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4 arrested for smuggling drugs in coffin

Police have arrested four cross-border transporters who allegedly attempted to smuggle drugs worth US$25,000 through Beitbridge Border Post using a coffin.The suspects, identified as Charles Bhebhe (30) of Lobengula West, Bulawayo; James S…

Published: 10 Mar 2025 at 15:45hrs | 1769 | by Staff reporter

3 arrested for smuggling firearms and drugs in coffin

THREE men who tried to smuggle firearms and drugs into the country under the guise of repatriating the body of a dead person have been arrested by police in Beitbridge.Mehluli Nkomo (35), Brendon Dube (28) and Wellington Ndlovu (34) were a…

Published: 25 Jun 2024 at 10:43hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Child's coffin exhumed from grave, corpse unaccounted for

A Chigodora family is in hot soup after it discreetly reburied its six-year-old child's empty coffin following the vandalisation of the grave, coffin and body.Three years down the line, the whereabouts of the corpse that was dug up soon af…

Published: 29 Jul 2023 at 12:45hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

'Dead' woman (76) found breathing in coffin

Mourners at the wake of an elderly Ecuadorean woman were startled to discover she was still alive.A hospital doctor in the city of Babahoyo declared Bella Montoya, 76, dead following a suspected stroke.She was placed in a coffin and taken …

Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 09:40hrs | 22 | by Staff Reporter

Social media sniggers over coffin draping decor at Mnangagwa Belarus event

THE people responsible for decor during high level State functions will have belatedly remembered that every detail matters after their choice of decor Tuesday became to subject of uncharitable social media attention.President Emmerson Mna…

Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 08:29hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

WATCH: Video leaks of 'Mapostori' breaking up coffin during funeral

Zimbabwe has been hit by a shocking incident after the Zim Celebs group shared on Instagram a post of "Mapostori" religious group in their white garments wrecking up a coffin during a burial service.To some this seemed to be a familiar inc…

Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 22:30hrs | 4 | by Mzingaye Nxumalo

RIP he was a stand-up guy! Picture of tout and coffin at back of kombi goes viral

AN image of a tout hanging precariously at the back of a commuter omnibus with a coffin fastened onto the vehicle beside him has sent the internet into a frenzy.It remains unclear whether the coffin had a corpse, but the vehicle's registra…

Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 06:50hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Is a coffin for the dead or for the mourners?

WE are all going to die. That is the sad fact and fate that awaits us all.But our journey to the other side differs. Some are turned into ashes in a crematorium. The majority are buried six feet under, in a coffin.While in the days of yore…

Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 07:25hrs | 14 | by Trisa Ray Sibanda

Coffin prices skyrocket

THE prices of coffins has gone up by more than 100 percent in recent months forcing dozens whose relatives are dying without funeral covers to turn to small entrepreneurs whose prices are still affordable and up for negotiation.The move co…

Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:08hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Woman buried in two coffins as her body kept ballooning

EVER thought of being buried in two coffins?Bereaved family members and friends of a Tsholotsho woman who was killed by her stepson last week had a torrid time at the mortuary as the body, which was already in a decomposing state, could no…

Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 06:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

The final nail in Zimbabwe's coffin

Despite the government's last-minute hesitation, the Reserve Bank has announced that it is to release its monopoly money on Monday - widely seen as the final nail in the coffin of the Zimbabwean economy.Human rights lawyer Irene Petras sai…

Published: 27 Nov 2016 at 16:34hrs | 5370 | by ZimVigil

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