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Pravin Gordhan to be cremated today?
Late former minister Pravin Gordhan will be cremated in Durban on Thursday.Gordhan died on September 13, at the age of 75, following a period of illness.President Cyril Ramaphosa decla...Published: 19 Sep 2024 at 11:53hrs | 771 | by Staff reporter
Remains of 21 people exhumed in city
Remains of 21 people were exhumed from a housing development project site in Bulawayo's Killarney suburb before they were reburied at the city's Luveve cemetery.This was revealed in the latest...Published: 18 Feb 2024 at 13:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa salutes Heath Streak
THE late cricket icon Heath Streak is likely to live long in the memories of many Zimbabweans, with President Mnangagwa yesterday describing the former national team captain and coach as a "great spor...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 19:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Heath Streak gets State assisted funeral
LEGENDARY cricketer, Heath Streak, who passed away last weekend and was cremated as per his wishes, will get a State assisted funeral in recognition of his contributions to the development of the game...Published: 07 Sep 2023 at 19:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Council urges cremation or rural home burials
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) which is fast running out of burial space is calling on residents to either cremate or bury their loved ones at their rural homes.The call also comes amid revel...Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 07:53hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Bullying leads to suicide
AGONY, grief, pain, anguish, sadness and anger aptly describe how the Saudan family in Bulawayo is feeling following the death of their 15-year-old son Jayden who committed suicide after complaining o...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:19hrs | 1 | 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 fe...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 07:25hrs | 9 | by Trisa Ray Sibanda
Council takes over private cemetery
BULAWAYO City Council is set to take over the privately-owned Umvutcha Cemetery with an estimated 45 000-grave capacity to ease a shortage of burial space.The city has been battling burial spa...Published: 07 May 2021 at 06:44hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Government mourns former ZDF Commander
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has issued a statement mourning the passing away of former Zimbabwe Defense Forces Commander General Maclean.In a statement, the Ministry of Informati...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 20:00hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Prominent Indian businessman dies
Prominent Kwekwe businessman and property mogul Mr Harish Bhai Narran has died.He was 65.Mr Narran, whose family was among the first to own properties in Gweru, Kwekwe, and Shurugwi ar...Published: 15 May 2019 at 07:35hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
BCC faces questions over lavish spending
CASH-STRAPPED Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has set itself on a collision course with residents after it approved a plan to splash US$900 each per day on hotel accommodation for four council officials f...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
'No urgency in cremation row'
A HIGH Court judge has ruled that the application by a Bulawayo family seeking a court order blocking the cremation of the remains of their relative was not urgent. Mr Amos Nkomo died on Decem...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's biggest cemetery decommissioned again
BULAWAYO's biggest cemetery, West Park, has once again been decommissioned as it has run out of burial space with burials now taking place at Athlone and Luveve cemeteries. West Park Cemetery ...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Body stuck as cremation divides family
A Bulawayo man's body is stuck in mortuary due to family squabbles, with his surviving spouse and daughter demanding cremation while other members are opposed saying it is alien to their culture. ...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cremations 'threaten' Zimbabwe's ancestral spirits
Cremation is provoking a huge debate in Zimbabwe, bringing cultural and religious beliefs to the fore, journalist-turned-barrister Brian Hungwe writes from Harare."For you were made from dust,...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 06:12hrs | | by Brian Hungwe
Trudy Stevenson to be cremated
THE family of Zimbabwe's former Ambassador to Senegal, Mrs Trudy Stevenson, yesterday announced she will be cremated next Friday. In an announcement on her Twitter handle, the family said: "Th...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 08:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare in graveyard space headache
The number of Harare residents that are burying their dear departed in cemeteries that are located on the outskirts of the city is increasing as pressure for graveyard space intensifies.With m...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man's suicide note instructs family to cremate his body
A 72-YEAR-OLD man from Newton West suburb in Bulawayo who shot himself dead on Wednesday left a suicide note instructing his family to cremate his body and not hold a big funeral for him.Amos ...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo runs out of burial space, again
BULAWAYO councillors have reported that the city may face burial space challenges, as the West Park Cemetery which was extended last year to ease the burden on the overstretched Luveve Cemetery, has r...Published: 12 Dec 2017 at 05:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
2013 voters' roll has no place in the 2018 election
Election Resource Centre a civil rights watchdog has warned that the 2013 voters' roll has no place in the 2018 election.The centre said as Zimbabwe heads towards the 2018 elections which are ...Published: 20 Aug 2017 at 11:07hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
MK's Modise in awe of Zipra's izigebengu
This is the second part of an article by Retired Brigadier-General Abel Mazinyane about the combat life of the late former Zipra senior commander Eddie Sigoge Mlotshwa who passed on in Bulawayo last m...Published: 30 Jul 2017 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC approves 2 bodies per grave to tackle grave shortage of space
THE Bulawayo City Council has been approving requests for two bodies to be buried in one grave at a time the city is running out of burial space, raising speculation that city fathers may be consideri...Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 11:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Retired army officer to be cremated
A military parade for Retired Lt-Col Eddie Sigoge Mlotshwa who died on Sunday last week at Mater Dei Hospital will be held tomorrow at Imbizo Barracks followed by the cremation of the body on Tuesday,...Published: 02 Jul 2017 at 10:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents say no to cremation proposal
BULAWAYO residents have expressed concern over the proposal by the Bulawayo City Council to cremate deceased children aged 10 years and below describing it as taboo in the Zimbabwean culture....Published: 29 Jan 2017 at 10:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Linda Masarira, I beg to differ: Banning food-vending is of public interest: people first before politics!
Time and again I read your twitters most of which I like, their inspiring quotes. However I wish to differ with your twitter regarding the banning of food-vending, this ban is long overdue. Food-vendi...Published: 06 Jan 2017 at 14:24hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
No burials for 10 year olds, cremation instead in Bulawayo
All children below the age of ten who die in Bulawayo would be cremated, the local authority has ruled.The resolution is effective this year.The cremations would be done at crema...Published: 05 Jan 2017 at 04:53hrs | | by Mary Charamba
Jonathan Moyo is a tiny drop in an ocean of corruption
A stubborn fact that many Zimbabweans conveniently forget when we reflect on corruption in our country is that President Mugabe and his administration have no history of sacrificing loyal or usefu...Published: 30 Nov 2016 at 05:12hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Mugabe off to Cuba for Castro burial
President Mugabe left the country yesterday for Havana to attend the burial of Cuba's founding President Fidel Castro Ruz who died last Friday at the age of 90.President Mugabe who was see...Published: 29 Nov 2016 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fidel Castro dies at 90
Former Cuban president Fidel Castro has died at the age of 90 after a long battle with illness.The revolutionary leader's death at 10.29pm on Friday was announced on state television by his br...Published: 26 Nov 2016 at 08:39hrs | | by SkyNews
Govt to gazette more cemeteries for Bulawayo
THE Government will soon gazette Pumula and Marvel cemeteries, paving the way for the establishment of more than 150 000 graves in Bulawayo. The city is fast running out of burial space follow...Published: 03 Aug 2016 at 09:02hrs | | by Sikhangele Zhou
Man 'kills' wife of 51 years
POLICE have arrested a man from Binga's Crocodile Farm for allegedly killing his wife of 51 years and reporting her death as having been due to natural causes. William Brain Kendall, 75, was a...Published: 22 Feb 2016 at 10:41hrs | | by Leonard Ncube
Dead Chinese child resurect before cremation
A Chinese baby boy who was declared dead and spent the night in a morgue showed signs of life just as he was about to be cremated, local TV reported.Workers at the crematorium in Pan’a...Published: 09 Feb 2016 at 11:31hrs | | by Beijing (AFP)
Abused broke hubby hangs self
Broke and ‘abused’ husband has reportedly committed suicide and left a note to his wife asking to be buried as a pauper.The Voice reported that broke and allegedly a victim of ...Published: 08 Feb 2016 at 13:32hrs | 9 | by Stephen Jakes
12 bodies cremated in October in Bulawayo
A total of twelve bodies were cremated this year in October alone in Bulawayo according to council's latest minutes.According to latest council minutes a total of twelve bodies cremation...Published: 10 Nov 2015 at 06:52hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Burial space shortage hits Bulawayo
Bulawayo City Council's (BCC) burial space is reported to be fast filling up, a situation that has prompted the city fathers to apply for more land from central government.Latest council minut...Published: 07 Nov 2015 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hotel cuts beer price for Hikwa
Friends of the late National University of Science and Technology's (Nust) former dean of the Communication and Information Science faculty, Lawton Hikwa plan to celebrate his life over a beer drink ...Published: 13 Oct 2015 at 20:30hrs | 26 | by Thobekile Zhou
Hikwa to be cremated?
The late National University of Science and Technology's (Nust) former dean of the Communication and Information Science faculty, Lawton Hikwa is set to be cremated, ...Published: 12 Oct 2015 at 13:21hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Aunt speaks on Chiedza Brown's suicide mystery
THE body of Chiedza Brown - the teenage daughter to the late iconic musicians Andy Brown and Chiwoniso Maraire - was cremated in Texas in the United States, amid indications that relatives in Harare h...Published: 02 Oct 2015 at 15:02hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
The End of Robert Mugabe (Part 1)
Since 1980 Robert Mugabe has been at the helm of Zimbabwe, his rule is marred by genocide, countless cases of political violence, brainwashing of the citizenry, economic collapse, corruption and ...Published: 19 Jul 2015 at 18:25hrs | 10 | by Shephard Dube
Funeral parlour cremates wrong body
Pietermaritzburg - South Africa Police have been called in to investigate a national funeral parlour after they "mistakenly" cremated the wrong body, leaving a Pietermaritzburg family in despair....Published: 14 Jul 2015 at 10:03hrs | | by The Witness
Evil destruction caused by Zimbabwe farm invasions of 1999
Coleen the daughter of a Zimbabwean white farmer: Evil destruction caused by Farm invasions of 1999Taken from the eBook, "Sweetmother" My...Published: 29 May 2015 at 16:05hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwean charged with Dete conservationist's murder
PERTH - The man charged for the murder of conservationist Greg Gibbard in Dete has been described as a friend of the Australian.Xmas Mpofu, a former employee of Painted Dog Corperation (PD...Published: 20 Apr 2015 at 11:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dying in the Diaspora
Often we hear people proclaiming that we are born to die, and it is indeed the inevitable which give us the challenge to do the utmost and enjoy the years before it happens.Others, however, vi...Published: 28 Feb 2015 at 15:04hrs | | by Fanuel Kangondo
Hospital 'cremates' baby without parent's consent
A TEENAGE mum who gave birth to twins at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo is tormented by the death of one of the babies in which she suspects there has been foul play.Cowdray Park resident,...Published: 24 Feb 2015 at 06:38hrs | | by Loveness Bepete /Thubelihle Mabhena
Nust student found dead, suicide suspected
A STUDENT at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) was on Friday found dead at his lodgings in Bulawayo in what is suspected to be a suicide case.The fifth-year student, id...Published: 27 Jan 2015 at 07:06hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
UZ student makes suicide video, hangs
A Third-year Electrical Engineering student at the University of Zimbabwe recorded on video how his estate should be distributed, demanded that his body be cremated and sent messages to his friends a...Published: 26 Jan 2015 at 07:56hrs | | by Oswell Moyo/Loveness Bepete
BCC identifies new burial space
Following concerns that Bulawayo City had only three month's burial space available, the city fathers say they have identified new burial space near Pumula South and people can 'relax and feel free t...Published: 09 Jan 2015 at 15:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Liberia opens new national cemetery for Ebola
Liberia has opened a new national cemetery to provide safe burial sites for victims of the Ebola outbreak.A Liberian official said the 50-acre site in Monrovia, half of which is ready to use, ...Published: 30 Dec 2014 at 08:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Cemetery runs out of burial space
BULAWAYO's major cemetery, West Park, has run out of burial space prompting the city to make contingency plans to provide graves that will last for only one year.The development has forced the...Published: 05 Dec 2014 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Auxilia Katongomara
Let's safeguard our people against ebola
The worst outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in history could actually be much worse than the official death toll reflects. Already, the World Health Organization says 887 people have died, but a top ...Published: 08 Aug 2014 at 16:00hrs | | by Stewart Murewa
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