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Pius Ncube still doing the Lord's work
Archbishop Emeritus Pius Ncube, former head of the Roman Catholic Church in Bulawayo, has broken his silence nearly two decades after a sex scandal involving a married congregant, Rosemary Sibanda, in...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 03:49hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
Insiza: The land of gold and glory
INSIZA is a district in Matabeleland South Province and its capital, Filabusi, is 100km south of Bulawayo, along the Mbalabala/Zvishavane Road. The district boasts of a diverse landscape, with gentle ...Published: 30 Dec 2023 at 08:21hrs | 47 | by Staff reporter
'Stop praying for me and Zimbabwe,' says Sikhala
Dear Zimbabwean and Worldwide FriendsMy dearest friends, today marks exactly one and half years, that is, the full 18 months under persecution, incarceration in a meter by two and half meters ...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 11:04hrs | 1 | by Job Sikhala
Mnangagwa boasts of being Zimbabwe's 'CIO Godfather'
BY his own admission this week, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is the architect of Zimbabwe's brutal security system which has left a trail of human rights violations, abductions, forced disappearances ...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 06:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Catholic music competitions
TWENTY-SIX Roman Catholic Church choirs drawn from parishes in Hwange Diocese competed in the Saint Cecilia annual music competitions at Marist Brothers Secondary School in Dete on Saturday.St...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbery cases increased in 2021
Cases of armed robberies increased countrywide this year with criminals targeting cash-in transit vehicles, individuals and business people with large amounts of cash.Schools and cross-border ...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 07:23hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Isn't it interesting that those used by ZANU PF to do its dirty muderous work always seem to meet an unenviable tragic end?
One of the trending news pieces sending tongues wagging since yesterday has been the recent tragic and most unfortunate suicide of a state intelligence operative, who is believed to have planted secre...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 18:17hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Pius Ncube exposer commits suicide
A BULAWAYO businessman and private investigator who exposed former head of the Roman Catholic Church in Bulawayo, Archbishop Pius Ncube's sexual escapades 14 years ago, Ernest Tekere committed suicide...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi: Tale of a brave man knocked down by ruinous sex
LIKE many of his contemporaries, Kembo Dugishi Campbell Mohadi - who hails from Mtetengwe area 40 kilometres west of Beitbridge border town along the Bulawayo highway - belongs to a generation which w...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:03hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
For there is no authority except from God
After taking a lengthy Covid 19 induced sabbatical from church, yours truly had an opportunity to attend one this week which was characterised by a blast sermon which was topical, intellectually and s...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 18:55hrs | 1 | by Tafara Shumba
Robert Mugabe: A leader loved and hated in equal measure by Zimbabweans
Longtime Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has died. He was 95.Loved and hated in almost equal measure by Zimbabweans, the former teacher was best known for leading Zimbabwe to independence, ...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 08:38hrs | 3 | by Compiled by Alet Janse van Rensburg
Gukurahundi documentalist Silonda dies
Former director of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP), Matabeleland chapter who played a pivotal role in the documentation of the Gukurahundi massacres by CCJP in the 1980s, Joel Buh...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ndiweni: A goat skinner in the place of a chief
Back in my village, when elders with cotton tuft hair sit to discuss matters of State and governance, among intermittent sips and sniffs, there are those whose contribution is known to stupidly go aga...Published: 28 May 2019 at 07:44hrs | 3 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Queen Bee a fictitious character created to defuse tension in the country
Prior to the stage managed appointment and termination of Gerald Matumanje aka Acie Lumumba I wrote a piece titled 'President ED Mnangagwa is Finished'. I demonstrated that Zimbabwe was ripe for...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 12:24hrs | 2 | by Don Chigumba
The ZANU PF Chamisa-Mwonzora Stage Managed Conflict Is Their Only Weapon Left
Nelson Chamisa is among the heroes of faiths and honest, I have no doubt that he has joined the league of Simon Peter, Stephen, Paul, Aristarchus, Silas and other biblical heroes of faiths. I was expe...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 10:45hrs | 1 | by Don Chigumba
Zanu-PF rejects spoiling MDC Alliance with their dirty tactics
Not long ago I warned about the dangers of coalitions built on political convenience and not values and ideological leanings. I warned that such coalitions bring unsavoury characters onbo...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 13:35hrs | 2 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Chigumba's sex life and the pitfalls of social media
I am not sure if Priscilla Chigumba, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chair, bleached to be such a yellow-bone. But I am not rushing to make her pigmentation any of my business because it's not...Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 10:32hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni
Spare us these arrests and sex tapes
As the election mood gathers momentum, the mudslinging and smear campaigning have been propelled to another level. The arrest story of MDC-T Acting President Nelson Chamisa on allegations of causing a...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 14:09hrs | | by Leonard Koni
'$1.2 billion capital budget not enough'
THE $1.2 billion capital expenditure in the 2018 National Budget Statement is not adequate to drive robust growth in the economy.Industry and commerce experts said this in Bulawayo yesterday d...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 05:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mthwakazi question, bigger than Media Wars'
Mthwakazi Republic Party has said the People's Revolutionary Party is very much disturbed by the continued onslaught by the so called aspirants for the kingship revival on media, especially those who ...Published: 20 Jul 2017 at 10:20hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Bakare must go to hell and join Satan,' says Musindo
Destiny for Africa Network leader Reverend Obadiah Musindo has fired a salvo at retired Anglican bishop of Harare Diocese and Manicaland, Sebastian Bakare, describing him as a new version of disgraced...Published: 19 Jun 2017 at 10:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Letter to Pastor Evan Mawarire
The letter below was originally published by the state media, The Herald, on Friday.Evan Mawarire - typical of a man who thoughtlessly swallows a mango ...Published: 05 Aug 2016 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by The Villager
Watch out what you follow
Zimbabweans would do well if they draw some lessons from a bizarre incident that recently took place across Limpopo in which a self proclaimed prophet set himself and 21 church members on fire while t...Published: 27 Jul 2016 at 10:09hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Mashonaland created what Mugabe is! - MRP
Mthwakazi Republic Party has accused the people of Mashonaland provinces for creating a dictator in the name of President Robert Mugabe since 1980 when they connived with his and the whites to rob PF ...Published: 16 Jul 2016 at 07:30hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Church leader launches #Mugabe Must Fall campaign
REMNANT Church leader Patrick Mugadza, famed for his solo demonstration against government misrule, has launched a #Mugabe Must Fall campaign that will involve 40 days of prayer and fasting to for...Published: 01 Jul 2016 at 11:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Catholics mum over the national pledge
THE noise surrounding the controversial national pledge has reached boiling point with some traditional churches that run mission schools ordering their institutions to disassociate themselves from th...Published: 03 May 2016 at 16:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Pius Ncube to bounce back as archbishop emeritus
FORMER Roman Catholic Bulawayo Diocese Archbishop Pius Ncube is set to bounce back in the Roman Catholic Bulawayo branch.A delegation from the diocese is pushing for him to be appointed an arc...Published: 10 Apr 2016 at 07:54hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe Divine Destiny: a church or political party?
After learning that Zimbabwe Divine Destiny Church leader, Ancelimo Magaya is visually impaired, I forgave him for 'seeing' human rights violations where there is none. Honestly where are the acts of ...Published: 03 Mar 2016 at 10:35hrs | 2 | by Rufaro Mufundirwa
Gukurahundi commemoration group approaches court
BULAWAYO-BASED civic organisation Ibhetshu Likazulu has approached the courts to compel the police to allow the group to hold a commemoration for victims of the Gukurahundi genocide.Police on ...Published: 29 Jan 2015 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bootlicking Rev Wutawunashe has exceedingly and abundantly gone beyond measure of bootlicking!
Dear Rev WutawunasheRE: Mugabe God-given says Reverend Andrew Wutawunashe -by Pamela Shumba 28 December 2014The abovementioned and aboveunderlined article dated on even date and repor...Published: 29 Dec 2014 at 23:10hrs | 1 | by Tapiwa Diamond Chadya
Zimbabwe Presidential bedroom videos - coming to your whatsapp soon!
Background Fake Dr Amai Comrade Grace Mugabe has come out threatening the Vice President, genuine Dr Comrade Joice Mujuru with revealing of tapes expo...Published: 19 Nov 2014 at 19:04hrs | | by Shingai Mugochi A lay concerned Zimbabwean
'Pained by Payne's death'
Bulawayo residents say they have been pained by renowned Bulawayo water activist Arnold Payne's died.Payne died at Mater Dei Hospital in the city on Monday night after being admitted at the in...Published: 27 Aug 2014 at 08:44hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo water activist Arnold Payne dies
Bulawayo water activists Arnold Payne has died.He was 75.Born in Mtshabezi area in Gwanda district in 1938, Payne had been involved in water activism all his life.Payne, an en...Published: 26 Aug 2014 at 18:23hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Religious Freedom flourishes in Zimbabwe
As the persecution of Christians is on the increase in some parts of the world, the issue of religious liberty is increasingly becoming a contemporary global issue. Two weeks ago, the Seve...Published: 03 Jul 2014 at 09:00hrs | 10 | by Tafara Shumba
Mutasa threatens Mugabe 'haters'
Zanu-PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa has threatened to use state security agents to expose dirty lives of those who are in the habit of attacking President Robert Mugabe.Addres...Published: 10 Jun 2014 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
The life of Nathan Shamuyarira
Former minister and retired Zanu-PF Information secretary Nathan Shamuyarira died on Wednesday night at West End Clinic in Harare. He was 85.Here is a timeline of his life and career....Published: 05 Jun 2014 at 18:29hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Catholics snub priest 'secret lovers'
THE Archbishop of Bulawayo Diocese Alex Thomas says the church is not going to change its policy on celibacy, following a petition submitted to the Pope agitating for reforms.The Bulawayo arc...Published: 20 May 2014 at 07:21hrs | 3 | by Patrick Chitumba
The British engineered Gukurahundi Massacres
I understand how people hate Robert Mugabe but, to publish this report as a factual report is a horrible crime against the people of Zimbabwe. I can only assume you were neither witnesses to the t...Published: 26 Apr 2014 at 06:52hrs | 9 | by Brian Sherif
Zimbabwe in economic, political crisis - Biti
THIS is the first part of a series of MDC-T secretary general Tendai Biti's address to a SAPES Trust Policy Dialogue on March 6, 2014 in which he gives his take on th...Published: 17 Mar 2014 at 09:41hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Gukurahundi Memorial organisers blasted
Zanu-PF politburo member, Sikhanyiso Ndlovu Sunday lashed out at some activists from Matabeleland, accusing them of trying to gain political mileage by "opening wounds" inflicted upon by Gukurahundi, ...Published: 20 Jan 2014 at 14:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pius Ncube resurface at Gukurahundi prayers
FORMER Roman Catholic Archbishop for Bulawayo, Pius Alick Mvundla Ncube, who disappeared from the public eye after a widely publicised adulterous relationship with a church member, resurfaced Saturda...Published: 19 Jan 2014 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Liz Tsvangirai seen with Morgan for the first time since CIO leaks
MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai has been seen in public with his wife, Elizabeth, for the first time since revelations that Elizabeth had made up with the father of one of her children a few weeks ...Published: 09 Sep 2013 at 16:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CIO steps up snooping on Tsvangirai
STATE security agents have stepped up surveillance on former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai after initially withdrawing their services when the ex-premier travelled to South Africa last month, it ...Published: 06 Sep 2013 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's spies steps up mass citizen surveillance
President Robert Mugabe's government, through the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), has stepped up mass surveillance on private citizens' lives, particularly those perceived as politica...Published: 30 Aug 2013 at 12:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Elizabeth Tsvangirai SMS exposé abuse of security apparatus
THE publication of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's wife, Elizabeth's private correspondence to an alleged lover last weekend further exposed President-elect Robert Mugabe and Zanu-PF's abuse of st...Published: 16 Aug 2013 at 08:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Pius Ncube spotted at Welshman Ncube's meeting
THE former Roman Catholic Archbishop for Bulawayo, Pius Ncube attended an MDC organised meeting recently, raising eyebrows that the disgraced man of the cloth could be probably be venturing into pol...Published: 11 Mar 2013 at 18:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
King Mzilikazi unearthed: Affordances, Dynamics and Architectures
I have always been fascinated by Mzilikazi Mashobane Khumalo the man and king. Many questions about the man have remained unanswered and many gaps in literature have raised an eyebrow in any interest...Published: 18 Feb 2013 at 10:53hrs | 12 | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane
'Pius Ncube now living a life of prayer'
Archbishop Robert Ndlovu heads the Harare diocese of the Roman Catholic Church which covers 63 555 square kilometres and boasts of a Catholic population close to 500...Published: 06 Aug 2012 at 04:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe holding evidence of adultery - Wikileaks
President Robert Mugabe is holding evidence of adultery against two unnamed Catholic Bishops in Zimbabwe, according to Wiki leaks.A recent cable by the whistle blowing website revealed that Ev...Published: 15 May 2012 at 09:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Adultery: Zimbabwe's dark secret
A worrying trend is emerging in Zimbabwe and the proverbial skeletons in the closet are being exposed.According to official figures, 427 child maintenance cases were dealt with at the Harare C...Published: 22 Apr 2012 at 08:18hrs | 2 | by Itai Mazire
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