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2 Mutsvangwas, 6 women and 3 Mnangagwas
With former television personality Tatenda Mavetera thrown into the mix, one needs very little imagination to describe Zimbabwe's Cabinet that was sworn into office early this week following a sham el...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 22:09hrs | 4 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Zimbabwe harbours wanted Irish Mafia cartel boss
A ZIMBABWEAN businessman, Adam Lincoln Woodington Wood, has allegedly been harbouring and enabling the activities of the founder of an Irish mafia gang, Christopher Vincent Kinahan, who is on the want...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:33hrs | 67 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Matutu elbowed out of mine
FORMER Zanu-PF youth leader Lewis Matutu has been elbowed out of the late business tycoon John Bredenkamp's gold-rich Thetford Estate in Mazowe, the Zimbabwe Independent has established.This c...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Court reserves judgement in asset declaration lawsuit
THE High Court has reserved judgement in a matter in which an opposition legislator launched a lawsuit against the government's failure to actualise a law that forces public officials, including Presi...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:42hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Court reserves judgement in asset declaration lawsuit
THE High Court has reserved judgement in a matter in which an opposition legislator launched a lawsuit against the government's failure to actualise a law that forces public officials, including Presi...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:59hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Old Nic Mine in racial storm
A RACIAL storm is brewing at Old Nic Mine in Killarney suburb, Bulawayo, with black employees accusing their white South African managers of racially abusing them, among other unfair labour practices....Published: 22 May 2021 at 07:53hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Matutu, Bredenkamp's son in turf war over mining grant
AN investment vehicle fronted by former Zanu-PF youth leader Lewis Matutu is locked in a turf war with Gavin Bredenkamp after it was allocated a 450 hectares mining grant on the latter's Thetford Esta...Published: 07 May 2021 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
New twist to tycoon's estate
The late John Bredenkamp‘s widow, Jennifer, has filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court seeking to block her son Gavin from holding on to the family's Thetford Farm in Mazowe. The case...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 17:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
State capture: Time to declare party financiers
SINCE time immemorial, the political class has been defined across the world by class, capital and raw power.In many instances, these groups of people have formed elite pacts to foster their h...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 10:15hrs | | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga-linked cartels take over public firms, mines, fuel sector - report
HIGHLY secretive cartels linked to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga are reported to have taken over the operations of key state-owned companies, including private f...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 07:33hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
MP takes govt to court over assets declaration by high profile officials
AN opposition legislator is suing government at the High Court over its failure to actualise a law that forces public officials, including President Emmerson Mnangagwa and ministers, to disclose their...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 17:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Two years on, the beast is revealed
LAST month marked President Emmerson Mnangagwa's inauguration as the second directly-elected leader of Zimbabwe since independence in 1980.Mnangagwa came riding on the wave of hope that no one...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bredenkamp's private jet saga takes new twist
Business mogul John Arnold Bredenkamp has retained his private jet after reaching an out-of-court settlement with his business friend Yaqub Mohamed,The jet was set to be auctioned over a US$20...Published: 03 Jun 2019 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe tycoon loses plane
Concerted efforts by business mogul, John Arnold Bredenkamp to stop the auctioning of his private jet over a US$205 000 debt, recently went up in smoke after High Court judge president Justice George ...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Corruption and cronyism worrying Mnangagwa' ZANU PF MP says
ZANU PF Member of Parliament for Gokwe-Nembudziya Justice Mayor Wadyajena says President Emmerson Mnangagwa is troubled that the majority problems in the country emanate from corruption and cronyism....Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 16:02hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mugabe's wealth exposed
Robert Mugabe has always been a well-kept secret with no one knowing exactly how much the Mugabes are worth. The only snippets has been the $1.35m diamond ring bought for Grace's wedding anniver...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 14:46hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | 28 | by WikiLeaks
The regrouping of a Zanu-PF cabal
A cabal can generally be defined as a group, a faction, a gang, a set, a confederacy or a junta. The Merriam-Webster dictionary refers to a cabal as the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretl...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 09:45hrs | | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Mnangagwa Takeover: Matebeles must prepare for an important announcement
The political crisis in Zimbabwe is far from over without the two state solution demanded by the people of Matabeleland. Its time Matebeleland must break away from Zimbabwe. We long served the governm...Published: 24 Nov 2017 at 07:09hrs | | by Israel Dube
Mugabe's blind believers have risked everyone's freedom
ZimFirst Leader Maxwell Shumba has said President Robert Mugabe's blind believers have made him run away with everyone's rights and freedom.He said Zimbabwe has become a nation of blind believ...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 06:09hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Reciting poverty statistics an insult to Zimbabweans
Contradictions, confusion, hypocrisy, incompetence, mediocrity and utter chaos are some of the words that can describe the reign by the current ZANUPF government.Minister Mupfumira's speech re...Published: 20 Jul 2017 at 13:38hrs | | by PDP
Bredenkamp set to lose private jet
BUSINESS mogul Mr John Arnold Bredenkamp's private jet faces auctioning over a $205 000 debt after the High Court on Wednesday threw out his latest bid to block the removal of the attached plane....Published: 23 Jun 2017 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Mugabe double-crossed Joseph Kabila
"Way before Marange, Mugabe and his military men had already started rampant racketeering, illegal mafia-style smuggling, double-crossing, double dealing, as well as illegal arms peddling with Congole...Published: 04 Oct 2016 at 16:10hrs | | by Ken Yamamoto
Zimbabwean tycoon agrees to repay $3,8m loan 16 years later
BUSINESS tycoon Mr John Arnold Bredenkamp will now pay back $3,8 million he borrowed from a local entrepreneur, Mr Yaqub Ibrahim Mohammed, some 16 years ago.Mr Bredenkamp had refused to pay th...Published: 12 Sep 2016 at 23:35hrs | | by Daniel Nemukuyu
PDP calls for probe on Rautenbach, Bredenkamp
The People's Democratic Party (PDP) demands the immediate establishment of a commission of inquiry to look into the Panama Papers following reports on how two businessmen with strong Zanu PF links avo...Published: 07 Apr 2016 at 14:20hrs | | by Jacob Mafume - PDP National Spokesperson
Mugabe allies implicated in Panama papers
Two prominent business people with suspected links to President Robert Mugabe have been fingered in the on-going international financial fall-out over what has become known as the Panama Papers. ...Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bredenkamp's $3.8m civil trial opens
The civil trial of business tycoon John Arnold Bredenkamp began at the High Court yesterday with the applicant, Yaqub Ibrahim Mohammed, telling High Court judge Justice Priscilla Chigumba that he had ...Published: 27 Jan 2016 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bredenkamp in trouble over $3.8m Yakub debt
Yakub Mohammed has taken John Bredenkamp to court over a debt of $3.8million. Mohammed clams to have advance the loan to Bredenkamp between 2000 and 2001. In addition to the amount...Published: 04 Aug 2015 at 10:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Miss Roberta Mugabe' takes SA by storm
WHILE social networks were abuzz about the red carpet being rolled out at the Union Buildings for President Robert Mugabe Wednesday, some media outlets focused on the ageing leader's new hairdo and e...Published: 08 Apr 2015 at 15:44hrs | | by Sowetan
Is he Zimbabwe's future president?
Mysterious. Dangerous. Reclusive. Hardline. Ruthless. Rich and helpful. All of these descriptions have been used for 72-year-old Emmerson Mnangagwa.Sworn into office as vice-president on Frida...Published: 14 Dec 2014 at 12:37hrs | | by Peta Thornycroft
ZRP re-launches cigarette blitz
HARARE - Zimbabwean authorities are reportedly contemplating another blitz on vendors selling cigarette sticksThis comes after police and municipal authorities - in consultation with the minis...Published: 01 May 2014 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mliswa accuses Mnangagwa of being a Mafia
The nasty factionalism within Zanu-PF is escalating into dangerous open warfare, with motor mouth Hurungwe West legislator, Temba Mliswa, spectacularly fingering Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 02 Apr 2014 at 15:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Business tycoon acquitted in the $4.2 million fraud case
BUSINESS tycoon Mr John Arnold Bredenkamp was yesterday acquitted in the $4,2 million fraud case. High Court judge Justice Felistus Chatukuta also cleared the businessman of flouting exchange control ...Published: 13 Sep 2013 at 05:03hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Tycoon 'borrowed $4 million to feed Zim troops in DRC'
Zimbabwean troops in the DRC were fed by controversial businessman John Bredenkamp, the High Court has been told. The trial of Bredenkamp kicked off at the High Court in Harare yesterday an...Published: 10 Sep 2013 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF linked tycoon sues the UK over sanctions
Business tycoon and alleged Zanu-PF ally, John Bredenkamp, has sued the British government for being responsible for putting his name on a list of targeted sanctions against the Robert Mugabe regime, ...Published: 25 Jun 2013 at 18:31hrs | | by Alex Bell
Zim businessman sues British government
Local businessman Mr John Bredenkamp has instituted legal proceedings against the British government which he accuses of unlawfully causing his assets to be frozen under an anti-Zimbabwe sanctions reg...Published: 23 Jun 2013 at 04:54hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF securing international funding
Concern remains high that Zanu-PF is securing international funding ahead of the next presidential elections, to recreate the 2008 election scenario that secured Robert Mugabe's place in power....Published: 22 Aug 2012 at 09:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Latest Zimbabwe sanctions list
The European Union on Friday de-listed 51 Zimbabweans, 20 companies from the much hated sanctions list but President Robert Mugabe would celebrate his 88th birthday under the sanctions yoke.H...Published: 17 Feb 2012 at 13:07hrs | | by Alois Sibanda
Auctioning Zimbabwe -The shady individuals and companies behind
Mugabe's brutal regimeAccording to sources close to them, Zanu PF and the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) officials continue to manipulate indigeni...Published: 05 Dec 2011 at 07:27hrs | | by Mathula Lusina
EU sanctions list
INDIVIDUALS 1. Name 6: ABU BASUTU 1: TITUS 2: M 3: J 4: n/a 5: n/a. Title: Air Vice-Marshal ...Published: 18 Feb 2011 at 11:20hrs | 5 | by Byo24NEWS
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