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Bedroom 'scam' alert
It feels good to be back after a long time. Nowadays, there are several corners in town where you will see lots of women and men flocking especially towards sunset.You are likely to think that...Published: 28 Jun 2024 at 10:01hrs | 47 | by Nhlanhla Ncube
CCC candidates caught with drugs on nomination day
Two Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) candidates for Mbire district were arrested on Wednesday at a police roadblock after they were allegedly found in possession of dagga.Gilbert Kagodora (...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 19:49hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Concession
Chiwenga punishing Zimbabwe's health workers?
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has been accused by some disgruntled nurses of blocking salary and allowance increments in the health sector as punishment for past strikes and demonstrations....Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 19:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UAE refuses to extradite Gupta brothers to South Africa
South Africa said on Friday it had learned with "shock and dismay" that the United Arab Emirates had turned down its request to extradite two brothers accused of orchestrating industrial-scale corrupt...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 09:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Mnangagwa appoints Adv. Ajay Singh as new Prosecutor General
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has in terms of section 259 (3) of the constitution appointed veteran prosecutor Advocate Ajay Singh as the new Prosecutor-General, replacing Kumbirai Hodzi who resigned d...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 18:28hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
South African-based armed robbers, team up with locals to terrorise Harare residents
FOUR South Africa-based Zimbabweans appeared in court today on allegation of teaming up with six locals and committed a spate of armed robberies in and around Harare.Deborah Mukambachaza, Gadi...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 06:14hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Long delays at Beitbridge as SA border workers strike
THERE were long delays in clearance of commercial cargo at the Beitbridge Border Post yesterday, as South African Revenue Services (SARS) customs officials continued their strike pressing for a 12 per...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Notorious machete gang caged
POLICE in Bulawayo have tracked down and arrested three armed robbery suspects who have been terrorising residents and have been linked to the robbery and murder of a Lobengula West businessman early ...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ajay Singh: The no nonsense Prosecutor
High profile criminals and persons of interest who came before the courts in the early 2000s hated state prosecutor Ajay Singh. Singh earned a reputation of being uncompromising and unwavering...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 13:16hrs | 7 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Race for Prosecutor General heats up...as new dark horse emerges
The promotion of Nelson Mutsonziwa to serve as acting Prosecutor General came as a timely move as the appointing authority goes through a list of potential candidates to fill up the post which was lef...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 13:53hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Man in soup for insulting Mnangagwa
A 42-YEAR-OLD Harare man yesterday appeared at the Mbare Magistrates Court charged with insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Clapton Redi (42) pleaded not guilty when he appeared before magi...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sex-treatment 'prophet' has rape conviction and 22-year sentence quashed
A self-styled prophet jailed for 22 years in July 2017 for raping two women is a free man after the High Court quashed his conviction and sentence.Grace Ministries founder Onbert Mapfumo, now ...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 19:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Zuma is not to blame for South Africa's mess
At the time of going to press, over 100 people had been killed and hundreds hospitalised after riots and protests related to the imprisonment of former South African president Jacob Zuma.Don't...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:06hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka
Who owns South Africa?
FORMER South African President Jacob Zuma did not bring the Guptas to South Africa. His folly was allowing the Guptas to be bigger than the Oppenheimers.Atul settled in Johannesburg and sold s...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:12hrs | | by New York Times
'Some South African judges still have apartheid mentality'
SOUTH AFRICA'S ex-president Jacob Zuma has lashed out at the judges who this week gave him a 15-month jail term for absconding from a corruption inquiry, comparing them to the white minority apartheid...Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 11:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
First Tonga Amapiano song out
Amapiano is a hybrid of deep house, jazz and lounge music characterised by synths, airy pads and wide and percussive basslines, originally a South African genre.The genre has been accepted in ...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robbers hit Harare school, get away with US$250,000
Eight armed robbers raided Gateway High School in Harare over the weekend and used explosives to blow open the safe to steal more than US$250 000 cash. No one was injured and police have launc...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Travellers warned over spike in robberies
More passengers are being robbed of cash and valuables by criminals offering lifts, with four such robberies occurring on a single day last week in Harare. This has prompted police to urged tr...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
9 guards turned robbers in custody
NINE security guards employed by Northern Deep Security, allegedly caught red-handed while robbing a truck driver near Maruta Shopping Centre along Seke Road in Harare after robbing a motorist earlier...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA Home Affairs vows to crackdown on 'dubious' visas, permits
The Department of Home Affairs says it will leave no stone unturned in uncovering "dubious" visas and permits, such as permanent residence and special citizenships, which were granted irregularly. ...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 18:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo needs its own online TV
MUSICIANS in the City of Kings are advocating for a Bulawayo version of 'Nash TV' saying the Harare television station has greatly assisted artists in the capital during the Covid-19 lockdown....Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Judge refuses to step down from MDC Alliance case
High Court judge Justice Pisirayi Kwenda has refused to step down from presiding over a lawsuit by four MDC-Alliance parliamentarians contesting their recall from Parliament, saying the motion for rec...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 09:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC seeks Judge's recusal
Three MDC-Alliance parliamentarians contesting their recall from Parliament do not want High Court judge Justice Pisirai Kwenda hearing their case since he has already ruled against 14 other MPs who m...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 22:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's expelled MPs ask for Judge's recuse in appeal
EXPELLED MDC Alliance MPs, Charlton Hwende, Prosper Mutseyami, Thabitha Khumalo, and Lilian Timveous Tuesday made an application at the High Court seeking Justice Pisirayi Kwenda to recuse himself fro...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 06:37hrs | | 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 | | by Staff reporter
When Excellencies grace Chitungwiza shebeen
What a couple of weeks of diplomatic intrigue.Epoch-making, maybe.Hallelujah! Praise be to the living God!We had desperately reckless American diplomats abandoning their airy a...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:37hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Zimbabwean man pops up in SA state capture inquiry
You will find Zimbabweans in the most unlikely of places.As South Africans embark on a bruising inquiry into allegations of whether the state was captured by a corrupt clique that milked gover...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:10hrs | 7 | by staff reporter
Priest wrecks marriage..WhatsApp chats expose illicit affair
A MAN from Bulawayo has called off a planned wedding after discovering his girlfriend has been sleeping with a Roman Catholic Priest behind his back. Catholic priests take a vow of celibacy an...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 22:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Morgan Tsvangirai: A lasting epoch in the national story
Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, my boss for 10 years until he died last year on 14 February on the day the power of love is celebrated worldwide, was not a persona but a gargantuan political moment whose i...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 11:34hrs | 2 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Mastercard reinforces commitment to drive Digital Transformation Agenda in Zimbabwe
Harare, Zimbabwe, 22 October 2018 - Mastercard President and CEO, Ajay Banga, this week visited Zimbabwe to show Mastercard's strong support for the country's drive to create a new wave of digital pay...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 11:51hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Mphoko would not accept a hostile takeover bid
THE battle for the ownership and control of supermarket chain Choppies Zimbabwe - on paper owned 51% by Nanavac Investments run by former vice-president Phelekezela Mphoko's family and 49% by Botswana...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 16:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Powerful' Mliswa disrupts Parliamentary meeting
There was drama at Zisco in Redcliff yesterday when Norton legislator, Mr Temba Mliswa, became rowdy and disrupted a Parliamentary Portfolio on Mines and Energy meeting, accusing fellow legislators of...Published: 28 Feb 2018 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa sparks Cabinet panic
President Cyril Ramaphosa will have to show his mettle in the face of a tug-of-war over who will get the call-up and who will be benched as he compiles his first Cabinet.Ramaphosa put current ...Published: 19 Feb 2018 at 05:40hrs | | by Sapa
Wicknell mocks Parly Committee
CONTROVERSIAL Harare businessman, Wicknell Chivayo yesterday mocked members of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee for Mines and Energy who 'grilled' him on Monday over the ZPC Gwanda solar project....Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 16:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zuma face arrest today
As a dramatic raid is carried out on the Gupta family’s Saxonwold compound, City Press has learnt of the imminent arrest of at least two Gupta brothers as well as Duduzane Zuma.City Press wa...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 07:45hrs | | by news24
Isikhulumeli sikaMzilikazi II sikhupha umbiko ngemvoxoxo ephuthumayo
Mthwakazi omuhle ,lina bondlela zimhlophe, lingabe linjani kumagumbi amane wonke omhlaba. Sithanda ukulazisa bantu beNkosi ngemibiko le engelamaqinisa ephuma enkundleni zokuxhumana. Sithanda ukwazisa ...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 06:30hrs | | by Greater Sibanda, Isikhulumeli seNkosi uMzilikazi II
'Banks have right to refuse opening accounts'
FINANCE deputy minister Terrence Mukupe has said banks have the right to refuse opening accounts for new clients as they are private enterprises.Responding to MDC-T legislator Bacilli Majaya i...Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shopping spree backfires for MPs
At least 17 MPs, who went to China on a shopping spree in 2014, are set to lose properties, after they failed to pay a local travel agent , Skycred (Private) Limited, a company that secured their flig...Published: 10 Nov 2017 at 06:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man jailed after duping people via Ecocash
A 21-Year -Old Mbire man pleaded guilty to 2 counts of fraud and has been sentenced to 36 months in prison by Guruve magistrate Shingirai Mutiro.Evans Njoromore was convicted after full ...Published: 14 Jul 2017 at 09:36hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Joshua Nkomo celebrations light up Hillbrow Theatre, Johannesburg
Zimbabweans in South Africa last week were treated to a night of musical extravaganza in honour of the late vice-president Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo at the Hillbrow Theatre, Johannesburg.T...Published: 09 Jul 2017 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Spot checks by police within cities and towns to remain in place
THE Government yesterday said it is only standard roadblocks that will be reduced to only four per province but the numerous spot checks by police within cities and towns will remain in place, dampeni...Published: 21 Jun 2017 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dr Joshua Nkomo speaking to young generation beyond his grave
Today I (Thulani Nkala- TN) was lucky to have an opportunity to talk to Ms Sipho Sibanda(SS) who is the spokesperson for the organisers of the Dr Joshua Nkomo commemoration in the United Kingdom for 2...Published: 26 May 2017 at 20:27hrs | | by Thulani Nkala
Why hang Helen Zille?
Look at her: she is beautiful, she is elegant, and she is provocative, even at the mature age of 66. Moreover, Helen has got the African talking once again, even thinking, about his place in this Whit...Published: 31 Mar 2017 at 06:23hrs | | by Joram Nyathi Spectrum
MRP is not tribal
Ladies and Gentlemen, Comrades and Co-patriots, Mthwakazi Republic Party is a political Party that is not tribal but is rather fighting tribalism. The party seeks political solution, Mthwakazi needs i...Published: 08 Mar 2017 at 13:42hrs | | by Hloniphani Ncube
Jonathan Moyo stop dabbling in Zanu-PF succession politics
In history and to the outsider, Zimbabwe has always been a fabulous illusion. An Ophir. An El Dorado, a home to the Queen of Sheba. If the wishes of early European "pathfinders" were horses, Zimbabwe ...Published: 14 Jan 2017 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zuma and his corrupt cronies now desperate
President Jacob Zuma and his corrupt cronies inside and outside the government are now desperate. The decision to lay criminal charges against the former public protector, Thuli Madonsela, is just the...Published: 28 Nov 2016 at 12:23hrs | | by Justice Malala
Will civil servants bonuses be paid in bond notes?
The framework for civil servants' bonuses will be outlined in the 2017 National Budget, the Finance minister has said, declining to state if the government workers will be paid in bond notes....Published: 25 Nov 2016 at 12:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zuma complains of leaked audio
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has lodged a complaint with the office of the anti-corruption watchdog over a leaked audio recording of his meeting with its former head, his office has said....Published: 07 Nov 2016 at 14:26hrs | | by BBC
Eric Knight remembers Lovemore Majayivana
Former ZBC radio, TV presenter Eric Knight has taken his time on Facebook to remember the living Music Legend Lovemore Majayivana whom he described as on of the top Zimbabwean talented musicians h...Published: 13 Oct 2016 at 09:14hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe meets Malaysian PM
President Robert Mugabe is in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on a working visit.The President, who is accompanied by the First Lady Dr Grace Mugabe, was met by Zimbabwe's ambassador to Malaysia Cu...Published: 07 Oct 2016 at 17:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
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