Kunonga picks up more problems
Angry parishioners yesterday disrupted a church service at the Anglican Church's St Francis of Assisi parish in Glen Norah, Harare, following the suspension of their priest, Paul Gwese, allegedly for granting MDC legislator Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga, a platform in the church. Misihairabwi-Mushonga, who is the Member of Parliament for Glen Norah constituency, donated $1...
Read article Daily Mirror (Zimb) Date posted:Mon 3-Jan-2005
Kunonga's critic gets death threat
"Please note," the letter reads, "that your church executive you are in (sic) should resign not later than today or you will face death"
It is reported that a vehicle came up the driveway of her Highlands home and an envelope was tossed over the gate. By the time the gardener picked up the envelope the vehicle had already taken off at high speed.
Read Article By Pedzisai Ruhanya Daily News 5-Oct-2002
Election of Zim bishop was fixed
Harare - Anglican supporters of Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party were on Thursday accused of breaking church canonic law to block the election as the new Bishop of Mashonaland of a prominent white critic of Robert Mugabe's human rights record. While independent of the Church of England, the denomination - with an estimated 40 000 active members - belongs to the worldwide "Lambeth Communion" and risks suspension or expulsion if political irregularities in its affairs are proven.
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Outrage at bishop's praise for Mugabe
The Anglican Bishop of Harare caused outrage yesterday when he delivered a speech strongly supportive of President Robert Mugabe's regime. Bishop Norbert Kunonga accused critics of Zimbabwe's human rights record of being motivated by self-interest. He claimed that Western countries were using black "puppets" to manipulate Africa.
Read article The Daily Telegraph (UK) May 14, 2001
Kunonga asks court to bar parishioners
Anglican Bishop Nolbert Kunonga wants the leadership and choir of the Cathedral of St Mary and All Saints in Harare banned from attending services and visiting church buildings in the Harare diocese. He said they had allegedly disrupted church services by joining other parishioners in accusing him of abusing his position by preaching pro-Zanu PF sermons.
Read article by Lloyd Mudiwa Daily News Tue 1-Oct-2002
Kunonga travel ban hailed by Anglicans
Church leaders and parishioners of the Anglican church have come out in full support of the travel ban imposed by the United States on Harare's Anglican bishop, Nolbert Kunonga. The church leaders said by his partisan stance, Kunonga had stepped away from his role as a church leader.
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Anglican bishop grabs white farm in Zimbabwe
AN ANGLICAN bishop has seized a previously white-owned farm for himself and his family in one of Zimbabwe’s prime agricultural districts.
In the process, Nolbert Kunonga, the Bishop of Harare and a close associate of President Robert Mugabe, has evicted more than 50 black workers and their families to make way for his own staff.
Read Article The London Times October 26, 2003

Harare priest takes on the Bishop
Enough priests and lay communicants have now signed Mr Makunga’s list to require the Archbishop, Dr Bernard Malango, and Dean of the Province of Central Africa to bring the Bishop before an ecclesiastical court.
Read Article Church Times 28-Nov-2003
Kunonga stirs fresh controversy by Itai Dzamara
CONTROVERSIAL Anglican Bishop of Harare Nolbert Kunonga has stirred a fresh wave of controversy after ordering the immediate transfer of three priests, a move being fiercely resisted by Anglicans in the affected parishes. Members of the church have accused Kunonga of being driven by political motives.
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Bishop of Harare in land grab row by (SA) Sunday Times Foreign Desk
Mugabe ally 'given farm as reward for supporting Zanu-PF policies'
Controversial Zimbabwean Anglican Bishop Nolbert Kunonga has been accused of illegally displacing a white commercial farmer from his property and seizing it for himself and his family.
Read Article Suntimes.co.za 2003/11/02

Bishop held hostage
THE controversial head of the Anglican Church, Bishop Nolbert Kunonga, was yesterday briefly held hostage by parishioners of St Philip’s Anglican Church in Harare’s New Tafara suburb, who accused him of snubbing them and protecting church leaders who are alleged to be abusing funds.
Kunonga had attended a service at the church to conduct a confirmation service.
Read article Daily News Aug 12 2003
Row erupts as Zimbabwe church official censures pro-Mugabe bishop
The Anglican bishop of Harare, Norbert Kunonga, is increasingly coming into public confrontation with the church's Zimbabwean hierarchy over his controversial support for President Robert Mugabe.
A long-simmering row burst into the open again on Sunday when prominent lawyer and Anglican chancellor of the Harare diocese Bob Stumbles publicly accused Kunonga of acting "contrary to the laws of the church" and of falsely accusing members of his congregation of plotting his assassination.
Read Article February 19, 2003 Anglican Media Sydney

Anglicans resist Kunonga’s bid to consolidate powers
THE chancellor of the Anglican Church’s Harare diocese, Robert Stumbles, has urged the church’s congregation to block attempts by Bishop Nolbert Kunonga to amend the diocesan Acts at the next Synod meeting scheduled for 5 September.
Stumbles, who is a renowned lawyer, says the proposed amendments would create a dictatorship within the church structures.
The letter comes at a time when relations between Kunonga and the majority of Anglican parishioners have been severely strained.
Read Article Daily News Aug 22, 2003