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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
Zimbabwe content creator found murdered following a hijacking in Delft
A digital content creator and pastor who graduated just days ago has been found murdered following a hijacking in Delft.Marshall Ganyau, 30, was pictured smiling in his graduation gear after c...Published: 12 Sep 2024 at 08:05hrs | 1295 | by Staff reporter
Charamba accuses CCC of stealing corpses from morgues
George Charamba, spokesperson for President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has accused the opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) of engaging in the theft of corpses from mortuaries for political purpos...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 20:26hrs | 10 | 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
Animal rights group-funded report denounced for lying that international hunting threatens Botswana elephants
Botswana, was recently targeted by an animal rights group-funded report, saying that international hunting is threatening the SADC country's wildlife, including its elephant population and impoverishi...Published: 29 May 2023 at 23:09hrs | | by Emmanuel Koro
Bodies rot at Zimbabwe mortuaries as power cuts worsen
ROLLING power cuts being experienced across the country have severely affected operations of the country's hospitals with reports that mortuaries are struggling to contain decomposing bodies.Z...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Midlands police raise concern over unclaimed bodies
Police in the Midlands have said local hospitals are being overwhelmed by unclaimed bodies piling up in their mortuaries, with their next of kin or relatives not known.In the latest incident, ...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 21:22hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Kezi mortuary down 10 years on
KEZI Clinic mortuary in Matobo District, Matabeleland South province, has not been functioning for over a decade despite financial and material donations made by locals based in the diaspora towards e...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Funeral parlours mix up bodies families fear identifying relatives because of Covid-19
The third wave of coronavirus has been unforgiving. There has been an explosion in infections and deaths since mid-June.In the 54 days from June 19 — when fatalities rose to double digits â€...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:30hrs | 1 | by Bishop L
Scramble for burial space at Luveve Cemetery
There is scramble for burial space at Luveve Cemetery in Bulawayo after an excavator used to dig graves at Athlone Cemetery broke down last week.The machine replaced manual labour years ago to...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 19:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents enduring sleepless nights
The Covid-19 outbreak has piled more misery on Bulawayo residents, who are enduring sleepless nights due to the irritating mosquito menace caused by council's failure to disinfect breeding sites, citi...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 08:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe parlours downplay spiralling deaths
ZIMBABWE'S funeral assurance sector has allayed fears of possible collapse as the COVID-19 scourge intensifies and affects capacity to meet policyholder claims.Taka Svosve, the Zimbabwe Associ...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Corruption rife at hospital mortuaries
CORRUPTION syndicates involving medical doctors, police officers, mortuary staff and agents of some little known funeral service companies are charging between US$40 and US$100 to speed up the post-mo...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Residents bemoan delays in bodies collection
BEREAVED families in Bulawayo have complained over delays in the collection of bodies by health workers and authorities.Government recently ordered that every death should be treated as a COVI...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe funeral parlours overwhelmed by COVID-19
AS AUTHORITIES continue to battle to contain the deadly coronavirus, amid alarming deaths and new infections in the country, Zimbabwe's stretched funeral parlours say they are now being overwhelmed by...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 13:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Covid-19: Burial rites set to change
"AMA, where am I ever going to see you? Is this how it's going to end?" cried a heartbroken 21-year-old Chido Sibare as the funeral hearse carrying her mother's body drove past.Her mother succ...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:32hrs | 1 | by Lorraine Muromo
Movement of corpses clarified
Bodies can be buried outside the city or town of death, and repatriation of Zimbabweans for burial will continue, but under strict health protocols, Government clarified yesterday. The new pro...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Repatriation of Zimbabweans for burial to continue
The repatriation of Zimbabweans for burial in the country will continue under strict and safe health protocols to avoid contamination and the risk of new Covid-19 infections, a senior Government offic...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 16:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
They want me dead, says Matemadanda
ZANU-PF national commissar Victor Matemadanda, who was allegedly poisoned during a party meeting a fortnight ago, yesterday claimed that there were people in the ruling Zanu-PF party that wanted him d...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:41hrs | 1 | 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 | 1 | by Keith Silika
Zimbabwe bodies repatriation crisis
Zimbabweans dying in South Africa have been caught up in an industrial dispute that has already stopped the repatriation of Zimbabwean bodies.An average of 70 bodies are sent home by road each...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 22:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
The pig in Mthuli Ncube's bacon
I had occasion in my last visit to my discerning barber to try and explain the latest glowing World Bank reviews of the sterling performance of finance minister Mthuli Ncube and the minister's impecca...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:22hrs | 2 | by Zifiso Masiye
Power shortage hits mobile phone services
THE full scale of the effects of load shedding hit the country yesterday, after power cuts reportedly interrupted mobile services including EcoCash mobile platform disrupting individual and business f...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chase this Kambarami and his his side kicks back to their roots - MLF
MLF has always maintained that partaking in Zimbabwe elections when we are Mthwakazi is the worst thing we can engage in as Mthwakazi. Before a single year has lapsed, he has shown the true Agenda the...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 20:03hrs | 1 | by MLF
Coffin prices skyrocket
THE prices of coffins has gone up by more than 100 percent in recent months forcing dozens whose relatives are dying without funeral covers to turn to small entrepreneurs whose prices are still afford...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC official finally buried
THE family of an MDC Highfield district executive who reportedly died after being abducted during Shutdown Zimbabwe protests in January finally managed to bury their relative yesterday following an in...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiefs warn that govt may have to exhume Cyclone Idia bodies
Traditional leaders in Manicaland have been left seething by the manner in which some victims of Cyclone Idai have been buried - which had seen the interment in some instances of more than one person ...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 18:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fury over burial of cyclone victims
Traditional leaders in Manicaland have been left seething by the manner in which some victims of Cyclone Idai have been buried - which had seen the interment in some instances of more than one person ...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 08:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's military says Cyclone Idai death toll to exceed 500
The final death toll from Cyclone Idai in Zimbabwe will exceed 500, officials said on Tuesday as it was revealed that dozens of bodies from Zimbabwe had washed up in neighbouring Mozambique.Lo...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 19:02hrs | | by ZimLive
Students recount sleeping with corpses #CycloneIdai
A SOMBRE atmosphere engulfed Paradise Park in Marondera yesterday during the burial of one of the students from St Charles Lwanga High School, Munashe Jena, who succumbed to Cyclone Idai-induced injur...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
40 bodies buried #CycloneIdai
BURIAL of victims of Cyclone Idai started yesterday with 40 identified bodies being interred at Ngangu Township in Chimanimani. Salvation Army Major Absalom Makanga confirmed the burial of the...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 18:22hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
82 dead as cyclone toll doubles in Zimbabwe, more feared dead
TROPICAL cyclone Idai continued to wreak havoc in eastern Zimbabwe, with authorities announcing more than 82 bodies had been recovered as of late Sunday.Chimanimani and Chipinge districts sout...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe
Open letter to Ramaphosa
Greetings from Zimbabwe, Your Excellency. I hope I find you in the best of health. Incidentally, this letter is all about health.I, like so many others am grateful for the huge role that...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 19:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet Lukau used us in elaborate dead man con, say funeral parlours
Three Johannesburg funeral parlours on Monday said they were victims of "misrepresentations" by people associated with the controversial self-styled prophet, Alph Lukau, leading to his sensational cla...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 19:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Increasing rape allegations a cause for concern
The past few days have seen a surge in allegations of state sponsored rape cases. Some of the women who were interviewed were followed, brutalized and arrested.These point out to institutions ...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 13:29hrs | 12 | by Dr. Bekithemba Mpofu Deputy National Spokesperson
Chiwenga 'misled' on doctors' issue
Doctors yesterday came out guns blazing, telling Acting President Constantino Chiwenga that government did not spend a single cent in educating them.They said their parents, guardians and fami...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 18:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt gets stick for being insensitive, cruel to plight of the sick
With the doctors' strike going on for weeks without any solution in sight, concerned Zimbabweans have blasted government for being confrontational and not amicable to professional negotiations with th...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 18:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Red Cross locates 'missing' SA-based Zimbabweans
THE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has managed to locate scores of South Africa-based Zimbabwean migrants who went missing on arrival in the neighbouring country.Reports aboun...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
9 bodies stuck in 2 Bulawayo mortuaries
POLICE in Bulawayo yesterday said nine bodies are stuck in two mortuaries in the city with no one coming forward to claim them. One of the bodies is that of a Townsend Muzonda who was repatriated from...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's state of emergency
I CAN recall times when a state of emergency was declared and almost always it was in response to violence or political events.But when conditions reach the point where the very livelihoods of...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 16:35hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Bulawayo residents insist on 24/7 clinics
BULAWAYO residents have refused to back down on their quest to have 24-hour service delivery at local clinics, saying primary healthcare was a right that they should access at any time.This ca...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa gets Zimbabwe dreaming again
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa yesterday said his party is ready to deliver tough solutions, which will resuscitate the crumbling economy, while transforming lives of the poor, but...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga out of order on nurses: ZCTU
Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union has condemned the decision by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga to terminate contracts of nurses who engaged in collective bargaining.In a statement to show ...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 16:47hrs | | by Byo24News Reporter
Plumtree stuck with 21 decomposing bodies
PLUMTREE health officials are in a quandary over 21 decomposing unclaimed bodies in the two districts' mortuaries, which have a combined holding capacity of 16 bodies at a time.The situation h...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
I am a natural goodwill ambassador, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I have never felt as insulted in my whole long, fruitful and satisfying life as I felt this week when some skunks in the West arm-twisted the leader...Published: 26 Oct 2017 at 19:20hrs | | by CZ
Drug dealers turn to embalming powder
DRUG peddlers in the country have reportedly formed a syndicate with employees at local morgues in the illicit sale of embalming compound which in turn is used by addicts as an intoxicating substance,...Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 13:24hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Residents slam police over roadblocks
Bulawayo residents have once again slammed police for setting up too many roadblocks where they allegedly demand bribes to let vehicles pass.On Wednesday, they told the officer commanding Bula...Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctors afraid to testify in court
THE fear by doctors of being grilled in court over complex inquests has resulted in the country not having Zimbabwean forensic pathologists, a development that has seen some murders not being solv...Published: 16 Mar 2017 at 10:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gidiza back at home
Legend Warriors and former Dynamos midfielder Ronald 'Gidiza' Sibanda was found very much alive but very drunk after reportedly gone missing.Ronald’s brother, former Highlanders coach Bo...Published: 04 Sep 2016 at 17:52hrs | | by Bongani Mafu
Ronald 'Gidiza' Sibanda goes missing
LEGENDARY former Zimbabwe Saints, Dynamos and Warriors' star midfielder Ronald "Gidiza" Sibanda has gone missing.He has not been seen since Sunday when he left his family home in New Lobengula...Published: 02 Sep 2016 at 09:25hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
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