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US's Fort Detrick biolab cited as an origin of the Covid-19 pandemic
The Chinese foreign ministry has backed calls for an investigation into the Fort Detrick biolab as an origin of the Covid-19 pandemic after 4.7 million Chinese petitioned the WHO to send experts to th...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 17:36hrs | 2511 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa dissolves Bulawayo structures
THE MDC Alliance Commission of Inquiry set up to probe infighting rocking the party's Bulawayo structures has recommended that the party's provincial executive should be dissolved and replaced by a fo...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 08:19hrs | 2727 | by Staff reporter
Zimra executives in US$585m tax evasion corruption scam
CORRUPTION skeletons involving a series of multi-billion-dollar tax evasion scandals are tumbling out of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) cupboard amid a new corruption scam involving Chinese di...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 11:17hrs | 2779 | by Staff reporter
Families of apartheid victims call for FW de Klerk to face law for involvement
With the National Prosecuting Authority having recently committed a new specialist unit to probe apartheid-era atrocities dating from the 1960s to the 1980s, family members of apartheid victims have c...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 11:37hrs | 1364 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe says administrators rescued the insolvent airline
AIR Zimbabwe administrators Grant Thornton, whose term of office came to an end last week when government appointed a six-member board, saved the airline from litigious creditors and set the troubled ...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 15:26hrs | 751 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance factionalism report kept under wraps
THE MDC Alliance is yet to release a report on deeply en-trenched factionalism rocking its Bulawayo structures almost a month after a five-member probe team submitted its findings. The party's...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 08:02hrs | 1635 | by Staff reporter
Malaba case: Judgment reserved
THE Constitutional Court yesterday heard the arguments for nullifying the High Court decision that disqualified Chief Justice Luke Malaba from exercising a new constitutional right to extend his term ...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 07:49hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
NetOne Launches OneAlbum
A musical feast was served as the country's first cellular network operator NetOne unveiled a compilation album titled One World....Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 17:36hrs | 272 | by Simbarashe Sithole
US$3,5m vehicle scandal rocks govt
INDUSTRY and Commerce ministry officials are allegedly corruptly issuing import licences for second-hand vehicles while import licence books valued at US$3,5 million have vanished over the past two mo...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:24hrs | 1732 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean bowler Kaia under ICC probe
AFTER a forgettable performance in the one-off Test match, where he was dismissed for a pair of ducks, the week could not get any worse for Zimbabwe cricket team player Roy Kaia.This is after ...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:26hrs | 171 | by Staff reporter
ConCourt judges to decide on Chief Justice Malaba
The Constitutional Court will now decide the validity of the High Court order blocking Chief Justice Luke Malaba from opting under the Constitution to stay in office for an additional five years after...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:12hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
Police probe cross border bus firm
Police have launched investigations into the circumstances that saw a Sables bus passing through all police checkpoints from Beitbridge to Marondera before it was impounded.The concern is that...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 06:56hrs | 1019 | by Staff Reporter
Constitutional Court judges to decide on Chief Justice Malaba
The Constitutional Court will now decide the validity of the High Court order blocking Chief Justice Luke Malaba from opting under the Constitution to stay in office for an additional five years after...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 06:53hrs | 2042 | by Staff Reporter
Fired judge hands over unfinished cases
FORMER High Court judge Erica Ndewere, who was fired for incompetence, has handed over six cases she was handling to the acting Judge President, Mary Zimba-Dube.Ndewere was fired by President ...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 20:42hrs | 2522 | by Staff reporter
Swaziland born lawyer demands Tagwirei probe
TOP Harare, Beatrice Mtetwa, written to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Committee (ZACC) calling for the investigation of tycoon Kuda Tagwirei's alleged shady dealings following the exposition last week ...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 10:52hrs | 1629 | by Staff reporter
RBZ probes Pakistani tycoon's gold licence
RESERVE Bank Governor John Mangudya Monday said the central bank would investigate circumstance under which controversial Pakistani tycoon, Ali Mohamad managed to renew his gold-buying licence at a ti...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 10:55hrs | 608 | by Staff reporter
Why Bulawayo service delivery is collapsing
LONG-TOUTED as the best-run local authority in the country, the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is failing to offer efficient services as seen by collapsing water and sewer infrastructure, failureto f...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 14:33hrs | 653 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans paying more than necessary for Covid tests
ZIMBABWEANS are forking out way above what should be logically reasonable, up to over 100% more than their neighbouring South Africans for similar Covid-19 tests.Laboratories and some private ...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 14:51hrs | 293 | by staff reportr
Chinese firm to fix Zimbabwe’s troubled aviation system
A Chinese multi-national, China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), has just signed a contract worth close to US$5 million to fix Zimbabwe's troubled aviation air communication systems despite a flawe...Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 17:09hrs | 828 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance Bulawayo in fresh turmoil
THE MDC Alliance (MDC-A) has deployed an investigating committee to probe the party's Bulawayo provincial chairperson James Sithole, following a vote of noconfidence passed by the provincial youth ass...Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 07:43hrs | 685 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls town clerk under probe
A GOVERNMENT probe team has opened investigations on suspended Victoria Falls town clerk Ronnie Dube, who faces charges of gross incompetence.However, mayor Somveli Dlamini argued that the all...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 11:03hrs | 402 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt goes after lawyers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has torched another storm after his top aide sensationally claimed that some white-run law firms affiliated to the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) were being used as conduit...Published: 23 Jun 2021 at 07:25hrs | 1221 | by Staff Reporter
High Court Sheriff under probe
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has launched investigations into High Court Sherriff McDuff Madega over several cases in which he is alleged to have illegally sold properties attached b...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:16hrs | 534 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe debt assumption promotes corruption
ZIMBABWEAN taxpayers continue to be burdened by debt from parastatals which are riddled with mismanagement and corruption, with the latest being the assumption of Air Zimbabwe's huge debt, as governme...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 15:04hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
Justice Ndewere fired
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has fired High Court judge, Justice Erica Ndewere, after a tribunal set up to inquire into her suitability to hold a judicial office recommended that she be removed from the bench ...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 07:15hrs | 1754 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa chucked out of Parly for calling Ziyambi 'murderer'
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa was Wednesday chucked out of the NationalAssembly after alleging Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi had visited traditional and faith healers with the aim of killing....Published: 17 Jun 2021 at 06:07hrs | 1982 | by Staff reporter
Mudzuri probe latest
Police have intensified investigations into the case in which MDC-T vice president Elias Mudzuri is being accused of murdering a 23-year-old-man at his Duriro Bar in Harare last week.The Crimi...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 17:14hrs | 1966 | by Staff reporter
NetOne board members face Sacu probe
FORMER NetOne chief executive Lazarus Muchenje has written to the Special AntiCorruption Unit (Sacu) requesting that it launches a probe against the telecommunications firm's board members.Muc...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 07:57hrs | 784 | by Staff reporter
Malaba demands JSC probe
UNDERFIRE Chief Justice (CJ) Luke Malaba has reportedly ordered an investigation into circumstances leading to a private meeting between Judicial Service Commission (JSC) head of secretariat Walter Ch...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 07:24hrs | 3201 | by Staff reporter
Malaba saga: Judicial Service Commission probes its secretary
THE Judicial Service Commission on instructions from Chief Justice Luke Malaba is investigating the alleged meeting of its secretary, Mr Walter Chikwana, with one of the judges assigned to hear the ap...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 07:10hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa purges SA Health minister Zweli Mkhize
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has placed Health minister Zweli Mkhize on special leave."This period of special leave will enable the minister to attend to allegations and investigat...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 07:09hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter
Constituency petitions Biti to account for CDF
Residents of Harare East are up in arms against their legislator, Mr Tendai Biti, over alleged misappropriation of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF).Members of Parliament, Mr Bit include...Published: 07 Jun 2021 at 22:44hrs | 912 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T led council faces probe over poor service
THE Local government ministry has deployed a four-member team to investigate the MDC-T-led Marondera municipality following complaints about corruption and mismanagement.the probe was triggere...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 10:05hrs | 246 | by Staff reporter
Graft-accused Biti not off the hook
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is still investigating MDC-A vice president Mr Tendai Biti over allegations he instructed the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) to deposit over U...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 09:51hrs | 180 | by Staff reporter
Cops recover 3 tonnes of mbanje
Police have arrested six suspects in separate incidents, recovering nearly three tonnes of mbanje and 75 bottles of banned BronCleer cough mixture as they intensify the crackdown against drug peddlers...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 06:51hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Prosecutor quits as Zacc probe starts
BULAWAYO prosecutor Thobekani Nyathi, who was implicated in an alleged corrupt activity involving principal public prosecutor Chris Mutangadura, reportedly resigned after the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption ...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 07:23hrs | 1599 | by Staff report
2 arrested in 1 080kg mbanje haul
TWO male suspects were yesterday arrested in Mutare after they were found in possession of 1 080kg of dagga.Police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the incident....Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 07:22hrs | 699 | by Staff report
'Probe Gukurahundi genocide mass grave desecration'
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission has been asked to investigate the alleged desecration of Gukurahundi mass graves particularly at Bhalagwe memorial site in Kezi, Matabeleland South pro...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 07:18hrs | 536 | by Staff report
MPs probe Dinde project
THE parliamentary portfolio committee on environment, tourism and climate recently descended on Dinde in Hwange district on a fact-finding mission following a petition by villagers that sought to bloc...Published: 30 May 2021 at 09:02hrs | 234 | by Staff reporter
Zambia hurtling towards contested elections
THERE is something to a name after all, it seems.The late "King Cobra", Michael Sata, broke away from the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) and formed his own party, the Patriotic Front...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:55hrs | 433 | by Staff reporter
Govt fumes over 'dead' council projects
GOVERNMENT has said it is working tirelessly to resurrect "dead projects" and recover abused public funds which it will channel towards developmental projects in the capital, Harare.Harare has...Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:43hrs | 153 | by Staff reporter
Chief magistrate defends 'Mnangagwa laptop thieves' bail
CHIEF Magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi has said the daring thieves who stole a copy of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's 2020 Independence Day speech and a laptop were granted bail because warrants of arres...Published: 27 May 2021 at 07:16hrs | 469 | by Staff reporter
Chinese project fans Zanu-PF factionalism
Chinese coal mining upstart Beifa Investments Private Limited has stepped up coal exploration around Dinde in Hwange despite sustained community objections as the acrimonious relationship between the ...Published: 23 May 2021 at 07:47hrs | 854 | by Staff reporter
'Lands ministry haven for corruption cartels'
A GOVERNMENT investigation, whose preliminary findings have been submitted to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has exposed rampant corruption at the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resett...Published: 21 May 2021 at 06:08hrs | 1469 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa under probe over Parly brawl
ZIMBABWE Gender Commission (ZGC) said it was investigating Norton MP Temba Mliswa (independent) for physically assaulting MDC Alliance Proportional Representation MP Memory Mbondiah in Parliament last...Published: 20 May 2021 at 06:36hrs | 1908 | by Staff reporter
Mr Mnangagwa, you have spoken more than you acted
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,It is with a heavy heart and a trampled soul that I write this letter to you.Since your ascendancy to power via a military-assisted coup in November...Published: 19 May 2021 at 06:47hrs | 572 | by Cliff Chiduku
A look into the incentives for exports and investment growth 'Exporting retention changes'
On the 10th of May 18, 2021, Hon Prof Mthuli Ncube published a statement on incentives for exports and investment growth, which changed the exporting companies’ retention threshold. Prima facie, the...Published: 18 May 2021 at 11:20hrs | 1138 | by Tryson G Dube
Teachers fume over Zacc extra lessons probe
TEACHERS' unions yesterday castigated the Zimbabwe Anti-corruption Commission (Zacc) for probing teachers who are conducting extra lessons, saying that it was a waste of government resources to pursue...Published: 18 May 2021 at 06:49hrs | 1140 | by Staff reporter
Businessman plunges car into river in shock suicide
THE Chegutu community is in shock following the sudden death Friday of prominent businessman Philemon Mashinge, who is said to have committed suicide by plunging his car off Mupfure River bridge....Published: 16 May 2021 at 09:42hrs | 899 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records no Covid-19 vaccine side effects
Zimbabwe has not recorded severe side effects of Covid-19 vaccines since mass inoculation began nearly four months ago.More than 571 000 people had received their first dose of the vaccine by ...Published: 16 May 2021 at 08:07hrs | 568 | by Staff Reporter
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