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Zimbabwe ministers, top officials loot broke parastatals
Senior government officials, including cabinet ministers, permanent secretaries, and directors, are siphoning millions of dollars from state-owned enterprises to finance extravagant lifestyles, in a g...Published: 20 Jun 2025 at 17:28hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
Harare travel agency implicated in scam
A Harare travel agency, Five Bulls Leisure, its director Tichatonga Mudzonga (55), and employee Eve Tsvangira (29), have been accused of defrauding a client of US$17,364 through a fraudulent holiday p...Published: 25 Dec 2024 at 08:11hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo begs Mukanya to accept his gifts
Wickell Chivayo strongly criticized journalist Hopewell Chin'ono in response to his remarks following musician Thomas Mapfumo's refusal of a contentious businessperson's car and home gifts.In ...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 18:47hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Cop convicted of human trafficking
A 38-YEAR-OLD police officer awaits sentencing following his conviction on a charge of human trafficking after he lured Zimbabwean job seekers to the Middle East where they were subjected to slave lab...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 05:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira being victimised for supporting Mnangagwa's succession bid
Former Public Service Minister Prisca Mupfumira has written to Prosecutor General Loice Matanda-Moyo claiming that her arrest over corruption allegations was triggered by her loyalty to President Emme...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 18:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
51 counts of fraud couple on the run
SENSING a high possibility of being locked up in jail, a couple that was facing 51 counts of fraud has allegedly fled and Bulawayo police have spread a dragnet to arrest them.Melusi Ndlovu (36...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:46hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Airfares for flights between Zimbabwe and SA dramatically shoot up
AIR fares for flights between Zimbabwe and South Africa - mainly the Harare-Johannesburg and Bulawayo-Johannesburg routes - have shot up dramatically during the festive season (Christmas and New Year ...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 17:26hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gets white Miss Universe Zimbabwe 2023
Zimbabwe has earned a spot at this year's Miss Universe competition, which will take place in El Salvador, Central America, in two months. Brooke Bruk Jackson, a 21-year-old beautician, was cr...Published: 20 Sep 2023 at 07:55hrs | 60 | by Staff reporter
Journalist appeals for US$15,000 for child's heart operation
A CHRONICLE staffer, Mashudu Netsianda is appealing for funds to enable his three-month-old baby to undergo open heart surgery in India.The baby was born with a congenital heart defect called ...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:14hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Harare City in US$51m ICT scam
The allegations of dubious conduct arise as the IT boss Mr Samson Madzokere with some top managers are already reeling in the eye of a storm amid allegations of spending US$20 000 per trip on numerous...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 07:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic spearheads hockey tournament donations
Harare, 10 March 2023 - The Zimbabwe Women and Men's Under 21 teams are due to kickstart their participation in the Under 21 Junior Africa Cup (JAC) in Ismail, Egypt, tomorrow (Sunday) thanks to the s...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 09:39hrs | 22 | by Agencies
Human trafficker in court
GOVERNMENT has rescued three female human trafficking victims after they were "unknowingly" transported to Oman for labour and sexual exploitation, a Harare magistrate heard yesterday.This eme...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:41hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Miss Princess Zimbabwe model faces fraud charges
FORMER Miss Princess Zimbabwe, Mary Mushaninga is set to spend three more nights languishing in remand prison for swindling models of US$10,000.The ex-model appeared before Harare Magistrate D...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 07:01hrs | 2 | by Staff rporter
Chivayo says ZPC owes Intratrek US$600k as trial fails to take off
The National Prosecuting Authority on Thursday revived criminal charges against Intratrek Zimbabwe and its director Wicknell Chivayo over the stalled US$173 million Gwanda solar power project, as defe...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lobby group in bid to block Zimbabwe's Davos delegation
A LOBBY group, Fight Inequality Alliance Zimbabwe (FIA) says Zimbabwe's attendance of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting to be held in Davos, Switzerland will be a waste of taxpayers' money....Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-corruption crusade fizzles out deplorably
HIGH-PROFILE corruption cases from as far back as 2017 are yet to be finalised, almost five years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised to decisively tackle graft.The development also de...Published: 03 May 2022 at 16:08hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
South African artists ordered to pay Victoria Falls Carnival bill after no show
SHA SHA, DJ Maphorisa and Kabza De Small have been ordered to pay back all of their Victoria Falls carnival bill by organisers of the festival after they did not pitch up despite signed agreements....Published: 03 May 2022 at 15:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe charges trafficking kingpin
The offer was hard to resist. A life-changing job opportunity in the United Arab Emirates with fully paid flights and visas to Dubai, its most modern capital. A route out of grinding poverty in Zimbab...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean maids lured to slavery in Oman
SCORES of Zimbabwean women employed as domestic workers in Oman are being subjected to deplorable living and working conditions that include constant beatings, overwork, underpayment and forced labour...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Kamambo refuses to represent ZIFA in fraud case
SUSPENDED Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) president Felton Kamambo yesterday refused to represent the country''s football mother governing board in a trial on fraud charges involving US$35 000 sa...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman in court for trafficking maids
A 29-year-old Harare woman yesterday appeared in court for recruiting unsuspecting housemaids and taking them to Oman where they were subjected to torture and slavery.Tendai Muswe was facing h...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe evacuates 118 students from Ukraine
Zimbabwe has evacuated 118 students from Ukraine to safer places following an ongoing military operation in that country and will provide them with air tickets for their return home, Information, Publ...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:35hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe dispatches official to Polad to rescue students
The government of Zimbabwe informs all students who have left Ukraine to urgently get in touch with the government official in Poland. The government has already dispatched an official to Poland to or...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 09:22hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
UKRAINE CRISIS: Zimbabwe steps in
The Zimbabwean Embassy in Berlin has written a letter to citizens in Ukraine which allows them to pass points of entry as they fly back to Zimbabwe after Russia invaded the Eastern European country. ...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 19:22hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Aston Villa, ZIFA strike deal
ENGLISH Premiership football side Aston Villa have struck a deal with Zifa which could see midfielder Marvelous Nakamba missing the Warriors training camp at home and possibly flying directly to Camer...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
New magistrate for Mupfumira trial
A NEW magistrate will take over the matter in which former Cabinet Minister Prisca Mupfumira is jointly charged with ex-Public Commission permanent secretary Ngoni Masoka on corruption related allegat...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:23hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira applies for separation of trial
FORMER Cabinet Minister Prisca Mupfumira has applied for separation of trial in a matter in which she is jointly charged with ex-Public Service Commission (PSC) permanent Secretary Ngoni Masoka on cor...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Big wigs throng court
IT was a hive of activity yesterday at the Anti-Corruption Court in Harare as bigwigs facing corruption and related charges jostled to sort out their next appearance dates following resumption of full...Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 05:47hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Nodumo Nyathi never asked for favours
THE chairman of the Highlanders South African Supporters Chapter Nodumo Nyathi says he never asked for any favours from the Bulawayo giants after he led a spirited fundraising campaign to clear the cl...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CAPS United ordered to settle 2017 debt in United States dollars
CAPS United must pay a 2017 debt in United States dollars, the High Court has ruled.United accrued the US$10,835 debt after purchasing air tickets for their team. Since then, the club ha...Published: 16 Dec 2020 at 18:37hrs | 1 | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira seeks magistrate's recusal
THE trial of former Public Service minister Priscah Mupfumira, who is jointly charged for graft with former ministry secretary Ngoni Masoka, on two counts of criminal abuse of office continued yesterd...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira tells chief magistrate to recuse himself from case
Prisca Mupfumira wants Chief Magistrate Mr Munamato Mutevedzi to recuse himself from the case in which she is jointly charged with former Public Service Commission secretary Ngoni Masoka on criminal a...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 18:18hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zifa grapples with Afcon bill
ZIFA is exploring ways to reduce the ballooning costs related to Warriors' Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) back-to-back qualifying matches against Algeria which could gobble well over US$200 000....Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 05:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira's bid to relax reporting conditions flops
Former Cabinet minister Prisca Mupfumira had a bad day in court yesterday after her application to have her reporting conditions relaxed was thrown out because the lower court has no jurisdiction to a...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:04hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira case to continue 'at all costs'
Chief Magistrate Mr Munamato Mutevedzi has expressed concern over delays in the trial of former Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Prisca Mupfumira and her ex-Permanent Secretary Ngoni...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira trial fails to kick off
THE trial of former Cabinet Minister Prisca Mupfumira and ex-Public Service Commission secretary Ngoni Masoka failed to kick-off again this morning after the former's lawyer failed turn up because of ...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 20:32hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army loses $2,7m in botched travel service deal
A 30-YEAR-OLD Harare woman appeared in court yesterday charged with swindling the Defence ministry out of $2 700 546 after she allegedly misrepresented that she bought 79 air tickets for members of th...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:27hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Hadebe refutes Warriors boycott claims
TURKISH based Zimbabwe international defender Teenage Hadebe has reacted angrily to social media reports that he was one of the three senior Warriors players who had refused to fulfill the upcoming 20...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 18:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zifa plunged into fresh chaos
ZIFA was last Friday plunged into fresh problems ahead of a crucial week for the Warriors and the Young Warriors after its official bank account was placed under a garnish order by the High Court and ...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 15:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Express Links Money Transfer backs ZimFest 2019 as headline partner
UK based financial services company Express Links Money Transfer is backing Zimfest Live as the headline partner this year and also launching a promotional competition with prizes for people to be ann...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 08:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
IATA and Zimbabwe working on solution for blocked funds
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is hopeful that a resolution on blocked airline funds in Zimbabwe will be found soon following a meeting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa recently....Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 17:34hrs | 1 | by Patrick Appleton
The loved opposition
I hope I can be brief enough to be witty but concise enough to be understood and effectual. I know the natural instinct for people when they see someone questioning the political party that they suppo...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Jason Huntley
EXTRACT: The men who helped Chiwenga to execute the coup
Two Weeks in November by Douglas Rodgers is the thrilling story of a high ranking politician, an exiled human rights lawyer, a dangerous spy and a low-key white businessman turned political fixe...Published: 20 May 2019 at 14:48hrs | 17 | by Douglas Rodgers
Khupe is dancing Nobert Kunonga music
Not so long ago the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe had tasted abhorrent deep factional fights pitted embattled cleric Bishop Nobert Kunonga and the then incumbent Chad Gandiya cabal. Kunonga, a stan Muga...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:44hrs | 1 | by Benny Gudo
Mnangagwa bankrolls Tsvangirai memorial
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is bankrolling the memorial service of the late former Zimbabwe Prime Minister and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, which is being held at his Buhera ...Published: 04 May 2019 at 20:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa paying tuition for Tsvangirai's kids in Australia and South Africa
President Mnangagwa has once again come to the aid of the family of former Prime Minister and the late MDC T founding leader, Mr Morgan Tsvangirai by providing financial and logistical support to the ...Published: 04 May 2019 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Travel agent sued over botched air ticket deal
Care Free Travel has been dragged to the High Court by a United Kingdom-based man over failure to deliver 70 air tickets worth £67 400.Through his lawyers, Maseko Law Practice, Mohammed Ahmed...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zifa sued again
Zifa have once again been dragged before the High Court by Traverze Travel Agency for failing to pay for air tickets and service fees amounting to $18 133. According to the summons filed at th...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 22:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zifa eye $2m sponsorship deal
AN unnamed fuel dealer is interested in injecting more than $2 million into football sponsorship in the country, Zifa president Felton Kamambo has revealed.Kamambo told the Zifa Southern Regio...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 13:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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