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Tsikamutanda powers fizzle out before cleansing
IN a strange twist of events, a witch-hunter popularly known as tsikamutanda from Tsholotsho, Matebeleland North province, ran out of his "magical powers" after he fell seriously ill shortly before a ...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Outcry over witch hunters
HUMAN rights watchdog Coalition for Citizens Advocates (Coca) has petitioned Midlands police against the activities of witch-hunters popularly known as tsikamutandas in Zvishavane.They are rep...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 18:18hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'We are no terror squad', says Zanu-PF's Mliswa-Chikoka
MASHONALAND West Provincial Affairs Minister, Mary Mliswa-Chikoka has ordered heads of government ministries to support Zanu-PF party in implementation of projects to endear its presidential candidate...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutandas wreak havoc in Manicaland
SELF-STYLED witch-hunters commonly known as Tsikamutandas are wreaking havoc in Manicaland province where they are ripping off unsuspecting villagers of their livestock in the guise of "cleaning their...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutandas wreaking havoc in communities
SELF-PROCLAIMED witch-hunters, commonly known as tsikamutandas, have flooded the San community in Makhulela Village, Bulilima where they claim to be "cleansing the area", reported Chronicle in Septemb...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Senior cop sucked in cattle rustling racket
A senior female police officer based at Lupane Police Station in Matabeleland North Province is at the centre of cattle rustling racket amid revelations that she allegedly connived with two witch-hunt...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Spiritually healed chief warns against tsikamutandas
BINGA traditional leader Acting Chief Charles Sindeki from Mansenya area, who was grateful to be back on his feet after a lengthy wound-healing journey thanks to Bulawayo cleric Madzibaba Emmanuel Mut...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 20:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Probe into Gwanda goat deaths launched
AUTHORITIES have launched an investigation into mysterious deaths of goats in Makwe area, Ward 8 in Gwanda. A team comprising officials from Gwanda Rural District Council, Zimbabwe National Pa...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutandas wreak havoc in Bulilima San community
SELF-PROCLAIMED witch-hunters, commonly known as tsikamutandas, have flooded the San community in Makhulela Village, Bulilima where they claim to be "cleansing the area". Notorious for preying...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Goblins run riot
A worried man in Gokwe reported his mother to Chief Mkoka accusing her of owning goblins that caused his wife to produce milk for four years after she weaned her child and also led to the death of two...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cops, villagers flee businessman's 'goblins'
VILLAGERS and two police officers scurried for cover after they allegedly stumbled on goblins in a businessman's suitcase while searching for poison that allegedly led to the death of several communit...Published: 29 Aug 2020 at 16:44hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutandas leave in a huff as villagers bay for their blood
HUNTERS popularly known as tsikamutandas left in a huff with egg on their faces after their trickery to swindle community members in Gokwe were exposed by the alert villagers who later bayed for their...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 11:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Headmen in soup for inviting tsikamutandas
Murewa's Chief Mangwende has descended on his headmen after they invited witch-hunters who allegedly ripped off villagers, taking their cattle and other valuables on the pretext of cleansing their hom...Published: 23 May 2019 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutanda's, witches go toe-to-toe over missing toddler
A BRUISING showdown is looming at Vukuzenzele 2 Village in Esikhoveni area of Esigodini District between witch-hunters popularly known as tsikamutandas and suspected witches. The alleged witch...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
What if witchcraft is our technology?
One of my aunts is a drama queen. She is bubbly and energetic, and a storyteller of note. Whenever she is around, we all find ourselves surrounding her and listening to tale after tale of her adventur...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 09:20hrs | 2 | by Thandekile Moyo
Want a goblin? Ask these guys
MR Lameck Banda from Waterfalls, Harare is a shrewd and cunning businessman.Better known as Sekuru Chitsuwi, Banda understands the basic premise of capitalism: supply and demand.Each d...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff writer
Tsikamutanda dies after snake overpowers him during exorcism
A CLEANSING ceremony turned horribly wrong when a self-proclaimed witch-hunter commonly known as a tsikamutanda died when he allegedly ran out of magical powers leading him to being bitten by a "posse...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Goblins seize maternity ward
IN a strange incident, pregnant women and nurses were moved from Lupaka Clinic to a safe place and pupils at two primary schools stopped going to school after goblins allegedly sexually attacked them....Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Witch-hunters divide village
CHAOS has rocked Mbonqani Village in Bulilima as villagers are divided over witch-hunters with some dismissing them as robbers who stripped them of their livestock after "planting" goblins at their ho...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutandas recover school property
COMMUNITY members at Makupa resettlement area in Kezi, Matabeleland South province heaved a sigh of relief when stolen school roofing material was recovered through the services of a witch hunting ban...Published: 25 May 2018 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Tsikamutanda impregnates two teens
A witch-hunter who was conducting a cleansing ceremony in Phoro Village, Lupane allegedly impregnated two teenage girls.The witch-hunter also known as a tsikamutanda, Rebuen Musarurwa (35) who...Published: 18 May 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fear in village as water turns bloody
A WAVE of fear gripped Sikapila Village under Chief Sipepa in Tsholotsho amid chilling reports that one of the villagers' water was allegedly poisoned while at a community borehole and mysteriously tu...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa want tsikamutandas arrested
Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called for the arrest of witch-hunters, commonly referred to as tsikamutandas, describing their practice as unlawful.Mnangagwa made the call during Parl...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Feared sngaoma turns neighbour's son into goblin
A VILLAGE in Filabusi has "distinguished" itself as an extraordinary haven for wizards and witches.This came to light after a family claimed their son who went missing in February this year wa...Published: 08 Sep 2017 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Headman's snake' wipes out village herd
JACK the snake!A headman from Insuza Matabeleland North's Village 19, Cephas Mdlongwa is being accused of owning a snake that has killed villagers' livestock.The snake reportedly resid...Published: 08 Sep 2017 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths demand $5 billion ahead of elections
ZANU-PF youths have asked President Robert Mugabe's broke government to allocate them at least $5 billion for various economic empowerment projects ahead of next year's general elections, describing t...Published: 24 May 2017 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Tsikamutanda prefer python just like prophets use annointing water'
Witch hunters in Zimbabwe popularly known as Tsikamutanda and other traditional healers seem to have a strange love affair with pythons.If media reports are anything to go by...Published: 10 May 2017 at 10:01hrs | | by Mary Charamba
WATCH: 'Child inherits two big snakes from late father'
There are reports that a father died and left his child (age and gender unknown) two big snakes, which have continued to trouble the child who was forced to seek help from prophets....Published: 07 May 2017 at 10:28hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's minister at war with witch-hunters
President Robert Mugabe's top representative in Matabeleland North, Provincial Affairs minister Cain Mathema is at war with witch-hunters as he has instructed the police and headmen to flush out...Published: 27 Apr 2017 at 04:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Killer' granny acquitted
HIGH Court judge Justice Clement Phiri this week set free a 78-year-old-PFungwe granny, who stood accused of killing her lover after a bush sex romp.Meddas Hamadziripi had been accused of ...Published: 31 Mar 2017 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Granny (78) kills lover by pulling his privates
A 78-year-old-PFungwe granny allegedly killed her 65-year-old married boyfriend by pulling his private parts following an altercation over money to buy soap after a sexual orgy along the banks of ...Published: 29 Mar 2017 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kezi Chief decries tsikamutanda menace
CHIEF Nyangazonke of Kezi, Matabeleland South has said self-proclaimed witch-hunters commonly known as tsikamutanda are causing havoc in his area as they are allegedly demanding livestock from vil...Published: 16 Mar 2017 at 10:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutandas and the tragedy of Binga villagers
A YOUNG man barely 20 draped in a white garment with a red lining scampers about in a circle like manner while chanting unintelligibly and convulsively in a frenzy state.He draws a box on the ...Published: 29 Jan 2017 at 09:34hrs | | by Fairness Moyana
Tsikamutanda demands a beautiful wife as payment for services
A tsikamutanda operating in Ziburawa village in Mberengwa demanded that a family pay him with their 22 year old daughter. The Ndawana family is at loggerheads with the witch-hunter only kn...Published: 27 Jan 2017 at 14:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutanda: Hunting the hunters
A team of law enforcement agents has been dispatched in the country's 10 provinces to curb the fraudulent operations of self-proclaimed witch hunters (tsikamutandas), a senior police official has ...Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 08:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutandas warned
The Government does not condone witch-hunting practices that have become rampant countrywide and has not licensed anyone to conduct such activities, Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Mi...Published: 30 Nov 2016 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiefs clash over tsikamutandas
TSHOLOTSHO chiefs have clashed over self-proclaimed witch-doctors, also known as tsikamutandas, who are allegedly causing havoc in the district.The tsikamutandas allegedly accuse villagers...Published: 29 Oct 2016 at 16:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
'My 3 chicks will be replaced by 3 lives.' . . . 3 die amid witchcraft claims
FOR Ambuya Phobie Makiwa, life has never been the same since the passing on of her three grandchildren in mysterious circumstances in the space of three days.While still mourning her grandchil...Published: 16 Jul 2016 at 07:56hrs | 1 | by Patrick Chitumba
Chiefs warned over tsikamutandas
CHIEFS who entertain witch-hunters, popularly known as tsikamutanda will be stripped of their right to preside over traditional courts, Zimbabwe Council of Chiefs president Chief Fortune Charumbira sa...Published: 06 Jul 2016 at 06:43hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
Three children die to compensate chicks
A FAMILY in Gokwe discovered that it was not an empty threat after it mysteriously lost three children within a space of three days after a local village head had warned them that three family mem...Published: 03 Jul 2016 at 16:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teacher collapse during assembly, dies few days later
Sivondo Primary School in Nkayi has become a nightmare for teachers and pupils due to mysterious activists linked to witchcraft.Teachers are said to be continuously falling sick....Published: 20 Jun 2016 at 11:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutanda terrorises villagers
A dubious traditional healer only known as tsikamutanda has unleashed a reign of terror in Mt Darwin where hapless villagers are allegedly being forced to attend his clensing ceremonies with a 195 her...Published: 29 May 2016 at 10:24hrs | | by Desire Ncube
Woman keeps penis in bedroom
IN an incident that has left Gokwe villagers' tongues wagging, a 53-year-old woman was found with a male sexual organ which she was using as a charm to centrally lock her polygamous husband from engag...Published: 27 Mar 2016 at 10:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drama as 1st wife is found with male sexual organ
IN an incident that has left Gokwe villagers' tongues wagging, a 53-year-old woman was found with a male sexual organ which she was using as a charm to centrally lock her polygamous husband from sleep...Published: 27 Mar 2016 at 10:36hrs | | by Munyaradzi Musiiwa
'Witch doctors' loot homesteads
A FAMILY in Siboza village, more than 100 kilometres outside Gwanda town will rue the day they decided to hire tsikamutandas (witch doctors) to rid evil spirits at their homestead after the self-procl...Published: 31 Jan 2016 at 18:04hrs | | by Vusumuzi Dube
Village head drags minister, chief to court
A TSHOLOTSHO village head has taken his chief and the Minister of Rural Development, Preservation of Culture and Heritage, Abednico Ncube, to court for unilaterally appointing another village head in ...Published: 14 Dec 2015 at 05:25hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
Huge rabbit terrorize villagers, steals cash
Villagers in Gwitshi in Nkayi are in a state of shock after discovering that an elder woman in the village was in the habit of sending a rabbit to steal cash from them.Evelyn Tshuma was sniffe...Published: 12 Nov 2015 at 11:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | | by Staff reporter
Ancestral snake killed by witch-hunters, owner feels lonely
A Mbembesi woman-Nombulelo Hadebe is fearing for her life after a snake which was handed to her by her ancestors died under her care.The huge dark snake was killed by witch-hunters who visited...Published: 16 Oct 2015 at 08:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mubobobo man collects female pubic hair as souvenir
A GOKWE man who used to collect female pubic hair as a souvenir after "wi-fi" sex sessions is at the centre of a storm as his escapades were discovered during a cleansing ceremony.Obert ...Published: 22 Sep 2015 at 10:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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