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Zim concedes Parirenyatwa's plea for veterans decent burials
The government (through Parliament) is progressively conceding to pressure from the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA), after its membership successfully petitioned authori...Published: 20 Dec 2024 at 21:01hrs | 1182 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Court visits Mugabe's 'grave' in exhumation case
Chinhoyi Magistrate Kudzanai Mahaso has granted village head Tinos Manongovere his request for an inspection in loco at the burial sites of the late former President Robert Mugabe, following a dispute...Published: 12 Dec 2024 at 06:58hrs | 1968 | by Staff reporter
New twist to Zimbabwe graves scam
Restland Memorial Park director Edwin Munyaradzi Muronzi, accused of unlawfully exhuming 78 graves without proper authorization from the Zvimba Rural District Council, has been granted bail of US$200....Published: 11 Dec 2024 at 06:33hrs | 536 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean family buries Lesotho citizen in tragic body mix-up
A family from Cross Roads, Mangwe, was left in shock after discovering they had buried the wrong body two months ago, a mistake that saw them laying to rest a Lesotho citizen instead of their relative...Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 16:58hrs | 1241 | by Staff reporter
Mt Hampden residents face displacement for Zim Cyber City development
Thousands of residents in Turner Farm, Mt Hampden, are facing the looming threat of displacement as the government moves ahead with the development of the multi-billion-dollar Zim Cyber City project, ...Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 07:16hrs | 956 | by Staff reporter
War veterans seek funding for exhumation, reburial exercise
ZANU-PF has called on the Government to prioritize resources for the exhumation and reburial of veterans of the liberation struggle, with a dedicated committee set to spearhead the initiative. This de...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 06:55hrs | 51 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wants to rename Zimbabwe's provinces
The ruling Zanu-PF party has called for the renaming of Zimbabwe's provinces, aiming to eliminate colonial-era names that have historically fueled division among the population. This resolution emerge...Published: 30 Oct 2024 at 08:01hrs | 4736 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe war heroes' graves in Zambia, Mozambique desecrated
Recent reports have revealed a distressing situation regarding the graveyards of liberation war heroes, particularly those located in Zambia and Mozambique, which have been desecrated as farming activ...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 08:24hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
Tragic morgue mix-up: Family buries stranger in Mangwe district
What was meant to be a solemn farewell for their beloved son turned into a shocking and bewildering ordeal for the Ndebele family from Matanka Two Village in Mangwe District, Matabeleland South. The f...Published: 16 Sep 2024 at 08:10hrs | 498 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to repatriate remains of SA heroes
The remains of South African freedom fighters buried in Zimbabwe during the anti-apartheid struggle are set to be repatriated to their homeland. These fallen heroes were part of the broader regional e...Published: 12 Sep 2024 at 07:23hrs | 765 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide survivor cannot forgive Mugabe's foot soldiers
An astounding number of mass graves surround Thabani Dhlamini's home in south-western Zimbabwe.One pointed out to the BBC lies near the ablution block at a primary school in the village of Sal...Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 07:26hrs | 1161 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt under fire as investors damage graves
THE Zanu-PF government has come under fire for authorising investors to destroy dozens of graves to pave way for mining activities while ignoring the country's social and traditional norms and beliefs...Published: 03 Apr 2024 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cyber City project threatens Mt Hampden graves
GOVERNMENT says it has no plans to desecrate and destroy graves in Mt Hampden area to pave way for the ambitious multimillion dollar Cyber City project.Online reports said graves were being de...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mix up at South African mortuary, 2-year body swap resolved
IN September 2021, then-31-year-old Bongani Ngwendu was attacked by a vigilante group in a suspected xenophobic attack at an informal settlement in Pretoria, South Africa, where he was burnt to death ...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 05:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cult death casts light on UZ Prof's mysterious death
THE tears of a woman, who is battling to establish how her daughter died and was later hurriedly buried at a plot owned by Madzibaba Ishmael Chokurongera, appears to have cast some light on a high-pro...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 11:29hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Daft Charumbira in Gukurahundi storm
CHIEF Fortune Charumbira touched off a storm yesterday after saying the disturbances that rocked the Midlands and Matebeleland provinces in the 1980s in which thousands were killed by North Korea-trai...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Gukurahundi not a small, tiny issue'
CHIEF Mathema of Matabeleland South has urged citizens and the government not to take the emotive Gukurahundi as a small issue. He said it would take several years to bring it to closure amid indicati...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Manhize folk fret over graveyards
VillAgERs in Manhize have asked the Mvumabased Dinson iron and steel Company (Disco) to allow them access to graveyards on land taken over by the Chinese mining company so that they conduct traditiona...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 17:40hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe genocide survivors struggle for closure
AS the 10-year term of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) in Zimbabwe, aimed at bringing peace and healing to survivors and families affected by past atrocities, approaches its en...Published: 04 Oct 2023 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
SADC countries to link digital fingerprint system with population registers?
The Gauteng government and regional bloc SADC [Southern African Development Community] representatives have agreed to link immigrants to the Digital Fingerprint System so that undocumented migrants ca...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 14:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi presses for Gukurahundi compensation
THE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) wants the international community to pressure President Emmerson Mnangagwa to compensate Gukurahundi victims.There has been no redress to the 1980s mass kill...Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa threatens Cecil John Rhodes' grave
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has threatened to "take action" if the British failed to claim the remains of Cecil John Rhodes buried at Matobo in Matebeleland South province.He made the remarks...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 07:15hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Liberation hero to be exhumed
The late liberation War Hero, Dr January Rachilumela Makakavhule-Moyo's family has requested for his remains to be exhumed and reburied.According to a notice by the Beitbridge Registrar, Dr Ma...Published: 10 May 2023 at 19:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cecil Rhodes's grave still haunts Zimbabweans
It's a sacred hill where for centuries Zimbabweans would go to consult their ancestors.It's also where the notorious British coloniser Cecil John Rhodes chose to be his final resting place....Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe family fails to turn up for Robert's exhumation case
THE late former President Robert Mugabe's children yesterday failed to appear in court in a case where they are seeking to stop the exhumation of their father's remains.Bona Mutsahuni-Mugabe (...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Underfunding cripples NPRC'
HEAL Zimbabwe has decried lack of political will and under-funding that has grounded the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) national healing and reconciliation programmes.In i...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 05:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Family exhumes body for reburial at family shrine
A Kwekwe family has been forced to exhume the remains of one of their family members for reburial at their rural home in Chipinge, Manicaland province amid claims that the deceased's burial in the Mid...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland Chiefs make tough demands
TRADITIONAL chiefs in Matabeleland and the Midlands early this week tabled before President Emmerson Mnangagwa a number of tough demands on top of a public apology that need to be fulfilled in order t...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chief who pushed for Mugabe's exhumation and reburial dies
CHIEF Chidziva of Zvimba, born Johannes Jenami, has died after a long battle with a kidney problem.He was aged 92.Son to the late chief, Gibson Jenami, confirmed the passing on of his ...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 21:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa bribes Matebeleland chiefs to submission?
GOVERNMENT has announced that in terms of Gukurahundi exhumations and memorials, traditional leaders will work with the affected families for verification purposes as well as identifying tradition and...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Former senior cop in murder storm
AN inquest is set to be held for a woman who was allegedly poisoned to death in a fight over inheritance in which a former Assistant Commissioner in the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), Mrs Marian Tige...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 13:58hrs | 43 | by Simbarashe Sithole
War vets give Zanu-PF renewed strength
THE indomitable spirit of war veterans, coupled with their sacrifices over the years and sheer force of determination, can inspire Zimbabwe towards upper middle-class economic status by 2030, Presiden...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biti, Ziyambi in feisty Gukurahundi exchange
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) Vice President Tendai Biti and Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi had a feisty exchange in Parliament this week over the exhumation and reburial of victims of the 198...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:47hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe exhumation appeal withdrawn
A HIGH Court appeal by the late former President Robert Mugabe's three children against a court ruling which barred them from contesting exhumation of their late father's remains was withdrawn on Thur...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Professor mysteriously dies at shrine probed
POLICE are investigating the mysterious death of prominent academic, Professor Itai Muhwati, who reportedly died on Monday at an apostolic shrine and was buried on the same day without the knowledge o...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe a safe haven for wanted genocidists
The Zimbabwe government is known for deploying the Zimbabwe National Army 5th Brigade in Matabeleland to commit genocide in which over 40 000 Matabele civilians including women and children were dasta...Published: 07 Jun 2022 at 11:54hrs | 9 | by Israel Dube
Graves to make way for residential stands
GRAVES in the high-density suburb of Glen Norah in Harare are set to be removed to pave way for the allocation of 300 residential stands.This was contained in a notice of an application for th...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nyaradzo expatriates wrong body to the US
In a major boob, Nyaradzo Funeral allegedly recently expatriated the wrong corpse into the United States of America in a development that has sent tongues wagging.It is alleged that the parlor...Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 20:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's son wants father's remains exhumed from National Heroes Acre
ZAPU president Sibangilizwe Nkomo, son to late liberation war hero and former Vice President Joshua Nkomo, is demanding the immediate exhumation of his late father's remains from the National Heroes A...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:28hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe exhumation magistrate demoted for 'incompetence'
FORMER Mashonaland West provincial magistrate Ruth Moyo, who rose to prominence after presiding over the exhumation appeal case of late former president Robert Mugabe, has been demoted to an ordinary ...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:45hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Unity Accord dead, says ex-chief Ndiweni
DETHRONED Ntabazinduna Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration effectively dumped the 1987 Unity Accord by not appointing a Zapu side Vice-President....Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudenda rapped over Gukurahundi 'election project'
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda has been accused of exposing Zanu-PF's plan to use Gukurahundi as a campaign gimmick after he demanded the 1980s massacres should be resolved before the ...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bona wins Mugabe reburial case
HIGH Court judges of appeal on Thursday ruled in favour of the late former President Robert Mugabe's children who are challenging the exhumation of their father's remains for re-burial at the National...Published: 14 May 2022 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Brother pushes for late Johane Marange High Priest's exhumation
THE late Johane Marange Apostolic church leader Noah Taguta's brother, Clements Momberume, has been granted an interim interdict barring the sect from using the sacred burial shrine he was buried at i...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to deploy pathologists to Mozambique
GOVERNMENT will deploy a team of pathologists to Mozambique in June to start the exhumation and repatriation of more than 157 Zimbabwean nationals who were swept away by the Cyclone Idai floods in 201...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-ZBC journalist speaks of 'hiding' atrocities
VETERAN journalist and former ZBC correspondent Tapfuma Machakaire has shed light on challenges faced by state media journalists when covering Gukurahundi, saying they were only shown dead bodie...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is Robert Mugabe Jnr playing the fool?
THE late former President Robert Mugabe's son, Robert Junior's recent endorsement of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is seen as a climbdown meant to protect the late strongman's empire and s...Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt must stay out of Gukurahundi genocide hearings
HUMAN rights watchdog, National Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG), has called on the State to stay away from organising public hearings into the Gukurahundi massacres saying its involvement w...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Glen Norah graves to be relocated
Over 40 graves are set for exhumation from an old cemetery in Glen Norah B to pave way for the construction of houses by private property developers.The exhumed bodies will be reburied at Gran...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's children stand their ground
CHILDREN of the late Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe have maintained that the traditional leaders who ordered the exhumation of their father's remains have no legal right to do so.This emerge...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:41hrs | 8 | by Staf reporter
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