Baptist Pastor Nhamo Chigohi, the son of a witchdoctor, first heard the Gospel while lying sick inside his hut as missionaries showed the JESUS film outside. He trusted Christ for healing, but his father was furious and, a few days later, kicked him out. Nhamo began living on the streets. ...

Spirit mediums are organizing a traditional cleansing ceremony to be held at Matopos National Park. The ceremony will see spirit mediums, known as amawosana in Kalanga and ihosana in Ndebele, performing rituals following the fall of a balancing rock from a hill top in the park early June, something that traditional leaders have since interpreted ...

A Bulawayo businesswoman has allegedly abandoned her office in Bulawayo city centre and home after a suspected ghost reportedly dragged her out in broad daylight on numerous occasions. It seems there is more to what meets the eye, as reliable sources have disclosed that the ghost was the woman’s late ...

Vendors in Mbare, high-density suburb of Harare, are making brisk business by selling cloths used in sewing church regalia or performing religious rituals, as more people turn to religion in the midst of increasing socio-economic problems.  The enterprising vendors have taken advantage of the proliferation of Apostolic sects in Mbare ...

Next week on Monday, Matabeleland South chiefs are to meet with the president of the Chiefs’ Council, Chief Fortune Charumbira, and his deputy, Chief Mtshana Khumalo, to discuss the unprocedural invasion of the Njelele Shrine by people believed to be Zanu-PF sympathizers. Reports from Mat South province indicate that between November last ...

A representative of Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association, or ZINATHA, made a clarifying statement about rape as a cure for health problems, practiced by some traditional healers in the country. He said that the association that many traditional healers in Zimbabwe belong to does not endorse rape as a cure for health ...

Zimbojamreports that there was chaos in Harare’s Josiah Tongogara Avenue yesterday afternoon, after the legendary tree on which the Zimbabwean spirit medium Mbuya Nehanda is said to have been hanged, was knocked down by a truck. A construction worker resurfacing of the road backed into the tree by mistake, resulting ...

 President Robert Mugabe has urged Zimbabweans to be wary of false prophets and fake traditional healers who are swindling people of their hard-earned cash on the pretext that they will bring them fortunes. Speaking at the burial of  retired general Solomon  Mujuru, who died in a mysterious fire at his ...

This story is part one of a series in which RelZim.org is exploring the evolving  state of traditional religion in Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association (ZINATHA) plans to set up traditional hospitals and clinics in various centres in the country to offer alternative health services and healing sessions to  patients.  ZINATHA executive ...

Respected African traditionalist and academic Professor Gordon Chavhunduka has described the current crop of prophets and traditional healers, who have been performing ‘miracles’ with some reaching stardom, as fake and riding on the economic meltdown of the age. In an interview with RelZim.org, Chavhunduka said, “People turn to religion when ...