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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: 23 hrs ago | 795 | by Staff reporter
Council top brass in US$8m binge
FORMER Harare City council top brass are facing arrest for illegally authorising over US$8 million in packages for managers and splashing millions on allowances, personal vehicles and holidays that mi...Published: 23 hrs ago | 612 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti probe continues
Police are continuing investigations into the assault case involving MDC Alliance vice president, Tendai Biti, who allegedly manhandled a woman at Harare Magistrates Court during a heated exchange. ...Published: 23 hrs ago | 410 | by Staff reporter
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 | 6672 | by Staff reporter
Vehicle supply syndicate exposed
A syndicate comprising vehicle suppliers and senior procurement officials in various State institutions has been milking millions of dollars from state coffers through murky and inflated vehicle suppl...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 18:23hrs | 3725 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa threatens to cut loose errant Zanu-PF bigwigs
A LIVID President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned Zanu-PF bigwigs to be loyal to the party or risk being cut loose, as he bids to contain growing divisions in the former liberation movement.Addr...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 17:18hrs | 6375 | by Staff reporter
RBZ swoops on foreign entities
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has launched an investigation into the conduct of at least 15 foreign-owned companies, which have allegedly externalised millions of United States dollars, according...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:07hrs | 4351 | 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
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 | 19704 | by Staff reporter
Govt investigates corona donations
AUTHORITIES are launching a nationwide probe into donated coronavirus funds and other materials, amid fears that significant portions of these gifts were looted by politically-connected individuals, t...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 06:01hrs | 667 | by Staff reporter
Tension remains high in Zanu-PF
POLITICAL temperatures remain high in Zanu-PF as party bigwigs jostle to lead the former liberation movement's provincial structures.The polls for the influential positions will take place soon af...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 19:04hrs | 2176 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo lashes out at MDC Alliance
Exiled former cabinet minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has dismissed the opposition MDC Alliance (MDC-A) report on its investigations into the Bulawayo provincial women assembly chair Tendai Masotsha'...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 05:25hrs | 10785 | by Staff reporter
Red Cross boss fires subordinates 'for exposing corruption'
ZIMBABWE Red Cross Society (ZRCS) acting secretary-general Elias Hwenga yesterday appeared before a Harare magistrate facing charges of obstructing or defeating the course of justice after he allegedl...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:26hrs | 907 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga political tussling escalates
A FIERCE row has erupted between the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) and the Special Anti-Corruption Unit (Sacu) over the manner in which investigations are being handled, relating to alleg...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:17hrs | 10484 | by Staff reporter
Justice Ndewere tribunal sworn in
A three-member tribunal led by retired judge Justice Simbi Mubako was sworn in yesterday by President Mnangagwa to inquire into the fitness of suspended High Court judge, Justice Erica Ndewere, to hol...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 06:48hrs | 1323 | by Staff reporter
Amazing astronomical discoveries that changed our vision of space
Today, we might be living in a period that could eventually be called the beginning of space exploration era. One space company after another is working to make ...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 20:12hrs | 774 | by Staff writer
Mnangagwa urges Zanu-PF vigilance on Chamisa's councils
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged his Zanu-PF party to monitor corruption by MDC Alliance dominated local authorities.He was addressing a Mashonaland East Provincial Coordinating Committe...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 13:50hrs | 2207 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wants everyone to expose corruption
The Zanu-PF leadership must help Government to closely monitor local authorities using devolution funds and expose corruption as well as poor service delivery, President Mnangagwa has said. Ad...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:43hrs | 351 | by Staff reporter
Justice Ndewere seeks second recusal
SUSPENDED High Court Judge Justice Erica Ndewere, who is facing a tribunal over her suitability to continue as a judge, wants the judge assigned to hear her application challenging her suspension to r...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:40hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
Judge tells Mnangagwa to probe CJ Malaba
HIGH Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere has asked President Emmerson Mnangagwa to probe the conduct of Chief Justice Luke Malaba, arguing his interference with judges' independence was a danger to the ...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 06:37hrs | 4500 | by Staff reporter
Police intensify Ginimbi death probe
NATIONAL police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi yesterday said they were intensifying investigations into the death of socialite and businessman Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure who died in ...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:43hrs | 4009 | by Staff reporter
Fifa begins probe on match fixing claims raised by top Zimbabwean ref
WORLD football governing body Fifa have begun formal investigations on the match fixing allegations raised by top referee Allen Basvi in which he accuses a member of the Zifa Refereess Committee of us...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:41hrs | 719 | by Staff reporter
Police besiege suspended judge
POLICE stormed suspended High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere's Harare house before withdrawing her security details under controversial circumstances yesterday.A truckload of plainclothes p...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:41hrs | 2363 | by Staff reporter
Govt probes land deals in Bulawayo
THE Government probe team that was recently in Bulawayo, was among other things, tasked with investigating whether Bulawayo City Council officials or councillors were taking bribes in the sale of coun...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:12hrs | 327 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC still probing party official over abduction gang link
REPORT on the investigation of suspended MDC Alliance senior member, Tendai Masotsha, who is alleged to have been involved in the abduction of journalism student Tawanda Muchehiwa, is yet to be made p...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:43hrs | 408 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa suspends defiant Justice Ndewere
High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere yesterday locked herself in her office and refused to accept her letter of suspension after President Mnangagwa, following recommendations from the Judicial Serv...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:27hrs | 712 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo cash heist probe stepped up
Police yesterday said they were still working out how much money was stolen by six armed robbers who attacked two security guards delivering Zupco's weekend cash collections at CBZ Eighth Avenue Branc...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:22hrs | 677 | by Staff reporter
Judge recuses self in Ndewere case
High Court judge, Justice Davison Foroma, has recused himself from the case in which a fellow judge is seeking to interdict President Mnangagwa from setting up a tribunal to investigate her for allege...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:21hrs | 542 | by Staff reporter
Probe exonerates Rushwaya
A PROBE into the alleged secret nostro accounts allegedly held by suspended Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) boss Henrietta Rushwaya has absolved the former football administrator of any wrongdoing....Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 05:50hrs | 2694 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs in a state of shock
MANIC Zanu-PF youths wielding machetes recently ran amok in the Midlands - assaulting party bigwigs and police officers, while also sowing terror among supporters of the former liberation movement in ...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 17:44hrs | 1472 | by Staff reporter
Violence leaves Zanu-PF bigwigs in shock
Zanu PF youths wielding machetes recently ran amok in the Midlands - assaulting party bigwigs and police officers, while also sowing terror among supporters of the party. High profile people w...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 08:08hrs | 7447 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa led City council in US$1bn tender storm
THE Harare City Council attempted to award water and sewage contracts worth close to US$1 billion to four Chinese firms without going to tender, available information suggests.The council's fi...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:37hrs | 1358 | by Staff reporter
Zacc uncovers rot in BCC land allocation and sales
MORE arrests over corruption are imminent at Bulawayo City Council (BCC) and other local authorities following a series of investigations on land allocation and sales by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption C...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:21hrs | 623 | by Staff reporter
Justice Ndewere seeks to interdict tribunal
The High Court is today expected to hear the application by Justice Erica Ndewere for an interim interdict to halt the setting up of a tribunal by President Mnangagwa to investigate her judicial condu...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:17hrs | 298 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers call for Chief Justice Malaba probe
Chief Justice Luke Malaba brought "disgrace" to the bench after sitting in an appeal court where his judgement was being challenged, lawyers have said.The incident, back in 2016, has been desc...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 06:21hrs | 1834 | by Staff reporter
AG probes MDC activist's illegal detention
ATTORNEY-GENERAL Prince Machaya has reportedly launched a probe into the unlawful arrest and detention of MDC Alliance youth leader Godfrey Kurauone.In a statement yesterday, the Zimbabwe Lawy...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:30hrs | 902 | by Staff reporter
JSC recommends tribunal to probe justice Ndewere
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has recommended a tribunal to investigate whether or not High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere was fit to hold office after discovering she was not clearing her ...Published: 26 Oct 2020 at 06:40hrs | 745 | by Staff reporter
The political economy of corruption
As a cancer inherent in varying degrees of intensity across the globe, corruption is an integral part of the political economy of world capitalism.So, the capitals of the western world lie at ...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 08:24hrs | 1891 | by Ibbo Mandaza
Chiyangwa's farm ownership exposed after 'illegal settlers' evictions
THE eviction this week of dozens of families that had settled on Old Citrus Farm in Chinhoyi, controversially owned by property mogul Phillip Chiyangwa, has exposed the local municipality's complicity...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 07:56hrs | 3460 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa wants Matanga probed for corruption
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa (Independent) has pleaded with the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga for alleged corruption and abuse of offi...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:37hrs | 1402 | by Staff reporter
Investigator nails CID boss
AN INVESTIGATOR in the case involving Stephen Kuwaza, 42, the officer-in-charge of police Theft From Car department - arrested for allegedly interfering with a witness in the probe against suspended C...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:17hrs | 2863 | by Staff reporter
Top cop took residential stand as bribe to drop probe
A senior police officer faced bribery allegations on Wednesday as he was released on Z$10,000 bail by a Harare magistrate.Chief Superintendent Joseph Josphat Mutipforo allegedly received a bri...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:41hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF battle lines drawn as ZACC closes in on Chiwenga ally
Factional battle lines are drawn in Zanu-PF over the fate of John Mangwiro, the deputy minister of health who is the subject of a corruption probe by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC)....Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:19hrs | 2969 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga ally in COVID-19 fraud?
THE probe on Health deputy minister John Mangwiro over an alleged US$5,6 million COVID-19 tender scam has become a proxy for the factional fights ravaging the ruling Zanu-PF party, with dog fights ove...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:31hrs | 6597 | by Staff reporter
US$5,6m COVID-19 tender scandal
THE probe on Health deputy minister John Mangwiro over an alleged US$5,6 million COVID-19 tender scam has become a proxy for the factional fights ravaging the ruling Zanu-PF party, with dog fights ove...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:23hrs | 927 | by Staff reporter
Zacc finalising probe into Obadiah Moyo
Just one more document is now required by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission to complete its case against former Health and Child Care Minister Dr Obadiah Moyo before handing over the matter to t...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 06:50hrs | 1044 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must openly apologise for Gukurahundi'
Victims of Gukurahundi have dared President Emmerson Mnangagwa to openly apologise for the massacre of approximately 20 000 innocent civilians, arguing that half-hearted approaches such as the issuanc...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 21:22hrs | 920 | by Staff reporter
Zacc opens corona supplies graft probe against Mangwiro
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has opened an investigation into deputy Health minister John Mangwiro over allegations that he arm-twisted the National Pharmaceutical Company (Natpharm)...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 20:54hrs | 1368 | by Staff reporter
Probe into Gwanda goat deaths launched
AUTHORITIES have launched an investigation into mysterious deaths of goats in Makwe area, Ward 8 in Gwanda. A team comprising officials from Gwanda Rural District Council, Zimbabwe National Pa...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 06:43hrs | 1057 | by Staff reporter
If ZANU PF were the opposition, wouldn't they see a crisis in Zimbabwe?
My most trusted dictionary defines 'crisis' as, "An unstable situation, in political, social, economic, or military affairs".Over the past three months, Zimbabwe - as well as regional and glob...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 10:16hrs | 1752 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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