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Family cries foul over police botched investigation

The mysterious death of Hurungwe mother of four, Rumbidzai Tachiona, on June 16 has sparked controversy, with her family accusing police of dragging their feet in concluding investigations.Mashonaland West provincial police spokesperson, I…

Published: 16 Aug 2025 at 13:22hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter

Family in soup for marrying off underage girl

A family in Mapanzure, under Headman Matavire in Chief Murinye's jurisdiction, is facing investigation after reportedly marrying off their 16-year-old daughter following her return home late.The girl, who was in Form 3 at Makoni Secondary …

Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:27hrs | | by Staff reporter

Shuvai Mahofa's family faces eviction threat

The family of the late Zanu-PF politician, Shuvai Mahofa, may soon be evicted from a farm she seized during Zimbabwe's land reform era, amid claims that Deputy Minister of Environment, Climate and Wildlife, John Paradza, is orchestrating a…

Published: 28 Jun 2025 at 15:14hrs | 698 | by Staff reporter

Family feud over SA citizen buried in Tsholotsho

The family of the late Churchill Guduza, former leader of the Mthwakazi Liberation Front, has been plunged into turmoil following disagreements over the burial arrangements of one of their brothers.Tensions flared after the death of Church…

Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 12:00hrs | 706 | by Staff reporter

Boy finally buried after 16 days of family dispute

After a prolonged 17-day standoff between his divorced parents over burial arrangements, 8-year-old Tinofara Muzavazi was finally laid to rest last Sunday.The young boy drowned while swimming in a pond after school on February 18. However,…

Published: 13 Mar 2025 at 06:51hrs | 646 | by Staff reporter

5 family members die after eating treated maize

A tragedy has struck Dombodema Village in Mazetese communal lands, Mwenezi, where five people, believed to be members of the same family, have died after allegedly consuming mealie-meal made from treated maize seed.The shocking incident ha…

Published: 13 Jan 2025 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter

Siqokoqela snubs Mphoko's burial

Siqokoqela Mphoko, the son of the late former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko, was conspicuously absent from his father's burial at the family's Douglasdale plot in Bulawayo yesterday. His absence comes amid a bitter and ongoing family f…

Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 04:39hrs | 2031 | by Staff reporter

Mphoko leaves family legacy of ruins?

Zimbabwe's liberation struggle hero and former Vice President, Phelekezela Report Mphoko, whose death in India has left the nation in mourning, returns home tomorrow to be laid to rest in a tragic family setting marred by years of bitter i…

Published: 12 Dec 2024 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mysterious fire destroys family's 12 huts

A devastating and mysterious fire recently ravaged five homesteads in Chimbudzi Village, Chief Mawarire's area in Mwenezi District, leaving the Chimbudzi family homeless and in desperate need of assistance. The fire, which destroyed 12 hut…

Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 09:54hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter

Selmor Mtukudzi battles depression amid ongoing family feud

Selmor Mtukudzi, the daughter of late music legend Dr. Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, is currently grappling with depression stemming from a contentious family feud that has reached a boiling point. The emotional turmoil has left her feeling dish…

Published: 29 Sep 2024 at 11:23hrs | 461 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe family basket doubles to ZWL$6,2m

The family basket has nearly doubled to ZWL$6,2 million from ZWL$3,6 million in December due to the continued depreciation of the Zimdollar, the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) has said, spelling disaster for thousands of families count…

Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 04:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Police exhume body after family claims wrong corpse from mortuary

Two Gweru families will today exhume a body of a deceased relative for reburial after one of the families mistakenly claimed a wrong corpse at the Gweru Provincial Hospital mortuary for burial.The other family discovered that they had coll…

Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 14:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Community wants witchcraft-accused family banished

St Peter's residents on the outskirts of Bulawayo are calling for a family to be banished from the community for practising witchcraft.This is after some community members suffered some mysterious ailments which left some bedridden.The com…

Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 16:08hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Family crisis in the West

I KNOW this is sensitive  ground and most people avoid commenting on, but I think it is too important to the world and our own families and society to just brush it aside as another feature of a failed society.Society in the West has …

Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:07hrs | 7 | by Eddie Cross

'Mnangagwa family 'the most' persecuted'

Zanu-PF women affairs provincial chairperson for Midlands Tsitsi Zhou has said the recent sanctioning of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's son Emmerson Jnr, is evidence his family is the most persecuted in the country.The US Treasury Departme…

Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:19hrs | 1 | 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 Midlands province town was causing family …

Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

'Family members rejoiced when Tuku, Sam died'

DAISY Mtukudzi, the widow to the late music superstar Oliver Mtukudzi has claimed that some family members were happy about the deaths of Tuku and his son Sam. Tuku died of heart failure related to diabetes in January 2019 while his son Sa…

Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 09:20hrs | 58 | 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 Acre in Harare.He wants the iconic late …

Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe prisons reintroduce family week

THE Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) is set to reintroduce family week as part of efforts to successfully reintegrate incarcerated inmates into society.Family week had been suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic and will ma…

Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Granny axed to death as family watches

RESIDENTS of Gwanda are in shock following the death of a 68-year-old woman who was killed by an axe wielding man who had a score to settle with the woman's daughter and grandson.The woman, Emilia Ncube, who has been described by many as w…

Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Umzingwane ward 9 villagers walk 16km to clinics

UMZINGWANE villagers in Matabeleland South province have called on government to construct a clinic in their area, lamenting that they have to walk eight to 16km to access health services.They said the only clinics close to their ward were…

Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 05:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Christmas: a time to be with family

Zimbabwe joins the rest of the world to celebrate Christmas Day today and as we celebrate it is important to remind each other of some of the traditions that were practiced by our grandmothers not so long ago.Those traditions which are los…

Published: 25 Dec 2021 at 09:22hrs | 13 | by Yvonne Ncube

Family 'hurt' by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu hero snub as late journalist buried

The family of the late journalist and war veteran Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu said it was disappointed he was not accorded national hero status as he was laid to rest on Thursday.Gwakuba died aged 87 from a heart ailment.He was buried at Lady Stan…

Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter

Cult family shuns hospitals

DEATH in a family is heart-numbing and if there is anything that can be done to prevent it the majority will choose to do that. However, this is not the case for an Apostolic sect family in Gwambe in Bulilima District, Matabeleland South P…

Published: 03 May 2021 at 06:16hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

ALERT: Missing Schoolgirl

Hello zihlobo siyadingisa lapha my niece Ziyanda Moyo was last seen on the 8th of August 2018. She went to school and never came back home in the afternoon. Please ngicela lisincedise ongabe embonile or ozambona please kubuhlungu njani.

Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 07:39hrs | 1 | by Concerned Family Member

Diaspora money breaks family

THERE was drama at the Mutare Civil Courts recently after a 29-year-old man engaged in a heated verbal war with his mother over money that is being sent home by his sister from the Diaspora.Before, during and after the court process, Mathi…

Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 06:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Haunted family deserts homestead

MYSTERIOUS fires, strange voices, stones falling mysteriously from the sky destroying doors, windows and roofs thereby causing injury to people are among the many strange things that are on a daily basis haunting a family in Bikita, Masvin…

Published: 25 May 2018 at 06:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Peter Zwide Khumalo takes family to court

THE newly appointed King Lobengula Nyamande II, Mr Peter Zwide KaLanga Khumalo is suing his family for $50 000 over alleged defamatory statements they made regarding his legitimacy to the throne.The matter comes ahead of the coronation cer…

Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 10:48hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's condolence message to Tsvangirai family

CONDOLENCE MESSAGE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT, CDE EMMERSON DAMBUDZO MNANGAGWA, FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF MR MORGAN RICHARD TSVANGIRAI, HARARE 15TH FEBRUARY 2018.On behalf of the ruling ZANU-PF party, Government, our Nation, and that of …

Published: 15 Feb 2018 at 10:37hrs | | by E.D. Mnangagwa

Tsvangirai family: Fighting for a living man's estate

SharpshooterIt was clear from a mile away that the MDC Alliance was headed for its predictable split.With elections around the corner, the monumental disarray within the opposition camp looks at first like a circus of political clowns but …

Published: 11 Feb 2018 at 07:41hrs | 1 | by Vukani Madoda

Long live an independent Matabeleland

Matabeleland, a founding member of the OEAS, the Organization of Emerging African States, is now celebrating the ouster of Robert Mugabe from Zimbabwe and the impending end of the state of Zimbabwe, a thinly disguised recreation of colonia…

Published: 06 Dec 2017 at 10:44hrs | | by OEAS

Family feud over witchcraft

TWO Harare brothers are at loggerheads over a ritual performed at the family home meant to enhance supernatural protection but allegedly backfired leaving a child crippled in the process.Cornelius Chimbo is at odds with his brother and bus…

Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 10:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Avenging spirits force Honde Vally family seek Magaya's help

A HONDE-VALLEY family is seeking for the Prophetic Healing and Deliverance founder, Prophet Walter Magayaâ€™s intervention in their family matters as they have had enough of the avenging spirit that has been tormenting them.Manica Post rep…

Published: 01 Feb 2016 at 13:41hrs | 2 | by Tendai Gukutikwa

Help me find my family

Ibizo lami ngu Rejoice Mntambo bengicela lingi fununise I family yami,ngine nkinga engihlangane lazo empilweni ezifuna umndeni.ubaba wam Ngu Alick Mlunguseli Mntambo,ngise south Africa Capetown these are my number 0027617146889 &002774…

Published: 25 Aug 2015 at 13:16hrs | 2 | by Rejoice Mntambo

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