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Chaos as demolitions rock Harare
POLICE yesterday barricaded roads leading into Harare's oldest and most populous suburb of Mbare to pave way for demolitions of informal business structures in an operation sanctioned by President Emm...Published: 13 mins ago | 31 | by Staff reporter
Zimra launches witch-hunt
TOP Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) executives are panicking over recent revelations by The NewsHawks of corruption involving the tax collector's multi-million-dollar whistle-blowing fund as they s...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 19:59hrs | 3032 | by Staff reporter
NRZ audit exposes rot at Gweru office
AN internal audit by the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) which was carried out two months ago has exposed underhand dealings by its employees in Gweru, a situation that has led to the suspension o...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 08:10hrs | 596 | by Staff reporter
Multi-million dollar whistleblowing corruption scandal rocks Zimra
MASSIVE corruption - which has dragged on for years - is rocking the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra)'s multi-million-dollar whistle-blower fund which the tax collector's senior officials are lootin...Published: 26 May 2021 at 16:23hrs | 3134 | by Staff reporter
Poisoning scare: Muguti speaks out
HARARE provincial development coordinator (PDC) Tafadzwa Muguti, who has been reportedly under the weather after being poisoned by his nemeses for fighting land barons and corruption, yesterday vowed ...Published: 26 May 2021 at 06:30hrs | 1968 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1131 | by Staff reporter
ZACC speaks on accused official
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has said it did not receive any formal complaint against one of its investigators, Eric Chacha on allegations of criminal abuse of office following repor...Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:33hrs | 361 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa embroiled in ugly wrangle over school
THOUSANDS of pupils at Southlea Park, a community primary school in Harare South, face a bleak future after a controversial decision by a dodgy consortium to turn the learning centre in the low-income...Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:18hrs | 4380 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe back on UK radar
THE House of Lords in the United Kingdom (UK) has raised a red flag over the deteriorating human rights situation in Zimbabwe and called for action on Harare after the arrest and detention of oppositi...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:40hrs | 4853 | by Staff reporter
Land developer fights Mnangagwa's graft buster
PROPERTY developers, Pokugara have accused officials from the National Prosecuting Authority and Special Anti-Corruption Unit (Sacu) housed in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office of interfering with...Published: 03 May 2021 at 06:26hrs | 842 | by Staff reporter
Zacc ups anti-graft drive
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has upped its anti-graft drive, embarking on a massive recruitment exercise aimed at strengthening its decentralisation strategy.Zacc seeks to re...Published: 01 May 2021 at 20:16hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
Top cop appeals to ZACC
Lawyers representing police Commissioner Erasmus Makodza, have written to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption (ZACC) saying the commission's investigator Mr Eric Chacha must recuse himself as he is allegedly...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 07:22hrs | 551 | by Staff reporter
Zimra engulfed in corruption storm over whistle-blowers
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra), which operates a whistleblower facility in a bid to eradicate tax fraud and duty evasion, is caught in a damaging storm of corruption in which its senior office...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 16:24hrs | 1401 | by Staff reporter
Land tenure reform to transform Zimbabwe rapidly
Two historical notes confirm the importance of land tenure and secure property rights. In the world today, only 18% of all agricultural land is privately-owned under freehold title. Yet this small are...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:58hrs | 1126 | by Eddie cross
Mnangagwa moves to douse Chilonga flames
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has directed that no villagers should be displaced by an irrigation project to be implemented by government in the Chilonga area of Chiredzi. Last month, the State...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:41hrs | 4450 | 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 | 336 | by Staff reporter
Cops unleashed to bash Matobo villagers
ANTI-RIOT police bashed community members in Domboshava Village, Matobo as punishment for ganging up to evict miners, civil society group, Heal Zimbabwe Trust has reported.The details were rev...Published: 03 Apr 2021 at 14:48hrs | 669 | by Sytaff reporter
Zimra gives land baron's firm 7-day ultimatum
Delatfin Investments (Pvt) Ltd, a company owned by alleged land baron Felix Munyaradzi, has been given seven days to pay outstanding taxes of more than US$12 million, before the Zimbabwe Revenue Autho...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:27hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo wetlands houses saved
THE Bulawayo City Council has reassured residents that not all the 460 houses built on wetlands will be demolished as the local authority is working with the Environmental Management Agency (Ema) to c...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:48hrs | 463 | 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 | 839 | by Staff reporter
Oil barons take Zera boss to task
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has asked oil firms to continue using petroleum importation licences issued in 2019, while the two sides negotiate new licensing requirements.To...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:51hrs | 1377 | by Staff reporter
Land barons, infighting cost Zanu-PF Goromonzi South seat
THE Zanu-PF Mashonaland East provincial leadership has admitted that infighting and land barons caused them to lose Goromonzi south constituency to the opposition MDC alliance in the 2018 elections....Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:39hrs | 1506 | by Staff reporter
500 Bulawayo houses on wetlands to go
NEARLY 500 houses in different suburbs in Bulawayo have been identified for displacement after Cabinet last week announced that more than 21 000 households in urban settlements countrywide face displa...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 07:51hrs | 988 | by Staff Reporter
Biti recall meant to stymie corruption fight
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's anti-people, dictatorial regime has unlawfully recalled MDC Alliance vicepresident Tendai Biti from Parliament to thwart his anti-corruption drive in the Public Accounts...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:20hrs | 700 | by People's Party
Land baron surrenders to police
Suspected land baron Felix Munyaradzi who is facing fresh new charges of defeating the course of justice and interfering with State witnesses was arrested yesterday, hours after police and the Special...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:10hrs | 442 | by Staff reporter
Biti says recalls meant to paralyse Parliament's Public Accounts Committee
Recalled Tendai Biti, who is MDC Alliance vice-president, claims that recalls from Parliament by a faction of the PDP working in cahoots with the ruling Zanu-PF party were meant to paralyse Parliament...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 05:57hrs | 3515 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC wants July Moyo arrested for land corruption
MDC Alliance has called for the arrest of Local Government minister, July Moyo over alleged corruption and flouting tender procedures at the expense of the taxpayers.This follows reports linki...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:41hrs | 2882 | by Staff reporter
Prisoners to attend funerals, weddings
PRISONERS may be temporarily released to attend funerals, weddings and other important family functions provided they apply and get permission from the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Aff...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:31hrs | 2060 | 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 | 5756 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo city differs with EMA on wetlands definition
THE Environmental Management Agency (Ema) is compiling a report on developments in Bulawayo that were constructed on wetlands, with indications that authorities will be ordered to demolish them....Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:11hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge town faces demolition
IN a shocking revelation, more than 300 structures in Beitbridge Town, including part of the border post, a hospital, police base, schools, Dulibadzimu Stadium and hundreds of houses were built on wet...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:08hrs | 985 | by Staff reporter
Poisoning scare as land barons' war turns nasty
GOVERNMENT'S fight against land barons, accused of illegally parcelling out State land in urban areas, has turned nasty amid reports that Harare's provincial development coordinator (PDC) Tafadzwa Mug...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 2965 | by Staff reporter
Cop accused of receiving bribes from land baron
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has launched investigations against a junior officer accused of abuse of office after she allegedly received kickbacks from suspected land baron Felix Munyaradzi who...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 05:26hrs | 689 | by Staff reporter
Top cop comes out guns blazing
POLICE commissioner in charge of Matabeleland North province Erasmus Makodza's lawyers have written a letter of complaint to Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga against alleged dodgy dealings by a con...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:14hrs | 2465 | by Staff reporter
'Wetland evictees to stay in tents'
GOVERNMENT says it is planning to house people who were settled on wetlands and illegal settlements in temporary shelters pending proper relocation. Housing and Social Amenities minister Daniel Garwe ...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:48hrs | 395 | by Staff reporter
12 arrested as Zacc takes graft fight to land barons
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has arrested 10 suspected land barons from Ruwa and two senior officials from Harare City Council for parcelling out land to unsuspecting and desperate h...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:14hrs | 298 | by Staff reporter
Zacc descends on Gweru
A ten- member Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) team is in Gweru to investigate land scandals involving senior Government officials and land barons.A number of senior Government offic...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 11:51hrs | 1591 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, land baron mend fences
SUSPECTED land baron Wellington Peyama, who has been accused of fanning divisions in the ruling Zanu-PF party, has claimed that he has resolved his differences with the party leadership in Mashonaland...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 05:07hrs | 1840 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa to restore sanity,' says Mliswa
Mashonaland West provincial affairs minister Mary Mliswa-Chikoka yesterday said President Emmerson Mnangagwa is determined to restore sanity and bring land barons to the book.She was addressin...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 10:42hrs | 1379 | by Staff reporter
How does Zimbabwe define its heroes?
I WANT to thank President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his team for the conferment of provincial war hero status on Saul Musaka, Soul Jah Love. I would like to thank him again for the conferment of national...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:50hrs | 237 | by Kurauone Chihwayi
Land barons misusing Zanu-PF name warned
Mashonaland West Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution, Mary Mliswa-Chikoka has warned land barons who misuse the names of Zanu-PF and Government officials that their days are number...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 16:07hrs | 345 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa to restore sanity,' says Mliswa
Mashonaland West provincial affairs minister Mary Mliswa-Chikoka yesterday said President Emmerson Mnangagwa is determined to restore sanity and bring land barons to the book.She was addressin...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 12:34hrs | 2002 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Mnangagwa angry over Zanu-PF-linked land barons soiling party image
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is livid over the blemish on the party's legacy created by high-ranking government officials and Zanu-PF-aligned land barons, for the chaotic allocation of land in urban a...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 06:25hrs | 3247 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate attacked with hammer over alleged affair
Police are investigating after a Mutare magistrate was attacked with a hammer by a woman accusing her of having an affair with her husband, a lawyer.Magistrate Tamara Chibindi was treated for ...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 16:55hrs | 2019 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora says all land barons are from Zanu-PF
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora, who has recalled dozens of rival MDC Alliance councilors over the past several months alleging involvement in corrupt land deals, now says all land barons are from Zanu-...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 16:53hrs | 1215 | by Staff reporter
'New human settlement policy on cards'
A NEW human settlement policy to address problems of land barons as well as illegal settlements is on the cards, National Housing and Social Amenities deputy minister Yeukai Simbanegavi has revealed....Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:48hrs | 668 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa declares war on land barons
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared war on land barons and councils that duped desperate home seekers to settle and develop on illegal land, saying the government would bring them to book....Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 13:15hrs | 1918 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primes for Harare comeback
ZANU-PF Harare Province has devised strategies to help wrestle back control of Harare City Council through securing council seats left vacant by opposition councillors who have left Town House....Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 06:57hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says youths will be prioritised in new land offers
Youths will be prioritised when the Government begins redistributing vacant and underutilised land that has been identified through the recent land audit, President Mnangagwa has said.In his e...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 06:55hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Anti-corruption investigator probed
IT is a typical case of a hunter becoming the hunted.First, police commissioner Erasmus Makodza, hunter of note in charge of Matabeleland North province, found himself caged by a Zimbabwe Anti...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 19:13hrs | 1596 | by Staff reporter
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