Twenty-four members of the Johanne Masowe eChishanu who were granted bail by the High Court on Thursday are spending another weekend in remand prison after failing to raise the required US$2 400. The sect members were ordered to pay US$100 each by High Court judge Justice Esther Muremba as part ...

Chitungwiza magistrate Lazarus Murendo last Friday presided over a matter in which a woman allegedly helped her prophet husband to rape a 16-year-old girl who had visited them seeking spiritual cleansing. The couple — Heriton Chikanga (33) and his wife Viola Chaka (20) — were not asked to plead to ...

A new diva has invaded the music industry with a gem of an album. Born Faith Naphazi, the youthful musician trades under the name Faith Candy and has released a 10-track album Runako Rwako. The album will be officially launched before the end of the month. She is touted as ...

The battering of several anti–riot police officers who had accompanied Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) executive president Johannes Ndanga to effect a ban on a Johanne Masowe weChishanu apostolic sect in Budiriro 2 has inspired a litany of humour–laden songs and videos by local dancehall artistes. Members of the ...

They live in a world of their own, in small communities. To them, experiencing wet dreams is as bad as committing murder. These are the Vapositori of Johane Masowe eChishanu who worship in Harare’s Budiriro suburb at a place popularly known as paMatanga (tanks). A visit by the Weekend Post ...

Members of the Apostolic sects Saturday snubbed the burial of Zanu PF politburo member and former Cabinet minister Nathan Shamuyarira at the national Heroes’ Acre in Harare. Only a handful of them turned up to listen to President Robert Mugabe officiating at the event. Usually, the Vapositori, who are well-known ...

The police, still smarting from last Friday’s embarrassing beating of a handful of their number by a Harare vapostori sect, upped their pay-back campaign by arresting a sect member over a cheeky prank which went viral online. Madzibaba Chacha – a tailor in Harare’s Westlea – was arrested Thursday and ...

Lawyers yesterday called for the arrest of Zanu PF youths who destroyed artefacts at Madzibaba Ishmael Mufani’s Johane Masowe Echishanu shrine in Budiriro on Monday. Human rights lawyer Alec Muchadehama said the youths should face charges of malicious damage to property as they violated the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) ...

Twenty-four members of the Johanne Masowe weChishanu apostolic sect arrested last Sunday on allegations of being part of a group involved in violent skirmishes with the police in Budiriro, Harare, yesterday claimed they were tortured and detained for over two days without food before they being brought to court. The ...

Twenty-four Johanne Masowe eChishanu Apostolic sect members accused of assaulting police officers and journalists, have been remanded in custody by a Harare court which felt their immediate release would expose them to a violent public backlash. Emmanuel Sigauke and 23 others, all followers of Madzibaba Ishmael Mufani, were arrested on ...