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Pokello reacts to Chombo's death hoax
Zimbabwean socialite and entrepreneur Pokello Nare has dismissed false reports circulating on social media claiming that her stepfather, former cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo, has died.On We...Published: 25 Jun 2025 at 17:48hrs | 1726 | by Staff reporter
Social media and the spread of fake news in Zimbabwe
IT is not often uncommon that a new phenomenon dramatically rises up with so much clout and influence that it breaks and reshapes established African norms and beliefs.Africans are traditionally a...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 18:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga's lawyers dismiss death rumours
Frank Buyanga Sadiqi's lawyers have dismissed reports circulating on social media that the businessman died in a shooting yesterday.The story started with another businessman, Mutumwa Mawere, ...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 19:09hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe orders ZRP to deal with windscreen smashing cops
HOME Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe has ordered the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) to take stern action against police operatives who smash vehicle windscreens in attempts to arrest offending motori...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:21hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
More schools, colleges hit by Covid-19
COVID-19 is ripping through educational institutions in the country with latest statistics showing that more than 150 learners and teachers at schools and colleges have tested positive.Sunday ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
John Tallach Sch death rumours untrue
GOVERNMENT has dispelled rumours that one student from John Tallach, a mission school in Matabeleland North, 40km outside Bulawayo, had died of COVID-19.Matabeleland North acting provincial me...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 09:49hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Gringo death rumours dismissed
Comedian and actor Lazarus Boora (Gringo) is still alive and recovering at WestView Medical Centre in Zimre where he is hospitalised. Gringo's doctor Dr Johannes Marisa confirmed the news afte...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 05:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa speaks on Chiwenga death rumours
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has condemned the rumours making rounds that Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has passed on. Mliswa was commenting after a letter purportedly writte...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 11:50hrs | 7 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Let's not lose the spirit of Ubuntu
Zimbabwe lost one of its finest musicians ever when Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi passed away in Harare on Wednesday afternoon after a long battle with diabetes.Before his death, Tuku had produced at...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 17:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dismisses Mohadi death rumours
Zanu-PF President and First Secretary Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday dispelled social media rumours that his deputy and party's Second Secretary Kembo Mohadi had died.The President dismiss...Published: 05 May 2018 at 09:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tsvangirai death rumours quashed
Morgan Tsvangirai has been subject to some fake news stories, claiming he has passed away earlier this week. His family have been forced to deny the allegations, but Mr Tsvangirai is definitely strugg...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 10:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai death rumour, a hoax
There is a fake rumour circulating on social media claiming that the leader of the MDC-T Morgan Tsvangirai who was 'airlifted' to South Africa ill is dead but officials from the party in Harare have v...Published: 07 Nov 2017 at 16:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai death rumour, a hoax
There is a fake rumour circulating on social media claiming that the leader of the MDC-T Morgan Tsvangirai who was airlifted to South Africa on Friday as he fell seriously ill is dead but officials fr...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 14:51hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa death claims circulate, audio declare him dead after poisoning
Today social media users wake up to the surprise over an audio circulating that the Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa who was airlifted to South Africa after vomiting blood at President Robert Mugabe'...Published: 15 Aug 2017 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
'Mayor peddles fake death rumour'
CHIREDZI - A Councillor allegedly caused alarm, shock and despondency after spreading falsehoods about death of his party member on social media.The Chiwawa family friends and relatives are ye...Published: 22 Mar 2017 at 15:40hrs | | by Midlands Reporter
Tsvangirai death rumour a blue lie- Tamborinyoka
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai' spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka has described the rumours circulating that his boss has died as blue lies indicating that the former ZCTU secretary General is alive and ...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 06:17hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Lundi Tyamara death rumour untrue, he's recovering
Contrary to Mzansi News reports that the South African popular gospel artist Lundi Tyamara has died, Drum Magazine has dispelled the news indicating that the report was fake as the singer is recoverin...Published: 06 Jan 2017 at 11:10hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
False death rumour distresses Mtukudzi
Zimbabwean music legend, Oliver Mtukudzi - who like President Robert Mugabe has been falsely reported as having died many times - was once again left fuming yesterday after a dubious overseas-base...Published: 15 Dec 2016 at 05:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe death rumours and the wrath of evil
Every time President Mugabe travels to Malaysia, rumours emerge to the effect that he would have collapsed and subsequently rushed for treatment in the Middle East. Almost immediately, he would th...Published: 09 Sep 2016 at 08:15hrs | | by Immigration Maziwisa
Mugabe death rumours: The truth
Zanu PF youth Activist Energy Mutodi has said reports that veteran Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has died are false as he is actually in Singapore attending to private business, an intelligence o...Published: 02 Sep 2016 at 16:14hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Am accustomed to death rumours - Tocky Vibes
Highly rated artist in the Zimbabwean music arena - Tocky Vibes has said he is now used to death rumours on him.Early this week he was involved in an accident.Speculation on social med...Published: 14 Jul 2016 at 06:08hrs | 2 | by Thobekile Zhou
Openness about Mugabe's health can eliminate death rumours- MDC Chairman
The MDC Chairman for Bulawayo Oscar Ncube has said the rumours which usually surround the health or President Robert Mugabe each time he goes for holiday in Asia can be eliminated only when the govern...Published: 21 Jan 2016 at 05:27hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe's death rumours show how desperate Zimbabweans are for change- Analyst
A journalist and political analyst Methuseli Moyo has said constant rumours about his death or ill health dramatises how desperate Zimbabweans are for President Robert Mugabe to disappear from the sce...Published: 19 Jan 2016 at 05:59hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu PF UK mocks at Mugabe death rumour mongers
The Zanu PF United Kingdom chapter has mocked the President Robert Mugabe death rumour mongers for always wanting to declare the head of state dead each time when he goes on holiday.This comes...Published: 18 Jan 2016 at 05:44hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Journalists laughs off at Mugabe death rumours
Claims that Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe is at death's door have been dismissed by journalists in that country as "part of the annual news cycle".Rumours that Zimbabwean president Robert M...Published: 14 Jan 2016 at 10:12hrs | | by msm
Mugabe death rumour dismissed
The Zimbabwe government on Thursday denied reports that veteran President Robert Mugabe, aged 91, had collapsed and died in Singapore after rumours spread rapidly about his alleged ill health....Published: 14 Jan 2016 at 09:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Chinx rubbishing death rumour
LIBERATION war music icon, Dickson "Chinx" Chingaira, has dismissed reports doing rounds on social media that he was dead, calling those who were spreading the hoax insane and heartless. Social me...Published: 19 Aug 2015 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Priest steals car, gets drunk, commits suicide
A ROMAN Catholic priest, Father Batsirai Marimbe, based at Gweru Diocese Cathedral Church committed suicide on Saturday morning by taking poison after he allegedly stole a parish vehicle and went for ...Published: 22 Dec 2014 at 21:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Govt dispels Ebola death rumours at Parirenyatwa
The Ministry of Health yesterday issued a statement dispelling fears of a suspected Ebola case at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare. This followed reports that a man, whose age and name cou...Published: 18 Sep 2014 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Willard Mashinkila Kumalo death hoax 'unAfrican'
HIGHLANDERS manager, the legendary Willard Mashinkila Kumalo, is alive and well contrary to rumours that he has passed on, the Chronicle reported.The club has since expressed its disgust over...Published: 07 Jul 2014 at 06:29hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Mugabe's health under spotlight again
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's health has once again come under the spotlight after he apparently struggled to use his right eye which seemed to be nearly shut on Friday.While Mugabe appeared to be...Published: 20 Apr 2014 at 10:02hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Robert Mugabe, the man who has 'died' so many times
IT'S a tired fad now, too predictable and so pedestrian as well. There are some crazy elements out there who have been hell bent to ensure that they create an atmosphere of anxiety, instability and p...Published: 23 Jan 2014 at 08:29hrs | | by Hildegade Manzvanzvike
Mugabe death rumour ends
President Mugabe appeared in public for the first time in several weeks yesterday to mourn the death of his sister, ending speculation that he may be bedridden, in declining health or even dead. ...Published: 21 Jan 2014 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet TB Joshua's prophecy fulfilled as Malawi president dies
MALAWI president Professor Bingu wa Mutharika who suffered a cardiac arrest Thursday morning is reportedly dead. This is in fulfillment to Prophet TB Joshua's prophect that an old african le...Published: 07 Apr 2012 at 07:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Mandela death rumours quashed, he is alive and well
MONTHS after the world breathed a sigh of relief at news that former South African president and world icon Nelson Mandela was alive and well, social networks are abuzz with rumours that he is dead....Published: 14 Sep 2011 at 10:58hrs | | by Sapa
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