St Peter’s Mbare parish of the Roman Catholic Church welcomed their new parish priest Fr Ignatius Anoonekwa Tambudzai SJ through a liturgical celebration that was as colorful as it was emotional for Fr Tambudzai. Fr Tambudzai SJ was ordained a priest at St Peter’s Mbare on 23 July 2011. He replaces ...

Mrs Grace Murindagomo (nee Tsanga) the widow of the first African Anglican bishop, the Rt Rev Patrick Murindagomo, has died. She was 85. Her husband was the first African Anglican Bishop in the then Rhodesia in 1974. She married her husband in 1949. They moved to Penhalonga (18 km north of Mutare in ...

Some years ago the people living to the east of Madzima Road in Mbare were without water for many months. Every morning one could see women and big girls setting out with buckets and plastic containers to find water somewhere, e.g. with friends and relatives in remote parts of Mbare, ...

The transition from the old to the new generation of Zimbabwean Jesuits continues. Fr Ignatius Tambudzai SJ takes over as parish priest of St Peter’s Mbare, where Jesuits have been working since its beginning in about 1910. He replaces Fr Oskar Wermter SJ (71) who has been requested by the ...

The talking bird that recently caused confusion at Mbare Musika market in Harare has reached Chipinge in southeastern Zimbabwe. Immaculate Chirunga (33) said the bird is with traditional healer Sekuru Mudapaviri Ndoro. Chirunga, a cross-border trader from Dzivarasekwa suburb  who was stopped with the bird, claimed, “I was attacked by a strong wind that confused ...

A few days ago I told some mothers and fathers at a neighbourhood meeting, “There is not a family here in Mbare without some members living and working in South Africa.” The confirmation of my statement was immediate. The woman of the house lined up for me her five sons ...

Even in Mbare you need to use “politically correct language.” I have learnt that handicapped people want to be called “differently abled”. At least those fluent in English – the Shona speakers don’t know what the fuss is all about. “AIDS orphans,” I am told, is discriminatory, even though it describes ...

By Joe Arimoso SJ   Football again! Yes, football, the madness that has dogged me from the time I was at Makumbi mission in 2003. With the help of KitAid (a charity organisation in the UK) I now run three registered soccer academies in Norton, Kuwadzana and Mbare. Involving about 300 ...

Mai Fungai has not been seen in church or at any other community function for some time. She has never been in good health, but now the mother of five grown-up daughters, all single mothers with babies, is worse. She can hardly breathe. She desperately needs to be seen by ...

To those who worship at The New Gospel Church of God in Mbare and Banket in Mashonaland West Province, Susan Chenjerai (Mai Rwizi) is one of the many pastors who routinely read verses from the Bible. But to the majority of Zimbabweans, she is arguably one of the nation’s best ...