Search / Mysterious fire
Mysterious Fire at house of a Johane Masowe member
A mysterious fire has been burning in the home of a Johane Masowe Apostolic Church member in Chegutu since last Thursday, leaving residents puzzled and prompting an appeal for assistance from spiritua...Published: 15 May 2025 at 09:43hrs | 880 | by Staff reporter
Veteran journalist loses $20,000 in mysterious fire
Bulawayo-based veteran journalist and National University of Science and Technology lecturer Methuseli Moyo has suffered a devastating financial loss after a mysterious fire burned $20,000 in cash at ...Published: 31 Mar 2025 at 16:41hrs | 1628 | by Staff reporter
The tragedy of 'Zimba the Arsonist' who torched King Mzilikazi's gravesite
Zimba of the Shilwa clan was part of the Inqama regiment that guarded the grave of King Mzilikazi at Entumbane hill at the Matobo National Park. Sometime in the early 1870s when King Lobhengula was st...Published: 09 Mar 2025 at 15:28hrs | 1159 | by Mzala Tom
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 assis...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 09:54hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Bonyongwe express irony over the death of Gen Mujuru
Former Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) Director-General Happyton Bonyongwe has expressed irony over the death of ex-army commander General Solomon Mujuru, a key power broker in Zanu PF, who wa...Published: 16 Oct 2024 at 12:09hrs | 3285 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reshuffles security chiefs
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reshuffled senior Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) officials, elevating those seen as loyal to him amid succession tensions within the ruling Zanu-PF party. Mna...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 16:42hrs | 7953 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wants two more years via backdoor
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his close political allies are now weighing the best constitutional and legal options to secure an additional two years in power outside an election when his second te...Published: 20 May 2024 at 16:41hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans are more divided than ever before'
ZAPU says Zimbabweans are more divided than ever before as there is no unity whatsoever, to warrant a whole public holiday, under the guise of commemorating the pivotal signing of the Unity Accord bet...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 13:44hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa questions silence 2 years after death of Munatsi in mysterious fire
Former Member of Parliament (MP) Temba Mliswa has raised concerns about the continued silence of State Security agencies regarding the death of Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency (ZIDA) Chief ...Published: 01 Dec 2023 at 05:00hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military commander will soon be redeployed
AS President Emmerson Mnangagwa continues to make surprise post-election appointments amid political manoeuvres by the military to reposition itself for a more influential role going forward, Zimbabwe...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 21:24hrs | 74 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa seeks legacy after outfoxing internal rivals
President Emmerson Mnangagwa emerged the ultimate winner after the 7th Zanu-PF congress riding over challenges, some perceived, with structures overwhelmingly endorsing him to lead the party for the n...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere lives in fear in Joburg as Harare steps up pressure
SELF-EXILED former Zimbabwean minister and Zanu-PF political heavyweight Saviour Kasukuwere is living in fear in Johannesburg, South Africa, as the Harare government steps up pressure behind the scene...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:47hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF congress: The Great Betrayal
IF the late former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith felt betrayed by the British government and his allies - including apartheid South Africa - whom he expected to side with him to keep Rhod...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:52hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
CIO training centre gutted in suspected arson attack
ZIMBABWE'S state security agency Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)'s training centre in Harare's Msasa suburb along St Patrick's Road across Chiremba Road from Hatfield has been burnt down by fi...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa demands report on death of Banker Doug Munatsi
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has demanded the report of the investigation that probed the death of Banker Douglas Munatsi who died in November 2021 in a mysterious fire that gutted his apa...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 15:26hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Trevor Ncube's dalliances with Mnangagwa run much deeper
This article on the mysterious and controversial relations between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and local publisher Trevor Ncube is a summary based on an extract from...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:22hrs | 405 | by Jonathan Mbiriyamveka
Mysterious Fire Guts PVO Bill Public Hearing Venue
THE Portfolio Committee on Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare was yesterday forced to seek for an alternative venue for a public hearing on the Private Voluntary Organisations Amendment Bill in...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Munatsi family still to decide on burial
THE family of prominent banker and businessman Mr Douglas Munatsi is yet to decide on burial arrangements.Mr Munatsi died early on Monday morning in a mysterious fire at his Harare apartment w...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:25hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Munatsi death: New details emerge
POLICE yesterday said they had started investigations into the mysterious fire incident that claimed the life of Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency chief executive Douglas Tawanda Munatsi on M...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:39hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Police keen to question Munatsi's last contact
Police are keen to interview a woman believed to be among the last people to see prominent banker, Mr Douglas Munatsi alive before his death in a mysterious fire at his Harare apartment early Monday m...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:35hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Widow loses property to mysterious fire
A Chiweshe based widow Mary Ndiseni Chitemamuswe (52) lost all her property to a mysterious fire on Sunday and she was left with only clothes she an...Published: 29 Oct 2021 at 15:45hrs | 10 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mysterious fire erupts in the bedroom
Mactavish Ngwenya (30) was watching TV in the living room when he saw a ball of smoke from his bedroom. Upon checking he noticed that his bedroom had caught fire and all the property was burnt....Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 19:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man commits suicide after being accused of possessing goblins
A 61-year-old man from Torero compound at Ledbury farm in Matepatepa committed suicide after being accused of possessing goblins and blamed for causing mysterious fires at the farm by a traditional he...Published: 26 Aug 2021 at 17:56hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Give Mnangagwa tsvimbo (sceptre) or else..?
No amount concrete on Mugabe's grave or temper proof installed on his coffin will stop ritualist Mnangagwa from digging up Mugabe's remains. According to Mugabe's nephew Leo Mugabe, Emmerson M...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 15:23hrs | 3 | by Israel Dube
Mysterious fires terrorise families
A SERIES of mysterious fires have reportedly razed three homesteads belonging to three related families in Lupane, forcing them to flee and seek refuge in a bush. The bizarre incidents are tak...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mai Tombi's bananas are now 50 cents each
Aaah! I am tempted to believe magic is for real, abracadabra. How can 2 lts cooking oil price climb down from 21 rtgs to 16 rtgs in one week at TM Chadcombe? Even anointing oil cannot match that...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 08:27hrs | 3 | by Thomas Murisa
Mysterious fires raze down two family homesteads
VILLAGERS from Goodwood in Inyathi, Matabeleland North province are living in fear after a series of mysterious fires razed down three huts at a homestead in four days.The fires also destroyed...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 06:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mvurwi's six Nyaus, a place shrouded with mystery.
Mysterious fire erupted at six nyauz of Mvurwi (Umvukwes) with an ear splitting sound. This happened not long ago. Nobody could explain the origin of the fire. The vegetation was reduced to nothing. P...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 13:29hrs | 5 | by Givestar Kamuzonde
Mysterious fire burns more property
IT never rains but pours for the Matope family, which continues to live in perpetual fear and desperation after the mysterious fire burnt three more huts last Friday in Marange.The fire occasi...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Family flees from mysterious fire
A family from Marange is living in perpetual fear after a mysterious fire torched three huts and reduced all household property to nothing.So strange is the fire, which occasionally resurfaces...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 06:09hrs | 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 ba...Published: 25 May 2018 at 06:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
3 homes destroyed in mysterious fires
THREE homes belonging to members of the same family were destroyed in three consecutive days by mysterious fires in Plumtree.Sources in Madlambuzi area said the family has suffered from the sa...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vulnerability of politicians when they fall from grace
Political leaders appear to be saints for as long as they are in power but tumble off that pedestal of cleanliness once they are out of the power equation.This, however, is not limited to Zimb...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 08:56hrs | | by Eddie Zvinonzwa
Mnangagwa's faction was to suffer another setback
THE military takeover of President Robert Mugabe's government by the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) in the early hours of Wednesday morning is the culmination of prolonged intense factional battles tri...Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 10:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga warned, 'Generals who attempted to unseat Mugabe died mysteriously'
Social media users have warned the Defence Forces Commander General Constantino Chiwenga to be cautious not to allow President Robert Mugabe to regain power after the soft coup on condition that sever...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 19:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chipanga regrets Mugabe song
Controversial sungura artiste Hosiah Chipanga says he regrets releasing the song Gushungo as it failed to open the doors for him to meet President Robert Mugabe.In the song released in 2006, C...Published: 23 Oct 2017 at 13:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mystery fire guts Bata retail shop
A mysterious fire on Sunday 10 September 2017 gutted Bata Retail shop located at Govans Cornmarket, Bepswa Arcade, Norton destroying property worth thousands of dollars.We are currently making...Published: 11 Sep 2017 at 11:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
4-year-old burnt beyond recognition
A mysterious fire is reported to have burnt a four year old boy beyond recognition in Mwanza village, Goromonzi yesterday.Eye witnesses allege the fire gutted the bedroom hut in which the mino...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 13:37hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mysterious fire at Mnangagwa's home
A mysterious fire broke out at Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa's home in Tynwald, Harare and ravaged some sections of the sprawling property before the City of Harare fire tenders battled to put out...Published: 26 Aug 2017 at 16:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Avenging spirits demand 100 beasts
A NYANGA family is having a torrid time and enduring the wrath of a menacing avenging spirits (ngozi), which have caused untold suffering that included mysterious deaths and fires within the clan....Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 12:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'I miss my Solomon,' says Joice Mujuru
Former vice president Joice Mujuru is slowly building her profile as an opposition leader after she was unceremoniously kicked out of Zanu-PF over allegations that she was involved in a plot to assass...Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 11:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe not worried about factionalism in Zanu-PF, says Mujuru
President Robert Mugabe's former deputy Joice Mujuru says the southern African country's strongman is not worried about factionalism in his ruling Zanu-PF party, as it helps him prolong his stay in po...Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 15:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mysterious fire burns Good Samaritans’ property
A GOOD deed has cost a family from Mlomoliwoto Village in Umzingwane district.Their property mysteriously got burnt after trying to help their neighbours who were being tormented by a "mysteri...Published: 19 May 2017 at 15:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mysterious breathing horn burns homestead
A "breathing" horn has been identified as the source of a fire that has been ravaging the property of a family from Mlomoliwoto village in Umzingwane District.With the help of prophets from Th...Published: 05 May 2017 at 11:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
Miracle fire guts house in Gweru
A mysterious fire has gutted household property in Mkoba 12, Gweru after an attempt to smoke out a cape file snake known as 'ndara' in Shona.Narrating her ordeal, distraught Teckler To...Published: 14 Apr 2017 at 21:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Farmer's hut burnt down, suspected arson
A 31-year-old Mazowe farmer is reported to have lost 15-17 bales of tobacco in an inferno after his house went in flames today, Zim Rights have reported.According to Zim Rights defender for Ma...Published: 07 Apr 2017 at 12:03hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mugabe's daughter reinvents self
FOR 10 years, Zimbabwe's former vice president Joice Mujuru had the ear of Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's head of state since 1980.Promoted from the cabinet to vice-president in 2004, Mujuru, 61, s...Published: 06 Apr 2017 at 10:57hrs | | by Newsweek magazine
Will Mujuru survive?
ON March 1 2016 hundreds of people thronged a five-star hotel in Harare to meet former vice-president Joice Mujuru as she announced the launch of the Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) party at a press...Published: 24 Feb 2017 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Invisible forces force wife and children to flee home for SA
A 63 year old man from Mkoba 13 Philip Hlabati is living a lonely life after his wife and children left him for South Africa following the mysterious fires that have been occurring occasionally at his...Published: 30 Dec 2016 at 21:21hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Load More Stories
