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Zimbabwe's traditional healers take to TikTok
WEARING a stylish black leather jacket and a red blouse, a denim sun hat covering her dreadlocked head, Gogo Mafirakureva goes live on TikTok.In just the first few minutes of her livestream, a...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 18:01hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans turn to medicinal herbs
PEOPLE are flooding traditional herbal markets, as prices of prescription drugs spike and the public health delivery system deteriorates at an alarming rate under pressures from a relentless economic ...Published: 24 Mar 2024 at 18:15hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Boomerang Voodoo!..Removing US$35 hex from son costs US$700
NEVER pray for your enemies to die, you might bury your own relatives . . .A woman from Magwegwe suburb in Bulawayo is a living testimony to the adage.She experienced the mind-numbing ...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sangomas told to register
The Traditional Medical Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe (TMPCZ) has moved in to enforce regulations that will ensure all traditional medical practitioners are registered in a move to uphold Governme...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 06:56hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Sex herbs a hit at Hlanganani Expo
THE Chesvingo Karanga Village stand proved to be a hit at the just ended Sanganani/Hlanganani World Tourism Expo in Bulawayo as most exhibitors, particularly men, flocked to the stand to buy sex...Published: 22 Oct 2022 at 19:29hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans turn to traditional medicine
INTEREST in practising as herbalists is growing in the country, with the numbers of people enrolling at the Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers' Association (ZINATHA) training school ris...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ulunyoka: a harmful violation of spouse's rights
Harmful traditional practices have led to the abuse of human rights and abuse of women. These include genital mutilation and child marriages that have infringed on the rights of women, however, the us...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 07:46hrs | 23 | by Mashudu Mambo
Beer drinkers church: when the love of God and booze meet
THE inviting, melodious echoes flow downhill as we make the final ascend.In the absence of musical instruments to enhance output, they use their palms to issue out some rhythmic claps which bl...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:41hrs | 9 | 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
Chief Charumbira identifies panellists for Gukurahundi hearings?
TRADITIONAL leaders have resolved to establish inclusive panels consisting of chiefs, traditionalists, pastors, counsellors, women, men and youth to conduct Gukurahundi public hearings.Chiefs ...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Is a coffin for the dead or for the mourners?
WE are all going to die. That is the sad fact and fate that awaits us all.But our journey to the other side differs. Some are turned into ashes in a crematorium. The majority are buried six fe...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 07:25hrs | 7 | by Trisa Ray Sibanda
3 people suffer bloating stomachs after feasting on isambane meat
THREE Bulawayo men, who voraciously feasted on meat of an ant-bear locally known as isambane, which was killed after it was found in Old Magwegwe near Engen Filling Station on Tuesday last week, have ...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 18:19hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Are sangomas really 'linked' to armed robberies?
Armed robbery in criminal law is an aggravated form of theft that involves the use of a lethal weapon a victim typically motivated by the desire to obtain money.Cases of armed robbery have rea...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:44hrs | | by Blessing Mandabva
Dead woman 'haunts family'
A Cowdray Park family in Bulawayo says it is being haunted by its 22-year-old daughter, who died in a car crash nearly three months ago as they constantly "see" her in the house. The family wa...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 05:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Constitutional crisis and tsvimbo
By the time you read this letter, dear Fabian (Mabaya), I will be in the land of the free and the brave, and safe from the shenanigans of my beloved Zimbabwe. I have examined the self-made crisis crea...Published: 23 May 2021 at 07:36hrs | 8 | by Ken Mufuka
Mental Health Week: Consider patients from remote areas as well
As Zimbabwe joins the rest of the world in commemorating Mental Health Week, there is need to focus on the overwhelming number of psychiatric patients in remote areas like Tsholotsho. "Tsholot...Published: 13 May 2021 at 11:12hrs | | by Mncedisi Nyathi
Traditional medicine practitioners bemoan underfunding
TRADITIONAL medicine practitioners on Tuesday bemoaned underfunding towards research and the manufacture of traditional medicines, which has resulted in lack of recognition of their practice in the he...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Herbal solutions for 'modern' diseases
The unexpected recall of Zumbani from the herbal back bench is a wake up call for Africa and Africans at large. Even Caucasians are steaming with Zumbani to keep Coronavirus at bay. Orientals ...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 12:24hrs | 1 | by Tondo. Chinehasha
Prophet uses social media to diagnose
JUST a name and surname as well as a picture on WhatsApp is enough for Musawenkosi Vundla, a Victoria Falls-based prophet to "diagnose" and tell one's problem or misfortune. Vundla, who calls ...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 04:55hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zinatha endorses COVID-19 vaccination programme
TRADITIONAL healers have endorsed the government's COVID-19 vaccination programme which began yesterday, with health workers being the first to be inoculated.Zimbabwe received a donation of 20...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:01hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zinatha warns of fake, harmful Covid-19 herbs
THE Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association (ZINATHA) has cautioned the public not to buy, from the streets and other undesignated areas, traditional medicines sold by unregistered and "igno...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 19:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Popular prophet engaged to solve Mtshabezi Bridge mystery
ONE of the most talked about mysteries in Gwanda Town is of a mysterious creature which reportedly lies hidden in Mtshabezi River near Mtshabezi Bridge that is said to have claimed the lives of a numb...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man marries 'mother'
END times!Residents in Bulawayo's Entumbane suburb have encountered a stunning situation of an aunt and nephew who decided to get married amid reports that the woman is now two months pregnant...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 07:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Witchcraft: Girl pops out thorns from leg
Tales of witchcraft abound in Zimbabwe but some are so bizarre.A 10 year old girl from Nembudziya in Gokwe is afflicted with a mysterious condition that saw her mother trekking to Harare to fi...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 21:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZINATHA wants to be included on medical aid
MEMBERS of the Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association (ZINATHA) have appealed to be paid through medical aid facilities and cushion them from the current cash shortages. Speaking at...Published: 03 Oct 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chigwedere, son ordered to get paternity tests
Former Education minister Aeneas Chigwedere has been ordered to have his son Mangwiza undergo a paternity test after the politician disowned his offspring after he accused him of practicing witchcraft...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 09:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'I can cure cancer'
A GWANDA man claims his ancestors told him to heal cancer or else die a slow painful death from the ailment.Stanley Ndlovu (66) has since become the toast of Simbumbumbu Village in Gwanda wher...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 05:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Minor used in witchcraft
A 16-YEAR-OLD girl, who allegedly cut a toddler's hair for witchcraft purposes, has been acquitted.Mbare magistrate Stanford Mambanje found the minor not guilty citing that the she might have ...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 19:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chigwedere want judges to fatally shoot him
Former Cabinet minister Aeneas Chigwedere's younger brother, Godfrey, wept uncontrollably in court and pleaded with judges to fatally shoot him after the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) declined to h...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 10:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chigwedere's brother weeps in ConCourt
There was drama at the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) yesterday when former Education minister Aeneas Chigwedere's brother, Godfrey, openly wept in court and pleaded with the judges to shoot and kill...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Wizard' caught turning dead neighbour into goblin
A VILLAGER was caught red-handed on top of his neighbour's grave carrying a clay pot attempting to make the late his goblin.Albert Ncube was caught by his late neighbour's son Thando Luphahla ...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 05:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutandas planted strange objects
FAKE Tsikamutandas in Chakohwa Village are placing witchcraft paraphernalia in villagers' homesteads and accusing people of possessing goblins in an attempt to lure clients.This was revealed b...Published: 04 Nov 2017 at 05:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Juju sexual perverts must be punished
SEXUAL offences with the aid of juju are on the increase if recent Press reports are anything to go by. It could be, maybe, there is nothing new really apart from the fact that these perverts have bee...Published: 08 Sep 2017 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
ANC the toddler
AM I wrong? I have always thought the goal of opposition is to govern? And I haven't said the goal is to lead. To govern. You can lead anything, at any level, including leading a village co-operative....Published: 03 Jun 2017 at 11:08hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Ugandan healer takes city by storm
A UGANDAN traditional healer based in Gweru has become the most sought after healer attracting people from all corners of the country.The 49-year-old Ugandan national Julius Mamba Sebange who ...Published: 28 May 2017 at 09:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Traditionalists predict rains, bumper harvest
TRADITIONALISTS have predicted that the country will receive normal to above normal rainfall in the 2016/2017 farming season, relying on indigenous knowledge systems (IKS), on the back of "success...Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
No male organ enlargement medicine, says Zinatha
THE Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association (Zinatha) has described as bogus traditional healers who claim to offer male organ enlargement medicine as a survey has shown that of more than 50...Published: 26 Jun 2016 at 18:06hrs | 8 | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Traditional healer offers small house $20 maintenance
A TRADITIONAL HEALER was dragged to maintenance court by his girlfriend claiming $300 for the upkeep of their minor child.Loveness Kadawo was demanding $300 for the upkeep of their child accus...Published: 13 May 2016 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bogus Zinatha members face arrest
The Zimbabwe National Healers Association (ZINATHA) has embarked on an exercise to register its members following the increase in cases where individuals have been using the association’s name to du...Published: 19 Apr 2016 at 20:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zinatha to re-open medical school
The Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association is set to re-open its medical school in Harare.The Zimbabwe School of African Traditional Medicine was founded in 1998 by Professor Gordon...Published: 20 Mar 2016 at 11:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Killer 'surgeon' grandmother spared jail
A HIGH Court judge has ordered a 72-year-old Binga woman who "operated on" her granddaughter in an attempt to remove fibroids from her uterus before she bled to death to immediately stop the tradition...Published: 12 Mar 2016 at 15:38hrs | 1 | by Fairness Moyana
Chigwedere served with papers to appear in court over witchcraft
The matter in which former Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister and ex-Mashonaland East governor Aeneas Chigwedere (pictured right) is accused of witchcraft by his son, Magwiza, is now before t...Published: 03 Feb 2016 at 05:20hrs | | by Ivan Zhakata
Chigwedere, son clash over witchcraft allegations
Former Education, Sport and Culture Minister and ex-Mashonaland East governor Aeneas Chigwedere has appeared before the Harare Civil Court over witchcraft claims by his son, Magwiza Chigwedere....Published: 27 Jan 2016 at 05:15hrs | | by Ivan Zhakata
Zinatha operating without license - TMPC
The Traditional Medical Practitioners Council (TMPC) has revealed that Zimbabwe Traditional Healers Association (Zinatha) has been operating illegally. According to TMPC an arm of the Ministry...Published: 06 Dec 2015 at 07:59hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Goblins haunt village heads over food aid
In a shocking development that has left many traditional leaders frightened in Masvingo's Mwenezi district, two village heads from Chief Neshuro's area are being haunted by goblins demanding their mas...Published: 21 Nov 2015 at 17:01hrs | 5 | by Johannes Chin'ombe
Zinatha to open pharmacies
Zimbabweans will now be able to access herbal remedies supplied by accredited practitioners from pharmacies to be set up by the Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association (Zinatha) countrywide....Published: 17 Nov 2015 at 16:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Satanist hooker confesses
A 17-year-old hooker left patrons at a local night club stunned last week after she revealed that she was a Satanist and could change into a hyena when angered.The Weekender learnt that the gi...Published: 14 Nov 2015 at 08:35hrs | | by Liberty Dube
Bogus 'foreign doctors' on the prowl in Zimbabwe
A new band of "foreign" traditional healers and herbalists has emerged in Harare, promising to help residents find lost lovers, heal incurable diseases and turn economic fortunes of the poor.T...Published: 01 Nov 2015 at 09:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe will receive good rains,' says Zinatha
THE Zimbabwe Traditional Healers' Association (Zinatha) has reiterated its claim that Zimbabwe will receive good rains, going against scientific forecasts. Zinatha, a grouping of hundreds of practitio...Published: 02 Oct 2015 at 06:24hrs | 2 | by Patient Sibanda
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