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Zimbabwe content creator found murdered following a hijacking in Delft
A digital content creator and pastor who graduated just days ago has been found murdered following a hijacking in Delft.Marshall Ganyau, 30, was pictured smiling in his graduation gear after c...Published: 12 Sep 2024 at 08:05hrs | 1290 | by Staff reporter
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 | 66 | by Staff reporter
Ivy Kombo and Admire Kasi's legal woes continue
Ivy Kombo has been in the public eye for many years. She has embraced difficult experiences, problems and scandals as well as other trials and tribulations Zimbabwe's female musicians face. With her g...Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:43hrs | 81 | by Fred Zindi
Mukonori's call for Chamisa to accept defeat swiftly rejected
Zimbabwean Catholic priest Father Fidelis Mukonori's call for main opposition CCC leader Nelson Chamisa to accept defeat in the recent brazenly stolen elections and seek talks with President Emmerson ...Published: 26 Sep 2023 at 18:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pope Francis appoints new Bishop for Gokwe
Pope Francis has appointed Fr. Eusebius Jealous Nyathi, the Rector of Chishawasha National Major Seminary of Sts. John Fisher and Thomas More, as the new Bishop for Gokwe.Fr. Nyathi comes from...Published: 24 Jun 2023 at 17:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rise of fake degree phenomenon
IN Zimbabwe, there has been a growing distasteful trend of people who have forged their qualifications, especially certificates, diplomas, bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees.With an unem...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 19:29hrs | 1 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Mozambique bans Johane Marange Apostolic sect
The government of Mozambique has banned the Johane Marange Apostolic Sect for allegedly encouraging child marriage and disregarding health issues.The controversial religious sect, which has it...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 12:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Trainee pastor barred from stalking underage ex-girlfriend
A TRAINEE pastor was last week arraigned before Harare magistrate Tamara Chibende facing allegations of disturbing the peace of his former girlfriend, a minor, with whom he has a child.The tra...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 07:41hrs | | 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
Ndabaningi Sithole: Zimbabwe's forgotten intellectual and leader
NDABANINGI Sithole was one of the founding fathers of the modern state of Zimbabwe in southern Africa. In August 1963, he became the first president of the Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu), the ...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Uebert Angel's double IDs mystery
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's special envoy to Europe and the Americas Uebert Angel Snr has two identity documents while his British passport has a different date of birth raising serious questions a...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pastor raped, killed during prayer session
POLICE in Marondera have launched a manhunt for suspects who allegedly raped and axed to death a female pastor on February 7.The body of Nelia Maringe (45) was discovered in a bush near Grassl...Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prominent Bulawayo pastor dies
PROMINENT pastor Apostle Morgan Nyathi who was popular for his sermons in the 1990s was buried on Wednesday at Umvutcha cemetery following his death last week.He was 64.Apostle Nyathi ...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa implores church to promote unity
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday implored churches and citizens to be instrumental in promoting unity to ensure there is peace and stability during the by-elections slated for the first quarter of next y...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:10hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Political elites' vacuous populism not serving Zimbabwean people's interest
IN a recent eloquent but rather dense article titled "Dynamics of the Zimbabwe crisis in the 21st century" adopted from a 2003 academic paper of a similar title, Professor Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni ma...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:45hrs | 8 | by Dr Mike Chipere
Gift Mabhaudhi dies
FOR years, Gift "The Praying Mantis" Mabhaudhi's voice captivated radio audiences, especially Christians who followed former Radio 2, now Radio Zimbabwe's gospel programmes until 2004 when an unfortun...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nkayi community Parliament lobby for independent and non partisan chiefs
Nkayi Community Parliament has crafted resolutions on Duties and Roles of Chiefs with the aim of advocating for these to be the hallmarks of how the tradi...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Join demos, 'cowards sin by silence' - village idiots sin by ignorance, they know not destination
Man is a creature of reason, our superior brain should be our greatest strength but, like everything else, in the wrong hands a blessing is a curse. "In 1918, Eller Wheeler Wilcox the gre...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 20:49hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Join demos, 'cowards sin by silence' - village idiots sin by ignorance, they know not destination
Man is a creature of reason, our superior brain should be our greatest strength but, like everything else, in the wrong hands a blessing is a curse. "In 1918, Eller Wheeler Wilcox the gre...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 15:50hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
New Zanu-PF/ MDC GNU is 'ordained by God' - brainwashing Magaba theology at its worst
"I know some of you have been saying 'why are you praying'. There is no dialogue between man and man which is not ordained by God. Now that we have dialogued with God, we have to dialogue man and man;...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 15:19hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa conflates religion with Christianity
Many people think, and they are wrong to think this, that Zimbabwe starts and ends in Harare.In fact, many in the opposition believe, and this is a clue to why they lose elections, that Twitte...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 09:18hrs | | by Tinomudaishe Chinyoka
Judicial officer in court over fake degrees
A TOP official in the Justice ministry who operated a bogus theological college offering fake degrees to unsuspecting people in and around Marondera, was on Friday arraigned before magistrate Rumbidza...Published: 20 May 2019 at 06:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
A' Level Family and Religious Studies: The Jerusalem Council (Acts 15)
Discuss the problems associated with the historicity of Jerusalem council in Acts 15:1ff This essay seeks to discuss the problems associated with the hi...Published: 15 May 2019 at 08:15hrs | 6 | by Brian Maregedze
A Level Family and Religious Studies: The Jerusalem Council (Acts 15)
Discuss the problems associated with the historicity of Jerusalem council in Acts 15:1ff This essay seeks to discuss the problems associated with the historicity of the Jerusalem Council. In d...Published: 12 May 2019 at 23:09hrs | 2 | by Brian Maregedze
Masiyiwa-Chamisa's contract will not be renewed
Six specially selected security crack teams are currently probing the misdemeanours by senior Zimbabwe National Roads Administrator (Zinara) executives, as authorities step-up the ante to cleanse the ...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara man quits after Parly probe
The man at the centre of corruption allegations unearthed by an audit on the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration, Mr Precious Murove, has quit the organisation in the middle of an inquiry by Parlia...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
'No to gays'
METHODISTS have united against homosexuality at a Special General Conference held last month in the United States where delegates refused to recognise gay unions and ordain homosexuals into offices of...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 23:11hrs | 2 | by Fatima Bulla
Bishop Donga dies
THE founder of the Revival Crusade Missions International (RCM) Church Bishop Sibusiso Donga has died. He was 52. Born on November 30 in 1966, Bishop Donga passed away on Saturda...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara audit exposes double-dippers
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA) dished out a whopping US$71 million between 2011 and 2016 to 17 private companies that largely failed to deliver, The Herald reported. It als...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti, this world will humble you!
Even after having gone through the intellectual rigours of philosophy and theology at seminary, Bishop Lazi still doesn't fancy the nature versus nurture debate.But there is a particularly ine...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:48hrs | 2 | by Bishop Lazi
Chamisa splits MDC?
It happened there: how democracy died in MDC. A new kind of authoritarianism is taking root in the opposition and there are warning signs for Zimbabwe and its people.The MDC T or A's border ru...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Why I respect TB Joshua – Stanley Goreraza, Grace Mugabe's ex-husband
Stanley Goreraza, an officer in Zimbabwe's Air Force and the first husband of Zimbabwe's former first lady Grace Mugabe, has publicly lauded Nigerian Prophet T.B. Joshua. "The main...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 19:15hrs | 3 | by Beatrice Mahlonga
Critical consciousness and educatedness
Even some of the leading philosophers and theorists of education have made the mistake of thinking that being informed is the same thing as being educated.In actuality one may accumulate quant...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 06:44hrs | 4 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Bushiri, Magaya and the gospel of prosperity
IT was perhaps the most striking picture that came from the spectacle that accompanied Shepherd Bushiri's appearance at the Pretoria Special Commercial Crimes Court last week.It was the pictur...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Inmate's wife impregnated
LIFE is unbearable for an inmate at Harare Central Prison whose wife was impregnated while he is serving his 20-year jail term.Tendai Muza, 34, says he gets solace from the bible after attaini...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 17:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Family and Religious Studies Advanced Level Analysis
Explore the lessons that can be drawn from Jesus ethics and demonstrate how they can be applied in a Zimbabwean society faced with problem of HIV and AIDS?...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 17:22hrs | 3 | by Brian Maregedze
Film on Chamisa to be released soon
A film on Nelson Chamisa’s election campaign, called “The Walk of Giants”, is currently in production and will be released soon.The 40-year-old was the main challenger of President Emmer...Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 20:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Masiiwa Ragies Gunda, At the Crossroads: A Call to Christians to Act in Faith for an Alternative Zimbabwe
(University of Bamberg Press, 2018, pp. 113) Masiiwa Ragies Gunda's book is timely as the ‘Zimbabwe crisis' is traced from 1997 to 2018. Although the...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 10:19hrs | 3 | by Brian Maregedze
The Church as seen by a Young Layman: Unmasking the darker side of modernity in Christianity
It is now forty one years since Steve Biko, the doyen of South African Black Consciousness Movement passed on. A part of this piece title is developed from Steve Biko's, I Write What I Like. Although ...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 17:03hrs | 2 | by Brian Maregedze and Tedious Ncube
'Christians must get involved in politics'
TOMORROW, Zimbabweans decide in a historic election pitting 23 presidential candidates with 5, 5 million voters registered to cast the ballot.The country has been trapped in election mode sinc...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 09:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
ED pfeee!
It is election period and slogans, promises and promotions are the order of the day. Different political parties have different slogans. Surprisingly some have resorted to copying others and others do...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 07:15hrs | | by Erick Matotoba
Nelson Chamisa, Zimbabwe's young political crusader
In his tailored suits and designer jewellery, Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa can work a crowd with all the drama of the Pentecostal preacher that he is.At 40, he is nearly ha...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:40hrs | 2 | by BBC Africa
Church leader asks his followers to buy him a $54 million private jet
(CNN) A prosperity gospel televangelist from Louisiana says Jesus has asked him to buy a new private jet. And wouldn't you know it, Jesus has real nice taste in planes.Jesse Duplantis, leader of J...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 07:53hrs | | by CNN
The continuous aggression in the unmaking of African religion
African religion continues to suffer violence and aggression in the post-colonial era in the hands of its own target beneficiaries! (Matthew 11:12). And it is them that must rise and save it by force ...Published: 28 May 2018 at 15:58hrs | 24 | by Reginald T. Gola
Snakes have been set to Swallow Snakes to Free Zimbabwe by 2019
Snakes have been set to Swallow Snakes to Free Zimbabwe by 2019Vengeance is mine!!!! says the architect of humanity. The Law of Balance soothes all World problems in phenomenal ways. To the re...Published: 06 May 2018 at 08:29hrs | | by Multiverse Dungani
Chamisa, the curse of youthful exuberance
The parable of our time might well be: "Mind your young, or they will trouble you in your old age."During the Cold War, Chinese Premier Chou Enlai once observed: "One of the delightful things ...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 06:55hrs | | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Chamisa at 40 is ready to lead
Great statesman in the history lead at the age of 40. Martin Luther King was assassinated aged 39 but he had already fought against white oppression in the United States of America with his vision sti...Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 19:39hrs | | by Trust Mukamba
Chamisa's campaign message betrays political immaturity
The MDC Alliance is in the campaign mode and it has been gathering people for rallies. The alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa's message has exposed him for who he is - a political novice....Published: 14 Mar 2018 at 06:08hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Apostle blasts prostitutes, false prophets
ZAOGA Forward In Faith International Apostle Christopher Kapandura popularly known in evangelism circles as 'MaKaps' shocked Chinhoyi community with the vulgar words he used to attack prostitutes and ...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 15:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa now unstoppable'
MDC acting president Nelson Chamisa is beating his internal party rivals with the help of his charm and vitality and could harness those gifts to help him successfully run for president, observers and...Published: 21 Feb 2018 at 15:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
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