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Credibility of Ramaphosa's Zimbabwe envoys under scrutiny
The credibility of the South African envoys appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa to engage the Zimbabwe government and other stakeholders following the unfolding humanitarian crisis in the country h...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:19hrs | 1323 | by Staff reporter
GNU best way out of Zimbabwe crisis
UNITED Kingdom-based lawyer and blogger Alex Magaisa last month published a list of beneficiaries of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) farm mechanisation programme, that included cabinet ministers, Z...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:06hrs | 1897 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's controversial baker reported to ZACC for stealing Bulawayo maize
Controversial Midlands miller Douglas Kwande has again invited limelight after Bulawayo whistleblowers wrote a letter to Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission complaining that he has been fraudulently b...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 15:37hrs | 9298 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Charge against Mphoko vague and embarrassing, says Magistrate
A HARARE magistrate has ruled that charges levelled against former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko are vague and embarrassing.Mphoko is facing criminal abuse of office charges, where he alle...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:27hrs | 5969 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's address of the nation inhumane: MDA leader
Mthwakazi Democratic Alliance leader Hloniphani Ncube has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa's utterances on the so called state of the nation address are inhuman, not presidential material, incisive a...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 08:38hrs | 1006 | by Stephen Jakes
Zim signs US$3.5bn White Settler Farmer Deal! Betrayal of Chimurenga!
White Colonial Settlers are going to be compensated by Zimbabweans for land developments they made on the land prior to Land reform exercise. Poor peasants with no land rights to their own pieces of l...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:49hrs | 367 | by Ms Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
Govt tightens screws on urban councils
GOVERNMENT has tightened screws on all urban councils, demanding information on all residential stands acquired by councillors as it moves to unearth land scandals.In a letter dated July 27 an...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:20hrs | 994 | by Staff reporter
Fuel smuggling ring busted
Multiple fuel smuggling scams are being run in Zimbabwe with cheap fuel being smuggled from Mozambique, sometimes mislabelled to avoid customs duty, and sold or re-exported for hard currency while fue...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:47hrs | 778 | by Staff reporter
ZSE reopens amid $240m loss
THE Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) will resume trading tomorrow after a month-long government shutdown that saw the bourse losing at least $240 million in potential revenue.On June 29, the gove...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:21hrs | 346 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe election system free and fair and adopted by the world.
Despite the negative publicity Zimbabwe receives from only the west its electoral system has actually been adopted by so many countries and this model is now used worldwide. The concept of election ob...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 21:23hrs | 3229 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mugabe's relative jailed for swindling soldier, cop
A CHINHOYI magistrate has convicted a close relative to late former president Robert Mugabe for defrauding a couple of US$4 300 in a botched land deal.Ruvengo Jenami (45), who was facing a fra...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:42hrs | 442 | by Staff reporter
Gilbert Muponda conned
A director of Oxcom Trading Private Limited Company, which is into commodity brokering, yesterday appeared in court facing allegations of conning businessman Mr Gilbert Muponda of his business premise...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 09:16hrs | 1228 | by Staff reporter
Criminal charges opened against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz (FL-01) filed a criminal referral against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for making materially false statements to Congress while under oath during two joint hearings in Cong...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 14:12hrs | 1911 | by Matt Gaetz
July 31st: The Strategy
The opposition parties in Zimbabwe are pathetic at best - they lack imagination to achieve anything of worth for the country. July 31, 2020 protests are a case in point - I am sorry to say but the opp...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:12hrs | 7557 | by Sam Wezhira
'Gono must be arrested'
ZAPU has called for the arrest of former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono and the simultaneous setting up of a commission of inquiry into the extravagant Farm Mechanisation Programm...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 19:44hrs | 2806 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe defence ministry official dies suddenly on eve of US$20m fraud trial
The central figure in a fraud case involving more than US$20 million allegedly siphoned from Zimbabwe's ministry of defence died a day before he was due in court.Peter Muchakazi, 56, an army p...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 19:30hrs | 3366 | by Staff reporter
Govt body in vehicle scam
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is investigating top officials at the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ), who allegedly sold cars belonging to the organisations in violation of s...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:00hrs | 607 | by Staff reporter
Farm mechanisation scandal must be investigated: ZAPU
Whereas ZAPU is the pioneer advocate for good governance and rule of law;Whereas the mother party abhors a government with no ethics, transparency and accountability;Whereas ...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:56hrs | 156 | by Iphithule Maphosa
UZ investigates fake documents ring
If you have "qualified" employees that are proving to be incompetent, you have every reason to cross-check the authenticity of their qualifications.It is possible for a person who has never se...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:54hrs | 1240 | by Staff reporter
Graca Machel Trust speaks on Hopewell Chin'ono's fraud allegations
Graca Machel Trust has dismissed reports by some social media users who are accusing Award winning journalist Hopewell Chin'ono of fleecing unsuspecting students through a botched scholarship fund. ...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 11:29hrs | 11882 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zinef condemns arrest of Chin'ono
Zinef has issued a statement castigating arresting of investigative journalist Hopewell Chin'ono as targeting at silencing the voice of reason in exposing deep-rooted corruption. Below is the ...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 07:47hrs | 377 | by Stephen Jakes
UN warns Zimbabwe against using pandemic for clampdown
The UN's high commissioner for human rights on Friday warned Zimbabwe against using the coronavirus pandemic as a pretext for restricting freedoms, after an investigative journalist and an opposition ...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 19:33hrs | 3817 | by AFP
Khupe has failed MDC-T
MEDIA reports indicate that the MDC-T acting president Thokozani Khupe plans to approach the Supreme Court to seek extension of her tenure at the helm of the opposition party without holding the extra...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:05hrs | 1484 | by Kennedy Kaitano
Chamisa's lawyer challenges placement on remand
A Harare magistrate is this week expected to make a ruling on whether or not lawyer, Thabani Mpofu, should remain on remand until his criminal case is finalised.Mpofu is facing charges of corr...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 17:47hrs | 6727 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga wins US$283,000 debt row
A HARARE couple has withdrawn its petition for civil imprisonment against South Africa-based businessman, Frank Buyanga over a 2016 debt of US$283 000. Tawanda Jakachira and his wife Winnie ha...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:01hrs | 1217 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe Kazembe reported to ZACC over NetOne saga
Pressure group Chapter 2 Movement and Abantwana BoMzabalazo (Children of ZPRA Veterans) have written a joint complaint to the Chairperson of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission Justice Loice M...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 15:53hrs | 3904 | by Mandla Ndlovu
#July31 and #Zanupfmustgo: Another failed political heist in the making
The 31st July movement which is being propelled mainly by Jonathan Moyo and his G40 associates is another failed political heist in the making, after all else has failed to unseat, a duly elected gove...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 13:59hrs | 2608 | by Zvinyaningwe Mangwiro
Welshman Ncube, Khupe also benefitted from RBZ looting programme
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: THE 2007/8 Farm Mechanisation Programme was above board: Taxpayers not saddled with the Bill.First of all, I must express my prima-facie disappointment with my bro...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:24hrs | 7386 | by Dr Gideon Gono
Gono confronts Tsvangirai's ex-advisor
FORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor, Gideon Gono was Saturday forced to defend his controversial Farm Mechanisation Programme, insisting the dishing out of millions of public funds to senior Zanu...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:27hrs | 6139 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe headed for upheaval, report says
WITH security forces having seized control of economic and financial policy at a time of shrinking GDP and skyrocketing inflation, Zimbabwe is facing its worst crisis in more than a decade.Bas...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:23hrs | 16741 | by Elliot Smith
Fresh onslaught against EcoCash
Police have issued a warrant against Econet Wireless to hand over a list of its EcoCash subscribers and transactions as part of an investigation into allegedmoney laundering.According to a...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:22hrs | 2590 | by Staff reporter
Duo arrested over forged papers
Two clearing agents at Forbes border post in Mutare yesterday appeared in court facing fraud charges for failing to pay uS$62 000 in duty to the Zimbabwe revenue Authority (Zimra).Malvern Mugo...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:22hrs | 1009 | by Staff reporter
Gono clarifies farm mechanisation
GOVERNMENT'S Farm Mechanisation Programme undertaken between 2007 and 2008 was not a loan scheme and beneficiaries were not required to pay for the equipment they received, former Reserve Bank of Zimb...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:17hrs | 671 | by Staff reporter
Econet faces black market, externalising forex charges
THE country's biggest mobile money provider, Econet Wireless was allegedly involved in black market activities between January and June which saw the company crediting huge sums of money to "runners" ...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:47hrs | 3413 | by Staff Reporter
Open Letter to Mnangagwa, MPs, Army...
Dear, PRESIDENT, Speaker of Parliament, Chief Justice, Ministers, Members of Pa...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:17hrs | 14233 | by Leonard Koni
Chinotimba roasts Chipinge Town Secretary
Buhera South MP, Joseph Chinotimba who suspects that Chipinge Town Engineer resigned in a huff last month to escape prosecution over scandals involving devolution funds went ballistic during a Parliam...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 21:27hrs | 3572 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga escapes jail
HIGH Court judge, Mary Zimba Dube has put to an end a long-running legal feud between controversial businessman Frank Buyanga and a Harare couple over a US$282 640 debt.Since 2016, Tawanda and...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:43hrs | 1188 | by newzimbabwe
Police to seize Econet database?
POLICE have obtained a court warrant of search and seizure of financial records and subscription database of the country's leading mobile phone network, Econet Wireless, following accusations the comp...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:40hrs | 1227 | by newzimbabwe
Police boss, prosecutor arrested over stands scam
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption (Zacc) has arrested a police boss and a regional prosecutor implicated in the Harare City Council (HCC)'s Kuwadzana stands scam involving council employees.Police ...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:45hrs | 631 | by Staff reporter
Specialist doctors threaten strike
A MASSIVE health crisis is looming in Zimbabwe after specialist doctors yesterday threatened to down tools if their demands were not met in the next two weeks.The doctors said they would join ...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:44hrs | 1037 | by Staff reporter
ZACC arrests 4 police officers; magistrate over massive Harare land scam
Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) three police officers, a magistrate and a prosecutor over a major City of Harare tender scam, an online publication Zimmorning Post has reported. Acc...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 10:51hrs | 6868 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Man defrauded by forex dealer faces arrest
A Bulawayo man is facing arrest after he reported that he was defrauded of $120 000 by an illegal forex dealer.Police told Allan Majaha Sibanda that he had also committed a crime by illegally ...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 08:45hrs | 3847 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko, son sue Chamisa's deputy over cash row
ZIMBABWE'S former majority shareholders in Botswana-based multinational grocery and general merchandiser, Choppies Enterprises, are suing politician and lawyer Welshman Ncube, for allegedly withholdin...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 08:42hrs | 5883 | by Staff reporter
Khupe pummels Chamisa faction
ACTING MDC leader Thokozani Khupe, pictured, and her team are unrelenting in their assaults on Nelson Chamisa and his top allies - signalling yesterday that they are now planning to sack 30 more party...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:53hrs | 11397 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi Nation's Address - MLF
Revolutionary greetings to you all, in all corners of earth. I hope you are doing well and are safe from the coronavirus.Fellow Mthwakazi citizens, this has been one challenging quarter of the...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 15:19hrs | 1938 | by MLF
Chamisa's 51 MPs drag Khupe to court
FIFTY-ONE die-hard MDC Alliance legislators have approached the High Court en masse seeking an interdict to stop their recall from Parliament by the rival camp led by Thokozani Khupe, saying they woul...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 08:18hrs | 6811 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya in stands scam
HUNDREDS of Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries followers recently besieged their leader Prophet Walter Magaya's offices in Cape Town, South Africa, demanding refunds following a botche...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:20hrs | 1127 | by Staff Reporter
Police hunt for 6 Harare council employees
DETECTIVES from the Commercial Crimes Division have launched a manhunt for six Harare City Council employees who are at large over the US$1 million Kuwadzana stands scam involving director of human re...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:13hrs | 3869 | by Staff reporter
Muchenje reinstated and fired as NetOne CEO
NetOne chief executive officer Mr Lazarus Muchenje's turbulent tenure at the helm of the State-owned mobile telecommunications company ended dramatically yesterday after he was fired barely 24 hours a...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:02hrs | 1114 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo instigating mass uprising in Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party on Monday accused exiled former minister Jonathan Moyo of agitating for "mass uprising" in the country and called for his extradition from Kenya.Zanu-PF secreta...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:58hrs | 3729 | by Staff reporter
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