As this year draws to an end, politics is no doubt going to leverage influence on believers in Zimbabwe. We are told to think that the next elections will take place in 2013. With this in mind, I would like to look at what appears to be two most prominent dynamics ...

Villagers in Makoni, Manicaland Province, are living in fear of losing their cash and cattle after a group of self-styled traditional healers called Dombodvuku invaded the area in a witchhunt to allegedly cleanse the area of bad omens and goblins. In exchange for this ‘cleansing’ exercise the Dombodvuku traditional healers ...

Children from various Apostolic sects recently challenged some practices that exposed them to abuse in their churches. Among the practices they vowed to resist are child abuse, early marriages and prohibition from seeking medication from hospitals. They want access to information on reproductive health and the right to sound education. The ...

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Members of the Apostolic sects this week thronged the National Heroes’ Acre for the burial of Stan Mudenge, a Zimbabwean politician who was Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education. Mudenge, died at a Masvingo hotel on Thursday last week. He was supposed to officiate at an event at Great Zimbabwe University. ...

In a move that is likely to see the ban of open–air worship in Bulawayo, the city council has summoned apostolic sect members for dialogue upon which will determine their fate. Debating during a full council meeting last Wednesday, councilors said apostolic sect churches have invaded almost every vacant council ...

Members of the Johanne Masowe Apostolic sect have developed their own primary school at the shrine in Gandanzara in Manicaland Province. Vapostori believe sending their children to a separate school will corrupt them. “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn ...

The Johanne Marange group is allegedly Zimbabwe’s second biggest Apostolic church. Of the 101 children Arnold Muzaruwetu fathered, he is survived by only 25. 76 died and most of them even before their 5th birthday. He passed away in April leaving behind 14 wives among whom is one who today ...

Acting United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Country Representative, Marc Rubin, says his organisation is going to make a scrutiny of the controversial health-seeking behavior of the  members of the apostolic groups to come up with an evidence-based program. “This support will ensure that operational research on a wide range of development aspects (ranging ...

Mhondoro-Sydney Mabhiza, Bishop of the St John Apostolic Church (one of Zimbabwe’s African Initiated Churches), abused the pulpit earlier this month to attack Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai saluting him as a “tea boy.” Speaking at a conference that was held in Madzongwe village in Mubaira, Mabhiza, who is also a war ...

The Zimbabwe Supreme Court has jailed 10 members of the Noah Taguta-led Johanne Marange Apostolic sect sect for an effective 16 months each for fighting over a dead body. Two factions from the same Momberume Taguta family substituted Bibles for rocks and engaged in bloody battles over ownership of the ...