Matabeleland

Outgoing Salvation Army leader brings equipment to Matobo District hospital

December 6, 2012
Salvation Army-run Tshelanyemba Hospital in Matobo District, Western Zimbabwe, received an anaesthetic machine and surgical led light. The equipment is expected to reduce the number of referrals to overburdened Bulawayo hospitals.The anaesthetic machine is used in all operations while the surgical led light is essential to provide different light colours during ...

Bulawayo-based Khula Sizwe Trust invited to train farmers from as far as Manicaland

May 9, 2012
Khula Sizwe Trust, a Christian community-development organization operating in several Southern African countries, was overwhelmed by people making enquiries at its Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) stand recently. The organization, whose mission is to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in the spiritual, economic and social transformation of ...

Pentecostal churches urged to plough into the country’s education system

May 8, 2012
Pentecostal churches were recently challenged to support Zimbabwe’s ailing education system in the same manner the traditional missionary churches have all along been doing. The call was made end of April by stakeholders attending a conference at the Large City Hall in Bulawayo with the aim of reviewing the state ...

Mthulisi Dube launches 3 gospel albums in Zimbabwe

May 1, 2012
reprinted with minor corrections and additions from the Newsday   Mthulisi Dube, a Zimbabwean gospel musician based in the United Kingdom, recently launched three albums in Bulawayo: “Isinqumo,” “Uhlalekhona” and “Wenzeni Na?”  Dube, who has been out of the country for the past 10 years, told Newsdaythat he decided to ...

Vice President praises missionaries for starting schools in rural areas

February 14, 2012
Vice President  John Landa Nkomo, has paid tribute to missionaries for setting up schools in the country’s rural areas, saying that has boosted Zimbabwe’s education system which is ranked among the best in Africa. The Vice President was speaking in Nyamandlovu (a semi-arid marginalised area in Matebeleland North) recently during the ...

Masvingo Vapostori invade Matabeleland farm

January 22, 2011
Vapostori. Byo24NEWS reported that some members of the Apostolic Faith Church from Masvingo have invaded a ranch owned by a white commercial farmer in Marula, Matabeleland South, sparking protests from the local community. Locals vowed to assist the farmer, Garry Rosenfels, evict the Vapostori members from Lydead Ranch, which they invaded ...