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Mutambara lets cat out of the bag
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister in the Government of National Unity (GNU), whose life expired in 2013 after being birthed in 2009, Arthur Mutambara, has dropped a bombshell after making stunning revealat...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:51hrs | 1142 | by Staff reporter
You misled the magistrate, Reza tells lawyer
Deputy Prosecutor-General Michael Reza came to the defence of a Harare magistrate who is being sued for US$170 000 by a local lawyer for alleged mischaracterisation of her application for postponement...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 06:49hrs | 512 | by Staff reporter
ZimEye slapped with lawsuit over Qoki ZiNdlovukazi stories
Qoki ZiNdlovukazi Investments has instituted legal action against online publication ZimEye for allegedly writing falsehoods against the organization and claiming that the organization had one Directo...Published: 21 May 2023 at 17:51hrs | 986 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Alleged Law Society investigation against top lawyer Zibusiso Ncube rubbished as false
Bulawayo based law firm Ncube & Partners have rubbished claims by online publication Zimeye that their lawyer Zibusiso Charles Ncube is being investigated by the Law Society of Zimbabwe. T...Published: 21 May 2023 at 15:07hrs | 1001 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mwonzora bid to stop 2023 polls flops
A FULL Constitutional Court (ConCourt) bench led by Chief Justice Luke Malaba yesterday threw out an application filed by MDC-T president Douglas Mwonzora seeking the postponement of the 2023 harmonis...Published: 09 May 2023 at 06:10hrs | 750 | by Staff reporter
Artificial intelligence and robotics: Great expectations and daunting existential risks
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is both exciting and challenging. There are opportunities and dangers. There are fascinating possibilities and existential risks.The starting point is to understan...Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:34hrs | 71 | by Arthur Mutambara
Mnangagwa's govt demands gold smuggling evidence from Al Jazeera
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba says government has written to Qatari news network, Al Jazeera demanding evidence of gold smuggling and money laundering alleged in its investigative document...Published: 04 May 2023 at 06:15hrs | 3542 | by Staff reporter
Charumbira threatens 'sex attack victim'
CHIEFS Council president Fortune Charumbira, who has been reported for allegedly sexually abusing his married niece on two occasions, has threatened to sue the victim for defamation, claiming the char...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 07:34hrs | 2715 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife sucked into dirty gold smuggling and laundering scandal
First lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has been sucked into Zimbabwe's dirty gold smuggling scandal after she was called by Zimbabwe ambassador-at-large, Uebert Angel seemingly giving approval to a planned lau...Published: 15 Apr 2023 at 20:57hrs | 1021 | by Staff reporter
Businessman demands US$4 million from former partner
TOP banker and marketing specialist, Mr Douglas Mamvura, is demanding payment of US$4 million from his former business partner Mr George Manyere, over a deal involving the sale of shares of an investm...Published: 11 Apr 2023 at 14:30hrs | 2307 | by Staff Reporter
'Lying' Coventry, Kamambo in bare knuckle fight
SUSPENDED Zifa board members have accused Sports minister Kirsty Coventry of lying under oath, following her recent claims in Parliament that she stepped in and fired them after they failed to account...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:33hrs | 1114 | by Staff reporter
Esidakeni gazetting application abandoned
A High Court application by Mr Zephaniah Dhlamini and his business partners Siphosami Malunga, Charles Moyo and Kershelmar Farms (Pvt) Ltd in which they were seeking nullification of the gazetting of ...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 07:39hrs | 405 | by Staff reporter
Biti's US$1m lawsuit hearing moved to March 31
THE trial of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) MP Tendai Biti (Harare East) on a charge of defaming Augur Investments owner Ken Sharpe has been deferred to March 31 after the opposition official fil...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 17:54hrs | 584 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister forced to reverse his corrupt mansion deal
PUBLIC Service minister Paul Mavima could be forced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa or top officials to reverse his corrupt US$400 000 upmarket house purchase deal in Quinnington, Borrowdale, Harare, ...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 15:20hrs | 2333 | by Staff reporter
So, in Zimbabwe, exposing corruption is 'unpatriotic'!
I did not know whether to be shocked or not, when I read the news report!As it turns out, apparently there have been calls by some sycophantic ruling ZANU PF supporters - namely, ZBC presenter...Published: 03 Mar 2023 at 11:53hrs | 1279 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Knives out for Zapu's Nkomo
Knives are out against Zapu president Sibangilizwe Nkomo with some former top officials plotting his ouster for allegedly frustrating the growth of the opposition party.They also accuse Nkomo ...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 18:05hrs | 929 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga faction on cloud nine
A faction allegedly aligned to the Vice President Constantino Chiwenga is said to be on cloud nine amid reports that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to gazette the new electoral boundaries in...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 21:36hrs | 2463 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF preparing for early polls'
THE Zanu-PF-led government is reportedly busy tying up all loose ends, including fast-tracking passage of the delimitation report, election-related legislation in Parliament and bussing its members to...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 06:17hrs | 642 | by Staff reporter
Vendors4ED, Council clash
Zanu-PF affiliate Vendors 4ED has clashed with Harare City Council (HCC), amid reports that the latter was illegally allocating trading spaces to its members in the city under cover of the ruling part...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:46hrs | 507 | by Staff reporter
'Civil servants forced to buy Zanu-PF cards'
Civil servants in some parts of the country have protested over what they have described as "coercion" by the ruling Zanu-PF party to buy the ruling party's membership cards at US$3 each.To av...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:44hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
'Disband current Zec secretariat'
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) secretariat should be disbanded and new civilian staff employed before the 2023 elections to ensure the credibility of the electoral management body, independen...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:11hrs | 54 | by Staff reporter
Woman stalks hubby's friend
HAVING been deserted by her husband over witchcraft allegations, a Mutare woman was left so devastated and threatening to commit suicide.The woman, Tatenda Chimwesa, is also venting her anger ...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:10hrs | 205 | by Staff reporter
Unions query Zimbabwe / Rwanda teachers deal
TEACHERS unions have raised concern over the conditions of service for their counterparts who were recently deployed to Rwanda, saying they were being treated unfairly.In October, 159 teachers...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 05:03hrs | 1055 | by Staff reporter
Police summon, charge journalist over Mnangagwa 'escape' story
Leopold Munhende, a journalist with NewZimbabwe.com, was Monday charged by police for allegedly communicating falsehoods prejudicial to the State in a recent story carried by the online publication cl...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 17:50hrs | 499 | by Staff reporter
Esidakeni Farm court application challenged
LANDS, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development Minister Anxious Masuka is challenging a court application by Zephaniah Dhlamini and his business partners Siphosami Malunga, Charles Moyo an...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 04:56hrs | 160 | by Staff reporter
US$1m grant splits MDC-T, infighting reaches crescendo
DIVISIONS are rocking the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-T over a US$1 million government grant that insiders say was abused by party officials.Rifts are widening as top officials are fighting publi...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:33hrs | 7153 | by Staff reporter
Boy (10) brutally attacked over father's love 'affair'
A 34-year-old Zvishavane man allegedly waylaid his neighbour's 10-year-old boy on his way to school and attacked him with a machete to spite the schoolboy's father whom he suspected to be cheating wit...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | 856 | by Staff reporter
Why did African leaders cease speaking for ordinary citizens but standing with oppressive leaders?
Whenever I watch clips, repeatedly replayed on state television, of a couple of African leaders calling for the 'lifting of sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe', my heart sinks, as I am quite sure, it also ...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 11:50hrs | 939 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mwonzora meets jailed Sikhala at Chikurubi Prison
MDC Alliance president, Douglas Mwonzora, on Saturday visited incarcerated Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) interim deputy chairperson, Job Sikhala at Chikurubi Maximum Prison amid claims the St. ...Published: 16 Oct 2022 at 19:23hrs | 765 | by Staff reporter
Shareholders fight directors over Tetrad Bank control and assets
TETRAD Investment Bank (TIB) shareholders are locked in a heated row with its directors for the control of the defunct financial institution's US$13 million assets. TIB has properties and othe...Published: 12 Oct 2022 at 18:49hrs | 536 | by Agencies
Former senior cop in murder storm
AN inquest is set to be held for a woman who was allegedly poisoned to death in a fight over inheritance in which a former Assistant Commissioner in the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), Mrs Marian Tige...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 13:58hrs | 3856 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Xenophobic Gauteng Premier resigns
After 8 years in the top spot of South Africa's economic hub, Makhura will step down on Thursday.Makhura who made statements that encouraged xenophobic attacks once blamed foreign nationals fo...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:23hrs | 4436 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa a neo dictator and human rights abuser, says ex-British MP
FORMER senior British MP Kate Hoey has expressed displeasure after Tony Blair and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's picture in Rwanda went viral whilst labeling the Zimbabwean leader as a neo-dictator an...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:50hrs | 3496 | by Staff reporter
Masisi proves ruling elite out of touch with suffering ordinary citizenry as he enjoys life in ivory tower with Mnangagwa!
I perfectly understand that life in the ivory tower of power and wealth is so lavish and comfortable!I am similarly aware that - living an ...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 07:31hrs | 513 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
NGOs' anti-Zimbabwe stance hits new low
Western-sponsored non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have once again contrived a bad statement alleging cooked up human rights abuses in Zimbabwe, all to cast the country in bad light, ahead of the...Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
Cde Mutsvangwa, do birds and trees sexually violate each other?
I never desire to wade into these sexual indiscretion scandals, or sexual abuse accusations, which have hounded well-known Zimbabwean leaders of late - both from the ruling and opposition formations -...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:41hrs | 1495 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Sikhala being persecuted, claims lawyer
PROMINENT human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa yesterday said the endless arrests, without conviction, of Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala (Citizens Coalition for Change, CCC) was a clear case of political ...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:44hrs | 690 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF threatens 'renegade' group 'with tragic consequences'
Zanu-PF has threatened 'with tragic consequences' a dissident group claiming to be part of them which recently claimed President Emmerson Mnangagwa no longer served interests of the party.The ...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:15hrs | 2180 | by Staff reporter
Mnanaggwa haunted by 2017 coup skeletons
NEW information emerging from Zanu-PF corridors indicates that the current factional fights in the ruling party are emanating from a 2017 power-sharing deal gone sour, NewsDay has gathered.Pre...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 19:27hrs | 2940 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF warns renegades
Zanu-PF has warned fired former party members, Godfrey Tsenengamu and Jimu Kunaka, against abusing the revolutionary party's regalia and trademarks as appropriate action would be taken against them....Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:23hrs | 1263 | by Staff reporter
Losing Tsholotsho South Zapu candidate accuses Zanu-PF of cheating
LOSING Zapu Tsholotsho South candidate Leonard Mthombeni has claimed rigging by the ruling Zanu-PF party in the March 26 by-elections, and vowed to go all out for victory in elections expected next ye...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:20hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean opposition's history of election fraud exposed
Each time Zimbabwe prepares for elections, the opposition prepares a case for a stolen vote.By now, the trend is abundantly clear: no matter the election, no matter the evidence and sometimes ...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:13hrs | 326 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
CCC activists leave trail of destruction in Chitungwiza
MORE than 20 families are now homeless, businesses are still counting losses and schools have been shut down after CCC activists went on a rampage in the dormitory town of Chitungwiza on Tuesday night...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:22hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala arrested as Chamisa goons torch homes
POLICE last night arrested CCC deputy chairman and Member of Parliament for Zengeza West Job Sikhala in connection with the violence that erupted at Nyatsime on the outskirts of Chitungwiza where his ...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:30hrs | 522 | by Staff reporter
Paranoid Zimbabwe regime that sees enemies everywhere can't be trusted with solving country's problem!
In our growing up, we were told of individuals who were always prone to accusing their enemies (whether real or imagined) for everything that went wrong in their lives.When they fell sick, in ...Published: 06 Jun 2022 at 09:27hrs | 608 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Massive looting exposed at CIO
CENTRAL Intelligence Organisation (CIO) financial records are in a shambles amid fears that senior officers in the state spy agency are presiding over massive looting and hounding out two senior emplo...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 20:00hrs | 4191 | by Staff reporter
Mahere, Gappah face off in court
HIGH Court judge Justice Joseph Mafusire has dismissed an application by lawyer and writer Petina Gappah, who is seeking further particulars in a case she is facing a US$1 million defamation lawsuit....Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 06:37hrs | 1496 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ruling establishment should stop abusing baseless 'illegal regime change' accusations to stifle legitimate dissent!
Zimbabwe regime knows fully well that its now worn-out and overplayed "regime change" narrative is a whole load of bull!If there has been any term uttered (or, more preferably, regurgitated) b...Published: 30 May 2022 at 15:19hrs | 330 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa legitimacy challenger wins major battle
A Harare magistrate on Friday said former Zanu-PF activist Sybeth Musengezi was eligible for a ruling party membership in what his lawyers said was confirmation that he was facing baseless charges to ...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:35hrs | 1496 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa legitimacy challenger granted bail after more than week in custody
Zanu-PF activist Sybeth Musengezi who challenged president Emmerson Mnangagwa's legitimacy in court was granted Z$30,000 bail on Friday after more than a week in custody.Musengezi was arrested...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:51hrs | 59 | by Staff reporter
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