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Mnangagwa orders courts to respect human rights
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday challenged judges and magistrates to defend human rights and ensure good governance.He made the call while launching the Judiciary Service Commission (JS...Published: 4 hrs ago | 806 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko's trial continues in camera
THE trial of former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko on charges of criminal abuse of office continued yesterday in camera at the Harare Magistrates Court.Mphoko was arrested by the Zimbabwe A...Published: 4 hrs ago | 259 | by Staff reporter
Harare deputy mayor faces arrest
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is investigating cases of alleged abuse of office involving Harare deputy mayor Luckson Mukunguma, who has since gone into hiding.Zacc spokespers...Published: 4 hrs ago | 373 | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya's bid to have seized phones back hits brickwall
MAGISTRATE Ngoni Nduna yesterday dismissed an application by suspended Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya and Pakistani businessman Ali Muhammad to have their seized phones ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 611 | by Staff reporter
Was the court fair on mary Chiwenga
The world was shocked by a picture and video of Mary Chiwenga being wheeled to court in a very bad shape. The scenario showed the cruel and vindictive character of a system. The decision by the ...Published: 16 hrs ago | 2810 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
CID team investigating Mnangagwa ally arrested
Alleged Covid-19 procurement corruption mastermind Delish Nguwaya could walk free after criminal proceedings against him all but collapsed on Tuesday when a court removed him from remand.Magis...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 09:26hrs | 6336 | by Staff reporter
Twitter punishes Newsday, suspends account
The micro-blogging website, Twitter, has suspended the account of Newsday Zimbabwe for reason not yet known. Followers of the account were mystified when the profile...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 09:09hrs | 2045 | by Staff reporter
Lamentations of a Zimbabwean
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Here are the lamentations of a Zimbabwean.Any oppressor is given the power to oppress by the oppressed. That is what we refuse to acknowledge as Zimba...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:22hrs | 480 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Harare HR director arrested for corruption
HARARE City Council's recently reinstated human resources director Cainos Chingombe was yesterday arrested by police working with the Special Anti-Corruption Unit (Sacu) for alleged criminal abuse of ...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:18hrs | 749 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash revenue continues to dwindle
CASSAVA Smartech Zimbabwe Limited's subsidiary EcoCash's revenue contributions to the group continue to dwindle following recent operating measures effected by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to cu...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:13hrs | 502 | by Staff reporter
Zinara plug revenue leakages
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has moved to combat corruption and plug revenue leakages by introducing a Procurement Management Unit (PMU).Zinara has regularly been in the ...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 18:02hrs | 1233 | by Staff reporter
'Ministry did not approve Mupfumira loan request'
A DIRECTOR in the Finance ministry Fidelis Ngorora yesterday told chief magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi that Treasury did not approve former Public Service minister Priscah Mupfumira's request to secure...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 06:53hrs | 1052 | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa's trial deferred
The trial of former Health and Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa on charges of abuse of public office was postponed yet again yesterday, this time to December 18, because of the continued absence...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 06:49hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
Mafume denied bail
HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume was Monday denied bail by Harare magistrate Ngoni Nduna who ruled the MDC Alliance politician would use his position to intimidate witnesses and conceal evidence.He i...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 19:02hrs | 646 | by Staff reporter
Corruption: Mayor back in court
The ruling on the bail application by Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume, who allegedly corruptly allocated Westlea stands to his sister and his law firm's secretary, is likely to be given today by deputy chie...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 05:52hrs | 256 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF safeguards DCC polls
ZANU-PF has come up with a raft of measures to ensure that this coming weekend's district co-ordinating committee (DCC) polls will not descend into chaos.Speaking in Harare on Friday, at a par...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 16:00hrs | 509 | by Staff reporter
Harare Mayor remanded in custody
HARARE Mayor Jacob Mafume (44), who is facing abuse of office charges, will spend the weekend behind bars after his bail ruling was rolled over to tomorrow.Mafume was arrested by the Special A...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 06:44hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
Jail nightmare for Chamisa's mayor as magistrate fails to turn up
THE magistrate presiding Harare Mayor, Jacob Mafume's criminal abuse of office case failed to come to court on Saturday resulting in the MDC Alliance official's continues incarceration.Magistr...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 17:33hrs | 1197 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions maintaining discipline on Zanu-PF
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa must listen to what the people are saying. We have had election disputes in Zimbabwe since time immemorial. They became more pronounced in 2000 when the late MDC founding ...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 07:16hrs | 2253 | by Worried
Zimbabwe needs a new ZBC
THE awarding of licences to six national free-to-air commercial television broadcasting stations last week was received with mixed feelings by Zimbabweans. Many hailed the momentous occasion as unpara...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 07:15hrs | 696 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Chamisa's mayor awaits bail ruling
Harare mayor Jacob Mafume will know today whether he will be granted bail or not while he awaits trial on charges of criminal abuse of office over the alleged illegal allocation of two stands to his s...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 07:09hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Mayor to spend third night in custody
HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume will spend a third night in custody after his bail ruling was postponed to this Saturday by Harare magistrate Bianca Makwande.Mafume is facing criminal abuse of offic...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 17:16hrs | 1146 | by Staff reporter
Man stumbles on indecent pictures in wife's phone
A Bulawayo man was left shocked and upset after spotting "flirty" messages and indecent pictures in his wife's phone that she was exchanging with another man while making an appointment supposedly for...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 17:11hrs | 1670 | by Staff reporter
Why it is wrong to draw parallels between Trump and Mugabe
On November 6, after a speech by Donald Trump in which he baselessly claimed the 2020US presidential election was fraudulent, ABC journalist Leigh Sales criticised what she saw as an outgoing ...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 08:47hrs | 1912 | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister's aide arrested
Ex-HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo's former aide was yesterday arrested and charged with criminal abuse of office for allegedly illegally facilitating issuance of visas to gold dealer, Ali Muhamad and hi...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:24hrs | 1257 | by Staff reporter
Divisions rock council
HURUNGWE Rural District Council (RDC) chief executive Luke Karavhina has come under fire for alleged abuse of power and undermining the authority of the councillors.Karavhina is also accused of vi...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:19hrs | 443 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate bemoans delays in graft cases
HARARE magistrate Bianca Makwande yesterday bemoaned continued postponement of corruption cases saying the delays were resulting in a gridlock of pending matters at the courts.She made the rem...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:18hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
Former Health Minister's PA arrested
A former personal assistant to sacked Health and Child Care Minister Obadiah Moyo was arrested yesterday on allegations of criminal abuse of office. Gideon Mapokotera was picked at 2.30pm yest...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 06:52hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Mayor charged for land corruption
HARARE mayor and Ward 17 councillor Jacob Mafume was Wednesday arrested and charged of criminal abuse of office arising allegedly from the allocation of two residential stands in Westlea without follo...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:30hrs | 1408 | by Staff reporter
Top cop challenges Sacu constitutionality
COMMISSIONER Douglas Jabulani Nyakutsikwa yesterday challenged the constitutionality of the Special Anti-Corruption Unit (Sacu) following his arrest on allegations of abusing his office to get three s...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:23hrs | 804 | by Staff reporter
Harare mayor Mafume arrested
HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume was yesterday arrested for criminal abuse of office involving illegal parcelling of residential stands. National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyath...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:11hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe PhD: Court sets aside full week for Nyagura trial
CHIEF magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi has set aside a full week for the trial of former University of Zimbabwe (UZ) vicechancellor Levi Nyagura, who is being accused of unprocedurally awarding former Fi...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:45hrs | 3398 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF attends to demolition of houses
ZANU PF national Political Commissar Victor Matemadanda yesterday continued with interactive meetings with Harare South residents where he received concerns regarding the regularisation of their stand...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:41hrs | 817 | by Staff reporter
Cops in US$6,000 bribery storm
Three police officers stationed at the Braeside Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Harare reportedly demanded US$6 000 from a suspect they had arrested for illegally possessing 3 000 bottles o...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:40hrs | 711 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's batty sore losers
WE RECKON that even Donald Trump - the fibs-addicted, master of conspiracies and troubled outgoing leader of the United States of America - would marvel at the level of lying that has followed the iss...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 21:40hrs | 292 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's corruption crack team targets Chiwenga?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his political fixers are trying to nail Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga over his ally, Deputy health minister John Mangwiro's scandal of coercing state-owned medic...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:56hrs | 19702 | by Staff reporter
Guvamombe seeks acquittal
FORMER chief magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe has applied for acquittal after the state closed its case in a case in which he is facing criminal abuse of office and defeating the course of justice charges...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:55hrs | 1121 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe son in-law's trial postponed to next year
THE trial date for Simba Chikore, the late former President Robert Mugabe's son-in-law, who is facing charges of flouting tender regulations, has been slated for January 18 next year.Chikore, ...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:37hrs | 2874 | by Staff reporter
We are not enemies of the State, says Majongwe
DIVISIONS rocked teachers unions recently over salary negotiations with government following a workers' strike which lasted for about two months. Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) ...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:36hrs | 1009 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's son in-law back in court
FORMER Air Zimbabwe chief operations officer and the late former President Mugabe's son-in-law Simba Chikore has been summoned back in court to answer to allegations of hiring security services from S...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 17:31hrs | 651 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's son-in-law back in court
FORMER Air Zimbabwe chief operations officer and the late former President Mugabe's son-in-law Simba Chikore has been summoned back in court to answer to allegations of hiring security services from S...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 14:43hrs | 3114 | by Staff Reporter
Defiant teachers receive threats
TEACHERS yesterday claimed that were being threatened a Zanu-PF-sponsored group led by Martin Mazivisa.Mazivisa fronts a shadowy parents union called Zimbabwe Parents Union (ZPU), which has be...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 05:11hrs | 2392 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa wants action against 'dictators'
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa says institutions such as the African Union (AU) must take a tough stance against leaders on the continent that abuse human rights, including killing peaceful pro...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 05:01hrs | 1086 | by Staff reporter
Zacc charges dead official
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) last week arrested former Gweru Town Clerk, Daniel Matawu on allegations of corruption involving stands worth more than US$78 000 which were illegally so...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:44hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
Father murders epileptic son
AS cases of child killings and kidnappings continue to rise, police have arrested a 38-year-old man from Rusape for allegedly killing his epileptic son.National Police Spokesperson Assistant C...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:38hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
Hope fades in Zimbabwe 3 years after Mugabe's ouster
ZIMBABWE'S former leader Robert Mugabe stepped down on November 21, 2017, bringing an end to nearly four decades of iron-fisted rule.His resignation came days after military tanks rolled throu...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:34hrs | 629 | by AFP
MDC-T Masvingo turns against Khupe, Mwonzora
The Thokozani Khupe led MDC-T Masvingo province has nominated Elias Mudzuri as their presidential candidate for the forthcoming extraordinary congress slatted for December despite there being an inter...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:28hrs | 7077 | by Staff reporter
'Govt must compensate for lost pension earnings'
GOVERNMENT and insurance companies have an obligation to compensate pensioners who lost the true value of their pension savings in two consecutive periods of hyperinflation, 2008 to 2009 and 2019, law...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:20hrs | 290 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to establish body to handle complaints against army, police
Zimbabwe says it will introduce a bill in parliament establishing an independent complaints body to investigate public complaints against soldiers and police officers.A constitution adopted in...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:19hrs | 227 | by Mutongi Gava
Shocking tollgates, licensing fees hike
THE Government has adjusted vehicle tolling and licensing fees keeping in line with the prevailing economic situation and to ensure that the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) adequately s...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:00hrs | 960 | by Staff reporter
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