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BCC creates 100,000 graves

Bulawayo City Council has allocated an additional 54 hectares of land for the expansion of Luveve Cemetery, a move expected to accommodate up to 100,000 graves amid a growing shortage of burial space in the city.The local authority is curr…

Published: 08 Sep 2025 at 13:10hrs | 184 | by Staff reporter

Plan to rebury war heroes in unmarked graves underway

The Government is drafting a landmark law to facilitate the exhumation, repatriation, and reburial of thousands of liberation war heroes who remain buried in unmarked mass graves across Zimbabwe and beyond its borders, 45 years after indep…

Published: 19 Jul 2025 at 09:10hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter

Chinese miner in Zimbabwe grave rights abuses storm

The Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG) has called on the Zimbabwean government to urgently intervene and halt alleged human rights abuses being committed by a Chinese-linked mining company operating in Magunje, Mashonaland West.…

Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 09:14hrs | 613 | by Staff reporter

Old Gwanda Road works to move 24 graves

A groundbreaking ceremony attended by Government ministers, traditional leaders, and community members has marked the official start of construction work on the Old Gwanda Road. The $110 million Public-Private Partnership project, set to r…

Published: 09 Feb 2025 at 11:23hrs | 242 | by Staff reporter

Grave desecration scandal rocks Harare

In a shocking and spine-chilling development, four individuals have been implicated in the violation of 380 mass graves at Restland Memorial Park in Harare. The disturbing actions, which include digging up graves, removing and discarding h…

Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 20:31hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe govt under fire as investors damage graves

THE Zanu-PF government has come under fire for authorising investors to destroy dozens of graves to pave way for mining activities while ignoring the country's social and traditional norms and beliefs.In an interview yesterday, Centre for …

Published: 03 Apr 2024 at 06:06hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Push to identify Gukaruhundi victims' mass graves

Ibhetshu LikaZulu, a Matebeleland-based human rights' watchdog, has sent an SOS  for funds needed for installation of memoralisation plaques at unmarked mass graves where Gukurahundi victims are buried.The watchdog, which has been on …

Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 13:02hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter

Hwange's graveyard a tourism hanging fruit!

Rutendo Mapfumo is one of the few scribes who deserve special mention in a Hall of Fame of Zimbabwean journalists because of her doggedness, which leaves latter day fundis salivating with awe in terms of news gathering.To the uninitiated, …

Published: 07 May 2023 at 07:47hrs | 8 | by Burzil Dube

Miner invades village graveyards

NTOLA villagers in Umzingwane, Matabeleland South are furious after gold mining company, Heywood Mining pegged claims in graveyards, at a school and their farming land.Villagers are accusing traditional leaders of being complicit in the pa…

Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 07:01hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Graves to make way for residential stands

GRAVES in the high-density suburb of Glen Norah in Harare are set to be removed to pave way for the allocation of 300 residential stands.This was contained in a notice of an application for the removal of human remains published in a recen…

Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:53hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Bones of Bhalagwe, arise!

The voice speaks to the bones that are scattered all over Matabeleland and Midlands. Arise! Bones that are in the stomach of Bhalagwe, stand up and refuse to be silenced. Arise and be counted! All the bones in shallow graves, rise up and f…

Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 20:10hrs | 21 | by Nhlanhla Moses

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