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Johanne Marange church gathers amid cholera fears
Thousands of Johanne Marange Apostolic Church members have gathered at the Mafararikwa Shrine in Marange, Manicaland province, for their annual Passover, despite concerns over the country's cholera ou...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 05:58hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Johanne Marange members gather for passover
THOUSANDS of Johanne Marange Apostolic sect members are gathered in Marange for their annual passover, the second after the death of their leader Noah Taguta Momberume last year.His death igni...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 08:19hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP gets 8 votes in primaries
THE ruling Zanu-PF party primary polls last month were reportedly the worst nightmare for sitting Mutare West MP Teedzai Percy Muchimwe.It has emerged that he only managed to garner eight vote...Published: 01 May 2023 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa contaminating churches,' says Chamisa
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of contaminating churches by turning them into a hunting ground for votes ahead of this year's electi...Published: 25 Apr 2023 at 06:37hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Die cast in Zanu-PF primaries
THE stage has been set in what promises to be a tough contest in the much-awaited Zanu-PF primary elections to choose the candidates that will represent the ruling party in the forthcoming harmonised ...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 07:28hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa heads for Marange
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to address one of the country's largest Christian denominations, the Johanne Marange Apostolic Church in Marange, today.Zanu-PF Manicaland chairman Taw...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 05:36hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Virginity and the Johanne Marange religious customs
THE state has outlawed virginity testing as a human rights violation.However, it is surprising to note that Johanne Marange Apostolic Church (JMAC) still teaches and conducts mandatory virgini...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 19:54hrs | 7 | by Matthew Mare
Afrobarometer report sends Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF to church
AN Afrobarometer survey report released in June this year showing a rise in the popularity of opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa against waning support for President Emmer...Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 16:19hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wants Zimbabweans to promote peace
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has rallied the nation to cherish peace and unite to develop the country.He said Zimbabweans need to take a leaf from the unity shown by the Johanne Marange Apostolic Churc...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:06hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Johanne Marange leader burial today
JOHANNE Marange Apostolic Church leader Noah Taguta Momberume will be buried today, three days after congregants were said to be camping in Manicaland's Marange communal lands anxiously awaiting his r...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Johanne Marange Church sued for marrying off young girls
The constitutionality of the Johanne Marange Apostolic Church doctrine of marrying off young girls and covering up alleged sexual abuse among congregants is now under the spotlight after gender activi...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Johanne Marange 'rapist' hubby denied bail
A JOHANNE Marange apostolic church member Hatirarami Momberume (26), whose 14-year-old wife died while giving birth at a church shrine in July, was yesterday further remanded in custody by a Mutare ma...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 19:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Shrine death: Cops hunt for girl's grave
The death of a married 14-year-old Johanne Marange Apostolic Church girl during childbirth at the church's shrine in Marange, and the location of her grave, are now subjects of a police investigation ...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
151 children, 16 wives, still counting
Mbire man, Misheck Nyandoro, has fathered 151 children with 16 wives and he is still counting. "Mine is a project. This polygamy is a project that I have undertaken since 1983 and will end wit...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:02hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Let's work hard to prosper, says Mnangagwa
President Mnangagwa has challenged Zimbabweans to work hard to ensure the country prospers.Addressing thousands of St Noah Taguta-led Johanne Marange followers at Mafararikwa Village in Bocha ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
200 vapostori evicted from farm
ABOUT 200 members of the Johanne Marange Apostolic Church, who had illegally settled themselves at a farm in Chivhu, were on Thursday left homeless after their homes were set ablaze during an eviction...Published: 18 May 2019 at 10:02hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Polygamist ALMOST DIES during sex with churchmate
SEX took me to the ER! (Emergency Room).That's what happened to a polygamous Bulawayo man who is also a member of a popular Apostolic sect was admitted to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) after he...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staf reporter
Mnangagwa has already won elections
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa should stop bothering with campaigns for the July 30 elections as he has already won the crunch vote.This was said by vapostori sect leader Madzibaba Abel Chimbadz...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 17:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Political turncoats, prophets should stay out of polls
WHOEVER coined the phrase 'politics is a dirty game' must have had Zanu-PF kind of politics in mind, given the levels of hypocrisy shown by some of the ruling party's so-called 'clairvoyants'....Published: 25 May 2018 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa charms Marange
VILLAGERS in Marange have hailed President Mnangagwa for his role in ensuring that they benefit fully from the diamonds being mined in that area through the new diamond policy that is currently being ...Published: 25 May 2018 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Mnangagwa will win elections - Vapostori prophecy
THE Johanne Marange Apostolic Church yesterday "prophesied" a President Emmerson Mnangagwa victory in the forthcoming general elections.Addressing thousands of party supporters at St Noah Coll...Published: 24 May 2018 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Degrees not a passport into Parly'
MUTARE West Zanu-PF parliamentary candidate Teedzayi Muchimwe, who recently defeated National Scholarships minister Christopher Mushohwe in the ruling party's primary elections, has said education was...Published: 11 May 2018 at 07:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa backs Chiwenga for firing nurses
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has stood by his deputy Constantino Chiwenga who has come under fire for his punitive decision last week to fire over 15,000 striking nurses, NewZimbabwe.com reported....Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 22:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Economy over politics, says Mnangagwa
THE era of prioritising politics over the economy is over as the new administration primes the country for growth, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.At a field day at a farm owned by Mr Ir...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 09:08hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa calls for sanctions-busting measures
GOVERNMENT will not be distracted by the matter of illegal Western sanctions as it is focusing its energy on reviving the economy, President Mnangagwa has said.The West imposed sanctions on Zi...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 07:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe disappoints Marange Apostolic Sect members
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's last-minute cancellation of his scheduled visit to the Marange Apostolic Sect annual Passover pilgrimage has left many sect members disappointed.Mugabe aborted the tr...Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 06:54hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's biker in horrific accident
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's return home from a week-long trip abroad took a bizarre turn yesterday morning when one of the bikers in his motorcade was involved in a horrific accident, a few minutes afte...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 14:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Marange Passover to attract more than 200 000 pilgrims
More than 200 000 Johanne Marange Apostolic Church pilgrims are expected to converge for their annual Passover at Mafararikwa Shrine in Manicaland.The annual Johanne Marange Apostolic Church P...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 12:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Girl 18 already a mother of two
Harare Residents Trust has exposed a bizarre incident where an 18 year old girl born on 5 November 1998 is already a mother of two children, aged three years and the other one 19 months."The m...Published: 08 Jul 2016 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Botched home caesarean section kills VaPostori woman
A PREGNANT Johanne Marange Apostolic Church member died after an unqualified midwife allegedly slit open her abdomen and removed a still born baby, during a botched Caesarean section done at home in ...Published: 13 Jun 2015 at 21:56hrs | | by Ray Bande
Man with 14 wives gets 8 houses from diamonds firm
Johanne Marange Apostolic Church super dad, Philemon Johwanu Kaiboni Kambeni, has been allocated eight houses by Anjin diamond mining firm after staging a month-long housing protest.Kambeni ...Published: 21 Aug 2014 at 15:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Churches should provide spiritual, moral guidance to society says Mugabe
Government depends on churches to help fight corruption and other social ills that include violence, child abuse, homosexuality and sodomy, President Mugabe has said.In a speech read on his be...Published: 13 Jul 2014 at 06:14hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Meet Zimbabwe's super dad - 15 wives, 128 kids, still counting
HE has fathered 128 children with 15 wives but has not stopped marrying and "manufacturing" more children. For Misheck Doctor Nyandoro, it is game on . . . three of his wives are pregnant and ...Published: 12 Jul 2014 at 20:30hrs | 1 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Is Ndanga Persecuting Christian Churches in Zimbabwe?
On Friday the 30th of May 2014 the media was awash with the news that Ndanga, some journalists and the riot police were given a thorough beating by members of Johane Masowe led by Madzibaba Ishmael ...Published: 02 Jun 2014 at 11:35hrs | 14 | by Etiwel Mutero
Johane Marange factions fight for church regalia
The long running dispute between two church factions relating to ownership of church regalia and other paraphernalia resulted in the jailing of 10 members belonging to Taguta's faction, after their ap...Published: 07 Feb 2014 at 16:13hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Apostolic sect's bizarre rituals
Dogs, chickens, goats and cattle have better chances of survival than humans, a hard-pressed Johanne Marange Apostolic Church member vending locksets and glue at Sakubva Bus Terminus conceded....Published: 12 Jan 2014 at 14:43hrs | 2 | by Bernard Chiketo
Court strikes High Court judge for miscarriage of justice
THE Supreme Court on Thursday rapped High Court judge Justice Alphas Chitakunye, for allegedly presiding over and making a ruling in a property wrangle, including church regalia, between members of th...Published: 28 Sep 2013 at 04:05hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's rallies- what a tired campaign!
For the past weeks I have been religiously following the campaign trails by different political parties in Zimbabwe as the July 31 watershed harmonised election campaigns enter the homestretch....Published: 26 Jul 2013 at 05:55hrs | 2 | by Andrew Mambondiyani
Mugabe at the Johanne Marange Apostolic church holy shrine - video
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday begged thousands of members of the Apostolic Sect to vote for him in this month's make-or-break harmonised elections.Addressing several thousands members of...Published: 14 Jul 2013 at 19:17hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Apostolic sect leaders sings praise to Mugabe
A Johanne Marange Apostolic Church elder from Angola, Mr Elis Joao Francisco Miguel, who also attended the annual Passover gathering, said President Mugabe was an African icon respected throughout th...Published: 14 Jul 2013 at 06:27hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Johanne Marange Apostolic Church urged to set up a bank
Acting President Mujuru has called on the Johanne Marange Apostolic Church to set up a community bank to help its members access cheap loans. Addressing about 300 000 pilgrims drawn from Ango...Published: 16 Jul 2012 at 13:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Buhera mother breastfeeds another woman’s baby
THE late Biggie Tembo and his Bundu Boys penned a gem of a song, Kuwanda kwakanaka, in which they were bemoaning the failure of the father to take care of his big family.The same now applies t...Published: 03 Mar 2012 at 20:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
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