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Widower cleared of causing wife's death
Hilary Chisuko, a man from Nyanga, has strongly denied accusations by his late wife's family that he was responsible for her death in a car accident last April. Chisuko, who himself was critically inj...Published: 17 May 2025 at 12:10hrs | 117 | by Staff reporter
Police brutality victim's family demands 'supernatural' justice
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has been accused of covering up its officers' attack on a handcuffed suspect, who later died in holding cells at Banket Police Station, last month.The now de...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 05:07hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Sangomas told to register
The Traditional Medical Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe (TMPCZ) has moved in to enforce regulations that will ensure all traditional medical practitioners are registered in a move to uphold Governme...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 06:56hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Muvevi cleared of 6 murder charges, but 4 remain
MULTIPLE murder suspect Jaison Muvevi, who was being investigated for killing up to 10 people, has been cleared of six charges following ballistic tests.Muvevi hogged the limelight in January ...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 09:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
6 more murder cases for Muvevi
Police are investigating leads linking former police detective Jaison Muvevi to six other murder cases that took place in and around Harare and Chitungwiza over the past three years.The 42-yea...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 12:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cop killer's family pleads for forgiveness
THE family of killer cop, Jaison Muvevi yesterday approached two families of the three victims that he shot dead in Hwedza last week and apologised for the heinous crime.They roped in police d...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fake faith healer bashed as snake trick fails
A self-styled Dzivaresekwa-based faith healer was on Saturday bashed in Chinhoyi after his tricks, where he fooled people he had removed snakes from their homes, were exposed.Madzibaba Mose we...Published: 11 Jan 2022 at 14:18hrs | 25 | by Staff Report
Healer rapes married woman
A self-styled faith healer appeared in court on allegations of raping a married woman under the guise of cleansing her of evil spirits. Masimba Chirayi (41) of Epworth in Harare appeared before Harare...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:07hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa chucked out of Parly for calling Ziyambi 'murderer'
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa was Wednesday chucked out of the NationalAssembly after alleging Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi had visited traditional and faith healers with the aim of killing....Published: 17 Jun 2021 at 06:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa scared of his own demons, fairness thrown off the window
Fairness is defined as just and reasonable treatment in accordance with accepted rules or principles. Treating all people equally and applying reasonable punishments only when rules are broken is an e...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 15:42hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Prophet by day, sangoma by night
At first glance, Bishop Cuthbert Nyaruvenda, the founder of Sangano Dzvene Revapostori Church, looks like an ordinary person next door.Alighting from his car clad in a blue T-shirt and matchin...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:22hrs | 3 | by Tendai Chara
Zimbabwe Covid-19 patients resort to home remedies
Clara Tandi felt feverish. Worried she was sick with the coronavirus, she grabbed handfuls of lemon, guava and mint leaves from her garden and boiled them into a liquid.Then Tandi (59) strippe...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo Hospital sets up register for people with ambiguous genitalia
MPILO Central Hospital has initiated a register for people with ambiguous genitalia in a bid to help them deal with the issue and avoid future psycho-social problems they may encounter regarding sexua...Published: 15 May 2019 at 15:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutanda killed for failing to reverse spell
A popular Redcliff faith healer was stabbed to death after he failed to heal an ulunyoka patient.Lunyoka is a condition or spell that is cast on a man that beds a centrally locked, and usually...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 11:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Prostate cancer on the rise in Zimbabwe'
The growing spread of prostate cancer among Zimbabwean men now warrants a serious epidemiological investigation, the Zimbabwe Cancer Registry (ZCR) has revealed.ZCR registrar Eric Chokunonga s...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Prophets fuel ARVs defaults''
PEOPLE living with HIV (PLHIV) have blamed some prophets and faith healers for the upsurge in the number of people who default from the first line antiretroviral therapy (ART). After defaultin...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:14hrs | | by Satff reporter
Homes burnt in church row
OVER 30 huts were gutted by fire on Christmas Day in suspected arson at the height to control a temple and shrine at the Guta RaJehovah Church in Zvimba District, Mashonaland West province. Th...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 10:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister haunted by 24-year-old divorce
FORMER Minister of State in ex-Vice-President Joice Mujuru's Office, Sylvester Robert Nguni, has been taken to court by his former wife, Christine Silindeni Nguni, who is seeking an order to bring to ...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 05:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pharmacists rubbish Prophet Magaya's AIDS claim
The Retail Pharmacists Association, RPA would like to advise members of the public to exercise caution and restraint towards claims made by people, politicians, prophets, and faith healers about medic...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 11:30hrs | 1 | by Retail Pharmacists Association
Goblins dispute taken to court
A WITCHRAFT storm ravaging a Mutambara family has spilled into the courts as an aggrieved woman has hauled her husband's relatives before a Mutare magistrate seeking a protection order against her in-...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:35hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
UK Zimbabweans die of HIV after being fooled by faith healers
A number of Zimbabweans in London with HIV have died after they stopped taking lifesaving drugs on the advice of their Evangelical Christian pastors. Pastors have taken advantage of the respect they g...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 11:44hrs | 6 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Prophet 'rapes' patient 3 times in one night
A 52-YEAR-OLD prophet from Bulawayo has been arrested for allegedly raping his 19-year-old patient three times in one night after she had approached him seeking treatment.The man, who cannot b...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Killer dad jailed for 25 years
A MAN from Nkayi who killed his handicapped three-year-old son and secretly buried his body in a shallow grave has been sentenced to an effective 25 years in jail.Jeremaya Sibanda (39) of Sikh...Published: 18 May 2018 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai wanted passport for prophetic healing
The much-publicised fight over late MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai's passport had to do with a trip to Germany where members of the politician's family had booked an appointment with a prophet in a...Published: 22 Feb 2018 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman demands pictures from ex-hubby
THE court gallery was left in stitches on Wednesday when a woman demanded her pictures from her estranged husband citing that she was living in perpetual fear that he would bewitch her using them....Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutandas planted strange objects
FAKE Tsikamutandas in Chakohwa Village are placing witchcraft paraphernalia in villagers' homesteads and accusing people of possessing goblins in an attempt to lure clients.This was revealed b...Published: 04 Nov 2017 at 05:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Satanist' kids confess to killing 600 people
TWO GWERU orphans who recently made headlines after they allegedly foretold the death of their uncle who then died three days later have confessed to killing 600 people after they were allegedly initi...Published: 29 Aug 2017 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drama as man confesses to being attacked by his goblins
Drama torched Epworth this Monday as a man confessed to an attack by his goblins.The incident attracted the attention of police, traditional and faith healers.Commonly known as paBoost...Published: 23 Aug 2017 at 12:25hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Prophet, sangomas warned
MINISTER of Health and Child Care, Dr David Parirenyatwa, yesterday warned traditional healers and prophets for stopping patients from taking medical drugs.Min Parirenyatwa said this on the si...Published: 22 Aug 2017 at 17:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
85% of Zimbabweans consult prophets, traditional healers
ABOUT 85 percent of Zimbabweans consult prophets, faith and traditional healers for medical ailments, a development that has jolted the Government to enforce regulations and arrest those who are not r...Published: 18 Aug 2017 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Prophets, healers face ban in Zimbabwe
PROPHETS, pastors, traditionalists and faith healers will soon be banned from working without a practising certificate from the Traditional Medical Practitioners Council, Health and Child Care Deputy ...Published: 13 Aug 2017 at 12:10hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
'Its game on,'Kasukuwere tell Mnangagwa's Zimpapers
UNDER fire Zanu-PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere has all but confirmed that he is plotting to topple President Mugabe after he accused the Mnangagwa aligned Herald of failing to unde...Published: 10 Jul 2017 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Caps United visit Mabvuku prophet
AFTER local soccer giants Caps United were crowned champions last season, some of the club's management officials and players visited a fast-rising Mabvuku prophet thanking him for his prayers and pro...Published: 01 May 2017 at 12:04hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Kezi Chief decries tsikamutanda menace
CHIEF Nyangazonke of Kezi, Matabeleland South has said self-proclaimed witch-hunters commonly known as tsikamutanda are causing havoc in his area as they are allegedly demanding livestock from vil...Published: 16 Mar 2017 at 10:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutanda: Hunting the hunters
A team of law enforcement agents has been dispatched in the country's 10 provinces to curb the fraudulent operations of self-proclaimed witch hunters (tsikamutandas), a senior police official has ...Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 08:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Minister Parirenyatwa fires warning shots
Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa has urged the Traditional Medical Practitioner Council (TMPC) to decisively deal with bogus faith healers who are on the rise countrywide....Published: 13 Nov 2016 at 09:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prophet knows Mugabe's successor
To his vast family, Aaron Mhukuta - aka Madzibaba Wimbo - is just a father and cleric, but for some in President Robert Mugabe's highly-superstitious Zanu PF party and government, the 94-year-ol...Published: 25 Jul 2016 at 14:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
School forms mubobobo committee
A school in Gutu - Mataruse Primary School has formed a mubobobo committee comprising teachers and members of the local community. The committee is tasked to visit a number of traditional healers in a...Published: 11 Jun 2016 at 09:12hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe reveals his grudge with Mujuru
In a rare moment of candour since he hounded former Vice President Joice Mujuru from Zanu-PF in late 2014, President Robert Mugabe yesterday gave a definitive reason why his former number two had been...Published: 19 Mar 2016 at 18:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Faith healer draws bumper crowds
A controversial pastor is attracting thousands of followers in Harare's working class suburb Glen View every week, with his critics accusing him of building a cult.Self declared "Prophet T. Fr...Published: 18 Feb 2016 at 15:36hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Hysteria hits Mthunzi schools
A wave of hysteria has hit Mthunzi primary and secondary schools in Mhangura constituency.The hysteria first gripped scores of pupils at Mthunzi primary school, who simultaneously felt some pi...Published: 23 Sep 2015 at 21:17hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Faith Healer dragged to court for fraud
A man's visit to a bogus faith healer in Cape Town South Africa to rid his house of evil spirits, led to the victim selling his home and parting with the proceeds thereof to the healer, it was alleged...Published: 18 Aug 2015 at 21:48hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Sangomas claim to be entitled to medical aid remittances
Zimbabwe National Practitioners Association (ZINPA), an organisation which represents the interests of traditional healers, herbalists and faith healers, wants its patients to start using medical aid ...Published: 27 Jun 2015 at 08:18hrs | 4 | by Lovemore Zigara
Witchcraft storm rocks clan
A MARANGE headman is in the eye of a witchcraft storm after nine members of the extended family fingered him as the one behind mysterious happenings and deaths in their family.Lazarus Macheke ...Published: 09 May 2015 at 17:33hrs | | by Tendai Gukutikwa
'Mugabe consults witch doctors'
Despite his public statements denigrating spirit mediums and traditional healers, President Robert Mugabe has consulted sangomas himself, says Rugare Gumbo, a war veteran and former Zanu-PF informatio...Published: 26 Mar 2015 at 15:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Love potion affected man drags lover to court
A Bulawayo businessman who accused his former girlfriend for giving him a love potion which he said was made up of the semen extracted from him by the woman after they had sexual encounter yester...Published: 20 Mar 2015 at 09:03hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mpilo Hospital warned over debt collectors
THE MDC-T Bulawayo provincial leadership has warned the Mpilo Hospital to desist from engaging debt collectors to reign on defaulting patients saying the move will be a violation of the people's right...Published: 19 Mar 2015 at 08:20hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Juju court case takes a new twist
THE shocking case of a Bulawayo businessman who sued his ex-lover demanding over $5 000 as compensation for the pain and suffering he endured as a result of the spells and love potions which he claime...Published: 28 Jan 2015 at 15:35hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
Famous faith healer, Ngwenya launches website
RENOWNED faith healer Thabiso Ngwenya has launched a blogspot as a move to broaden his clientele and keep in touch with those that have consulted him."It is where those who want to consult me...Published: 22 Jan 2015 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man dragged to court over a 'love portion'
A MAN who has been accused of giving a Hillside woman a love potion to give to her married boyfriend, which resulted in her lover being "crazily in love" with her, has advised the State that he is not...Published: 15 Jan 2015 at 08:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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