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UK agrees to return remains of Nehanda, Kaguvi
British authorities have granted Zimbabwe permission to repatriate the remains of First Umvukela war heroes, taken to Europe during the colonial era as war trophies. The decision marks a significant s...Published: 10 Aug 2025 at 10:26hrs | 852 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo teen in court for allegedly robbing a corpse
An 18-year-old man from Bulawayo has been charged with tampering with a corpse after he allegedly searched the body of a deceased person and stole a mobile phone and wallet.Brandon Sifenyang, ...Published: 02 Jul 2025 at 17:42hrs | 582 | by Staff reporter
Bodies and drugs smuggled across Beitbridge border
A chilling smuggling syndicate involving cross-border bus and truck drivers, allegedly operating with the help of corrupt customs, police, and health officials, has been exposed for illegally transpor...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:41hrs | 161 | by Staff reporter
Police accused after handcuffed body found buried in pit latrine
Zimbabwean police have launched an investigation following the grim discovery of human remains buried in a pit latrine near Malalume Clinic in Bulilima District, close to the Botswana border. The rema...Published: 26 May 2025 at 19:40hrs | 1233 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean men are raising non biological children
Recent data from Global DNA Zimbabwe has unveiled startling findings regarding paternity testing in the country. According to the latest statistics, an astonishing 72% of paternity tests conducted hav...Published: 28 Feb 2025 at 03:56hrs | 4245 | by Staff reporter
Filabusi residents alarmed by surge in crimes linked to foreigners
Residents of Filabusi are expressing mounting concern over the alarming rise in criminal activities linked to illegal gold mining in the area, with reports of rape, murder, land degradation, and other...Published: 25 Feb 2025 at 16:48hrs | 1094 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe edgy over delayed return of Nehanda skull
Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe has emphasized the need to conclude discussions on the repatriation of skulls of Zimbabwean heroes taken to Britain during the colonial era. ...Published: 21 Dec 2024 at 08:18hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1311 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Kazembe focuses on graveyards, as National Heroes Acre nears full
Zimbabwe's national shrine (National Heroes Acre) is facing acute burial slots insufficiency and the government is rolling out extension programme to ensure more space is availed for heroes and heroin...Published: 19 Dec 2024 at 12:28hrs | 620 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
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 | 548 | by Staff reporter
Grave desecration scandal rocks Harare
In a shocking and spine-chilling development, four individuals have been implicated in the violation of 380 mass graves at Restland Memorial Park in Harare. The disturbing actions, which include diggi...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 20:31hrs | 650 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa calls for repatriation of Zimbabwe skulls from British museums
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has renewed calls for the repatriation of the remains of Chimurenga war heroes from Britain, emphasizing the need for their interment in "a dignified manner." This stateme...Published: 05 Nov 2024 at 08:27hrs | 463 | by Staff reporter
UK still holding unto Zimbabwean skulls
The British Government has expressed its commitment to repatriating the skulls of Zimbabwean heroes taken to Britain during the colonial era, British Ambassador to Zimbabwe Peter Vowles said yesterday...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 08:30hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
Coltart wants Bulawayo to drink sewage-infested Khami water
Mayor David Coltart has suggested Khami Dam as a potential solution to Bulawayo's ongoing water crisis, yet he acknowledged the significant resistance from residents regarding the use of the dam's wat...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 10:22hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Suspected human remains found at Scott Sakupwanya offices
Police have launched an investigation after suspected human remains were uncovered during renovations at the Harare offices of Better Brands, a gold mining and marketing company owned by Mabvuku MP Sc...Published: 10 Aug 2024 at 21:32hrs | 1675 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans enjoy border digitisation gains
The digitization of the Beitbridge port of entry through the Zimbabwe Electronic Single Window (ZESW) platform is significantly improving trade facilitation and clearance efficiency. Introduced in 202...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 07:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to open passport offices in US, UK and Zambia
The Cabinet recently approved the Ministry of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage's Integrated Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Systems Strategy, which aims to computerize government depa...Published: 09 Jun 2024 at 09:03hrs | 23 | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Remains of 21 people exhumed in city
Remains of 21 people were exhumed from a housing development project site in Bulawayo's Killarney suburb before they were reburied at the city's Luveve cemetery.This was revealed in the latest...Published: 18 Feb 2024 at 13:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo police seek public's help after 2 human legs found in Pumula South
Police in Bulawayo have made a public appeal for information after partial human remains were discovered in Pumula South.Two human legs were found sticking out of a bag in the undergrowth near...Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 15:20hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Consulate in Johannesburg extends working hours
The Republic of Zimbabwe Consulate in Johannesburg has declared an expansion of operational hours for birth certificate registration and passport applications. According to a statement reported by Pin...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 05:46hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
Council, war vets clash over torture base
A group of war veterans from Matabeleland North are locked in a fierce battle with the Nkayi Rural District Council for control of an abandoned building that was once used as a torture camp for opposi...Published: 09 Apr 2023 at 11:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UK can't find Nehanda's skull
London's Natural History Museum and Cambridge University have said that they are ready to co-operate with Zimbabwe to return human remains that were taken in the colonial era.The fresh stateme...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Staff rporter
National Heroes Acre expansion approved
The National Heroes Acre will be expanded with 104 graves to be added to take its carrying capacity to 299.Cabinet yesterday approved the proposed architectural designs for the Phase 2 of the ...Published: 05 Oct 2022 at 06:31hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Human remains found at Nust
SUSPECTED human remains were found behind the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) students' residential campus yesterday afternoon.The remains were allegedly discovered by a m...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Headmaster suspended over missing pupil
ST MATHIAS Tsonzo High School headmaster Maxwell Sambona has been suspended after a pupil at the school, Livingston Sunhwa (19) disappeared last year.Human remains suspected to belong to Sunhw...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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
Doves faces two counts of fraud
DOVES Funeral Services faces two counts of fraud following a bizarre case in which the company last year buried two bodies in one coffin to cover a body mix-up.The mix-up in March 2021 saw Dov...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:22hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Doves burial scandal: New details emerge
DOVES Funeral Services allegedly stuffed blankets and plastic bags inside the coffin meant to have carried the remains of the late Maxwell Chimwamurombe, in the latest twist to the burial saga of the ...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UK can help solve mystery of Mbuya Nehanda's missing skull
FOR Zimbabweans have been calling on Britain to return the skulls of a former spiritual leader, Mbuya Nehanda, and several chiefs who were killed during the First Chimurenga, an Ndebele-Shona revolt a...Published: 02 Jan 2022 at 09:06hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
DNA bank for exhumed victims on cards
The Government will set up a Biobank where DNA samples for all exhumed victims will be kept for future matching with potential relatives for easy identification.This will happen when the new p...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 06:56hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa rejects copies of stolen artefacts
Africa should insist that archives and museum objects of its heroes should be originals, not digital copies, with Zimbabwe one of the countries with the facilities ready to receive and protect this he...Published: 25 Nov 2021 at 09:34hrs | 19 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa to officiate at Cultures conference
THE intangible phenomenon of tangible cultures will be under spotlight at the International Conference of African Cultures (ICAC) 2021 that commences today with President Emmerson Mnangagwa expected t...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:58hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
ED Pfeeee in UK hill Nehanda's head head home
The President of Zimbabweans His Excellence Cde Dr Emerson Dambudzo MNANGAGWA will be gracing the Queen's land in October 2021. There is great excitement amongst Zimbabweans who are hoping to catch a ...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:46hrs | 12 | by Dr Maisimba Mavaza
Dead man buried in wrong grave
The Bulawayo City Council's records of cemeteries are in shambles leading to the mislaying of the dead in reserved graves and the reopening of graves with remains.According to the Council, thi...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 21:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
King Mzilikazi II's demands to Great Britain
Demands to Great Britain. Further and emanating from this Charter, HRM King Mzilikazi II has already presented the following demands to Great Britain through their Sovereign Monarch who is also t...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 05:42hrs | 10 | by King Mzilikazi II
Police taunt 'killer' woman as she is made to dig-up her murdered lover
A woman accused of killing her live-in lover before burning and burying his remains on a mountain was made to dig him up with a shovel while police officers taunted her, a shock new video seen by ZimL...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 16:15hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Burial space stolen in Bulawayo
Bulawayo City Council is investigating possible theft of reserved burial space at Athlone Cemetery after the family of a 103-year-old man had to endure the horror of finding human remains in his and t...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Human bones found at Bubi torture camp
HUMAN remains suspected to belong to a member of the opposition, who was abducted and tortured for a month at a Zanu-PF torture camp in Bubi, Matabeleland North ahead of the violent 2002 election, hav...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:39hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Hand me down knowledge is drying up
Emotionally strong village elders are being quickly gathered to their ancestors, may be tell tale signs of the end times. Echoes from the corridors of time had very mature people guiding young...Published: 26 Jun 2021 at 07:42hrs | 7 | by Tondo Murisa Chinehasha
Zimbabwe team leaves for UK
THE National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe (NMMZ) is preparing to dispatch a team of experts to the United Kingdom to assess a catalogue of human remains believed to be of First Chimurenga war her...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Some Zimbabweans irked by Nehanda statue
The Zimbabwean government unveiled a statue of the liberation heroine and anti-colonialism figurehead Mbuya Nehanda in the capital, Harare, on Tuesday amid controversy about its priorities while the e...Published: 26 May 2021 at 10:12hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe embassy in SA scales down operations
The Zimbabwe embassy in South Africa has with immediate effect suspended all consulate appointments stretching from today to March 26 while also slashing by half the number of clients assisted daily f...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge's 22 unofficial ports of entry give Zimbabwe headaches
There are at least 22 unofficial entry points along the 200 kilometre Beitbridge borderline between Zimbabwe and South Africa, which poses a huge risk of Covid-19 cross border infections because of th...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 05:33hrs | 9 | by Tumelo Nare
NUST to conduct Gukurahundi DNA tests
GOVERNMENT is working on a law that will guide the process of exhumations of the remains of Gukurahundi victims in Matabeleland and the Midlands with the National University of Science and Technology ...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 21:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to open Beitbridge border post on 1 December 2020
Government announced Tuesday that it intends to phase the re-opening of Beitbridge, Plumtree, Victoria Falls, Chirundu, Nyamapanda, and Forbes border posts from 1 December.Zimbabwe which is us...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 18:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Conmen targeting Zimbabwe nationals in South Africa
Zimbabwe's Consulate in South Africa has warned people seeking its services to avoid engaging third parties whom in most cases have turned out to be conmen.The consulate said in a public notic...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 14:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Phased border reopening proposed
The Department of Immigration has advised the Government on health grounds to consider phasing the reopening of land borders for passenger traffic, especially at Beitbridge Border Post where 500 000 p...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans travellers to SA turned away at border
Zimbabweans were yesterday unable to travel to South Africa after turning up at Beitbridge Border Post anticipating that the border would be reopened for general human travel, only to find old lockdow...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Finding Zimbabweans in secret mass graves
ONE of my earliest memories is of violence and death.It happened in Harare in 1984 when I was about seven years old.I was supposed to meet a friend to play at a dump site together....Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:00hrs | 2 | by Keith Silika
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