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2 Royal baLozi graves in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Bulawayo's Athlone Cemetery is the oldest formal graveyard in the modern city, being established in December 1893 in the vicinity of what was known as White Man's Camp. There are many significant pers...Published: 25 Sep 2024 at 11:12hrs | 964 | by Paul Hubbard, Independent Researcher, Bulawayo
Zimbabwe condemns Pope Francis over same sex marriages
Catholic congregants in Zimbabwe have expressed disquiet at the Vatican's move to allow the church's priests to bless same-sex couples, saying this is abominable in the majority of African countries a...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 09:30hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
There is no hope in Sadc
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, as the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) commemorates yet another annual day of solidarity with Zimbabwe, my sincere submissi...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 20:18hrs | | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Zimbabwe's Uhuru celebrations now a stale ritual
GOOD day President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, in my estimation, it was inevitable for the 43rd independence anniversary to be devoid of ceremony. As I see it, even the hosting of the ...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 18:56hrs | 1 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
July Moyo resumes campaign for Redcliff seat after shock 2018 defeat
LOCAL Government Minister July Moyo is dishing out donations in the dormitory town of Redcliff amid reports that the Midlands Zanu-PF godfather has resumed campaigns to regain the peri-urban parliamen...Published: 16 Oct 2022 at 19:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo firm makes graders
A BULAWAYO company is manufacturing graders that will help in import substitution as Government rolls out the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme Phase 2 (ERRP2).The company is seeking Gov...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 07:01hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa pays tribute to Paul Mwazha
INFORMATION, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa has urged leaders in Archbishop Paul Mwazha's African Apostolic Church to unite for the sake of the veteran religious icon....Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:37hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Meet Khami's longest serving inmate
HE was condemned at birth to a life of hardship after being christened Mhlupheki, which is Ndebele for "the one who struggles". True to his name, Mhlupheki Ngwenya (47) has suffered, living a ...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 08:29hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Christmas isn't Christian, it's a pagan tradition . . .
THE world over people always look forward to the next Christmas. In some cultures, years are measured by Christmas. People are sensitive when it comes to Christmas, and that's understandable. Mu...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:40hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Who are we Black People?
As black people who really are we when it comes to religion. Asia has Buddhism and Hinduism, the Arab world has Islam, most of Europe is into Christianity. Where is Africa? What is Africans' religion?...Published: 16 Dec 2020 at 14:37hrs | | by Clemen Moyo
Mbuya Nehanda's remains must be repatriated first then erection of the statue
One of the greatest achievements of the President of Zimbabwe comrade Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa is to honour the heroes. The president has shown that he does not forget those deserving to be honoured...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:40hrs | 4 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Jehovah's Witnesses in historic Gweru convention
JEHOVAH'S Witnesses over the weekend held a historic convention in Gweru, which saw thousands of Witnesses throng Midlands State University for the three-day spiritual occasion.The church has ...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
LIVE: Maintenance of Public Order Bill hearing
Parliament is currently conducting a public hearing on the MOPO Bill. The Bill is set to replace the repressive Public Order and Security Act. Analysts have condemned the bill and called a re-...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 10:02hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Do elections work in Zimbabwe?
THIS article seeks to explore the efficacy of elections as a tool of democratic governance in Zimbabwe since 1980.It is by no means exhaustive, but in a brief and cursory manner looks at the m...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Dumisani Nkomo
Urine 'baptism' for man in sex row
A MAN from Hwange got more than what he had bargained for when he was beaten before being baptised with a bucket of urine by his angry wife who had denied him sex.The matter came to light when...Published: 05 May 2019 at 09:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jesus Christ - It's Easter again
TO me Easter is usually a reminder of two things, the first being the sacrifice of Jesus for us. The second being the speed of time. When you get to this date, you know we have exhausted almost a thir...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:53hrs | | by Itai Chapunza
Mutumwa Paul Mwazha visits Domboshava
Mutumwa Ernest Paul Mwazha weAfrica last visited Domboshava a couple of years ago and blessed many people. We remember some police officers who were manning a police post at the Showgrounds came to gr...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 14:22hrs | 3 | by Rev Wilson Rutsate
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
Pupils force headmaster off school premises
THERE was pandemonium at Chakohwa High School last Wednesday after the headmaster's attempt to administer corporal punishment on a pupil backfired when the pupil, with the help of aggrieved teachers, ...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robbers undressed, baptised with beer
TWO suspected robbers became a spectacle of shame and pity after they were caught stealing from a car that was parked in the Central Business District of Bulawayo.The robbers, Dominic Zulu and...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga baptism photo goes viral
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has been baptised....Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 16:48hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Prisoners seek spiritual cleansing
FOR killing his sister-in-law and attempting to murder his wife, 38-year-old Simbarashe Munakamwe was sentenced to 17 years in prison.Now an inmate at the Chikurubi Maximum Prison, Munakamwe i...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 09:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Married woman flees to SA after lover leaks indecent pictures
A MARRIED Victoria Falls woman skipped the border to South Africa after her long suffering husband discovered that she was cheating on him with two men.The woman, Duduzile Ngwenya (30), report...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Urgent need for leadership at MDC Alliance!
The elections have come and gone but there is need for us to search for that very rare quality called common sense---- a quality which is not at all common as the name suggests, especially among the M...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 20:26hrs | | by Noble Tawanda Ngara
Shiri arm-twists Rushinga district to vote Zanu-PF
Minister of Agriculture, Lands and Resettlement, Air Chief Marshal (retired) Perrance Shiri has revealed that he promised the people of Rushinga district that he would donate his pension to them. Shir...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 12:03hrs | | by A Mhlongo
Bishop Mutendi foretold my rise to power, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa over the weekend revealed how founder of the Zion Christian Church (ZCC), the late Bishop Samuel Mutendi, foretold his rise to power during the formative years of the Second Chimur...Published: 28 May 2018 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Chamisa pushes for Khupe deal
MDC-T president Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he is engaging his deputy Thokozani Khupe to find common ground over a leadership dispute that has seen opposing factions engage in bloody battles of late...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Andrew Langa baptized at SDA
Zanu PF Insiza North legislator Andrew Langa is now a Christian as reports say he was recently baptised by the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Filabusi after several baptisms from several churches....Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 10:00hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Sexual slavery Christian epidemic
Many christians today are sex slaves. She (the christian church) does not know that her body is supposed to be the TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT! If she genuinely FEARED THE LORD, then how dare she defile...Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 13:43hrs | 3 | by Tendai Tagarira
Set your mind on God's will
The mind and heart of the church is now firmly set on earthly things. Her new gods are the stomach, sexual sin, false prophets, money, unholy desires and wickedness ! Many christians have set ...Published: 03 Jan 2018 at 12:10hrs | 3 | by Tendai Tagarira
Little Faith, Faith and Great Faith
Without faith in JESUS, you have no eternal life, no forgiveness of sins, no reconciliation with God! Faith is believing JESUS. No one is forced to believe but blessed are those who believe in the Son...Published: 27 Dec 2017 at 20:09hrs | 3 | by Tendai Tagarira
Small houses fight over married lover
TWO Bulawayo women baptised each other with boiling water in a fight over their married lover.The two small houses were both critically injured, with one nursing serious burns and the other a ...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa's move to rejoin Zapu would quickly escort Mugabe out?
Conventional, predictable methods appeal to no one. An unconventional political moves produces surprises that stink to the high air while opening unexpected doors for a clever man.If Mnangagwa...Published: 13 Nov 2017 at 19:45hrs | | by Dr Takesure Tazvishaya
Christians who need constantly to be preached to are weak and have no depth
Have we ever wondered why Jesus Christ, and later, His Apostles, never stayed preaching in the same place - and to the same congregants - but were always on the move?Which is in stark contrast...Published: 13 Nov 2017 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
WATCH: Church members baptised with their choice of alcohol
THEY HAVE no problem spending a lot of time in church to show their love of the Lord. Their devotion starts at 11am and they don't finish until 3pm – but they don't mind going on even longer...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 11:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
With Zanu-PF Almighty in power: does God still remember Zimbabwe exists?
I prayed for my mother all night long after she had been involved in an accident but I never saw her alive ever again. She was on the way back from a funeral in Watsomba when the bus she had boarded v...Published: 05 Sep 2017 at 07:33hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
Mugabe warns people against following the bandwagon of new churches
PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday warned people against following the bandwagon of new churches whose leaders he described as sweet talking thieves who use the Bible as a front to swindle innocent followers ...Published: 13 Aug 2017 at 13:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We will sweep away MDC-T in 2018'
THE following is a transcript of President Mugabe's address at the Sixth Presidential Youth Interface in Gwanda yesterday.***Nhasi Mai havapo.Pavakatsikwa nemota, chironda chavo ha...Published: 13 Aug 2017 at 13:11hrs | 2 | by Robert Mugabe
I was a miracle baby...and no prophet was needed
It is always troubling to witness the countless Christians who gullibly succumb to the wiles and deception of prophets and other 'man of God', who lure them into believing that they need their prayers...Published: 07 Aug 2017 at 09:53hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chaos at Macheso show
There was pandemonium at Alick Macheso's Glenora show at Wedza Spacemen Pamakani bar in Harare on Saturday.All hell broke loose when two gate crushers were caught, baptised with sand and water...Published: 09 Jul 2017 at 14:15hrs | 3 | by Simbarashe Sithole
No need to go Pentacostal, says Catholic Church
ROMAN Catholic exorcist Father Goodluck Smoko has taken a swipe at priests who have neglected the much sought after ministry of healing, deliverance and exorcism.Fr Smoko said this has promote...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 12:07hrs | | by Desire Ncube
Prodigal daughter baptised in used oil after theft
There was drama in Kuwadzana 7 on Saturday after a woman identified as Kudzie stole cell phones and clothes from a house she claimed to be her late father's.Eye witnesses allege Kudzie came to...Published: 30 May 2017 at 21:20hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
The woman behind Pastor Chris' visit to Zimbabwe
THE woman behind the establishment of Christ Embassy in Zimbabwe and its founder's visit is a person of great faith. Pastor Chris Oyakhilome hosts a Global Communion and Worship Service at the Nationa...Published: 07 May 2017 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
115 prisoners baptised
The Seventh Day Adventist Church has baptised 115 inmates from Mutimurefu Prison in Masvingo.The baptism, conducted this Sunday afternoon at the prison, is for those inmates who have been unde...Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 15:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Marabha turns to God after being tormented by 'Kapfupi's Goblins'
In a twist of events the comedian and musician Charles Milisi aka 'Marabha' (36) together with his family have joined an apostolic church after reportedly being tormented by Kapfupi's goblins....Published: 14 Apr 2017 at 08:53hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'More community radios on cards'
THE Government says it has responded to calls for community broadcasting by licensing several stations, with more coming on board soon and that should "bury" the debate on community radio stations...Published: 04 Mar 2017 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Church took my goblins, I want them back
A SELF-proclaimed tsikamutanda from Mkoba 20 in Gweru who recently confessed to using necromancy drawn from marine spirits to kill people and perform cleansing ceremonies is accusing a Pentecostal...Published: 03 Mar 2017 at 10:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Museveni and Others: Dictators and Enemies of Africa, not Pan Africanists
Do not be fooled by empty speeches against America and her friends on the United Nations stage, ruthless African dictators are not Pan-Africanists.People are quick to forget the crimes of dict...Published: 30 Jan 2017 at 04:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
As the Twitter Professora would say, handei tione!
IT has been a week of laughter and good political humour, not least because my party triumphed in Bikita West, but also because of the clotted reasoning and prose which this defeat wrought in lose...Published: 28 Jan 2017 at 08:31hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Andrew Langa fingered in Gukurahundi massacres
Former minister of Sports and Recreation, Andrew Langa has been linked to the notorious 1980s Zanu PF youth wing that worked closely with the Firth Brigade during the bloody Gukurahundi era....Published: 16 Jan 2017 at 10:39hrs | 1 | by Alice Dube
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