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Madzibaba 'mutes' woman's voice before raping her
Tendai Chikowore, a 40-year-old man from Chikanga, Mutare, has been sentenced to 17 years in prison after being convicted of rape. The sentencing took place at the Mutare Magistrates' Court following ...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 10:35hrs | 791 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe poverty drives 40% of Mashonaland Christians into apostolic sects seeking miracles
Widespread poverty resulting from grand corruption and mismanagement in the public sector has compelled nearly half of the Christian community to turn to apostolic sects, renowned for their deep spiri...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 04:20hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe kills over 150
These days, Catherine Mangosho locks her 3-year-old grandson in the house for hours on end in an attempt to shield him from a deadly cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe.The virulent bacterial disease...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 07:45hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
We are protected by prayers': Sects hampering Zimbabwe's vaccine rollout
HYMNAL melodies reverberate around the hillside in Kuwadzana, a Harare suburb. On a blisteringly hot Saturday, members of the apostolic church, dressed in white, hum and sing together.Songs, l...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:27hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Let's not listen to these prophets of doom
POVERTY and the demonic world has caused Africans to be victims of tricksters in the form of church leaders, some existing among us.For a long time, they have been studying the Bible and incor...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 07:39hrs | 1 | by Isaac Mupinyuri
Sangoma snatches client's hubby
FOR Sephukile Mathuthu, from Bulawayo's Cowdray Park suburb, things were not going well for her husband Prince Mathuthu when they decided to consult a sangoma, Malandisa Ncube, from Old Magwegwe subur...Published: 07 May 2021 at 11:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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
Prophet Magaya's PHD to stand trial for tax evasion
Financial statements retrieved from Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries' computers by Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) are admissible evidence in the $28 million tax evasion case and ...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 06:51hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya fails to repay $23 million loan
PROPHETIC Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walter Magaya and his wife, Tendai, have been taken to the High Court for failure to repay a US$23 million loan to Homelink Finance (Private) ...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Churches must pay tax
CHURCHES must comply with the laws of the land and must not be exempted from paying taxes for their commercial ventures.This was said by the Zimbabwe Council of Churches general secretary Reve...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 23:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
False start to Magaya tax evasion trial
The trial of Walter Magaya's Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries on charges of failing to declare tax for nearly $29 million revenue accrued from 2013 to 2018, failed to kick off yester...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Magaya church not paying tax'
THE Walter Magaya-led Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries was yesterday accused before a Harare magistrate of violating the Income Tax Act after failing to declare tax sales of over $28,7 mil...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya and wife did not pay tax on mega salaries
Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries founder Prophet Walter Magaya is paid $40,000 per month, a court heard on Friday.Between January 2013 and December 2017, Magaya netted $2,4 million...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 14:46hrs | 13 | by ZimLive
Prophet up for rape
A 36-year-old self-confessed prophet from Johanne Masowe weChishanu sect has been arrested for allegedly raping a job seeker seeking spiritual assistance from him. Marryward Marara of Maglass ...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Prophet up for pregnant woman rape
A PROPHET from Bulawayo appeared in court yesterday for allegedly raping a pregnant woman who had visited him for consultation. Wilson Thabe (52) who resides at Robert Sinyoka pleaded not guil...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet causes a stir, throws lavish birthday party
POPULAR Bulawayo Prophet Thabiso Ngwenya on Sunday caused quite a stir after he hosted a lavish birthday party akin to those of hip-hop moguls such as P Diddy and Jay Z at his Faith In Christ Internat...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 07:27hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Prophet 'rapes' patient 3 times in one night
A 52-YEAR-OLD prophet from Bulawayo has been arrested for allegedly raping his 19-year-old patient three times in one night after she had approached him seeking treatment.The man, who cannot b...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Mental illness amongst us, Zimbabwe has lost the battle and should wage a war
A study has shown 75% of the Zimbabwean population has once suffered from mental illness, somewhere in their journey called life this has been caused by a variety of factors which include but are not ...Published: 15 May 2018 at 07:42hrs | 4 | by Simplisio Muvunde
Man dies after drinking 'holy water'
A MAN from Lupane died after drinking "holy water" that his mother got from a prophet to assist him to get employment, police confirmed.Thembelani Sibanda (48) of Ndamuleni village, under Chie...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Teacher's satanist tatoos spark off trouble
PANDEMONIUM rocked Gombakomba Primary School last week as furious parents boycotted an annual general meeting and bayed for the blood of an ECD teacher who allegedly inscripted 'satanic tattoos' on th...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 05:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Beggar threatens municipal cops
MUNICIPAL police were told they risk losing their jobs after destroying a beggar shack at Fife Avenue Shopping Centre.The unidentified woman believed to be mentally-challenged prayed in front ...Published: 21 Dec 2017 at 15:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Apostolic sect family bars child (8) from seeking medical treatment
THE life of an eight-year-old boy from Budiriro is under serious threat and the boy's mother doesn't seem to care."Our faith does not allow us to go to hospital no matter what. If God allows, ...Published: 08 Oct 2017 at 13:39hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Zimra descends on churches
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) said it will start collecting taxes from churches engaging in business transactions such as selling paraphernalia to their congregants but will exempt churches f...Published: 03 Sep 2017 at 10:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Witch labelling prophet punished
A 41-YEAR-OLD prophet of an unnamed apostolic sect in Kuwadzana was ordered to perform 350 hours of community service for accusing another man of witchcraft.Elisha Mutema suggested that Leonar...Published: 04 Aug 2017 at 16:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Wither water or the Word of God, part 1
Intro: - Back in the day when I was Pastoring in Bulawayo, I found myself debating with Apostolic preacher, (Mupositori). After debating on different ...Published: 16 Jun 2017 at 07:31hrs | | by Rev. Dr. Henry Hanya, PhD
Do false Prophets exist?
Some people have that Something special that sets them apart. Then are the few God sets apart to reach nations-like Biblical Abraham, Joseph, Elijah, Paul. The twentieth-first century has brought us s...Published: 01 Jun 2017 at 15:25hrs | 1 | by Enos Denhere
Inextinguishable fire haunts family
A family from Mlomoliwoto Village in Umzingwane district has lost all its property after a "mysterious fire" declared war.The Malungas from Spaba Ward Five have been tortured by the mysterious...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 10:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
37 Years of Black Rule: Betrayal of the Socialist Struggle!
Today we celebrate the heroic works by the gallant sons and daughters of the soil who took up arms against the white minority rule, to fight for our freedom. Ordinarily, we should be reflecting on the...Published: 18 Apr 2017 at 07:43hrs | | by Ngqabutho Nicholas Mabhena
School girls collapse in Satanism scare
EIGHT girls attending Monde Primary School just outside Victoria allegedly fainted under mysterious circumstances during a meeting at their "church" founded by a Grade seven pupil at the school....Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Prophets are consulting sangomas'
A local traditional healer has confessed that some leaders of apostolic sects approach her to get powers to perform miracles at their shrines.Harare-based Ambuya Simboti said she was also inun...Published: 12 Mar 2017 at 08:52hrs | 1 | by Tariro Charandura
I died and resurrected, claims Apostolic leader
A leader of an apostolic church has described a stranger than fiction resurrection experience as she lay on the death bed in hospital, after which she says she was bestowed with deliverance powers...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 22:40hrs | | by Staf reporter
Anglican Church in miracles warning
CHRISTIANS should be wary of being hoodwinked by "prophets" whose healings and prophecies have hogged the limelight in recent times, a major church leader has warned.Vicar-General Bigboy G...Published: 29 Jan 2017 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Religion is a vogue accelerating poverty
Religion is one of the forms by which poverty is fine tuned to enhance human suffering at the expense of the gospel preached by those who endeavour to achieve political fame and luxury. It is through ...Published: 22 Nov 2016 at 10:58hrs | 2 | by Abednico Siambombe
Woman sniffed out with pot full of human blood
Villagers in iNsuza, Matabeleland North got a shock of their lives after a female villager was found with a pot full of human blood.The blood is said to belong to several dead people, spar...Published: 30 Aug 2016 at 11:46hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
This and that with Mal'phosa - Back From Heaven
Have you heard? It's a crime to call one pastor's name in Zimbabwe, that pastor who went to heaven and took photos and came back to earth within hours. Well, they say his name yinhlamba enkulu but no ...Published: 10 Apr 2016 at 17:19hrs | | by Clerk Ndlovu
Apostolic sect members detained, drugged
A MISUNDERSTANDING over a shrine in Murahwa Hills turned nasty recently when some youths and members of an apostolic sect clashed over a shrine resulting in the cheeky youths detaining the congregants...Published: 19 Feb 2016 at 06:41hrs | 4 | by Tendai Gukutikwa and Letwin Mubonesi
Man 'cuts open' wife's privates to assist home birth
A JOHANNE Marange Apostolic Sect member from Gutu in Masvingo province nearly killed his pregnant wife when he allegedly enlarged her birth canal using a home-made knife when she went into labour. ...Published: 08 Feb 2016 at 05:36hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Pastor chains drugs addicts before praying for them
A Pastor Raphael Mchunu who is known for saving nyaope sufferers from their addiction hell reportedly chains the drug addicts before praying to free them from their bad habits through prayers....Published: 20 Dec 2015 at 11:56hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean prophet asked to stop anointing condoms
After cooking oil, holy water and pens that guarantee you'll get through your exams, some Zimbabweans are keen to get their hands on yet another "anointed" item: condoms.A controversial ch...Published: 07 Dec 2015 at 08:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sangoma acquitted on charge of raping client
A self-styled traditional healer who was accused of raping his client claiming that he wanted to remove a growth on her genitals has been acquitted. Ngonidzashe Hakata (27) was yesterday acquitted of ...Published: 28 Nov 2015 at 07:54hrs | | by Prosper Dembedza
2.5m python dumped in bus from Bulawayo
IN a suspected case of witchcraft, a dangerous-looking python measuring about 2,5 metres was on Sunday found coiled in a sack left at an Inter Africa bus garage in Mutare.The snake is suspecte...Published: 06 Nov 2015 at 20:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
How Sierra Leone fought Ebola with Prophet TB Joshua's 'anointing water'
When Nigerian 'Prophet' T.B. Joshua controversially claimed in August 2014 that his 'Anointing Water' had the ability to cure the deadly Ebola virus which had ravaged several West African countries, t...Published: 02 Nov 2015 at 10:24hrs | 2 | by Ihechukwu Njoku
Holy water curse!
A 72-year-old pastor who claims that his 'isiwasho' is a gift he was given by his ancestors to heal people, some 31 years ago, has be accused of bewitching his...Published: 20 Sep 2015 at 11:52hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe attacks Vapositori
President Robert Mugabe has attacked members of the Vapositori (apostolic sect members), for refusing to take their children to school and hospitals, citing it as one of the country's major draw backs...Published: 21 Jun 2015 at 16:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man hangs self over missing 'holy water'
A-77-YEAR old man from Lupane committed suicide following a heated argument with his wife over a missing bottle of 'holy water.'Mhlabuli Enoch Ncube of Ndimeni Village was found hanging from a...Published: 20 Jun 2015 at 14:25hrs | 1 | by Whinsley Masara
75 snakes of different types captured at family cleansing ritual
IN broad daylight while in a trance and armed with his "holy water", Bishop Trynos Mapuranga scuttles from one end to the other as he spurts the sanctified liquid all over Willie Mutasa's homestead i...Published: 24 May 2015 at 19:23hrs | 2 | by Ray Bande
Wife uses holy water to control me - court told
A Harare married man is living in fear for his life as he claims that his wife is using holy water to have total control of his life.Tenson Karasha is at odds with his wife - Belinda Shambira ...Published: 13 May 2015 at 12:20hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
Spirit medium accuses its neighbour of possessing a black mamba
A SPIRIT medium which is manifesting through a 22-year-old Nyazura woman has torched a storm, accusing its neighbour of possessing a black mamba that he uses to secretly plunder crops and animals from...Published: 14 Feb 2015 at 11:54hrs | 2 | by Samuel Kadungure
Churches, healers mislead HIV+ people
Organisations representing people living with HIV and Aids have accused Pentecostal churches and some apostolic sects of misleading their members by telling them to stop taking life prolonging med...Published: 10 Feb 2015 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet helps woman to give birth to a frog
HOUSE of Prayer International Family (HOPIF) leader Prophet Mduduzi Dube has defied those who think he is fake by continuing to perform miracles.The Entumbane-based prophet first made headline...Published: 18 Jan 2015 at 16:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
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