Online Reporter
Isdore Guvamombe
Guruve is a highly spiritual place.
Believe it or not, it is the home of spirits and spirit mediums abound.
The road from Harare leads due north, threading its way past vast farmlands and dotted rock promontories in Mazowe, until the shy blue-green plumage (Mvurwi) of the Great Dyke Range, slowly retreats, giving way to a vast swathe of land called Guruve.
Here, spirit mediums rule the roost.
They are the vanguard of the land’s ethos, its people’s well-being and its little everything else.
Here, respect for sacred mountains and shrines is sacrosanct.
Here again, breaking taboos brings calamity after calamity, again and again.
It is here, that suspected serial killer Anymore Zvitsva was born and bred until he turned into a monster, who went onto a stranger-than-fiction killing spree.
Anymore and his father, Fresher, broke traditional taboo after taboo and even defiled the sacred mountain called Nyatsanga, the home of spiritual spring water used by the land’s certified spirit mediums of the Soko Wafawanaka clan in their traditional rituals. Nyatsanga mountain is in the Gota area.
While the Zvitsva family is from the clan of autochthonous spirit mediums, Karitundundu, Tsenge, Sambiringa, Nyamuseve and Dumbu etc; Fresher and his son Anymore were ordinary members of the clan with no authority to climb up the mountain and defile the shrine.
And, against all advice, Anymore and his father Fresher frequented Nyatsanga Mountain to collect water from the sacred springs for their own underworld rituals which gave them disappearing antics, supernatural powers, among others.
It is now believed the besmirching of the sacred mountain backfired on Anymore and his father, turning them into animals.
So, for Anymore and his father, it could be rituals gone wrong. This instalment will avoid touching on the legality of the matter, since the case is now before the courts.
For starters, Anymore Zvitsa grew up in crime, lived in crime and will die with the blood of people dripping from his hands.
He is not a boy raised by lullabys and love, but with theft and violence.
We all know by now that the story of Guruve serial killer Anymore Zvitsva is not a script for a Nollywood horror movie, but a real lifetime criminal tapestry – stranger than fiction.
If you are born to a father who stole cattle and made them wear football stockings to mask their spoor; if you were born to a father who stole donkeys and shaved them to avoid identification; if you were born to a father who dropped you from a shop ceiling on a leash to steal goods at a tender age, what honestly would you become?
Anymore a, was born and bred in crime and violence, laced with a touch of magic. Mischief bequeathed to him by his father.
In his adult life he turned into a vindictive hermit, brutally killing 19 people, mostly over nothing substantial.
Anymore and his father Fresher, are main actors in a crime series, a product of rituals gone wrong and backfiring; rituals believed to have brought abominations to their family through a reverse effect too ghastly to contemplate.
Fresher died in prison in 2012, while serving eight years for unlawful entry, and was granted a pauper’s burial .
Anymore, himself, at the age of 33, is behind bars and likely to die in there and get a pauper’s burial, too. No relative was prepared to give Fresher a decent burial, in case the spirit of crime is brought back into the family.
The same is likely to happen to Anymore.
Anymore himself is not new to prison. He was in and out of jail for various small crimes. He came out of prison in 2024, six months before starting the recent murder spree.
While Fresher stole and killed no one, Anymore perfected the art of crime and allegedly killed 19. To date, no family member knows exactly where Fresher was buried. They don’t care.
They fear pacifying his spirit will bring the scourge of crime to the family, again.
Everyone in the Ruvinga area in Guruve from Vheremu, Kavhayi, Nyamaka, to Nyamajenjere, Gweshe, Murengwa, Mutsvene and Muzavazi villages up to Nyakapupu Farms and beyond, knows as a matter of fact, that Anymore was raised in a life of crime and violence.
On many occasions his father would break into a shop, drop in young Anymore inside and the youngster would shove out the targeted goods to his father through the entry hole.
That was common modus operandi for them.
Fresher was feared by everyone for dabbling into juju, and his type of juju was against the ethos of the spirits of the land.
Trouble started around 2006 when Anymore’s family was banished from Vheremu Village for crime. The family went to stay at a State land in Majisarara, behind Nyakapupu small scale commercial farming area, where a new settlement was sprouting.
After four years, the family was banished again from Majisarara for unprecedented criminal activity.
Fresher and Anymore’s siblings returned to the outskirts of Vheremu village, albeit by force. But, Anymore started living a secluded life, intermittently joining the family from the bush he stayed and hunted.
He dropped out of school in Grade 4 and became a man of the bushes.
The rugged and sparsely populated mountain area between Vheremu Village and Majisarara later became Anymore’s crime scene, taking advantage of his knowledge of the area.
The riverine vegetation of Mupinge River and the gold panning activities there, also gave him enough cover.
In adulthood Anymore grew into a strong giant, wearing shoe size 12. His stature and walk would make any boxing academy green with envy.
He had incredible power and speed, especially when in a trance, chasing after animals while hunting. His agemates attest to this.
Once in a while he joined boys of his age and he liked fashion too, wearing Drip. His pictures in smart casual and Drip, paint a totally opposite character. But in public he always protected his knuckles by wearing wool covers. His knuckles where blackened and scarred from punching trees and little everything else in his bush training.
But who trained Anymore?
Village legend has it that Fresher dabbled too much in magic. He stole everything from donkeys to cattle, household goods and shop stuff.
Rustling antics made him make stolen cattle wear strong football stockings to hide the spoor. He shaved stolen donkeys to change their shade. He knew when police were looking for him, and often disappeared through magic. His family attests that he communicated with ants. Each time an ant bit him, Fresher new police were close to him and he would run away before they got him.
But Guruve being Guruve, shop owners and those he stole from also sought guidance from the spirits resulting in subsequent curses and his arrest.
It is known fact, not fiction, each time when Fresher was released from jail, he headed for Nyatsanga Mountain for the sacred water.
Those who have followed his son, Anymore’s arrest, know that he was in early December apprehended by villagers and handed over to the police in a group of men, that attempted to climb Nyatsanga Mountain.
That time the group convinced police they were looking for water from the mountain spring for spiritual rituals and they were released. Police could not link them to any crime.
The picture circulated on social media, with Anymore sitting at the back, bears testimony.
His aunt, Grace Zvitsva saw him that day and expressed concern to relatives that Anymore would come back for her.
True to that, two days later Anymore killed his five relatives, including aunt Grace, who had identified him among the group of men and told people. Grace was the target and the other four simply were caught in situ, hence Grace had 21 wounds.
Back to Fresher, on his final arrest, he had acquired a dog which he named Speed. He trained it all sorts of tactics using magic too. The dog would protect him from even police. But when magic backfires, the reverse happens.
Instead of biting police, the dog bit Fresher instead, making his arrest easy. No one knows where the dog went after his arrest. Was it a real dog?
Anymore started his own spree on petty crime, like stealing chicken, unlawful entry and theft. He grew up to attempted rape and the villages in his surrounding area were agog, with the stories of his escapades. But no one reported him to the police.
At the peak of his murder spree, Anymore was very elusive and evaded arrest at an alarming pace. He ran with unprecedented speed, making many people who chased after him, feel he was possessed. His arrest became everyone’s business.
Anymore was arrested hardly two days after spirit mediums of the area, Svembere, Nyamuseve and Sambiringa, among others, gathered for an overnight session and declared that his time was up, yet police and other security forces had spent months tracking him in vain.
Security forces, acting on a tip off from spirit mediums, also took into custody Anymore’s most trusted friend, his 107-year-old granny, Emma, known to be the spiritual power behind him.
She had long been accused of providing spiritual guidance to him and his father.
Within two days Anymore was arrested.
He admitted to killing at least his five relatives, but forensic and DNA investigations might be his worst evidence.
Whatever happens, the case of Anymore brings to the fore religion and religiosity; the belief and the execution of the belief in normal life, in trouble and in crime. It brings to the fore, that human life is not cheap.
But in the spiritual realm and in the court of public opinion, he is already convicted and punished.
His entire family and lineage of Zvitsva will have to pay for the blood lost or there will be a generational curse.
Zvitsva terror timeline
March 2025: At Rangwani Village, Anymore Zvitsva breaks into Jane Dube’s house, demands cash. Dube flees into a field. Zvitsva pursues and bludgeons her to death with an iron rod.
April 2025: In Nyakapupu Small-Scale Commercial farming area, Zvitsva confronts Modester Isaac as she herded cattle, forces her into a bush at knifepoint and rapes her. Alerted by a witness, villagers rush to the scene, but it was too late. Zvitsva had allegedly strangled Isaac with a snare wire and hanged her body from a tree.
October 2025: Alice Marangarire is ambushed with a machete while searching for cattle and is strangled with a wire.
November 2025: At Mubaiwa Village in the morning, Zvitsva attacks Elisha Dickens Chikwavarara and Dudzai Mazuvaawanda on their way to their garden. Chikwavarara is killed instantly. Mazuvaawanda is dragged 20 metres away, strangled by wire and hanged from a tree.
November 30 2025: At Machaya Farm 31 Nyakapupu, 8pm, Megina Chizema, Stacey Pulango and Allet Kavhura retire to bed. At around 11pm, Zvitsva, arrives armed with a knife and snare wire. He breaks in and forces Chizema to lie face down and strangles her by wire. Zvitsva kills Pulango and Kavhura same style. The bodies are discovered on December 2.
December 9, 2025: At Zimuna Village, Chief Bepura still in Guruve, at around 7.30pm, Pamela Chipangura, Kudzai Chipangura, Tawanda Jariwa, and Tadiwanashe Marasika retire to bed in their one-roomed house. At 9pm, Zvitsva breaks in armed with a knife and a snare wire. He orders Pamela to lie on the floor, face down, hooks a snare wire around her neck and strangles her to death. He kills Kudzai and Tawanda, same style.
Zvitsva kidnaps Marasika and takes her to Nyakapupu Mountain and rapes her that night. On December 10 2025, Marasika attempted to escape, Zvitsva chases, kills and buries her body in the Nyakapupu Mountain Range.
December 13: Fortune Mwazha, closes her shop at Zvivindi Business Centre, and sleeps inside. Zvitsva breaks the door and strangles her with wire, leaving her for dead. She survives and becomes one of the main witnesses.
December 14 2025: At Wona Farm in Guruve, his aunt Grace Zvitsva, Loice Chiringaushe, Takudzwa Kariba, and Tatenda Chirenje sleep the main bedroom. Anymore’s cousin Tatenda Zvitsva, sleeps in a small kitchen hut opposite the main house.
At around 10am, Zvitsva arrives armed with a knife and a spear. He stabs Tatenda twice once on the left side of the chest and once on the back. Moves into the main bedroom and kills Grace, Loice and Tatenda and Takudzwa.
December 22, 2025: At Bosha village, Chief Bepura, Guruve, Saujati Matora and Shallome Malunga, are killed by Zvitsva. Mavis Malunga, survives by hiding under the bed.
