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Zimbabwean family buries four Boksburg gas victims
A SOMBRE atmosphere engulfed Lushongwe Village in Gwanda as relatives and friends of four family members who were part of the 17 people who died from gas inhalation at an informal settlement in Boksbu...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:55hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Car crash ends 10-day marriage
PAINFUL wails and heart-wrenching sobs filled a local mortuary hall in Bulawayo yesterday as two families that were brought together through marriage 10 days ago said their goodbyes to the couple that...Published: 23 Jan 2023 at 05:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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 | 6 | by Staff reporter
'Be wary of fly-by-night parlours'
PEOPLE must be wary of fly-by night funeral parlours that survive on milking desperate clients in their time of need, Vineyard Funeral Assurance company chairperson Samson Mavende said yesterday....Published: 29 May 2021 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe parlours downplay spiralling deaths
ZIMBABWE'S funeral assurance sector has allayed fears of possible collapse as the COVID-19 scourge intensifies and affects capacity to meet policyholder claims.Taka Svosve, the Zimbabwe Associ...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:08hrs | 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
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
Chaos in Beitbridge after system collapse
SCORES of travellers between South Africa and Zimbabwe were stranded at Beitbridge yesterday when a systems failure hit the South African immigration office affecting biometric processing of arrivals ...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA bus accident: Bodies arrive
THE bodies of 13 of the 14 Zimbabweans who died in a Marsmery bus accident in South Africa on May 6 arrived in the country yesterday through Beitbridge.Initially 10 of the 13 bodies were broug...Published: 13 May 2019 at 08:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nyaradzo eyes UK market
LOCAL insurance group, Nyaradzo Life Assurance Company, says it intends to spread its wings into the United Kingdom (UK) this year as it seeks to widen its market reach, an official has said.S...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nyaradzo CEO turns into Tuku's undertaker
The burial of music superstar Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi - the first musician to be accorded national hero status -- was unprecedented in many respects.It was the first time a national hero was bu...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 15:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kings and Queens Funeral services donate to horror crash victims
THE Kings & Queens funeral services, Bulawayo branch, donated burial necessities to the Sibanda Horror crash victims who perished along Gwanda Road last week and laid to rest at West Park cemetery...Published: 15 Mar 2017 at 08:00hrs | | by Caroline Chiimba
Burial of Chitepo, Mwashita - live update
1438: We end our updates here.1436: The National Anthem is now being played to mark the conclusion of proceedings here at the National Heroes Acre.1413: President Mugabe leads the layi...Published: 13 Apr 2016 at 14:18hrs | | by Costa Mano, Elita Chikwati and Lloyd Gumbo
Funeral body calls for duty reduction
The Zimbabwe Association of Funeral Assurers is seeking Government to reduce duty charged on hearses and other burial equipment to enhance service delivery.He said members need equipment i...Published: 30 Jul 2015 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prostitute lose custody of her children
A SELF-CONFESSED lady of the night on Monday lost custody of her two children after the court ruled that she was not morally right to continue looking after them.Lucia Musa and Verbus Kamukura...Published: 07 Mar 2015 at 19:58hrs | | by Answer Sithole
Timely boost for Roodeport disaster community
The little communities of the otherwise quiet Jabulisa and Setshankwe villages of Nkayi North at the boundary with Gokwe South will never forget the 8th of March 2014. This is the day when 18 bodies ...Published: 12 Jul 2014 at 09:29hrs | | by Bhebhe Mandla
Alick Macheso under pressure
Ace sungura musician, Alick Macheso, is under pressure from his legion of fans to release an album for 2014 as he had promised.He has, however, allayed fears and revealed he is speeding up con...Published: 17 Jun 2014 at 12:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt salutes SA based Zimbabweans
Government has paid tribute to Zimbabweans in South Africa for assisting in the repatriation of 22 illegal miners who died in a disused shaft in that country in February.The miners entered the...Published: 19 Mar 2014 at 06:29hrs | | by Thupeyo Muleya
SA mine victims' burial today
THE 22 bodies of Zimbabwean illegal miners who were gassed to death in a South African disused mine arrived in Bulawayo yesterday just before 6am and a funeral service attended by hundreds of mourner...Published: 09 Mar 2014 at 08:13hrs | | by Vusumuzi Dube
The tragedy and shame of the Durban Deep Mine disaster
As dawn broke over the Limpopo river this morning a convoy of hearses crossed the border into this ruin of a country which, as one writer put it, is aptly named after a heap of ruins in the f...Published: 08 Mar 2014 at 17:08hrs | | by Patrick Ndlovu
Over 200,000 cars imported in 2013
Zimbabweans imported 206,519 cars worth over $606 million between January and November last year, statistics from the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency has shown. Most of the vehicles were second-ha...Published: 03 Feb 2014 at 16:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers buy four hearses
PROGRESSIVE Teachers Union of Zimbabwe has unveiled four hearses that will assist civil servants during bereavement time.The bereavement scheme that became functional in March this year will ...Published: 13 Jun 2011 at 05:05hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
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