedly drugged and sexually assaulted a man who they had given a lift, with police warning the public not to accept...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:18hrs | 786 | by Stephen Mpofu
Zanu-PF offers human rights award
HUMAN rights watchers yesterday questioned Zanu-PF's intentions and sincerity of awarding locals the Herbert Chitepo award for justice and human rights when the ruling party stands accused of human ri...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:25hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
Gift Banda gloats over Kamambo's ouster
Acting ZIFA boss Gift Banda Friday appeared gloating over his former boss, Felton Kamambo's ouster as the football mother body's president while pledging to ensure a speedy Warriors' return to interna...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 11:12hrs | 2079 | by Staff reporter
'Wafawafa' Zion prophets to cleanse school of sexually insatiable goblins
Female teachers at Makumbi Primary School in Plumtree have moved out of the teachers' cottages as they allege that they were being sexually attacked by goblins.The teachers said they wake up w...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:20hrs | 1133 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: When the snake bites the charmer
Staring the abyssVery slowly but definitely quite surely, the world is drifting towards a scary nuclear abyss. The conflict in Eastern Europe now has all the makings of a major superpo...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:10hrs | 208 | by jamwanda
Zuma to sue ahead of start of trial today
A day before the start of former president Jacob Zuma's corruption trial, his foundation announced his legal team will try to privately prosecute lead prosecutor Billy Downer."The instruction ...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:25hrs | 100 | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutandas wreaking havoc in communities
SELF-PROCLAIMED witch-hunters, commonly known as tsikamutandas, have flooded the San community in Makhulela Village, Bulilima where they claim to be "cleansing the area", reported Chronicle in Septemb...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:40hrs | 507 | by Staff reporter
Goblins unleashes a reign of terror
Randy goblins have unleashed a reign of terror in Nkayi's Hojeni Village, with their insatiable sexual attacks forcing teachers at Hojeni Primary School to flee their dwellings amid claims by villager...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:38hrs | 491 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son in-law not bothered about Zifa suspension
THE Sports and Recreation Commission have said they are not in a hurry to lift the suspension of the ZIFA board as a condition for reinstatement of Zimbabwe's membership by FIFA and will only do so on...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 06:44hrs | 283 | by Staff reporter
Artuz to launch anti-corruption clean-up campaign
THE Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) is planning to launch an anti-corruption clean-up campaign tomorrow, which will coincide with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's monthly national c...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:48hrs | 91 | by Staff reporter
Herdboys in narrow escape as lightning strike kills cattle
"We ran for our dear lives when we saw the sun falling down and suddenly our cattle were lying on the ground."These are the words of 13-year-old Thabo Ndlovu after he and his friend Andrew Mpu...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:46hrs | 667 | by Staff reporter
Gauteng High Court asking the court to declare US sanctions on Zimbabwe illegal and unconstitutional
The Zimbabwe Anti-Sanctions Movement is asking the court to declare US sanctions illegal and unconstitutional.In a potentially ground-breaking international case, a group called the Zimbabwe A...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 16:14hrs | 805 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Businessman rues day prominent prophet passed through Binga
WHAT started off as a normal sunny day at Manjolo shopping centre in Binga turned out to be a ‘curse' for a local businessman after a baboon skull that he was allegedly using to lure customers to hi...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 19:43hrs | 1148 | by Staff reporter
Spirit medium dies at 'Little Njelele'
A SPIRIT medium died after he was stung by a swarm of bees at a shrine in Tsholotsho where rain-makers, popularly known as ihosana, had gathered for some traditional rituals.Mr Milton Tshuma (...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 05:41hrs | 1051 | by Staff reporter
Musona's team facing relegation danger
WARRIORS captain Knowledge Musona 's Saudi Arabia club Al Tai could bid farewell to the country's Pro league by the end of the campaign after its1-0 defeat to Abha last weekend left it closer to the m...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 06:12hrs | 243 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagnwa's son-in law needs to resolve Zifa suspension urgently
AS had been expected, the decision by the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC), the sports regulating body in Zimbabwe to meddle in the affairs of the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) has come a...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:46hrs | 1983 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's tainted SRC accuses Fifa of double standards
The Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) has accused Fédération Internationale de Football Association (Fifa) of double standards following its decision to suspend Zimbabwe over the dissolution of...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 05:39hrs | 513 | by Staff reporter
SRC determined to kill Zimbabwe football
THE Sports and Recreation Commission are confident they will be able to cleanse the rot in Zimbabwean football with or without the input of CAF and FIFA with the authorities hoping to rejoin FIFA befo...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 05:30hrs | 139 | by Staff reporter
Dreams made and dreams shattered at West Nicholson's 'Entabeni yegolide'
"Intaba yeWest" or "Entabeni yegolide", the soaring mountain with impervious vegetation along the Gwanda-Beitbridge highway in West Nicholson is not for the faint hearted.From afar, the mounta...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:33hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe mum on abduction
LEGISLATOR Joana Mamombe yesterday refused to tell the court what happened after they left Harare Central police station in a police vehicle on the day they alleged to have been abducted sometime in M...Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 05:26hrs | 464 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa had a chance to be a Gorbachev, but he chose to be Milosevic!!!
Zimbabweans celebrating the fall of the late ex-President Robert Mugabe during the November 2017 military coup which brought President E.D Mnangagwa to power. Pic Credit; Google.Reader, Mnanga...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 20:36hrs | 1396 | by Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo Sr
Did Nkomo ordain Mugabe?
THE occasion on which Cde Joshua Nkomo showed his acknowledgement of Cde Robert Mugabe's future role was most probably the strangest experience the author of this narration had during the struggle. ...Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 14:19hrs | 2544 | by Saul Gwakuba-Ndlovu
ZIFA, Sports Commission war rages on
THE Zimbabwe Sports and Recreation Commission is not stopping at anything in their desperate attempts to perpetuate the chaos that already exists in domestic football.The stand-off in domestic...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 05:22hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Woman raped at Madzibaba's shrine
A self-styled prophet allegedly raped a 22-year-old married woman at his Harare shrine recently.According to a police memo seen by this publication, the prophet, Trymore Nyaunde lured the vict...Published: 23 Dec 2021 at 18:28hrs | 2855 | by Shelton Muchena
Egg on face for Mnangagwa in Glasgow
The much anticipated COP26, UN Summit in Glasgow (Scotland) has turned tables upside down on ED and his entourage who were expecting merry-making at the expense of suffering tax payers back home. Inst...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:18hrs | 2720 | by Zakhele Maphosa
'Prophets' drownings: Chief demands 20 cattle
Chief Makuni, Chaora Nicholas Musika (81), has summoned leaders of the Johanne Masowe eJerusalem Church to appear before his court today for desecrating the sacred Mhungumwe pool on the confluence of ...Published: 04 Nov 2021 at 06:15hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
'Prophets' jailed for performing fake miracle
TWO self-proclaimed prophets have been sentenced to a suspended 20-day jail term each by Bindura magistrate Joyline Mudhege after they performed a fake miracle at a congregant's residence.Nebs...Published: 02 Nov 2021 at 18:29hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's estranged wife Marry could be amputated, court hears
Marry Mubaiwa is at a serious risk of having at least one of her arms amputated after failing to get the medical care she needs to treat her lymphoedema, a court heard on Tuesday.The Harare Ma...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:10hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
MDC mayoral fights hold city to ransom
MDC-Alliance has simply turned Harare into a circus. Mayoral fights pitting councillors Jacob Mafume and Musarurwa Mutizwa, both claiming to be in charge of the city, have further exposed the shortcom...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man commits suicide after being accused of possessing goblins
A 61-year-old man from Torero compound at Ledbury farm in Matepatepa committed suicide after being accused of possessing goblins and blamed for causing mysterious fires at the farm by a traditional he...Published: 26 Aug 2021 at 17:56hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa MDC infighting explained
FRESH Storm is brewing in the MDC Alliance after senior leaders are reported to have recommended the expulsion of Gift Ostallos Siziba, the Secretary-General of the MDC Youth Assembly.One Twit...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 14:19hrs | 61 | by Staff reporter
'Mermaid attack': dead bodies found floating
Villagers of Tazvigwira village in Mapanzure area, Masvingo were left tongue-tied on July 23, when lifeless bodies of the three people who mysteriously drowned during a cleansing ceremony at Musongwez...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 18:04hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
Police shooting victim case rages
THE family of Abel Gumbo, who was gunned down by police at Lutumba in Beitbridge on May 27 this year, has formally complained to the law enforcement agency saying they believed that he was murdered....Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 17:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police shooting fatal case in bizarre twist
SOME Beitbridge police officers believed to have shot and killed a local man, allegedly approached a traditional healer in the border seeking to be cleansed against avenging spirits, the deceased's fa...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:33hrs | 5 | by Gifford Mehluli Sibanda
Prophet on the run after raping woman
Police are hunting for a self-styled Harare prophet who allegedly raped an Old Highfield woman after he claimed that she was possessed with an evil spirit and he had been sent by the Holy Spirit to cl...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 18:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
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