The Registrar-General’s Office has weeded out 1 000 bogus marriage officers following the introduction of stringent requirements in 2012 to curb sham marriages, a parliamentary committee heard on Tuesday. Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede told the Portfolio Committee on Women’s Affairs, Gender and Community Development that the new, highly securitised marriage certificate ...

The Catholic University of Zimbabwe has grown in leaps and bounds in the last year since it adopted its 10 year vision that will be underpinned by growth in student numbers as well as an increase in study programs. In a media statement, the university expressed gratitude to parishioners who ...

A High Court judge has dismissed a fresh freedom bid by jailed pastor, Martin Gumbura, imprisoned for raping church women. In his ruling which was read out by Justice Garainesu Mawadze, Justice Joseph Musakwa said the “disgraceful” cleric “justified his sexual appetite to force himself on hapless congregates”. The fresh ...

Traditional leaders in Mashonaland East want to engage Government and churches in Murehwa District to conduct a cleansing ceremony at Chivake River Bridge, a black spot where hundreds have perished over the years. The black spot has claimed hundreds of lives in traffic accidents and last week a truck driver ...

Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister Nicholas Goche Thursday told Senate that government was considering coming up with a policy framework to regulate churches. He said Cabinet was still at consultation stage on the issue given the cases of sexual and financial abuse by certain church leaders. Goche was ...

A self-styled prophet landed himself in the dock after he reportedly bashed a female client who had visited his shrine seeking his services. Madzibaba Edmore Nyambo, of No. 5776 Zimre Park, appeared at the Harare magistrates’ court answering to charges of assault and indicating a witch or wizard as stated ...

MDC-T faction leader Tendai Biti and his renewal team’s chances of drawing support from a dream alliance with the country’s civic society now look remote after some of the groups refused Thursday to be lured into the opposition’s internal wars. In an exclusive interview with NewZimbabwe.com, the Zimbabwe Council of Churches ...

Zimpraise Gospel Choir has started a music academy that will groom talented youngsters before they are promoted to the main choir. The new initiative, which targets children within the five to 16 age bracket, is meant to boost the reservoir of talent available to Zimbabwe’s leading gospel choir. The choir’s ...

The Council of African Apostles (CAA), an assembly of eminent Christian church leaders from sub-Saharan Africa, chaired by Zimbabwe’s prominent church leader, Bishop Tudor Bismark of New Life Covenant Church, yesterday released a statement strongly condemning the recent abduction of more than 230 school girls by the Islamist militant group Boko ...

  Residents in Mufakose have hailed the drilling of 18 boreholes in the area saying they will lessen their plight of perennial water shortages. Water problems have become a consistent feature and continue to haunt most areas in the central business district and most residential suburbs having to endure frequent-long ...