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Mphoko burial slated for Bulawayo tomorrow
Bulawayo is set to host the burial of national hero and former Vice President Phelekezela Report Mphoko tomorrow, in accordance with his family's wishes. Mphoko, who passed away at the age of 84, was ...Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 10:23hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
Bus crash toll rises to 14
Another passenger has died from injuries sustained when a Timboon bus crashed at the 5km peg along Chivhu-Murambinda Road, taking the death toll to 14.Mr Cephas Muringani (46) succumbed to his...Published: 28 Apr 2023 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Farai Matsika suffers court setback in Croco Motors ownership row
The Constitutional Court Monday struck off the roll, an application by businessman Farai Matsika who was appealing a Supreme Court ruling as the legal battle for control of Croco Motors rages on....Published: 21 Mar 2023 at 08:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe High Court judge survives shooting outside Harare home
A High Court judge was unhurt after gunmen opened fire at her vehicle in Harare on Tuesday night, police said.Justice Emilia Muchawa was meters from her home in Goodhope, Westgate, when two me...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 19:44hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Doves rated the best Funeral Service Provider in Zimbabwe
Doves Funeral Services has been rated the best Funeral Service Provider of 2022 in Zimbabwe. The results were revealed through a Twitter poll that was run by a ratings poll agency Service Rate Zw. ...Published: 30 Dec 2022 at 07:34hrs | 20 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Social media campaigner targets corruption and theft at NSSA
A social media campaign to amplify citizens' voices against the unending vice of corruption and embezzlement of funds at the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) has kicked off amid calls for sta...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 05:04hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
National hero Nkomo burial set for Sunday
Liberation stalwart Highten Nkomo, who died a fortnight ago and was on Wednesday declared a National Hero, will be buried at the National Heroes Acre in Harare on Sunday.Yesterday his body mad...Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash brings more convenience for its users, unveils new bill management service
EcoCash has introduced 'EcoCash Bill Manager', a new service that brings more convenience for its users and simplifies how EcoCash customers manage their bill payments to different service providers, ...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 04:42hrs | 15 | by Agencies
NGO report exposes Zanu-PF violence
THE Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has exposed Zanu-PF for perpetrating the majority of human rights abuses across the country in the month of April.The report titled The Wall talks of the exist...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Burial programme of Clive Chigubhu
The body of the late award winning comedian Clive Chigubhu who succumbed to cancer will depart Doves Funeral Parlour for BF at 8AM today.Service will start at 9AM at Number 33 Babourfields, op...Published: 01 May 2022 at 06:44hrs | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe Consulate to assist in repatriating Elvis Nyathi's remains
The remains of murdered Zimbabwean national Mr Elvis Nyathi who died in a xenophobic attack in South Africa last week are set to be repatriated back home.The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and In...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 17:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Yohane's body expected on Friday
THE body of the late former Warriors and Caps United defender Charles Yohane is set to arrive in the country on Friday, but burial arrangements are yet to be announced.Yohane was murdered last...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:51hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Doves faces two counts of fraud
DOVES Funeral Services faces two counts of fraud following a bizarre case in which the company last year buried two bodies in one coffin to cover a body mix-up.The mix-up in March 2021 saw Dov...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:22hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Doves burial scandal: New details emerge
DOVES Funeral Services allegedly stuffed blankets and plastic bags inside the coffin meant to have carried the remains of the late Maxwell Chimwamurombe, in the latest twist to the burial saga of the ...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Doves fires whistle blower driver
DOVES Funeral Services (Doves) has fired its hearse driver, Sam Chitsike, on allegations of failing to do due diligence after learning that he had carried an empty coffin for burial to Nyanga....Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 19:04hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa scholarship trust gets bus
President Mnangagwa's ED-UNZA (University of Zambia) Scholarship Trust has received a donation of a 40-seater bus together with funeral cover for all the students, courtesy of leading local firms - Do...Published: 17 Dec 2021 at 23:40hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Stop interfering with Doves wrangle, Court tells Kereke
CONVICT Munyaradzi Kereke (pictured) has been barred from interfering with the ongoing ownership wrangle at Doves Holdings Limited after he tried to stop court proceedings by writing letters directly ...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:40hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
'Banks cash in on civil servants bonus'
Matsika suffers fresh setback in Doves shareholdings sagaBUSINESSMAN Farai Matsika has suffered a fresh setback in the Doves shareholding saga after the High Court suspended a court order which wa...Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 07:22hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Family stages mini-demonstration at Doves
A Bulawayo family yesterday staged a mini-demonstration at Doves Funeral Service in the Central Business District against the husband of a South Africa-based Zimbabwean, who died under alleged mysteri...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:57hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
IDC throws out bids for Deven
TWO local companies seeking a shareholding in Deven Engineering had their bids thrown out after they failed to offer the "best value for money" for the coach builder.Deven's core competence is...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:50hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to visit Khaya Moyo's family in Bulawayo
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will on Wednesday afternoon visit the family of the late veteran nationalist and Zanu-PF spokesperson, Simon Khaya Moyo in Bulawayo to pass his condolences.The President re...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 16:10hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo to go without water for 72 hours
Bulawayo residents will be without water for 72 hours due to water pumping problems caused by power cuts, the Bulawayo City Council has announced.The city was already under a 48-hour water she...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 16:10hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Referees turn against Malandule and company
REFEREES have turned against the Zifa Referees Committee chairperson Bryton Malandule and the two active members Brighton Mudzamiri and Obert Zhoya for ordering them to withdraw their whistles moments...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 16:09hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Buy Zimbabwe in campaign to promote local goods
Buy Zimbabwe is running a promotion next week to sensitise the public on the importance of buying locally-produced products and services and its impact to the economy.The "Buy Zimbabwe Week", ...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 16:09hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
ZUPCO bus, fuel tanker collision kills 8 people
EIGHT people died while 31 others were injured when a ZUPCO bus collided with a fuel tanker early Wednesday morning along the Harare-Bulawayo Highway.Police have confirmed the accident....Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 15:39hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commissions 28 Beitbridge houses
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Wednesday commissioned 28 houses for civil servants that took the government 15 years to construct under the Beitbridge Redevelopment Programme.The housing project...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 15:39hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Doves in 'empty coffin' burial scandal
Police on Wednesday exhumed two bodies buried in one grave at a cemetery in Harare, hoping to solve the mystery of a coffin allegedly buried empty in Nyanga after a dead man's body was inexplicably le...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 15:36hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Penchant for luxury in midst of abject poverty
Back in 2000 the BMW people in Harare, along Samora Machel Avenue invited a selection of business executives and motoring journalists to test-drive the first-generation BMW X5 luxury Sport Utility Veh...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:58hrs | 10 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Funeral parlours mix up bodies families fear identifying relatives because of Covid-19
The third wave of coronavirus has been unforgiving. There has been an explosion in infections and deaths since mid-June.In the 54 days from June 19 — when fatalities rose to double digits â€...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:30hrs | 1 | by Bishop L
Apostolic sect sets condition for COVID-19 vaccines
MEMBERS of the apostolic sect have said they were ready to be vaccinated against COVID-19, but the government should bring the programme right at the shrines to speed up the process.Speaking o...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 crisis: Can corporate leaders stand up and be counted!
Zimbabwe has undergone several crises over the years and each time disaster strikes, citizens have been known to put aside their differences - real or imagined - to put out the fire. It is thr...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 20:21hrs | 2 | by Nathan Chikara
Zimbabwe funeral parlours warn of mass graves
FUNERAL service providers have indicated that they are overwhelmed by COVID-19 deaths and warned that the country could be forced to bury deceased citizens in mass graves if the upward trend of new in...Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 05:51hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Doves ownership wrangle escalates
THE High Court has blocked a Doves Holdings shareholder and a top executive from stripping assets of the leading life assurance firm as a bitter ownership row rages.Farai Matsika, a shareholde...Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matsika, Gatsi accused of asset stripping Doves
A BOARD member of Doves Holdings, Farai Matsika, and the chief operating officer of the company, Edson Gatsi, have been accused of stripping the assets of the life assurance firm.This is conta...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
In Zimbabwe, Covid-19 patients told to buy their own ventilators
Zimbabwe shows what happens when the coronavirus collides with one of the world's most run-down health systems.Nurses at a major public hospital in the capital are on strike after colleagues d...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohadi to officiate at Brig-Gen Moyo's burial
The late national hero Brigadier-General Collin Moyo (Rtd), will be buried at the National Heroes Acre on Tuesday 12 January 2021. According to the government spokesperson Nick Mangwanga, the ...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 19:15hrs | 31 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe crisis presents immense opportunities'
IT has been an eventful year for Tendo Electronics MD and recent winner of the director of the year award at this year's edition of the Megafest awards, Mike Kamungeremu (MK).The firm, which s...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Moana ‘ghost' haunts family
HIGH drama, confusion and controversy have become the hallmarks of the late socialite and fitness trainer Michelle "Moana" Amuli's burial with the feud surrounding her interment dividing opinion among...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:49hrs | 33 | by Staff reporter
Family wrangle defers Moana funeral service
SOCIALITE Michelle Amuli, affectionately known as Moana, will be buried the Muslim way, her father declared yesterday, despite the chaos, family feud and drama that characterised her funeral wake....Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 21:30hrs | 63 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi in another 'bizarre' accident
THE late socialite Genius Kadungure aka Boss Ginimbi's hearse was involved in yet another accident on Friday afternoon as his body was being carried home from a funeral parlour, his father told mourne...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 16:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Funeral parlours fight over Ginimbi body
THE late socialite and businessman Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure's body was taken to Doves Funerals parlour yesterday despite Nyaradzo Life Assurance being the first to manage it, an episode which set to...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:28hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Dead Ginimbi brings Harare CBD to a stand-still
FRIENDS and family of late Genius 'Ginimbi' Kadungure Friday staged a huge send-off for the late businessman and socialite at the Doves Funeral Services premises in central Harare.Harare CBD c...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 20:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Crowds packed outside Doves to bid farewell to Ginimbi
A church service for the late socialite, Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure has just been held at Doves in Harare. Now, a convoy of friends and family of the late Ginimbi is on standby outside the parlour to ...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 20:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi's Ferrari overheats, abandoned after getting stuck in Harare CBD
Socialite, Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure's roadshow for fans to bid him farewell was off to a false start today after his Ferrari overheated at around midday along Herbert Chitepo Street and 2nd Avenue i...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 20:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Flamboyant send-off for Ginimbi
THE late socialite and businessman Genius Kadungure, popularly known as Ginimbi has proved to be a character larger than life itself as this Friday thousands of people thronged Doves Harare street to ...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 19:19hrs | 1 | by zbc
DNA results delay Moana burial
THE burial of the late fitness trainer-cum-model Michelle "Moana" Amuli could be delayed for about two weeks as the family has to follow a lengthy Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) testing process to verify...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 13:48hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Shaya is the Godfather of football, says Peter Ndlovu
LEGENDARY former Zimbabwe Warriors captain cum Mamelodi Sundowns team manager Peter Ndlovu has said former Dynamos star George "Mastermind" Shaya's contribution to football must not be underesti...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 17:32hrs | 1 | by Sports Reporter
US and its Allies barking up the wrong tree
ZIMBABWE is under attack from the West through the use of proxies in the form of the MDC Alliance, Lawyers for Human Rights, cheque book journalists, Civic Society Organisations (CSOs), Non-Government...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:50hrs | | by Khumbulani Vodloza Sibanda
Nasty legal showdown at Doves
DOVES Life Assurance Company (Doves) shareholders are embroiled in a nasty High Court battle after Farai Matsika allegedly tried to elbow out his partner Phibeon Busangabanye.Matsika and Busan...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Did God instruct MDC to take power by force?' - God is NOT in this, 'be as shrewd as snakes' He warned
"One thing for certain, which the opposition should know, is that there is not going to be any transfer of power outside the elections. Their decision to participate in the elections that brought Mnan...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 17:39hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
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