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NetOne is now a danger to life and security!
I am one of those who have been faithful subscribers to Zimbabwe's second largest mobile network operator (MNO) NetOne.Over the years, I have become endeared to the state-owned entity, in spit...Published: 02 Jan 2024 at 17:54hrs | 13 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Umkhonto weSizwe fighter will never forget what a white man told him in Zimbabwe in 1980
I have no idea whether the white man I am writing about is still alive or not. He gave me an understanding of what actually happened to us Africans, and how sinister it was, when we were colonized. Hi...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 13:11hrs | 15 | by Thula Bopela
Zimbabwean national found with US$153 000 at King Mswati III International Airport
A Zimbabwean national was found with foreign currency equivalent to E2.8 million cash at King Mswati III International Airport.Masiyakurima Agrippa Bopela (Masiya), a losing candidate for Nati...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-NetOne boss faces probe
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is investigating former NetOne CEO Reward Kangai over a myriad of alleged criminal abuse of office cases during his tenure at the state-owned mobile netw...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 18:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-NetOne boss off the hook
Former NetOne chief executive Reward Kangai, who is facing 21 counts of criminal abuse of office, was yesterday removed from remand after the State failed to furnish him with a trial date. Kan...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Madiro scoffs at NPF’s poll petition
Zanu-PF Mutare North House of Assembly representative Michael Madiro has described losing National Patriotic Front (NPF) candidate, Mr Agrippa Bopela Masiyakurima's High Court petition challenging his...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-NetOne boss Kangai’s freedom bid flops
A bid for freedom by former NetOne chief executive Reward Kangai, who is facing 21 counts of criminal abuse of office, yesterday hit a brick wall after his application for refusal of further remand wa...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zec inflated Mutare North figures'
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is under-fire from the National Patriotic Front's losing candidate, Agrippa Bopela Masiyakurima for allegedly inflating figures in the Mutare North constituency...Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Election 2018 Predictive Model-It's not even close!
In less than a week Zimbabweans vote in a watershed election. Not surprisingly the impending elections evoke a myriad of emotions for different reasons. Some are hyper-ventilating; some are quacking i...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 13:58hrs | | by George Chingarande
Zanu-PF's Pemhanayi steps aside for Madiro
INCUMBENT Zanu-PF legislator for Mutare North Batsirai Pemhenayi has withdrawn his candidacy as an independent contestant.Pemhenayi had filled his papers as an independent candidate following ...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
WikiLeaks: 25 most corrupt ministers and public figures in Zimbabwe
These individuals will never be prosecuted by the Mnangagwa government because he is involved with entirely all of them. Either they were in the deal together or they know too much of his own dirty de...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 11:06hrs | 33 | by WikiLeaks
Police keen to interview Kasukuwere
Zimbabwe Republic Police has said they are keen to interview Former Zanu PF National Political Commissar Savior Kasukuwere who arrived back in the country this Tuesday afternoon.ZRP national s...Published: 22 May 2018 at 14:27hrs | | by Byo24News Reporter
Mnangagwa's name-and-shame gimmick falls short of expectations
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government yesterday released the long-awaited list of companies and individuals alleged to have failed to return $827 million stashed abroad following the expiry of a 1...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 12:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mandiwanzira denies he is corrupt
INFORMATION and Communication Technology (ICT) minister Supa Mandiwanzira says his hands are clean in the face of corruption allegations levelled against him by former NetOne chief executive officer R...Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Businessman wants Mandiwanzira charged
HARARE businessman Agripa "Bopela" Masiyakurima caused a scene at the magistrates' court yesterday when he demanded that Information and Communications Technology minister Supa Mandiwanzira be tried f...Published: 07 Feb 2018 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kangai's bail conditions relaxed
Former NetOne chief executive officer Reward Kangai - who is facing abuse of office charges - had his bail conditions relaxed when he appeared in court yesterday.Kangai is being accused of all...Published: 01 Feb 2018 at 14:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-NetOne boss Kangai further remanded
Former NetOne managing director Reward Kangai, who is facing 21 counts of criminal abuse of office, was yesterday further remanded to February 26.Kangai is out on $800 bail, which was granted ...Published: 01 Feb 2018 at 05:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
NetOne hits back at Kangai
STATE-OWNED mobile operator, NetOne, has taken its former chief executive officer, Reward Kangai and Harare businessman, Agrippa Masiyakurima to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) accusing...Published: 05 Jan 2018 at 08:59hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Kangai loses succession battle
FORMER NetOne chief executive Reward Kangai this week suffered a major setback after the High Court ruled that his application to stop the recruitment of his successor following his unceremonious depa...Published: 27 May 2017 at 09:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa linked organisation headed by a fugitive 'receives threats' from Cabinet ministers
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission has said it is receiving threats from Cabinet ministers and political interference from high profile individuals, which have hampered its investigations...Published: 20 Apr 2017 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Whites planned for the time when Africans would rise up against them
I have no idea whether the white man I am writing about is still alive or not. He gave me an understanding of what actually happened to us Africans, and how sinister it was, when we were colonized. Hi...Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 14:57hrs | | by Thula Bopela
What a White Man Told Me in Zimbabwe in 1980
I have no idea whether the white man I am writing about is still alive or not. He gave me an understanding of what actually happened to us Africans, and how sinister it was, when we were colonized...Published: 17 Nov 2016 at 20:25hrs | 104 | by Thula Bopela
Zanu-PF brawl reaches varsity
Zanu-PF's deadly factional and succession wars have now reached the shores of the country's institutions of higher learning, amid claims that the party faction rallying behind Vice President Emmerson ...Published: 14 Oct 2016 at 10:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Anti-corruption blitz targets Wicknell Chivayo and other bigwigs
Government is on a major anti-corruption operation, with investigators raiding ministries, parastatals, Harare City Council and housing co-operatives last Thursday and Friday.In 2015, Presiden...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 11:25hrs | | by Brian Chitemba
Dodgy dealers drag Mugabe through the mud
Questions are being raised over the exact nature of the relationship between President Robert Mugabe and his family with various controversial characters and dodgy dealers, including ex-convict-tu...Published: 23 May 2016 at 09:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Company owner 'pointed' gun at Zimra official
BOPELA Group of Companies owner, Agrippa Masiyakurima, allegedly pointed a gun at a Zimbabwe Revenue Authority official after a misunderstanding over his South African-registered motor vehicle at Plum...Published: 28 Apr 2016 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Plot to expel Supa Mandiwanzira & Chinamasa from Zanu-PF fails
A PLOT to pass a vote-of-no confidence on minister of Information, Communication and Technology Supa Mandiwanzira and Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa during the Manicaland inter-youth district conf...Published: 15 Apr 2016 at 17:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabes a refuge for dodgy dealers
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe and his family have become a refuge for controversial characters and dodgy dealers trying to hide their criminal activities and get protection by associating themselves with th...Published: 15 Apr 2016 at 17:14hrs | | by Wongai Zhangazha
NetOne overpaid supplier by $500,000
One of the companies under forensic audit at NetOne, Bopela Group of Companies, was allegedly overpaid by $500 000 for the installation of base stations. The company is owned by one Mr Agrippa Masiyak...Published: 30 Mar 2016 at 06:39hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Former bosses owe NetOne over $11 million
MAGGOTS continue crawling from the NetOne can of worms amid revelations that the former NetOne management led by suspended chief executive officer Reward Kangai owned Firstel Cellular that owes the Go...Published: 22 Mar 2016 at 07:12hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Multi-million scam rocks NetOne
The NetOne board says the mobile company has lost millions of dollars owing to a weak finance team, prompting a forensic audit to clean up the system.State owned mobile operator has been rocke...Published: 21 Mar 2016 at 20:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Board orders NetOne forensic audit
The NetOne board has resolved to undertake a forensic audit into the operations of the Government-owned mobile operator, after revelations that the firm could have been prejudiced of millions of dolla...Published: 11 Mar 2016 at 05:46hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
'State House' gunshots update: G40 funder arrested
SOUTH Africa - based Zimbabwean businessman, Agrippa Masiyakurima was briefly arrested in Harare over the weekend after he allegedly fired gunshots following an altercation near the country's military...Published: 15 Jan 2016 at 10:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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