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Anti-graft crack team seizes $2 billion assets
A CRACK team made up of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has seized luxury homes and top-end vehicles wor...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:53hrs | 1539 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'aide' loses vehicles worth US$160,000
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has confiscated and ordered the forfeiture of vehicles worth US$160 000 owned by convicted former principal director of State residences in the Office of...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 17:56hrs | 2886 | by Staff reporter
Remembering those who made it possible, our fallen heroes
As the blood of the heroes flows beneath our freedom, reminding us that every expression of joy and every fruit of freedom was watered by the blood of our heroes. It will become history if we do not r...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 19:31hrs | 867 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Things no longer looking good at NUST
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERNSubject: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYGreetings to you Sir/MadamThings are no longer looking good at NUST. 2020 first year students have i...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 14:18hrs | 13473 | by Tapfuma Muganiwa
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 | 6473 | 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 | 676 | by Staff reporter
Where wildlife produces medical doctors
In Africa, some communities still don't have a single person who has graduated as a medical doctor. The reasons are many. It could be a lack of funds for brilliant children to further their ed...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 07:32hrs | 1908 | by Emmanuel Koro
Mnangagwa promises to punish those mired in corruption
THE government will pursue justice without fear or favour, and also severely punish criminals - including public officials linked to graft, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has said.In addition, ...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 18:18hrs | 1148 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dumps bodyguard
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has jettisoned one of his bodyguards who was implicated in an alleged gold smuggling racket.Stephen Chenjerai Tserayi, a member of the Close Unit, was suspended fo...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 17:46hrs | 5747 | by Staff reporter
Criminals around Mnangagwa will surely bring him down
ONE night in November 2017, a chubby soldier donning a red beret and military fatigues appeared on ZBC-TV. It was immediately clear something was amiss. His demeanour immediately betrayed what mischie...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:44hrs | 5965 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe firm battles to recover 'sanctions' blocked funds
Gweru-based Fuest Industrial Supplies is battling to recover US$33,414 export proceeds blocked by the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) seven years ago....Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 06:24hrs | 979 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo beauty shines at SA pageant
SOUTH Africa-based Bulawayo model Lindy Nyathi walked away victorious at the recently held Miss Witbank pageant after she was crowned Queen of Emalahleni and Best in Interview Miss Witbank model. ...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:09hrs | 1569 | by Staff reporter
ZAA SA Nominees announces as Dates are set for SA and Botswana dates
The Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) has announced the nominee and voting dates for the ZAA SA and Botswana editions which are set to be held on 5 and 11 December 2020, respectively.ZAA SA will...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 18:33hrs | 803 | by Agencies
Mnangagwa top aide's freedom bid flops
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's former top aide Douglas Tapfuma, who is serving a four-year effective jail term for criminal abuse of office, will have to endure more time behind bars after his applica...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 06:57hrs | 1707 | by Staff reporter
Jailed Mnangagwa aide might get seized vehicles
Douglas Tapfuma, the former director of state residencies, has failed in his bail application pending an appeal against his six-year imprisonment for corruption.Justice Pisirayi Kwenda of the ...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:18hrs | 700 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ex-aide's bail bid flops
JAILED former principal director of State Residences Douglas Tapfuma will appeal while serving his four-year prison term, after the High Court yesterday rejected his bid for bail pending appeal. ...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:15hrs | 741 | by Staff reporter
ZACC sends 50 corruption cases to NPA
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has sent 50 dockets to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) since January, putting it on track to reach its target of 80 prosecutions by year-end....Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:05hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's former aide appeals for bail
JAILED former President Emmerson Mnangagwa's top aide Douglas Tapfuma yesterday applied for bail pending appeal against conviction and a six-year prison term for criminal abuse of office.Tapfu...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 17:11hrs | 905 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ex-MPs lose diplomatic passports
THE government has withdrawn diplomatic passports issued to 21 MDC MPs recalled from Parliament as acting leader Thokozani Khupe continues to score victory after victory against Nelson Chamisa in the ...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 15:36hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
ZACC seizes US$8m mansions, luxury cars
TEN mansions and 22 luxury vehicles worth US$8 million were recently seized by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) from high-profile figures who failed to account for their source of wealth...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:25hrs | 1111 | by Staff reporter
Thokozani Khupe readies for return to Parliament
MDC-T leader Dr Thokozani Khupe is set to bounce back in Parliament after her name was part of 15 others the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) gazetted yesterday as people nominated by her party to ...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 11:14hrs | 599 | by Staff reporter
Khupe set to bounce back in Parliament
MDC-T leader Dr Thokozani Khupe is set to bounce back in Parliament after her name was part of 15 others the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) gazetted yesterday as people nominated by her party to ...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 08:26hrs | 1212 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's expelled MPs lose appeal
THE High Court has upheld the expelling of the 12 MDC Alliance MPs, ruling that their recall by the Thokozane Khupe-led MDC-T faction was in compliance with the judgment by the Supreme Court of March ...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 17:00hrs | 1829 | by Staff reporter
ZEC declares 15 formerly MDC Alliance seats vacant
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has declared 15 seats in the National Assembly and Senate vacant after the MDC-T recalled the legislators. In a gazetted notice recently, ZEC chairperso...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:10hrs | 1146 | by Staff reporter
CIO bosses violated the constitution
ONE crazy thing happened last week. Not quite surprising, but shocking, nonetheless. A brazen case of crass impunity and criminality in the ruling Zanu-PF.The ruling party held a politburo mee...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:26hrs | 1629 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mnangagwa staves off threat to his rule for now
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has staved off national demonstrations that could potentially have loosened a few screws anchoring his faltering rule as there were no reported acts of any significant pub...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:58hrs | 9955 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe coup announcer speaks on activists' arrest
Those wishing Zimbabwe ill are twisting the recent arrest by police and subsequent remand of Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume for their own ends, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:25hrs | 1667 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt warns US against interference?
THE arrest of political activists Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume last week, was a pre-emptive move by authorities to quell a potentially violent foreign-funded insurrection meant to destabilis...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:56hrs | 337 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Mutsvangwa statement on the arrest of Hopewell Chin'ono and Ngarivhume
Government would like to set the record straight on the arrest of Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume and their subsequent appearance in court. We have noted with dismay, a well-coordinated local a...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 14:00hrs | 4303 | by Monica Mutsvangwa
Khupe floors Chamisa, again
MDC leader Thokozani Khupe scored another victory in the ongoing battle for the party after Parliament allowed her to choose a new National Assembly chief whip ahead of bitter rival Nelson Chamisa. ...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 19:10hrs | 16457 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa determined to re-engage'
ZIMBABWE is determined to re-engage the world and is doing everything it can to improve the economic welfare of its people but needs the albatross rock of illegal economic sanctions imposed by western...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:39hrs | 1101 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa faces Bulawayo revolt
MDCAlliance is facing a revolt in Bulawayo with reports that some councillors and legislators want to join acting MDC-T leader Dr Thokozani Khupe. According to insiders, the councillors and MP...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:57hrs | 3832 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa will have no sacred cows
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will have no sacred cows in the fight against corruption with the Tuesday sacking of a Cabinet minister testimony of his stance to uproot the cancerous vice, a senior Government of...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 06:59hrs | 3612 | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Chamisa rift widens
MDC-T leader interim leader Thokozani Khupe and embattled MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa have increasingly demonstrated their lack of capacity to heal their warring party's rifts, and to give dire...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 17:26hrs | 6894 | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Chamisa lock horns over chief whips
MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe and his MDC Alliance rival Nelson Chamisa have opened a new battlefront in their war for the control of the opposition party following their appointment of different set o...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 18:17hrs | 5270 | by Staff reporter
Khupe's faction wreaks carnage
AS THE MDC's mindless wars worsen, interim party leader Thokozani Khupe threw the kitchen sink at her rival Nelson Chamisa yesterday - recalling nine senators from Parliament and barring more than 1 0...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:33hrs | 5317 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala survives recall
THE MDC-T yesterday recalled eight more senators belonging to the MDC Alliance, but some members expressed disquiet over the move.Acting secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora yesterday recalled s...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:29hrs | 1901 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T recalls 8 senators from Parliament
DRAMA continues to unfold in the embattled MDC Alliance party after eight Senators were recalled by the MDC-T from the August House this Wednesday.Announcing the dismissal of the eight Senator...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 20:14hrs | 2429 | by Staff reporter
Thokozani Khupe strikes again..recalls Chamisa's 8 Senators
MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe has sprung a surprise expulsion from parliament of the following Senators:Keresencia Chabuka (Manicaland Province), Spiwe Ncube (Bulawayo), Phyllis Ndlovu ...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 20:03hrs | 3885 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mohadi faces imprisonment
A LOCAL human rights activist, Pascal Gonzo has approached the High Court seeking to have Vice President, Kembo Mohadi held in contempt after failing to pay him US$80 000 in damages.In 2009, G...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:11hrs | 1293 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's govt warns corrupt lawyers
Government has raised concern over a web of corruption spawned by some lawyers who contaminate the whole chain of the justice delivery system, including judges and magistrates. This comes as t...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:10hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa top aide's cars forfeited
Top Government official Douglas Tapfuma has been jailed for four years and had his six cars forfeited to the State.Tapfuma was convicted on three counts of criminal abuse of office as a public...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 17:34hrs | 4815 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa top aide convicted
FORMER principal director of State residences in the Office of the President and Cabinet Douglas Tapfuma, has been convicted of three counts of criminal abuse of office by a Harare magistrate. ...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 17:05hrs | 1463 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mnangagwa's bodyguard buried by CIO agents
Auxillia Mnangagwa's close aide Albert Vunganai has been laid to rest. His burial was officiated by the Deputy Director-General in the President's Department, Walter Tapfumaneyi who stood in for...Published: 27 Apr 2020 at 11:03hrs | 5245 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Kwekwe battles to recover confiscated ambulances
THE Kwekwe City Council is battling to repossess two ambulances that were impounded by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) for allegedly circumventing import tax, as the local authority seeks to be...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:23hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's former top aide bankrolled Zanu-PF
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's former top aide Douglas Tapfuma has revealed how the State Residences department funded the Zanu-PF 2018 election campaign.Tapfuma, who is accused of evading pay...Published: 10 Mar 2020 at 14:33hrs | 2805 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally exposes rot in govt, Zanu-PF
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's former aide and State House principal director, Douglas Tapfuma, has exposed how senior government and Zanu-PF officials allegedly abused the free-duty vehicle scheme fo...Published: 10 Mar 2020 at 05:38hrs | 5938 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa aide claims bad blood with Ndhlukula
FORMER principal director of State residences in the Office of the President and Cabinet Douglas Tapfuma, who is facing three counts of criminal abuse of office, yesterday told the court that there wa...Published: 10 Mar 2020 at 05:19hrs | 962 | by Staff reporter
No joy for former Mnangagwa top aide
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's former aide Douglas Tapfuma's bid for acquittal at the close of the State Case was thrown out yesterday after Harare regional magistrate Esthere Chivasa ruled he has a c...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 08:41hrs | 1377 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Mnangagwa aide boss has case to answer
A HARARE magistrate yesterday dismissed former State House director Douglas Tapfuma's application for discharge saying he must be put to his defence.Tapfuma, who is represented by Jonathan Sam...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 07:36hrs | 565 | by Staff reporter
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