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Zimbabwe sets up security complaints commission
FOLLOWING the enactment of the Zimbabwe Independent Complaints Commission (ZICC) Act in 2022, Parliament has now called for nominations of persons to become members of the Commission that will handle ...Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 04:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK's HSE apologises after death of Zimbabwe-born woman
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued an apology to the family of Tatenda Mukwata, a 35-year-old woman who died after giving birth at University Hospital Kerry (UHK) last year. Tatenda Mukw...Published: 25 Sep 2023 at 20:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pregnant Zimbabwean nurse bled to death at UK home over 4 hours after she called for an ambulance
A Zimbabwe pregnant nurse bled to death at home more than four hours after she called for an ambulance, an inquest heard.Stabile Sibanda called 999 at 1.11am on July 23 last year and told t...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe-born nurse found dead in the UK
The mysterious death of a popular Leeds mental-health nurse left a coroner admitting he is "stumped" by the tragedyStephen Chidawa, known by many as 'Stavo', was found by his wife unresponsive...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:53hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Pastor dies attempting 40-day Jesus fast
A pastor in Mozambique has died after trying to fast for 40 days, emulating what Christ is said to have done in the Bible.Francisco Barajah, founder of the Santa Trindade Evangelical Church, d...Published: 16 Feb 2023 at 18:57hrs | 17 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe-born woman (25) found dead in room at Manchester's Britannia Hotel
An unemployed probation officer from Sale was tragically found dead in a hotel room.Hloniphile Moyo, known as Chloe to her family, was tragically found dead in a room at the Britannia Hotel in...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
HIV+ Zimbabwe man (21) who died of HIV was neglected by healthcare staff
A 21-year-old man died due to neglect, after he was not given treatment for HIV while he was a prisoner at Her Majesty's Prison (HMP) Chelmsford, an inquest has determined. HIV is a "treatable" condit...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Time to protect people from their churches
VERY little is known about one of the worst religion-related mass murders and tragedies that occurred in Uganda in 2000 in which 700 Ugandans died. More is known about the 1978 Jonestown massacre in G...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | | by Miriam Tose Majome
UK based Zimbabwean 'shining star' teen drowns in river
A teenager who died while swimming in a river has been described as a "shining star".Thandolwethu Ndlovu, who turned 15 just two days ago, got into difficulty in the River Trent near Swarkesto...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harrowing murders by Zimbabweans in Diaspora
ENGLAND does not change people but it brings out what people were hiding all along. In five years I've been here, 30 Zimbabweans have become uxoricides. Uxoricide (from Latin uxor meaning "wife" and -...Published: 05 Jun 2021 at 09:13hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Parliament crafts law to investigate mysterious deaths
THE Coroner's Office Bill, which will provide for establishment of an office responsible for investigating all deaths due to unnatural causes, has gone through its second reading stage.Justice...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Legislative reform agenda buttresses Mnangagwa's sincerity
This is the second part of a trilogy of articles that I am writing outlining the reform agenda being pursued by President Mnangagwa in the Second Republic. In the previous article I dwelt on political...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:16hrs | 1 | by Nick Mangwana
Top cops, ZPCS, doctors face jail
Heads of hospitals, police stations and prisons will be jailed a mandatory five years if found guilty of destroying or tampering with vital evidence that incriminates in the death of people under thei...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 09:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
HIV/Aids transmission law repeal approved by Cabinet
The Marriages Amendment Bill which will repeal a legal provision that criminalises "wilful" transmission of HIV to a partner has been approved by Cabinet.Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affai...Published: 11 May 2019 at 08:59hrs | 10 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean woman was strangled in UK
A POST-mortem report has revealed that a Zimbabwean woman based in the United Kingdom who was found dead last month was strangled and her husband was found hanging at their Leicester home.This...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 06:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Inquest into death of UK based Zim woman and her husband Jesus opened
Inquests have heard how a young couple whose bodies were found in their Braunstone Frith home died.The bodies of Lorraine Gugu Mbulawa-Sanchez and her husband Jesus were found by a family frie...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 13:42hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean teen falls to his death from Sydney Tower
MATES and family members have paid tribute to a "funny, caring" teenager who fell to his death from Sydney Tower on Sunday.Hip hop fan Leonard Nherera, 18, from Moorebank in Sydney's southwest...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 09:04hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Mujuru's death will remain a mystry
Opposition leader and former vice president Joice Mujuru is not pinning her hopes on the Coroner's Office Bill to finally bring closure to the mysterious death of her husband, Solomon, who died in an ...Published: 24 Sep 2017 at 16:52hrs | 8 | by Staf reporter
President to appoint Coroner
THE holder of the envisaged government Coroner should be appointed by the President and must be a renowned medical practitioner, Coroner's Office Technical Committee Representative, Runyararo Guri...Published: 20 Mar 2017 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe legal system hostile to pathologists'
ZIMBABWE's legal system is so hostile to expatriate forensic scientists to the extent that the pathologist who handled the politically-charged Cain Nkala case was forced to flee the country, a med...Published: 17 Mar 2017 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctors afraid to testify in court
THE fear by doctors of being grilled in court over complex inquests has resulted in the country not having Zimbabwean forensic pathologists, a development that has seen some murders not being solv...Published: 16 Mar 2017 at 10:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man burns wife to death in front of 7-yr-old son
A Gweru man allegedly doused his wife with paraffin and set her on fire resulting in her death while the couple's seven- year old son watched.Eddy Mpofu was allegedly angry after his wife, Bon...Published: 01 Mar 2017 at 23:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Sfiso Ncwane was poisoned : Report
A preliminary autopsy report done by an coroner at the Fourways life hospital has revealed that gospel legend, Sfiso Ncwane had poison in his kidneys. The revelations explains why the star had...Published: 06 Dec 2016 at 17:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Prophet TB Joshua's false prophecy
Nigeria's Synagogue Church of Nations (SCOAN) leader Prophet TB Joshua last week suffered a major embarrassment after he falsely prophesied that Democrats candidate Mrs Hillary Clinton would "narr...Published: 13 Nov 2016 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Court clears Prophet Magaya
A KWEKWE coroner has cleared Prophetic Healing and Delivery (PHD) leader Prophet Walter Magaya, his church and the police of any wrongdoing following the death of 11 people in a stampede at the end of...Published: 24 Aug 2016 at 06:41hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
UZ able to train cancer diagnosers - Deputy minister
Deputy Minister of health and Child care Aldrin Musiiwa has told parliament that the University of Zimbabwe is capable of training Histopathologists who among other things are the experts who diagonos...Published: 10 Jun 2016 at 15:37hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Prophet Magaya off the hook in Kwekwe deaths inquest
PROPHETIC Healing and Deliverance Ministries founder and leader Prophet Walter Magaya is off the hook after prosecutors gave in to his demands not to testify during an inquest over the death of 11 peo...Published: 07 Jun 2016 at 06:46hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
Magaya stampede: 'I saw police officers raising baton sticks hitting people' - eyewitness speaks
A REDCLIFF woman who lost her sister at Prophet Walter Magaya's PHD Ministries crusade in the town in 2014 yesterday broke down in court during an inquest for the 11 people who died.Netsai Gwi...Published: 27 Apr 2016 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Prophet TB Joshua case adjourned again
Lagos - A judge yesterday adjourned the criminal negligence trial of popular Nigerian preacher TB Joshua over a fatal building collapse at his Lagos mega-church.Joshua, church trustees and...Published: 23 Mar 2016 at 05:25hrs | | by Agencies
'I will hunt down my husband's killers,' says Mujuru
Former Vice President Joice Mujuru says she will do everything in her power to get to the bottom of the controversial death of her decorated liberation struggle hero husband, Solomon - who she says wa...Published: 04 Mar 2016 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shocker! Lagos state high court faults coroner verdict on TB Joshua building collapse!
In a shocking turnaround, the Lagos State High Court has admitted that the coroner's inquest which indicted the engineers and contractors of The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) guesthouse tha...Published: 02 Mar 2016 at 20:58hrs | | by Ihechukwu Njoku
Prophet Magaya guards take fall for Mbizo deaths
POLICE have blamed Prophetic Healing and Deliverance ministries (PHD) security staff for a stampede at an all night prayer meeting, which left 11 people dead and several injured in 2014 at Mbizo Stadi...Published: 26 Feb 2016 at 05:42hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
'They murdered my husband,' says Mujuru
Former Vice President Joice Mujuru has claimed that her husband Solomon Mujuru was murdered in August 2011. She revealed this in an interview with UK newspaper, Sunday Times at the weekend...Published: 23 Feb 2016 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mpilo Hospital negligent, says magistrate
A Bulawayo magistrate sitting as a coroner yesterday ruled that the death of 23-year-old man who died on an operation table at Mpilo Central Hospital was as a result of negligence.Tinashe Tash...Published: 16 Dec 2015 at 08:09hrs | 1 | by Thandeka Moyo
SCOAN authorities expected to be charged over building collapse
The trustees of TB Joshua’s Church of all Natio...Published: 30 Nov 2015 at 13:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Prophet TB Joshua to be prosecuted over church building collapse
Lagos - The trustees of TB Joshua's Church of all Nations (SCOAN) were on Monday reportedly set to be charged over a building collapse that killed at least 116 people on September 12, 2014.Acc...Published: 30 Nov 2015 at 09:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shocking photo shows Zanele could have bled to death
The state media on Wednesday released a photograph as proof that Jonathan Moyo's daughter Zanele who was found dead on Saturday in her room in Cap Town South Africa could have bled to death.Ac...Published: 21 Oct 2015 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
SA police incompetence exposed in Jonathan Moyo daughter's death
The Jonathan Moyo family has expressed dismay over the handling of the criminal investigation which, apart from Stephen's account, hinges on a post mortem and toxicology tests whose results police ha...Published: 21 Oct 2015 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo's daughter bled to death
ZANELE Moyo, the daughter of Higher and Tertiary Education Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo bled to her death in her Cape Town apartment bathroom, a dramatic new photograph shows. The picture obtained...Published: 21 Oct 2015 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Mduduzi Mathuthu
Synagogue: Lagos Govt Accused of Alleged Subversion of Justice
The Coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CCSOs) has accused the Lagos State Government of trying to subvert justice in the ongoing trial involving Synagogue Church of All Nations and the state....Published: 05 Oct 2015 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Nicolas Nice
Mujuru's brother threatens suicide
As emotions continue to boil over the disputed circumstances surrounding the death of liberation struggle icon General Solomon Mujuru, whose charred remains were found after a suspicious fire in...Published: 29 Aug 2015 at 13:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Infrasonic weapon' caused TB Joshua church collapse - academic
An "infrasonic weapon" caused the collapse of a church's guest house in Lagos where 81 South Africans were killed last year.That's according to an academic paper published this month.I...Published: 29 Jul 2015 at 09:02hrs | | by TB Joshua Fans UK Blog
Is TB Joshua on the Run?
Nigerian 'Prophet' T.B. Joshua's prolonged public absence is not only raising concerns among his followers but severely damaging local business in the area where his church is situated.The...Published: 27 Jul 2015 at 13:27hrs | | by Ihechukwu Njoku, a freelance Nigerian journalist.
Coroner a Syndicate of the Collapse of the SCOAN Building?
As article after article is published about Prophet T.B. Joshua in the wake of his tragic church building collapse, the prejudice and bias unashamedly displayed by the coroner and the media have f...Published: 26 Jul 2015 at 15:20hrs | | by TB Joshua Fans UK
'Send Prophet TB Joshua to prison'
Self proclaimed prophet TB Joshua should be imprisoned for the collapse his multi-storey building in Nigeria, that killed 116 people - 84 of them South Africans, according to the family of one of the ...Published: 12 Jul 2015 at 10:26hrs | | by The Citizen
Youths Describe TB Joshua Building Collapse Verdict As 'Rape Of Justice'
The controversies ensuing in the wake of the verdict given by the Lagos Coroner's Court about The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) building collapse last year show no signs of abating as a...Published: 10 Jul 2015 at 18:05hrs | | by Ihechukwu Njoku, a freelance Nigerian journalist, wrote in from Lagos, Nigeria
Foreigners Fault Nigeria on TB Joshua Building Verdict
Thousands of foreign supporters of Nigerian Pastor T.B. Joshua have taken to Facebook to express their dismay and disgust at the controversial verdict released by the Lagos coroner's court which ...Published: 10 Jul 2015 at 05:53hrs | | by Ihechukwu Njoku
Prophet TB Joshua's church 'negligent over deadly building collapse'
Lagos - A coroner on Wednesday said a megachurch run by popular Nigerian preacher TB Joshua was criminally negligent and should be prosecuted after a building collapse killed 116, most of them Sou...Published: 08 Jul 2015 at 13:12hrs | | by AFP
Police probe Amos Midzi death
The results of Amos Midzi's autopsy have been delayed to today according to the family's spokesperson, amid revelations that police continue to investigate the much-talked about death of the former Ca...Published: 11 Jun 2015 at 15:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
TB Joshua Church Adhered to Universal Best Practice, Says Counsel
Counsel to The SCOAN, Olalekan Ojo has told the coroner that his client, The Synagogue, Church of All Nations adhered strictly to best practice principles in the engagement of professionals who ha...Published: 02 Jun 2015 at 20:19hrs | | by Nosa Osazuwa
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