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Widower cleared of causing wife's death
Hilary Chisuko, a man from Nyanga, has strongly denied accusations by his late wife's family that he was responsible for her death in a car accident last April. Chisuko, who himself was critically inj...Published: 17 May 2025 at 12:10hrs | 117 | by Staff reporter
Police brutality victim's family demands 'supernatural' justice
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has been accused of covering up its officers' attack on a handcuffed suspect, who later died in holding cells at Banket Police Station, last month.The now de...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 05:07hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Sangomas told to register
The Traditional Medical Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe (TMPCZ) has moved in to enforce regulations that will ensure all traditional medical practitioners are registered in a move to uphold Governme...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 06:56hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa chucked out of Parly for calling Ziyambi 'murderer'
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa was Wednesday chucked out of the NationalAssembly after alleging Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi had visited traditional and faith healers with the aim of killing....Published: 17 Jun 2021 at 06:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa scared of his own demons, fairness thrown off the window
Fairness is defined as just and reasonable treatment in accordance with accepted rules or principles. Treating all people equally and applying reasonable punishments only when rules are broken is an e...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 15:42hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Prophet by day, sangoma by night
At first glance, Bishop Cuthbert Nyaruvenda, the founder of Sangano Dzvene Revapostori Church, looks like an ordinary person next door.Alighting from his car clad in a blue T-shirt and matchin...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:22hrs | 3 | by Tendai Chara
Zimbabwe Covid-19 patients resort to home remedies
Clara Tandi felt feverish. Worried she was sick with the coronavirus, she grabbed handfuls of lemon, guava and mint leaves from her garden and boiled them into a liquid.Then Tandi (59) strippe...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo Hospital sets up register for people with ambiguous genitalia
MPILO Central Hospital has initiated a register for people with ambiguous genitalia in a bid to help them deal with the issue and avoid future psycho-social problems they may encounter regarding sexua...Published: 15 May 2019 at 15:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Prostate cancer on the rise in Zimbabwe'
The growing spread of prostate cancer among Zimbabwean men now warrants a serious epidemiological investigation, the Zimbabwe Cancer Registry (ZCR) has revealed.ZCR registrar Eric Chokunonga s...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Prophets fuel ARVs defaults''
PEOPLE living with HIV (PLHIV) have blamed some prophets and faith healers for the upsurge in the number of people who default from the first line antiretroviral therapy (ART). After defaultin...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:14hrs | | by Satff reporter
Ex-minister haunted by 24-year-old divorce
FORMER Minister of State in ex-Vice-President Joice Mujuru's Office, Sylvester Robert Nguni, has been taken to court by his former wife, Christine Silindeni Nguni, who is seeking an order to bring to ...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 05:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pharmacists rubbish Prophet Magaya's AIDS claim
The Retail Pharmacists Association, RPA would like to advise members of the public to exercise caution and restraint towards claims made by people, politicians, prophets, and faith healers about medic...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 11:30hrs | | by Retail Pharmacists Association
Goblins dispute taken to court
A WITCHRAFT storm ravaging a Mutambara family has spilled into the courts as an aggrieved woman has hauled her husband's relatives before a Mutare magistrate seeking a protection order against her in-...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:35hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
UK Zimbabweans die of HIV after being fooled by faith healers
A number of Zimbabweans in London with HIV have died after they stopped taking lifesaving drugs on the advice of their Evangelical Christian pastors. Pastors have taken advantage of the respect they g...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 11:44hrs | 5 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Killer dad jailed for 25 years
A MAN from Nkayi who killed his handicapped three-year-old son and secretly buried his body in a shallow grave has been sentenced to an effective 25 years in jail.Jeremaya Sibanda (39) of Sikh...Published: 18 May 2018 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman demands pictures from ex-hubby
THE court gallery was left in stitches on Wednesday when a woman demanded her pictures from her estranged husband citing that she was living in perpetual fear that he would bewitch her using them....Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutandas planted strange objects
FAKE Tsikamutandas in Chakohwa Village are placing witchcraft paraphernalia in villagers' homesteads and accusing people of possessing goblins in an attempt to lure clients.This was revealed b...Published: 04 Nov 2017 at 05:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Drama as man confesses to being attacked by his goblins
Drama torched Epworth this Monday as a man confessed to an attack by his goblins.The incident attracted the attention of police, traditional and faith healers.Commonly known as paBoost...Published: 23 Aug 2017 at 12:25hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Prophet, sangomas warned
MINISTER of Health and Child Care, Dr David Parirenyatwa, yesterday warned traditional healers and prophets for stopping patients from taking medical drugs.Min Parirenyatwa said this on the si...Published: 22 Aug 2017 at 17:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
85% of Zimbabweans consult prophets, traditional healers
ABOUT 85 percent of Zimbabweans consult prophets, faith and traditional healers for medical ailments, a development that has jolted the Government to enforce regulations and arrest those who are not r...Published: 18 Aug 2017 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Prophets, healers face ban in Zimbabwe
PROPHETS, pastors, traditionalists and faith healers will soon be banned from working without a practising certificate from the Traditional Medical Practitioners Council, Health and Child Care Deputy ...Published: 13 Aug 2017 at 12:10hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Kezi Chief decries tsikamutanda menace
CHIEF Nyangazonke of Kezi, Matabeleland South has said self-proclaimed witch-hunters commonly known as tsikamutanda are causing havoc in his area as they are allegedly demanding livestock from vil...Published: 16 Mar 2017 at 10:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutanda: Hunting the hunters
A team of law enforcement agents has been dispatched in the country's 10 provinces to curb the fraudulent operations of self-proclaimed witch hunters (tsikamutandas), a senior police official has ...Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 08:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Minister Parirenyatwa fires warning shots
Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa has urged the Traditional Medical Practitioner Council (TMPC) to decisively deal with bogus faith healers who are on the rise countrywide....Published: 13 Nov 2016 at 09:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
School forms mubobobo committee
A school in Gutu - Mataruse Primary School has formed a mubobobo committee comprising teachers and members of the local community. The committee is tasked to visit a number of traditional healers in a...Published: 11 Jun 2016 at 09:12hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe reveals his grudge with Mujuru
In a rare moment of candour since he hounded former Vice President Joice Mujuru from Zanu-PF in late 2014, President Robert Mugabe yesterday gave a definitive reason why his former number two had been...Published: 19 Mar 2016 at 18:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sangomas claim to be entitled to medical aid remittances
Zimbabwe National Practitioners Association (ZINPA), an organisation which represents the interests of traditional healers, herbalists and faith healers, wants its patients to start using medical aid ...Published: 27 Jun 2015 at 08:18hrs | 4 | by Lovemore Zigara
Witchcraft storm rocks clan
A MARANGE headman is in the eye of a witchcraft storm after nine members of the extended family fingered him as the one behind mysterious happenings and deaths in their family.Lazarus Macheke ...Published: 09 May 2015 at 17:33hrs | | by Tendai Gukutikwa
'Mugabe consults witch doctors'
Despite his public statements denigrating spirit mediums and traditional healers, President Robert Mugabe has consulted sangomas himself, says Rugare Gumbo, a war veteran and former Zanu-PF informatio...Published: 26 Mar 2015 at 15:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo Hospital warned over debt collectors
THE MDC-T Bulawayo provincial leadership has warned the Mpilo Hospital to desist from engaging debt collectors to reign on defaulting patients saying the move will be a violation of the people's right...Published: 19 Mar 2015 at 08:20hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Juju court case takes a new twist
THE shocking case of a Bulawayo businessman who sued his ex-lover demanding over $5 000 as compensation for the pain and suffering he endured as a result of the spells and love potions which he claime...Published: 28 Jan 2015 at 15:35hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
Man dragged to court over a 'love portion'
A MAN who has been accused of giving a Hillside woman a love potion to give to her married boyfriend, which resulted in her lover being "crazily in love" with her, has advised the State that he is not...Published: 15 Jan 2015 at 08:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Dr Parirenyatwa warns prophets
THE Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr David Parirenyatwa, has warned traditional and faith healers against misleading people by claiming that they had powers to heal HIV.Dr Parirenyatwa sa...Published: 07 Dec 2014 at 08:24hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Mugabe juju claim raises stink
President Robert Mugabe's sensational claims that Vice President Joice Mujuru consulted witch doctors in a desperate bid to oust him from office has exposed Zanu-PF's obsession with witchcraft an...Published: 05 Dec 2014 at 13:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prostitutes seek prophets
Wearing red lipstick like a slash across their chemically lightened faces, in high-heeled shoes and skimpy clothes they parade themselves in the dark allies hoping to attract potential clients....Published: 08 Nov 2014 at 17:08hrs | 5 | by Michelle Chifamba
Faith healers castigated for misleading people living with HIV
People living with HIV have castigated faith healers who are making claims that they can treat AIDS, saying they are being retrogressive and eroding gains that have been made in treating those affecte...Published: 01 Oct 2014 at 15:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Aids victims urged to sue prophets
NATIONAL AIDS COUNCIL (NAC) board member Catharine Murombedzi has urged families that lost their loved ones to HIV and Aids after being misled by their spiritual leaders to stop taking medication, to...Published: 29 Sep 2014 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Poor health services force expectant mothers to turn to Vapostori
AS health services in the country continue to deteriorate, the poor, in both urban and rural areas, have been hit hard resulting in unnecessary loss of life.Hopley Farm, an informal settlemen...Published: 09 Aug 2014 at 06:20hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Bizarre 'pregnancies'
Two women, one from Domboshava, Mashonaland East and the other from Highfield in Harare, are tied by some inexplicable twist of fate and nature.The duo, Maidei Nemhara (40) and Portia Tapfuman...Published: 28 Jun 2014 at 13:08hrs | 4 | by Kingstone Mapupu
$400 change into Zim dollars at Ecocash
An Ecocash dealer in Masvingo was left shell-shocked when US$400 he had in his cashbox allegedly turned into billions of Zim dollars soon after a client who had cashed in US$100 had disappeared....Published: 08 Jun 2014 at 10:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Prophet TB Joshua: Healer or controversial leader?
LAGOS - It's Sunday, and 15 000 people are seated in the enormous arena-like church, fanning themselves against the dusty humid air in Nigeria.The preacher in a blue flowered shirt taps his m...Published: 24 Apr 2014 at 06:08hrs | 4 | by AP
Sangomas want patients to use medical aid
TRADITIONAL medical practitioners (inyangas) have called on government to put in place a policy which will see medical aid societies accepting claims from patients who seek their services.The...Published: 11 Apr 2014 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sangomas undergo voluntary HIV tests
THIRTY-four traditional medical practitioners were voluntarily tested for HIV during the capacity building workshop on HIV/Aids and other chronic diseases organised by the Sadc secretariat and the Min...Published: 05 Apr 2014 at 08:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman expose her private parts to teen stepson
A Harare man yesterday left the court astounded when he said his wife was in the habit of lifting her skirt and exposing her private parts in the presence of her 14-year-old stepson.Gibson Mar...Published: 04 Feb 2014 at 07:09hrs | 3 | by Court Reporter
Woman catches polygamous hubby trying to tire knot with yet another woman
A polygamous 'panel beater' ran out of luck recently when his wife caught him trying to marry another woman at an Apostolic Masowe Church service. The woman was shocked as the madzibaba-cum-...Published: 01 Jan 2014 at 15:48hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Men's Clinic Zimbabwe gains popularity
The establishment of the Men's Clinic Zimbabwe, a clinic that specialises in men's sexual health problems, has, to a greater extent, helped in the demystification of issues to do with men's sexual hea...Published: 17 Mar 2013 at 06:50hrs | 8 | by Tendai Chara
Mental illness cases increase
DRUG abuse, especially among boys and men aged below 30 years has resulted in an increase of cases of mental health illness in the Midlands Province, the provincial medical director, Dr Milton Chemhur...Published: 07 Aug 2012 at 05:00hrs | | by Midlands Bureau Chief
Family kills a villager, turn him into a goblin
A Plumtree family allegedly killed a man, bathed in his blood and used 'traditional African science' to clone the body back to life.The family is said to have turned the man into a goblin that...Published: 26 Jul 2012 at 12:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet Makandiwa faces arrest
Prominent prophets such as United Family International Church's Emmanuel Makandiwa and Uebert Angel Mudzanire of Spirit Embassy International face arrest for operating outside the Traditional Medical ...Published: 10 Jul 2012 at 05:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Girl (12) claims she ate human flesh and bathed in blood
Fear has gripped a Kuwadzana family amid claims by their 12-year-old girl that she is being abducted bu Satanists since November last year. The little girl Mary (not her real name), who returned home ...Published: 17 May 2012 at 11:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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