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Zimbabwe war heroes' graves in Zambia, Mozambique desecrated
Recent reports have revealed a distressing situation regarding the graveyards of liberation war heroes, particularly those located in Zambia and Mozambique, which have been desecrated as farming activ...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 08:24hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporters clash with Sikhala's at funeral
Two years after her tragic death, Moreblessing Ali, a prominent opposition political activist, was finally laid to rest on Saturday amidst chaotic scenes as supporters of former Citizens Coalition for...Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 08:54hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is not the only one fighting for Zimbabwe's freedom!
In my 50 years of existence, I have come across my fare share of condescending statements and attitudes, especially so from the ruling elite in Zimbabwe. This was more prominent post-independe...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 12:48hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa threatens Cecil John Rhodes' grave
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has threatened to "take action" if the British failed to claim the remains of Cecil John Rhodes buried at Matobo in Matebeleland South province.He made the remarks...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 07:15hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Pressure group holds Gukurahundi memorial, frowns at Mugabe Day
MATABELELAND pressure group, Ibhetshu LikaZulu on Monday conducted a Gukurahundi memorial service at Bhalagwe mass graves in Kezi district at a time the State was commemorating Mugabe Day.Guku...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers kill man in home raid
A Bulawayo man was shot dead at his home by four suspected armed robbers in an attack that left his neighbour with gunshot wounds. The man's family talked about the devastation of losing a loved one f...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:11hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Hichilema in 30 minutes meeting
Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema got down to serious business yesterday soon after taking his oath of office in Lusaka with a 30-minute diplomatic meeting with President Mnangagwa where they agree...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Queen Lozikeyi: The force behind Ndebele uprisings
THE grave of a matriarch viewed by many historians as one of the major forces behind the second Umvukela (uprising) that culminated in independence for the country is situated at KoNkosikazi in Matabe...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wants poll charm from Mugabe's corpse, nephew claims
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is behind a bizarre push to exhume the remains of Robert Mugabe in the vain belief that his predecessor was buried with a mystic scepter, or "tsvimbo yaMambo" in the Shona...Published: 13 May 2021 at 18:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe petitioned over 'courtyard' burial of Robert
A Zimbabwean chief has summoned former First Lady Grace Mugabe to appear before a village court to answer charges of "inappropriately" burying the country's late former president, Robert Mugabe, at th...Published: 12 May 2021 at 10:46hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner breaks silence on Dinde project
CHINESE company Beifa Investments (Pvt) Ltd has broken its silence on the Dinde project in Hwange and absolved itself of wrongdoing after it was accused of pushing to displace villagers and desecratin...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
3 robbed at knife point during visit to cemetery
THREE Bulawayo residents were on Saturday robbed at knife point by two men and two women at West Park Cemetery.The robbers, who are still at large, went away with US$90, cellphones and a lapto...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:54hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents enduring sleepless nights
The Covid-19 outbreak has piled more misery on Bulawayo residents, who are enduring sleepless nights due to the irritating mosquito menace caused by council's failure to disinfect breeding sites, citi...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 08:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC workers end five-day strike
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) workers yesterday resumed work after a five-day strike over poor salaries, a situation which crippled critical services such as refuse collection, primary health care and b...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Repatriation of Zimbabweans for burial to continue
The repatriation of Zimbabweans for burial in the country will continue under strict and safe health protocols to avoid contamination and the risk of new Covid-19 infections, a senior Government offic...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 16:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Importance of Unity, Mzilikazi's legacy
The legacy of Mzilikazi "the Trailblazer" who left Kwa-Zulu in the early 1800's to trail through the rigid Territories of the North-West, passing through certain areas and establishing his 'Kraals' wh...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 08:11hrs | 2 | by Sizwe Mda
Illegal guns worry government
POLICE admitted yesterday that they were concerned by the proliferation of unlicensed firearms in public hands, which were being used to commit violent crimes.However, police said it was too e...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 18:50hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa family welcomes hero declaration, but....
THE family of leading nationalist and ex-Cabinet Minister Dr Dumiso Dabengwa has welcomed Government's decision to declare him a national hero. Dr Dabengwa died on Thursday in Nairobi, Kenya, ...Published: 27 May 2019 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: A land of squandered potential
I well remember sitting in the AFP bureau in Harare at dusk on November 21, 2017 and hearing the first whoop of delight in the street outside when Robert Mugabe was finally ousted, an extraordinary mo...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:56hrs | 4 | by Ben Shepherd
Drama at sex worker's burial
HOOKERS stopped a Catholic priest from giving a graveside speech with their seductive dances arguing that their departed friend was never into church.Sex workers accommodated in the Avenues hi...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 14:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Granny sends lizard to kill granddaughter
ANASTACIA Nsingo (62) (pictured above) from Thombankala Village in Zhombe, Midlands province reportedly sent a monitor lizard to suck the blood of her niece who later died.This was discl...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:19hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
High Court ruling helps end Johanne Masowe shrine war
Two factions of the Gospel of God Church International 1932 (GGCI) have been given equal opportunities to access the gravesite of their venerated leader Johanne Masowe during the church's annual synod...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is Bulelani Khumalo a Mthwakazi King?
The recent diamond jubillee celebrations of the British Queen's 60 year uninterupted reign undoubtedly raised nostalgic memories of the once mighty and respected Ndebele Kingdom of King Mzilikazi with...Published: 16 Sep 2017 at 12:32hrs | | by Mncumbatha
Princess Zila to honour King Lobengula
The story of King Lobengula's 'unfortunate' dispensation of his Monarchy is an issue that is still discussed by Historians and by whole of Society who have vested interest into the Matebeleland Cultur...Published: 15 Mar 2017 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Sizwe Mda
The story of King Lobengula: The descendants of the Ndebele Monarch
The story of King Lobengula's 'unfortunate' dispensation of his Monarchy is an issue that is still discussed by Historians and by whole of Society who have vested interest into the Matebeleland Cultur...Published: 14 Mar 2017 at 17:46hrs | 5 | by Sizwe Mda
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
Free Mawarire now of face the full wrath of PEOPLE POWER!
It is undeniable that Zimbabwe faces a protracted mutually reinforcing economic and political crisis of monumental proportions right now and arresting Pastor Evan Mawarire won't bring a solution to th...Published: 12 Jul 2016 at 15:45hrs | | by Clemence Nhliziyo
Road trip to the Matopos
SITUATED about 55km from Bulawayo, within the Matopo National Park, built upon a granite outcrop is the Matopo Hills Lodge.A lodge that offers guests a getaway experience from the city life an...Published: 07 Feb 2016 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Faith Phiri
Chief Makoni facilitates reburial of exhumed child
CHIEF Makoni last Saturday facilitated the reburial of the remains of a child which were exhumed and dumped on the gravesite by the farm owner, Sipiwe Chimonyo.Chief Makoni ordered Chimonyo to...Published: 18 Jan 2016 at 14:24hrs | | by Samuel Kadungure
Man catches wife kissing lover, stab her, hang self
A 3- year-old man from Silobela hanged himself at a grave-site after catching his wife at his homestead sitting on top of his lover, kissing and hugging.Before be hang himself, Farai Machokoto...Published: 04 Dec 2015 at 10:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
35 years after independence, Zimbabweans are mummified with hopeless pessimism: #SoFarSoDead
It is undeniable that Zimbabwe faces a protracted mutually reinforcing economic and political crisis of monumental proportions thirty five years after independence. Thirty five years after indepe...Published: 18 Apr 2015 at 07:31hrs | | by Clemence Nhliziyo
Help with this gravesite
I am so sad to hear that the Bulawayo cemeteries are now so neglected. My parents are buried side-by-side in one of them - I do not know which. (Not Jewish, Muslim or War Graves). ...Published: 15 Feb 2015 at 16:23hrs | | by Angela Wigmore
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
Panic grips family as grave is tampered with
IN a bizarre incident, a Kingsdale family discovered that a tombstone had partly been erected on the grave of a relative they had buried the previous day.Mr Brown Mabuza was buried on Thursday...Published: 23 Nov 2014 at 08:26hrs | | by Lungile Tshuma
'Zanu yaora', MDC-T sings in Parliament
PARLIAMENT was on Tuesday turned into a mini-circus as MPs from the ruling Zanu PF party and the opposition MDC-T heckled each other during debate on the state of national shrines.The moti...Published: 10 Sep 2014 at 09:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Widow chased away, told to go and live in graveyard
A widow from Mzilikazi suburb in Bulawayo was allegedly chased away by her late husband's family and told to go and stay with her husband at the gravesite.Chipo Zvavanondiyita claimed her ...Published: 16 Aug 2014 at 21:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ndebeles should be united to bring back the lost patriarch
The Ndebele People should be united to bring back the lost patriarch, who was banned from the land of his ancestors, an aftermath of the war between King Lobengula and the Colonial regime. Iqanda ...Published: 29 Jul 2014 at 13:26hrs | | by Sizwe Mda
City cemeteries in bad state
Cemeteries are important elements of societies' collective history, religious beliefs, cultural and ethnic influences, community origins and landscape design principles, ...Published: 07 Apr 2014 at 21:46hrs | 7 | by Makhosi Sibanda
Man dies digging brother's grave
A MAN digging his late brother's grave collapsed and fell into the burial pit."Perfectly healthy" Mokeli Mickel Nkulumo Sibanda, 59, of Msewele Village in Jotsholo, had just taken the pick fro...Published: 13 Feb 2014 at 06:17hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
Bulawayo Mayor castigates proposal for a new private cemetery
BULAWAYO mayor Councillor Martin Moyo has castigated a proposal to have a new private cemetery in the city, saying it was outrageous and would affect the value of land and buildings in the suggested a...Published: 18 Nov 2013 at 18:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chimbetu's widow dies at 39
Simon Chimbetu's widow Angela has died. Angela (39) died at Chitungwiza General Hospital Saturday afternoon after spending more than a week at the health institution.According to the f...Published: 25 Aug 2013 at 09:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Digger arrives at Mandela gravesite
Mthatha - Two hours after Mandela family members and government officials met at the family home in Qunu, a machine digger arrived at what is believed to be the planned grave site of Nelson Mandela....Published: 26 Jun 2013 at 07:03hrs | | by news24
Mandela grandson seen at Qunu gravesite
Qunu - Nelson Mandela's grandson, Ndaba, was seen at what is believed to be his grandfather's gravesite in Qunu in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday.Close relatives of the former president and chief...Published: 25 Jun 2013 at 08:58hrs | | by Sapa
Two SA men arrested for taking photos of a gravesite
TWO South African men were arrested in Esigodini area in the Umzingwane District for illegally entering Adams Farm and taking photographs at the gravesite where 16 white farmers that were killed durin...Published: 21 Feb 2013 at 04:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ndebele Kingdom: Who should be crowned Ndebele King
The recent diamond jubillee celebrations of the British Queen's 60 year uninterupted reign undoubtedly raised nostalgic memories of the once mighty and respected Ndebele Kingdom of King Mzilikazi wit...Published: 19 Jun 2012 at 14:18hrs | 28 | by Mncumbatha
Walter Muparutsa's hearse delayed by late minister's convoy
A huge crowd yesterday afternoon thronged Glen Forest Memorial Park in Harare to bid farewell to one of the country's theatre and film gurus Walter Muparutsa. Muparutsa's hearse had to wait outside th...Published: 16 Apr 2012 at 05:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chief's wives gallivant at Cecil John Rhodes grave on tax payer's expense
While Zimbabwe's traditional chiefs were demanding diplomatic passports, guns and top up to their monthly $300, their wives were on a sightseeing government sponsored excursion to Matopo National Par...Published: 08 Mar 2012 at 04:09hrs | | by Alois Sibanda
Cecil John Rhodes remains haunt Zanu-PF
THREATS by Zanla war veterasns to exhume remains of Cecil John Rhodes at Matopo Hills has caused panic within Zanu-PF ranks resulting in a probe team being set up.Zanu-PF is worried that its r...Published: 06 Mar 2012 at 08:56hrs | | by Alois Sibanda
Felling of 'Nehanda tree' revives legends and superstitions
Thе felling οf Zimbabwe's prominent colonial-era "Hanging Tree" іѕ reviving legends аnd superstitions аnd hаѕ many believing...Published: 09 Dec 2011 at 08:28hrs | | by Associated Press
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