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Mnangagwa promises 6 more interchanges in Harare
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has unveiled ambitious plans to expand Harare's road infrastructure, including the construction of multiple new interchanges and the introduction of smart traffic manageme...Published: 31 May 2025 at 14:00hrs | 397 | by Staff reporter
Garwe under fire for alleged land grab benefiting Mnangagwa ally
Local Government Minister Daniel Garwe is once again embroiled in a controversial land seizure scandal, this time accused of stripping residential stands from nearly 100 former Members of Parliament (...Published: 19 May 2025 at 09:15hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa arrives in Bulawayo ahead of 65th ZITF opening
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has arrived at Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport this afternoon ahead of the highly anticipated official opening of the 65th edition of the Zimbabwe International...Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 21:11hrs | 140 | by Staff reporter
'City on the Edge of the City' set to transform Bulawayo
Real estate firm Henock Ranching has announced an ambitious new urban development project, "City on the Edge of the City," which will be constructed on a 58-hectare gated lifestyle estate on the outsk...Published: 14 Apr 2025 at 09:04hrs | 418 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Harare town clerk acquitted over US$80 million tender scandal
Former Harare Town Clerk Tendai Mahachi has been acquitted of charges relating to the alleged prejudice of the Harare City Council of US$80 million after he hired a foreign firm, Augur Investments, to...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 07:15hrs | 624 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Madungwe in legal trouble for driving offences
In a surprising twist, prominent spiritual leader Prophet Talent Madungwe, known for his bold claims of regularly meeting with God and serving as Heaven's Defence Deputy Minister, has found himself fa...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 19:08hrs | 491 | by Staff reporter
Govt takes over Harare ahead of Sadc summit
In preparation for the upcoming SADC summit in August, Harare City Council has temporarily ceded control of key services, including waste management, public transport management, and road rehabilitati...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 10:23hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Police launch manhunt for hit and run drivers
POLICE have launched a manhunt for four motorists in connection with hit and run accidents in which pedestrians were killed.National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said...Published: 09 Apr 2024 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare gives ultimatum to CBD property owners
THE City of Harare has warned owners of dilapidated buildings in the central business district (CBD) to refurbish their properties.The city also advised the proprietors to make written present...Published: 05 Apr 2024 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bees chase family searching for stolen cows in Bulawayo
In a suspected case of witchcraft, a Bulawayo family were last week followed by a swarm of bees while they went out in search of their stolen seven cows that went missing around June 2023.The ...Published: 06 Oct 2023 at 21:32hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to build Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo statues
As the rationale and raison d'etre for the November 2017 military coup continues to collapse, with their masks falling irretrievably amid a loss of legitimacy and credibility, Zimbabwean Preside...Published: 11 Jul 2023 at 23:25hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
'Biti misleading his lawyer'
A THIRD witness in Tendai Biti's assault case, Michael Van Blerk, yesterday accused the former Finance minister of misleading his lawyer on the questions they be should asking.Van Blerk ...Published: 17 May 2023 at 21:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Michael Van Blerk embarrasses Biti's lawyer
The third witness in Tendai Biti's assault matter today embarrassed the defence after asking the court to allow him to read the charges again. This came after Van Blerk kept on refusing to entertain q...Published: 16 May 2023 at 20:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
High Court orders attachment of VFEX listed WestPro's land
A High Court judge has ordered the attachment of land belonging to Victoria Falls Stock Exchange (VFEX) listed West Property Holdings (WestPro) to offset a longstanding debt with a contractor....Published: 15 May 2023 at 18:59hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
City man attacked by tout, run over by bus
A TRAGIC incident occurred yesterday when a mechanic, Daniel Dandawa, was attacked and run over by a bus after a dispute with a tout identified only as Dread.The incident happened on the route...Published: 27 Apr 2023 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti's accuser fails to answer questions in court
Controversial businesswoman and Russian investor Tatiana Aleshina declined to answer the majority of questions posed to her about Ken Sharpe's company, Augur Investments during court cross-examination...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 10:06hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Biti verbal assault trial resumes
THE trial of opposition legislator Tendai Biti, who is accused of verbally assaulting a local businesswoman Tatiana Aleshina, continued yesterday with the complainant refusing to answer some questions...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 06:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer pleads for court protection against "antagonising" Ken Sharpe aide
Top lawyer Alec Muchadehama was forced to plead for court protection against controversial businessman Ken Sharpe's aide, Tatiana Aleshina who had turned abusive after he handed her a torrid time duri...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 22:29hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Sharpe chickens out, withdraws $20 million lawsuit
Ken Sharpe's has chickened out of his $20 million claim against a company he accused of causing him huge financial prejudice by erecting a billboard urging people not to buy stands on land under conte...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 22:11hrs | 3 | by Paul Ndou
Biti accuses businesswoman of forging Harare Airport Road documents
Former Finance minister Tendai Biti has accused a controversial Harare businesswoman of forging documents that saw the construction of the incomplete Harare Airport Road being granted national project...Published: 20 Dec 2022 at 17:24hrs | 4 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Biti details illegal land grab in dodgy deal between Augur Investments and Harare City Council
HARARE East legislator, Tendai Biti has revealed that part of the land reportedly grabbed by Augur Investments in their dispute with the City of Harare (COH) was nefariously seized without the knowled...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 18:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Biti spills more beans
HARARE East legislator, Tendai Biti has accused Augur Investments of fraudulently acquiring a national project status for the construction of the Airport Road, a move he said prejudiced the country of...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 18:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti protests
FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti yesterday protested against alleged moves by a Harare land developer to run commentaries in the Press on an ongoing court case in violation of the law.Biti ...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Another challenge to July Moyo, Ken Sharpe's deed of shame
A company that was subcontracted by Augur Investments on the incomplete Airport Road has joined several companies challenging a deed of settlement that ga...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 13:33hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Sharpe blames council for incomplete Airport Road
Former Augur Investment managing director Michael Van Blerk whose company was contracted to build the Airport Road has denied illegally receiving vast tra...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 08:17hrs | 4 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Harare
July Moyo taken to task over Airport Road land deal
Local Government minister July Moyo has been accused of usurping the powers of the prosecutor general by signing a deed of settlement that gave away vast tracts of state land in Harare to a company wi...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti assault trial postponed
The assault trial of Tendai Biti failed to continue today and was deferred to October 27.Biti is facing charges of manhandling a Zimbabwean investor Mrs Tatiana Aleshina at the Harare Magistra...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 19:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biti given 3 days to file papers
OPPOSITION legislator Tendai Biti was yesterday given up to Friday to file supporting documents in his application for referral of his assault case to the Constitution Court. Biti stands accused of as...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ken Sharpe is Zimbabwe's greatest land heist, says Tendai Biti
Politician-cum-lawyer, Tendai Biti has implicated controversial businessman Ken Sharpe in what he said was the greatest land heist in the history of post- independent Zimbabwe.Sharpe owns Augu...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 06:04hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
'Biti evidence irrelevant'
Tendai Biti's assault case continued today with the State complaining that the CCC legislator was trying to smuggle irrelevant evidence.Biti, who is facing allegations of manhandling a Zimbabw...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 19:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Qoki Zindlovukazi constructs 200 townhouses
QOKI Zindlovukazi is building more than 200 townhouses in Bulawayo that will accommodate its founders, who are diaspora-based Zimbabwean women, once they retire from their jobs overseas.The co...Published: 05 Sep 2022 at 06:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Ian Smith was an archangel compared to Mnangagwa
No one must come to Matabeleland bragging that they fought in a war that brought about Zimbabwe independence. The Zimbabwe independence struggle produced the tribal Shona supremacist government that i...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:47hrs | 13 | by Israel Dube
Harare street-lighting project takes off
THE City of Harare has embarked on a smart street-lighting pilot project covering 35km of the capital city's major road network."The project covers Airport Road, Seke Road, Julius Nyerere Way,...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biti cornered
HARARE magistrate Vongai Guwuriro Muchuchuti Monday said Tendai Biti, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) vice president should stop submitting irrelevant evidence in a case he is accused of assaultin...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Biti's application irrelevant'
The State has accused Tendai Biti of seeking referral of his assault case to the Constitutional Court on irrelevant grounds.Senior Prosecutor Mr Michael Reza told the court that Biti's reasons...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 17:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa cleared in controversial land deal
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been cleared in a case he was sued to explain a land deal with millionaire and land developer businessman, Ken Sharpe, by a Harare MP and two others.Allan Norm...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in airport scandal application thrown out
THE High Court has dismissed an application filed by legislator Allan Markham against Aurgur Investments and President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the transfer of deed of settlement by the City of Harare....Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: 40 passengers cheat death after bus overturns
FORTY people cheated death when a bus belonging to Dubies Bus Service veered off the road and overturned as the driver was trying to avoid two vehicles, a Zupco kombi and Bulawayo City Council (BCC) t...Published: 14 Mar 2022 at 20:40hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
$800 million boost as BCC resumes suspended road works
Bulawayo City Council is resuming road rehabilitation works which were suspended at the beginning of the year, after Government allocated the city nearly $800 million towards road maintenance....Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers send shockwaves abroad
A series of robberies in homes and highways in Zimbabwe have stoked fears in the diaspora community planning to return home for holidays.Local media reports say as many as 200 families in Zimb...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:21hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Meet Zimbabwe's female rand millionaires
WHAT initially started as a social networking group to keep Zimbabwean women in touch while in foreign lands, has since blossomed into a huge multi-million dollar investment.The women involved...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
Biti arrest warrant cancelled
A warrant for the arrest of MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti was cancelled on Monday, a few hours after it was issued.In obtaining the warrant, the National Prosecuting Authority said B...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 20:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Dismiss Biti's defamation plea'
Augur Investments has applied for the dismissal of Tendai Biti and MDC Alliance's plea to have the court stop them from paying the company US$1 million defamatory damages.The demand comes afte...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chombo fingered in Augur Investments land scandals
AUGUR Investments, owned by controversial land developer Kern Sharpe, has been caught up in another land scandal involving 239 3923 hectares worth US$$45 428 910.The matter has spilled into th...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Airport Road deal above board - Augur Investments'
A Russian investor accused of a land heist in the 2019 Airport Road project entered into with the government and Harare City Council has claimed the deal was legal.Tatiana Aleshina, through he...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 18:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Augur Investments dismisses land theft scandal
LAND developer Kenneth Raydon Sharpe's Augur Investments has dismissed allegations of misappropriation of council land in its response to the High Court challenging its mention in a land dispute....Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's name dropped in Airport Road scam
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's name has been dropped in a messy land scandal involving controversial Ukranian investors who were given vast tracts of prime land in Harare following the intervention of...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sued over 'illegal' land deal
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been cornered to explain a secret land deal with controversial millionaire businessman Ken Sharpe after a Harare MP and two others went to court to get it reversed....Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 20:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Controversial secret agreement haunts Mnangagwa
WHILE cabinet this week set up a taskforce to investigate dodgy land deals in local authorities and deal with land barons, President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Local Government minister July Moyo are part...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa replaces Mobutu Sese Seko as most corrupt African leader
"If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little."Shocking as it is, the above statement that apparently legitimises graft, is attributed t...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 19:10hrs | 13 | by Israel Dube
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