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Mutumwa Paul Mwazha turns 106 years old
The founder and leader of the African Apostolic Church, Mutumwa Paul Mwazha, has reached a remarkable milestone, celebrating his 106th birthday today. Known affectionately as Mutumwa, which translates...Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 18:06hrs | 1320 | by Staff reporter
Mutumwa Mawere appeals 6 month contempt sentence
Zimbabwean-born South African businessman Mutumwa Mawere has filed an appeal against his six-month prison sentence for contempt of court, stemming from a protracted legal dispute involving Southern As...Published: 21 Oct 2024 at 08:28hrs | 3805 | by Staff reporter
Mutumwa Mawere sentenced to 6 months in SA prison
Zimbabwean-born South African businessman Mutumwa Mawere has been sentenced to six months in prison for contempt of court, following a protracted legal battle involving Southern Asbestos Sales (Pty) L...Published: 05 Oct 2024 at 16:16hrs | 2095 | by Staff reporter
Religious tourism; Sanganai Hlanganani Expo decentralisation gain momentum
Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister, Barbara Rwodzi has expressed her commitment to engage [with church leaders], transform and empower indigenous churches through identifying and amplifying the...Published: 14 Sep 2024 at 15:01hrs | 463 | by Gideon Madzikatidze in Bulawayo
Woes worsen for casino banned Bulawayo prophet
Archbishop Emmanuel Mutumwa, a prominent leader of the Johanne Masowe eChishanu Apostolic Sect in Bulawayo, has faced bans from multiple casinos after allegedly winning significant sums, reportedly gu...Published: 28 Jun 2024 at 09:58hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo prophet gambles, wins US$30,000 banned from casino
In a contentious incident within the Christian community and among gambling circles, a prominent Bulawayo prophet, Archbishop Emmanuel Mutumwa, claimed to have won over US$30,000 at a local casino thr...Published: 07 Jun 2024 at 15:35hrs | 49 | by Staff reporter
Shock as Rutendo Matinyarare labels the High Court a Kangaroo Court
Controversial Rutendo Matinyarare, a well-known public figure, recently faced backlash for his absence during a court hearing. The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe had taken legal action against ...Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 14:57hrs | 16 | by George Tshuma
Man grows floppy breasts
IN an eerier than fiction story, a man from Cross Dete in Hwange District, Matabeleland North province developed huge lady-like breasts amid chilling revelations that at night they are being suc...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 06:03hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Man's 'get rich quick' muthi backfires horribly
REMEMBER, if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.Blinded by the allure of prosperity, an elderly man from Hwange in Matabeleland North province's quest to get rich quickly thr...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Even Mnangagwa wants 'whites' to develop Zimbabwe!
A few days ago, I had a very interesting debate with a ZANU PF sympathizer - who was adamant that Zimbabwe was going in the right direction under President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa.He based...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 21:50hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mutumwa Mawere seeks to bar Mnangagwa from running for Zimbabwean Presidency
EXILED businessman Mutumwa Mawere has approached the Constitutional Court, seeking to block President Emmerson Mnangagwa from contesting in the August 23 polls.The South African-based ty...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 18:07hrs | 1 | 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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
Pastors4 ED,young miners to meet Mnangagwa
Pastors For Economic Development have signed a memorandum of understanding with the Young Miners For Economic Development to work together in resuscitation of the economy with the event scheduled to t...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 21:22hrs | 1 | by Desire Tshuma
Mwazha church pledge support to Zanu-PF
The African Apostolic Church founded and led by Archbishop Paul Mwazha has pledged their unwavering support for Zanu-PF and promised to pray for the nation before, during and after the harmonised elec...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 08:08hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mwazha church disowns bishop
The African Apostolic Church led by Mutumwa Ernest Paul Mwazha has dissociated itself from Charles Tekeshe (65) who featured in the courts in Mutare for allegedly breaking into a congregant's house wh...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:52hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Petitioners ropes in international stakeholders for Sikhala's release?
PETITIONERS, who want an end to the lengthy incarceration of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole, have called for "urgent action" to rope in international s...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
55 000 petition Mnangagwa for Sikhala, Sithole release
ABOUT 55 000 Zimbabweans locally and abroad yesterday petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa for the second time over continued incarceration of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators Job Si...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala's continued imprisonment riles colonial masters in UK
THE continued incarceration of opposition lawmakers Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole, together with 14 Nyatsime residents for over 100 days, has cast Zimbabwe's deteriorating political situation under ...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
48 000 petition Mnangagwa over Sikhala
SOME 48 000 people comprising Zimbabweans and citizens of other countries have signed a petition calling for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's intervention in the continued detention of opposition legisl...Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sparks fly over judges 'capture'
A Constitutional Court judge has come out guns blazing against a litigant who accused the bench of being captured by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Justice Bharat Patel said Tichaona Mupasiri mu...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man bewitched as a mysterious insect eats his foot
When a mysterious ailment attacked his left foot and left a big gaping hole in it Emson Mkhwananzi from Zamatove village in Mberengwa, Midlands province, pictured a dark future and being amputated....Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa taken to ConCourt over judicial capture
FRIENDS of Shabani Mashava Mines Trust member Tichaona Mupasiri has filed a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) application alleging President Emmerson Mnangagwa has captured the Judiciary.Mupasir...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa looks the other way on Job Sikhala petition
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has ignored a petition by Zimbabweans over the incarceration of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim vice-chairperson and Zengeza West legislator J...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 19:37hrs | | 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 | | by Matthew Mare
Mwazha's church set to hold massive pilgrimage
The African Apostolic Church (AAC), popularly known as Vapostora veAfrica, and led by Archbishop Ernest Paul Mwazha is set to hold its biggest yearly conference, putting aside leadership squabbles tha...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa declines comfortable chair, opts for ground during apostolic church visit
President Emmerson Mnangagwa Saturday declined a comfortable seat and opted for bare ground alongside hundreds congregants of the African Apostolic Church led by Mutumwa Paul Mwazha in Chirumanzu....Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 20:38hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Binga Chief escapes 'lightning attack'
IN a stranger than fiction story, a traditional leader "escaped" a lightning attack that had been meant to kill him for enforcing customary law in his area of jurisdiction.Chief Siachilaba, bo...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bumper harvest 'muthi' backfires
FOR some that believe in the law of Karma, evil deeds of the elders are bound to visit their children or close family members.Karma can loosely be translated from Hinduism as good or back luck...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man sleeps with mum and sisters for riches
THE relationship between mother and son can be an unbreakable bond and the love between the two is incomparable, but it has its limits.However, one man has crossed the line that separates a no...Published: 06 May 2022 at 19:32hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Taguta laid to rest
THOUSANDS of Johane Marange Apostolic Church members converged at their Mafararikwa shrine to pay their last respects to High Priest St Noah Taguta Momberume who was buried here in Bocha yesterday. ...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:30hrs | 1 | 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
Mnangagwa mourns Taguta
President Mnangagwa yesterday accorded Johane Marange Apostolic Church leader, High Priest Noah Taguta Momberume a State-assisted funeral.The President said Mutumwa Taguta transformed the sect...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa Junior celebrates Easter Sunday at Mutumwa's church
MR Emmerson Mnangagwa Jnr celebrated Easter Sunday at Prophet Emmanuel Mutumwa's Johane Masowe Chishanhu Selborne Park suburb church in Bulawayo on Sunday.Mr Mnangagwa is in Bulawayo for the I...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 10:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Johane Marange leader dies
The leader of Johane Marange Apostolic Church, High Priest St Noah Taguta Momberume has died. He died yesterday afternoon and believed to be in his gos. Minister of State for Manicaland Provincial Aff...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 10:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF can garner 5 million votes with support from women, church'
THE ruling party Zanu-PF can reach its targeted five million votes in next year's harmonised elections with the vital support of women and the church, Zanu-PF Politburo member Monica Mutsvangwa said y...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 10:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man shares bedroom with bees for 32 years
A Lupane man (name supplied) who paid an inyanga to give him juju to make him rich regrets the day he stepped into the diviner's yard after the object of magical powers turned into bees that have been...Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 10:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Businessman rues day prominent prophet passed through Binga
WHAT started off as a normal sunny day at Manjolo shopping centre in Binga turned out to be a ‘curse' for a local businessman after a baboon skull that he was allegedly using to lure customers to hi...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 19:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stuck with a coffin in a hut for six years
A COFFIN is the last resting place for the deceased before they are buried but for a Masvingo family it became somewhat a symbol of witchcraft.Justice Mulamu came to Bulawayo to consult a loca...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 19:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mawere demands judge's recusal
Exiled businessman Mutumwa Mawere has filed a Constitutional Court application seeking the recusal of Justice Rita Makarau in a case where the constitutionality of the Reconstruction of State-Indebted...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Madzibaba Mutumwa celebrates birthday in style with healing service
EVEN though he has grown to be loved by many people from across the country for his unique healing, Bulawayo cleric Madzibaba Emmanuel Mutumwa decided to skip pomp and fanfare when he observed his 30t...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sued over companies
South African-based Zimbabwean businessman Mutumwa Mawere has filed a Constitutional Court application against President Emmerson Mnangagwa accusing him of having used the seizure of his companies to ...Published: 20 Feb 2022 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dramatic new twists and turns in Mnangagwa's fresh lawsuit
THE convoluted case about accountability and the rule of law in which a Harare man Tichaona Mupasiri has filed a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) application against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's appo...Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 20:46hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa sucked into the SMM saga
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa has been dragged into the on-going fight between government and the Friends of SMM Holdings (Pvt) Ltd (FOSMM) over the hostile takeover of the asbestos mine in ...Published: 09 Feb 2022 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
R1,2m heist victim turns to madzibaba to nab robbers
THE arrest of a 32-year-old man suspected to be part of a gang that recently robbed a Beitbridge businessman of R1,2 million and US$3 500, reportedly came after the businessman allegedly consulted a l...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:34hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
SMM saga sucks in Cyril Ramaphosa
FRIENDS of Shabanie and Mashava Mines Holdings (FoSMM) have filed papers at the Johannesburg High Court seeking an order to compel South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to ignore an administrator ap...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 20:17hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
The lessons from Zambia
I have just celebrated my 77th birthday and have settled on two proud new titles. I have now added a new title to my repertoire. I was given the title of mukoma at the Manica Post. Governor Josiah Hun...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:03hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka
Madzibaba Mutumwa withdraws cars pledge to Bosso
APOSTOLIC faith leader Madzibaba Emmanuel Mutumwa has distanced himself from Highlanders Football Club saying his association with the club caused "rifts within the Highlanders institution" and attack...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean politicians and their addiction to Twitter
WITH the advancement of technology, Twitter has rapidly become a crucial communication tool for Zimbabwean politicians to convey their messages to the public, either to threaten or give general update...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:14hrs | | by Evans Mathanda
Spiritually healed chief warns against tsikamutandas
BINGA traditional leader Acting Chief Charles Sindeki from Mansenya area, who was grateful to be back on his feet after a lengthy wound-healing journey thanks to Bulawayo cleric Madzibaba Emmanuel Mut...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 20:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hand me down knowledge is drying up
Emotionally strong village elders are being quickly gathered to their ancestors, may be tell tale signs of the end times. Echoes from the corridors of time had very mature people guiding young...Published: 26 Jun 2021 at 07:42hrs | 2 | by Tondo Murisa Chinehasha
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