English Articles
Update on construction at Mbuma Mission Hospital
Plenty has been done in the last couple of months. Consignments of excavated clay soil exited the hospital gate; lorryfuls of sand came in. The clay was removed from site because it does not afford enough support to the foundations; it was replaced with locally...
Construction and expansion at Mbuma Mission Hospital
Looking through the Mbuma budget, you may have come across items once or twice for the extension of Mbuma Mission Hospital. This article sets out what work is being undertaken. The hospital has been too small for its considerable patient numbers for some years now. It...
Encounter with a Witch-doctor* – Rev Aaron Ndebele
It was about October or November 1952 that a popular witch-doctor went to stay in the home of a local chief at Nkayi in the Shangani reserve. The woman claimed to have been sent by some great spirit in the Matopo hills to make rain, heal the sick and kill the witches...
Mbuma Mission Hospital
Dr. Angus Macleod Mbuma, in a rural part of Zimbabwe near the Shangani River, is an unlikely location for a busy hospital. After a long drive north from Bulawayo, the nearest city, along corrugated dirt roads through mopane forest and past scattered villages, Mbuma...
A report from Mashonaland
You might recall that Rev. Mwedzi was installed in the New Canaan congregation in May last year. Being the only other minister currently in the Zimbabwe Presbytery besides Rev. Khumalo, he has a heavy workload—but he found the time nonetheless to tell us about his...
People of the Mission; Michael and Miriam Khumalo
The Khumalos have been working at Mbuma Mission Hospital for nearly 17 years. It’s time to make their acquaintance. Kindly introduce yourselves. Michael: We’re Michael and Miriam Khumalo, and we’ve been working at Mbuma Mission Hospital since 2006. We have seven...