A woman from Chitungwiza, Chipo Chafa (33), is involved  in a desperate battle for her husband of 16 years with a sangoma. Munyaradzi Chafa (38), left his matrimonial house in January this year to cohabit with a sangoma in Murisa Resettlement area in Dema.  The sangoma has been identified as Mbuya ...

reprinted with additions and corrections from The Standard ‘Diesel n’anga’  Nomatter Tagarira, alias Rotina Mavhunga, who made headlines in 2007 after misleading President Robert Mugabe and other prominent Zanu -PF politicians that she had powers to extract diesel from a rock, was recently released from prison and is now a ...

Despite shunning traditional health practitioners (THP) during the day, church pastors are visiting tthem in a Nicodemus-like manner to boost powers, Elisha Mutanga, a traditional medical practitioner, told RelZim. Mutanga, who is also a member of Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association (ZINATHA), voiced his remarks at a recent consultative meeting held by ...

According to Nehanda Radio, a Bindura magistrate earlier this week set aside the ruling by Chief Luscious Chitsinde Negomo which found Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai guilty of flouting marriage laws. The chief accuses Tsvangirai of violating traditional marriage norms which prohibit the undertaking of marriage formalities in November. As the case drags ...

Are muti traditional herbs or these are two different things? If there is a difference between the two which of them are Christians allowed to or, should I say, can use if need be? Can anyone spot the difference between the two? Who should be selling any of this stuff? ...

According to Nehanda Radio that quotes the Daily News, President Robert Mugabe’s party, Zanu-PF, spokesperson Rugare Gumbo said the fact that prophet Temitope Joshua, a Nigerian clergyman, was predicting recently the death of an African head of state made the prophet’s claim unpalatable and absurd. “It goes against tradition. You do not ...

Water Resources Development and Management Minister Samuel Sipepa Nkomo says that there is need to perform traditional rituals in order to appease angry mermaids at a dam in Gokwe that is meant to provide water to a local township. Nkomo who was presenting evidence on the water supply situation in ...

Despite one‘s religious orientation, annual contributions of money and grain towards the Njelele Shrine pilgrimage are compulsory in Hobodo community in Mangwe district of Matabeleland South Province. Every year towards the beginning of the rainy season in the month of August or September, Chief Hobodo, as the custodian of Kalanga ...

Just before the year 2011 made it’s exit, the Nehanda tree was involved in a third accident after a silver Nissan ElGrande hit into the remaining tree stump. This comes after the tree fell about a month ago, when a municapality truck bumped into it and knocked it over. The ...

Kedmon Ncube, a 23-year old inyanga – African traditional faith healer – who had recently graduated from the African school of traditional healing, better known in the local Ndebele language as ukuthwasiswa, mysteriously took his own life by hanging himself in his sister’s bedroom. The incident, which left Emkhayeni villagers in ...