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Peace be unto our motherland, Zimbabwe!

Sometime in 2018 - it must have been on December 19 - protests broke out in a small town in Sudan, Atbara, which was relatively unknown to the world, after bread prices more than tripled.It was yet another spark in Sudan's combustible poli…

Published: 13 Apr 2025 at 09:43hrs | | by Bishop

Bishop-cum-land barron up for US$80k fraud

A Bishop at Emmanuel Global Church, Emmanuel Muzondi (49), appeared in court on Tuesday facing allegations of defrauding a local businessman, Lovemore Pasipamire, of US$80,000 in a failed residential stand deal. Muzondi, from Old Highfield…

Published: 05 Feb 2025 at 11:56hrs | 158 | by Staff reporter

Late Bishop remembered for confronting Mugabe

The late Archbishop of Bulawayo, Henry Karlen, was remembered for his courageous stance against the mass killings in Matabeleland during the 1980s, at a memorial service held on Saturday by Ibhetshu LikaZulu. The service honoured Karlen's …

Published: 04 Feb 2025 at 16:54hrs | 1114 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean bishop deported from Nigeria

Bishop Eben K. Nhiwatiwa of the United Methodist Church Zimbabwe was arrested and subsequently deported from Nigeria while on a mission to oversee the election of a new church leader. The incident took place in Yola, Adamawa State, wh…

Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean bishop arrested in Nigeria

The wrangling in the United Methodist Church, Nigeria, has again taken a different dimension as a Zimbabwean bishop of the church, Eben K. Nhiwatiwa, was reported to have been arrested in Nigeria.Nhiwatiwa who was in Nigeria to meet with t…

Published: 25 Aug 2024 at 17:46hrs | | by Staff reporter

Bishop Msindo Ncube shot dead in Johannesburg

Bishop Mkhululi Msindo Ncube, a revered spiritual leader and community advocate in uGodlwayo, met a tragic end when he was fatally shot in Johannesburg, South Africa. Born in 1973 and known fondly as "Bishop Msindo," he was not only a pill…

Published: 22 Jun 2024 at 11:36hrs | | by Staff reporter

A curse that will forever haunt Zimbabwe opposition

THOSE of us who grew up in the village know that nothing can be as foul-smelling as a skunk.It literally stinks to high heaven.By some freak of nature, these cat-sized black-and-white bushy-tailed creatures have a fascinating defensive mec…

Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:40hrs | | by Bishop Lazi

Mugabe critic and former Archbishop of York told to step down from Church

The former Archbishop of York has been forced to step down from his Church of England role after a review into how he handled a child sex abuse allegation.Lord John Sentamu, a bitter critic of now-late Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, has …

Published: 14 May 2023 at 19:22hrs | | by Staff reporter

Bishop Mutendi calls for peace ahead of elections

ZION Christian Church (ZCC) leader, Bishop Nehemiah Mutendi has implored churches to play a leading role in promoting peace and unity in the nation as the country heads towards this year's harmonised elections. According to the Zimbabwe El…

Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Catholic bishop in acerbic attack on Mnangagwa

CONTROVERSIAL Catholic Diocese of Chinhoyi cleric, Bishop Raymond Mpandasekwa, has once again taken aim at President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his administration's alleged misrule characterised by violence, injustice and bloodshed.The man-of-…

Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter

We must prepare for the coming 'war'

From tomorrow until Wednesday, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will be mourning Patrice Lumumba - the country's first democratically elected prime minister - who was slain 61 years ago in the goriest way imaginable at the behest of …

Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 08:08hrs | 3 | by Bishop Lazi

A fool and his money are soon parted!

The cash taps have well and truly been turned on.It seems hardworking Zimbabweans in faraway lands have been doing their bit to support family and friends back home, including bankrolling potentially rewarding business ventures and project…

Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:10hrs | | by Bishop

It's the economy, stupid!

Eons ago, in Bishop Lazi's village, there lived a pint-sized legend who was known far and wide.Everyone always surmised â€” and with good reason too â€” he had inherited the worst biological qualities from both his parents.To say the chap …

Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:20hrs | 2 | by Bishop Lazarus

Warmongers will never preach peace

Do you still remember what the Bishop has been prophesying from the beginning?He hopes you still do!We will definitely inherit a different world order when the coronavirus finally runs its course.While the pandemic has shown us that as hum…

Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:00hrs | | by Bishop Lazi

Ukraine war: Zimbabwean students relive horror

It has been six days since she left Ukraine, but 19-year-old Blessing Mushipe is still terrified.The medical student at Karazin National University in Kharkov, Ukraine's second largest city, still gets flashbacks of the time she and her fr…

Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

World War III might already be underway

IN life, it is absolutely critical to learn to pick your battles.While celebrated English playwright William Shakespeare once noted that "cowards die many times before their deaths", Nigerian novelist, poet and critic Chinua Achebe rather …

Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazi

A political accident waiting to happen

Communities are glued and bound together by more than blood.They share a common past, history, heritage, values, norms and aspirations.The commonality bred by sharing similar languages and belief systems often engender characteristics that…

Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 07:58hrs | | by Bishop Laz

When Zambia had a Tsvangirai moment

Phew! What an eventful week it was, from the fall of Kabul to the Taliban and the fall of Edgar "Chagwa" Lungu to Hakainde Hichilema in Zambia.And we also had new Malawian President Dr Lazarus Chakwera, who has just become SADC chair, deli…

Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 07:47hrs | 5 | by Bishop Lazi

We need new heroes!

Sometimes, Bishop Lazi is glad that his uncle is dead.The man was never the same ever since returning from the war.He was no longer the bubbly and chatty young man who revelled in the conviviality of family gatherings.Instead, his stoic vi…

Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:16hrs | 2 | by Bishop Lazarus

Business has learned nothing and forgot nothing

SO there was this prominent businessman-cum-pastor who was obsessed with religiously lampooning politicians as occultic during his daily sermons.Preaching from his moral high horse, the raboni, or "spiritual leader", gained rockstar acclai…

Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 09:50hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus

Wananchi - never awaken a sleep-walking foe

Ignorance can be pure bliss.It makes life unburdensome through avoiding the inconvenience of putting up with inconvenient truths, facts and realities.What better way of preventing the ignominy of dealing with unpalatable truths, facts and …

Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:38hrs | 2 | by Bishop Lazarus

Rats cannot think beyond peanuts

AROUND this time in 2018, witty cynics, the majority of whom have happily found a convenient playground on social media platforms, were whining and whingeing that shortages of Coca-Cola which is a generic name in this part of the world for…

Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:47hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus

When the undertaker wishes you long life

This time Africans have abjectly disappointed the world.For Pete's sake, why can they not simply die?At least that is what the world expected after the outbreak of the coronavirus.It is a story that the world has been waiting for ever sinc…

Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 09:57hrs | 2 | by Bishop Lazi

Lies run sprints, truth runs marathons

They say time heals even the deepest of scars, but not for Bishop Lazarus.And they say everything â€” absolutely everything and anything â€” has a price, but not this man of scripture and prayer.Even as seconds melt into hours, days and we…

Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:33hrs | | by Bishop Lazi

When Excellencies grace Chitungwiza shebeen

What a couple of weeks of diplomatic intrigue.Epoch-making, maybe.Hallelujah! Praise be to the living God!We had desperately reckless American diplomats abandoning their airy and commodious residences to squeeze into a tiny house in Chitun…

Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:37hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazi

The bane of rabid, frenzied media

Again, dear reader, if ever you are in doubt, if ever you are confused, if ever you need a moral compass, or whenever you find yourself agreeing with Jonathan Moyo, you should know that you are close to losing it.A village is the basest co…

Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 09:35hrs | | by Bishop Lazi

An abiding tortoise of White House goons

Politics, as an existential science, can be characteristically hot, heavy and heady.In its very extreme form, politics can be similar to religious fundamentalism, where it becomes a matter of life and death.It is high-octane stuff that can…

Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 08:18hrs | | by Bishop Lazi

We continue to be anglicised bastards

There is a hauntingly true African proverb that claims that unless the lion learns how to write, every story will always glorify the hunter.here is a hauntingly true African proverb that claims that unless the lion learns how to write, eve…

Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:36hrs | | by Bishpop Lazarus

Social media - loitering hall for sociopaths

Even though Jesus was/is God, and even though he was immaculately conceived, during the time he walked this earth - more than 2 019 years ago - he was a man of flesh and blood.A man - despite having all the divinity - also had all human fr…

Published: 05 May 2019 at 09:33hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazi

A potent enemy always lives within

Hallelujah. . . But wait . . . why was he killed in the first place?You see, over time, societies evolve into hierarchical and stratified communities that pit the powerful against the powerless; the haves against the have-nots; the bourgeo…

Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:50hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazi

When seers failed to see the Ides of March

Bishop Lazi always tells his followers that as a people, we have been involved in a brutal rat race for the past two decades as we struggled for survival in choppy economic conditions.But the Hobbesian nature of a rat race â€”where the str…

Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 22:24hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazi

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 inexplicable and curious phenomenon that has pique…

Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:48hrs | 2 | by Bishop Lazi

The year of justice is nigh!

The Bishop lives! Hallelujah!And so, too, does sungura.What a holiday!Sorry, ndakazoenda ndisina kutaura. You see, this world is corrosive, especially for men of the cloth like Bishop Lazi.You get to meet humanity in its variegated form â€…

Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 09:44hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazarus

Let's give Nelson Chamisa the credit

"If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless," says James 1 verse 26. James 3 verse 5 is even more explicit: "The tongue is a small thing, but what enormous da…

Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:43hrs | 1 | by Bishop

Hey, women of Zimbabwe, defend one of your own!

IT was refreshing to see white commercial farmers mixing and mingling with the President last week. The President told the farmers that "you are part of us" and reports say the farmers were charmed by this stance.Former Commercial Farmers …

Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 10:20hrs | 2 | by Bishop

Chamisa: Walking with an umbrella, waiting for the rains

NAPOLEON Bonaparte was really prophetic when he said: "In politics, absurdity is not a handicap." Political developments in Zimbabwe over the past few weeks have shown that indeed, the floodgates of absurdity have been opened.Opposition po…

Published: 08 Jul 2018 at 12:57hrs | 4 | by Bishop

Chamisa was spot on when he sent Tamborinyoka packing

Little Chamisa was spot on when he sent Luke "Lukezha" Tamborinyoka packing. However, I am not sure he was spot on in taking on board Dr Nkululeko Sibanda. I see lots of turbulence in the coming weeks.The storm is gathering but hey, let me…

Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 10:42hrs | | by Bishop

How about Operation Restore Legacy at Blue Roof Mansion?

SO much has been happening since the Bishop was away. So, so much! Morgan Tsvangirai was buried with his MDC-T in Buhera. Thokozani Khupe was butchered by hoodlums in the crumbs of what's left of the MDC-T. Nelson Chamisa grabbed the MDC-T…

Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:19hrs | 5 | by Bishop

Apologies for a boring coup!

"The words you speak become the house you live in." What a killer and loaded statement from Hafiz.Dziri seiko dzimba dzamakazvivakira nemashoko? Mumwe nemumwe mumba yake. Let me leave this story for now.But it really wouldn't kill to remin…

Published: 19 Nov 2017 at 08:38hrs | 3 | by Bishop

Numbers don't lie

Morgan thinks a return to the original MDC will save him but then the dynamics have changed a lot. A company of fools suffers harm and bad company corrupts good character.JUST like I told you, the supposed grand opposition coalition is dea…

Published: 06 Aug 2017 at 13:12hrs | 1 | by Bishop

Politics is a process, not an event

WHAT an exciting week? The media had a feast. Zimbabweans being Zimbabweans went into overdrive â€” rumours, speculation, conclusions, theories and lies.Winston Churchill was so spot on when he said: "Politics is almost as exciting as war,…

Published: 30 Jul 2017 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Bishop

Tsvangirai and Mujuru are beginning to excite

MY heart bleeds for Comrade Chinx. What a jolly good comrade? Shamwari yeropa. Music was his gun. 2 Timothy 4 vs 7 comforts me: "I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith."You fought a good fight Chinx! …

Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 10:09hrs | | by Bishop

Sorry Prof, the magic bullet is long gone

IT'S so good to be back. I was watching you and ndaikunzwai zvangu. Hehe, Bishop Lazarus is under the weather, hehe Bishop Lazi has been censored. Others even swore by their mothers saying "watch the space, that stubborn Bishop won't have …

Published: 11 Jun 2017 at 10:49hrs | 1 | by Bishop

You can't continue doing a Mandela on me - Zuma

"Colonies do not cease to be colonies simply because they are independent," Britain's first Jewish Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli once noted.Peter Childs and Patrick Williams in their book; "An Introduction to Post-Colonial Theory," elab…

Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 17:31hrs | 3 | by Bishop

Bishop Lazarus, Manheru, Sharp Shooter afraid of change

The Sunday Mail never fails to surprise and annoy me about its viciousness and malice against anyone who opposes the failed Robert Mugabe and his corrupt system. Now that we are getting close to the 2018 election, the Sunday Mail pseudo na…

Published: 28 Mar 2017 at 11:04hrs | 1 | by Zanda Shumba

Women fight over bishop during church service

A bishop's wife fought a congregant in the middle of a church service at the Angels of God Apostolic Church in Esigodini accused her of dating her husband.Bishop Mkwananzi's wife, Ntombikayise Dube attacked Bonakele Ncube accusing her of h…

Published: 09 Sep 2016 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter

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