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Beitbridge soldiers kill unarmed churchgoer
A High Court judge has delivered a stern warning to trained and uniformed personnel, declaring that firearms should never be used in society unless in a war situation, as he sentenced three Zimbabwe N...Published: 08 Jul 2025 at 19:10hrs | 388 | by Staff reporter
Prophetess arrested after forcing man to drink deadly concoction
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) have arrested Charity Mafirowanda, a self-proclaimed prophetess aged 46, along with eight of her congregants following the death of 54-year-old Micky Chuma at a chur...Published: 22 Jun 2025 at 09:01hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
Father bashes son to death
Police in Mount Darwin have arrested Fanuel Chimbizi in connection with a murder case.The 57-year-old man is alleged to have fatally assaulted his son and took him to a church shrine in a bid ...Published: 08 May 2025 at 15:53hrs | 601 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Mount Darwin
Man stoned to death at a church shrine
Police in Mashonaland East Province are investigating the death of an unidentified man whose body was discovered on November 8, 2024, at a church shrine in Chirasavana, Dema. The body was foun...Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 11:38hrs | 1408 | by Staff reporter
Cellphone theft suspect dies in brutal attack
A man accused of stealing a cellphone tragically died in Chinhoyi after he was subjected to a brutal assault by three men, who allegedly beat him with a shovel and logs before burning his feet in an a...Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 07:15hrs | 866 | by Staff reporter
Mental patient fatally axes daughter at church shrine
In Guruve, Mashonaland Central province, a tragic incident unfolded when Bios Gweshe, reportedly a mental patient, fatally struck his daughter, Grace Gweshe, with an axe during a cleansing ceremony at...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 08:32hrs | 408 | by Staff reporter
Portion of buttocks cut off from dead man in Church shrine
Madzibaba Ekedi Mawodzwa, a religious leader based in Kuwadzana, Harare, is accused of involvement in the killing of eleven relatives at his shrine, allegedly in pursuit of spiritual powers. T...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 17:34hrs | 36 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere jailed for assaulting wife
A self styled Bindura based prophet Gibon Kasukuwere was convicted yesterday after he severely attacked his wife over a cellphone dispute.T...Published: 27 Jun 2024 at 05:50hrs | 40 | by Simbarashe Sithole
13-year-old dies at shrine during labour
A Domboshava man who married a 13 year-old-girl who died at an apostolic church shrine while in labour has appeared in court. Raymond Guhwa (41) allegedly took his wife who was in labour to an...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Madzibaba sodomizes boy (12) at church shrine
In a bizarre incident a 39-year-old Apostolic congregant has been arrested after he indecently assaulted a 12 year old boy at a church shrine in Guruve.Albi Karambakuwa of Magwenya village is ...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 21:24hrs | 5 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Hubby bashes wife at Church shrine
A Mazowe man is in trouble after he assaulted his wife at a church shrine before threatening to assault the church leader whom he accused of misleading congregants.The matter came to light at ...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 19:49hrs | 11 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Manhunt for baby dumper
Police in Gweru have launched a manhunt for a woman who dumped her newly born baby at Bata New Stands.On twitter, Police confirmed the incident which occurred on 18 June, 2023."Police ...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Killer cop back in court
JAISON Muvevi, accused of killing four people including a police officer, was yesterday back in court for routine remand pending indictment to the High Court for trial on charges of murder.Muv...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 04:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Spear rampage killer not guilty
A BUSINESSMAN who killed seven people in a knife and spear rampage in Redcliff in 2021 was acquitted of murder charges after the High Court ruled that he was mentally unstable when he committed the br...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 07:33hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
CIOs up for torturing man
A BUDIRO man was severely assaulted and tortured by suspected Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) officers before being handed over to the police on charges of plotting to topple President E...Published: 07 Jan 2023 at 07:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man caught pants down with brother-in-law's wife at church shrine
A MANYAME Park man was bashed by Johanne Masowe church members after they found him having sex with a woman later proven to be his brother-in-law's wife at their shrine, H-Metro reported.Tanak...Published: 22 Dec 2022 at 16:57hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe developing a new US$60bn capita city
Plans to develop Zimbabwe's new capital city in Mt Hampden are gathering momentum, with a masterplan for the multi-billion-dollar ultra-modern development now complete.The US$60 billion metrop...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 08:10hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Hyena mauls boy (3) at church shrine
A THREE-YEAR-OLD Mutoko boy is battling for his life at Harare's Sally Mugabe Central Hospital after being mauled by a hyena at an apostolic sect shrine.Denval Chakomoka suffered severe head i...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwazha bishops barred from church shrine
FORMER bishops and the secretariat of the African Apostolic Church (Vapostora VeAfrica) have been barred from visiting the church's shrine in Chivhu without the authority of the current leadership....Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Momberume has disappeared, says lawyer
THE Johanne Masowe apostolic sect member, Hatirarame Momberume, who was dragged before the courts to face murder and rape charges after he married a minor, Anna Machaya who died while giving birth, ha...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 07:05hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Anna Machaya case: Murder charges likley to be dropped, Momberume granted bail
THE murder charges levelled against 26-year-old Hatirarami Momberume who is accused of the murder of his 14-year-old child bride, Anna Machaya, who died at a Marange religious shrine due to complicati...Published: 25 Nov 2021 at 19:44hrs | 13 | by Staff Reporter
Mwazha's sons battles for church shrines
African Apostolic church leader, Paul Mwazha had to seek the hand of the High court in a bid to stop war between his sons and holding pilgrimages at churc...Published: 22 Sep 2021 at 06:21hrs | 31 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Johanne Marange 'rapist' hubby denied bail
A JOHANNE Marange apostolic church member Hatirarami Momberume (26), whose 14-year-old wife died while giving birth at a church shrine in July, was yesterday further remanded in custody by a Mutare ma...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 19:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
16-year-olds can consent to sex, says Ziyambi
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has said 16-year-olds can legally consent to sex, but cannot marry.He said this while responding to questions from Mutare Central legislator Innocent Gonese in...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 06:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police face resistance in girl's death probe
Police are facing resistance from the Johanne Marange Apostolic community in Bocha in their investigation of the recent death of a 14-year-old girl, Memory Machaya, at a church shrine, legislators hea...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Shrine death: Cops hunt for girl's grave
The death of a married 14-year-old Johanne Marange Apostolic Church girl during childbirth at the church's shrine in Marange, and the location of her grave, are now subjects of a police investigation ...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa donates 50 000 masks to apostolic sect
President Mnangagwa yesterday donated a consignment of 50 000 face masks to members of the Johane Masowe weChishanu Apostolic sect in Bulawayo as part of the fight against Covid-19.The donatio...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
We are not enemies of the State, says Majongwe
DIVISIONS rocked teachers unions recently over salary negotiations with government following a workers' strike which lasted for about two months. Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) ...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man robbed of forex while praying
A Beitbridge man lost US$200, R10 000, seven cellphones and various goods to five armed robbers who attacked him while he was praying alone in a bushy area, as such cases continue to rise in the borde...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Illegal guns worry government
POLICE admitted yesterday that they were concerned by the proliferation of unlicensed firearms in public hands, which were being used to commit violent crimes.However, police said it was too e...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 18:50hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Madzibaba Mutumwa donates to Bulawayo City FC
As part of his congregation's social responsibility work, Bulawayo cleric Madzibaba Emmanuel Mutumwa and his Johanne Masowe the Fifth Apostolic sect has donated cash to the tune of ZWL$6 000 to Bulawa...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
10 feared dead in shrine accident
More than 10 people are feared dead after a lorry transporting maize plunged into a group of congregants at a Mugodhi Apostolic Church shrine in Machitope, Hwedza this Monday morning. The memb...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 13:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Prophet to hold back-to-sender service
BULAWAYO Prophet Madzibaba Mutumwa will hold two marathon services dubbed Hokoyechiwororo/ Go back to sender, on 26 and 27 January at the Selbourne Park church shrine in Bulawayo.These two-day...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 08:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
31 huts burnt in fight over Church shrine
Some 31 huts were burnt at Guta RaJehovah Church in Zvimba in a feud over control of a temple and shrine.Congregants woke up to clashes on Christmas day as rival members reportedly attacked ea...Published: 25 Dec 2018 at 21:54hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
Inside Wimbo's mausoleum
Although one's immediate vision of a graveyard might be a dull and lifeless place, the late Mudzidzi Wimbo's mausoleum is, on the contrary, a burst of colour and fine interior designing.A mausoleu...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 09:50hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Fight breaks over 'Mugabe prophet'
An ugly fight has broken out among family and church members of the late mystic preacher, Aaron Mhukuta - who was also commonly known as Mudzidzi Wimbo - and who was famous for having allegedly prophe...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 15:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's prophet buried
THE late Johane Masowe eChishanu Vadzidzi VaJesu Church leader Aaron Mhukuta Gomo, popularly known as Mudzidzi Wimbo, was laid to rest at his church shrine in Shamva yesterday.Hundreds of chur...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
141-year-old voter on voters roll
As as rigging anxiety become the order of the day amongst less confident voters, ZEC has become the centre of focus as it is expected to be neutral and independent. However, the case has been differen...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 11:34hrs | 4 | by Mafu Sithabile
Chamisa fighting wrong opponent in wrong battle
This pre-election period has been as eventful as it is important. What with the panic-stricken MDC-Alliance behaving like a headless chicken trying to make up for its five-year absentee politician stu...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 07:23hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Chamisa ready to die
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is prepared to go to jail or die fighting for a free and fair election, which he said was now unlikely due to an alleged "unholy" alliance between the Zimbabwe Elect...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 08:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
400 voters using 1 address explained
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Justice Mrs. Priscilla Makanyara Chigumba has denied allegations that there are addresses with 400 registered voters on the final voters roll.In...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 15:40hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
Ballot printing already underway, says ZEC
ZIMBABWE ELECTORAL COMMISSION - PRESS STATEMENT The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has intensified its preparatio...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 15:33hrs | | by Hon. Mrs Justice P. M. Chigumba
Chigumba scuppers Chamisa's chances
THE MDC Alliance yesterday raised a red flag over a litany of electoral irregularities which it claimed were part of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s choreographed scheme to scupper coalition...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZEC scoffs at claims ballot paper favours Mnangagwa
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission yesterday dismissed claims by the MDC Alliance that the design of the ballot paper for the presidential candidates for the July 30 elections favours the incumbent, Pr...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 06:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Grade 6 pupil found hanging at church shrine
A GRADE Six pupil at Mckeurtan Primary School in Bulawayo allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself on a tree using his neck tie at an apostolic church shrine yesterday.Msizi Ndlovu from ...Published: 13 Oct 2017 at 10:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Dad beats year-old daughter to death
A 27-YEAR-OLD man allegedly bludgeoned his one- year-old daughter to death with a hammer and left his wife and mother-in-law seriously injured after attacking them with the same weapon.Lungisa...Published: 16 Aug 2017 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Opposition suffers from poverty of ideas
FIVE days ago, a local daily published a story in which the opposition MDC-T party was alleging that it had evidence that officials from the Registrar-General's Office were issuing birth certificates ...Published: 18 Jul 2017 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai 'exposes Mugabe rigging' plot
The MDC-T yesterday claimed it had unearthed a parallel voter registration exercise involving the Registrar-General's (RG) Office and Zanu-PF, in what the opposition party alleges is an elaborate rigg...Published: 13 Jul 2017 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF's parallel voter registration scam exposed
We have been tracking a clandestine voter registration scam by Zanu PF using Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede's office outside and ahead of the legal voter registration process by ZEC, now legally man...Published: 12 Jul 2017 at 11:47hrs | | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Woman's sexual organ bitten in fight over man
A BULAWAYO woman bit off a chunk of flesh from the sexual organ of another woman that she caught red-handed having sex with her husband at a church shrine.The woman walked away with 105 hours ...Published: 06 May 2017 at 12:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
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