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Chivayo case takes new twist
THE case of businessman and Intratrek (Private) Limited director Wicknell Chivayo has taken a new twist with the prosecution seeking to amend the charges against him and his company. This come...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:39hrs | 900 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo trial continues
Businessman Wicknell Chivayo's trial is set to continue today at the Harare magistrates' court.The trial, which was supposed to start yesterday, failed to kick off since their magistrate was n...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:16hrs | 91 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy in safe hands
THE appointment of a leaner Cabinet by President Emmerson Mnangagwa is not only welcome, but also goes a long way in demonstrating that the President listened to the people, mindful of the need to man...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:25hrs | 1219 | by Daniel Ngwira
Warrant of arrest for Ginimbi
A warrant of arrest has been issued against businessman Genius Kadungure after he failed to pitch for his fraud trial yesterday. Kadungure, who is jointly charged with Wicknell Chivayo, was su...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:17hrs | 3630 | by Staff reporter
Angry bar owner shoots patron over stolen cattle
A 34-YEAR-OLD Goromonzi man is lucky to be alive after a bar owner shot him on the thigh for refusing to vacate the premise on allegations that he once stole the businessman's cattle sometime in 2016....Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:09hrs | 1087 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi, Chivayo R1,5m fraud trial moved
A HARARE magistrate yesterday issued a warrant of arrest to businessman Genius Kadungure, popularly known as Ginimbi, who is accused of swindling Zanu PF member of Parliament Dexter Nduna of R1 581 89...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:56hrs | 658 | by Staff reporter
Raj Modi lobbies govt to work from Bulawayo instead of Harare
Zimbabwe's new deputy minister of Industry and Commerce, Raj Modi has requested government to allow him to work from Bulawayo instead of Harare.Bulawayo businessperson and Sai Enterprises...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 10:54hrs | 4996 | by Staff writer
Mutodi: Eccentric politician or mere court jester?
For eccentric Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services deputy minister Energy Mutodi, old habits die hard.Mutodi, a struggling sungura musician and controversial businessman before his...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 09:06hrs | 702 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga blocks Chivayo donation
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga reportedly stopped controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo from donating towards the hosting of the just-ended Miss World Zimbabwe pageant, NewsDay Weekender rep...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:21hrs | 2083 | by Staff reporter
Undenge trial dates set
The trial of former Energy and Power Development Minister Samuel Undenge in a case in which he is accused of influencing the awarding of the Gwanda solar power plant tender to Intratrek Zimbabwe by Zi...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:15hrs | 139 | by Staff reporter
Business opportunities in Zimbabwe that will make more millionaires in 2018
The term "millionaire" is taking on a new meaning in Zimbabweans abroad. It's no longer just about the size of your bank account; any shady politician, corrupt bureaucrat, or unscrupulous busi...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 06:41hrs | 1816 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa, Mwonzora trading blows in an unpredictable, bruising fight
WITH just five months to go to a crucial congress, MDC leader Nelson Chamisa and his main internal rival, secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora, are trading blows in an unpredictable, bruising fight to w...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 16:30hrs | 14547 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new cabinet an average team
THE cabinet appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week dubbed the "dream team" by government publicists, though a marked improvement from previous ones, has shortcomings as it features minist...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 16:23hrs | 1575 | by Staff reporter
Hubby is always right: Chivayo
Controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo has finally broken the silence following the videos posted by his wife last week on the Miss World Zimbabwe night.In the videos, Chivayo's wife Sonja...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 16:04hrs | 4146 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge MP Nguluvhe torches 'tribal' storm
BEITBRIDGE East legislator Albert Nguluvhe (Zanu PF) has torched a storm in the border town after he posted a comment on social media that has been interpreted as tribal and discriminatory.The...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:32hrs | 1780 | by Staff reporter
'Zodwa welcome for Zimbabwe carnival'
Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) boss Karikoga Kaseke said Zodwa Wabantu is welcome to join the 5th Harare International Carnival to be held from October 14 to 20. This follows the controversi...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:11hrs | 2751 | by Staff reporter
Time for Bulawayo to reclaim lost glory: Modi
INDUSTRY and Commerce Deputy Minister, Raj Modi, has said the new dispensation offers Bulawayo an opportunity to reclaim its former glory as the industrial hub of Zimbabwe. Himself a prominent busines...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 06:55hrs | 1479 | by Staff reporter
Bouncers hired to beat up businessman
A BULAWAYO man allegedly paid two bouncers $2 000 to assault his wife's suspected lover in a love triangle that has sucked in a city businessman who was beaten up by the duo. Nkululeko Masuku ...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 06:53hrs | 779 | by Staff reporter
Financial illiteracy is our biggest enemy in Zimbabwe
I found a very interesting letter in one of my old books that I last read in 2004. It is a letter that I received from Barclays Bank (Zimbabwe), offering me a Z$1 million overdraft facility. Three yea...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 06:47hrs | 264 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Wicknell's marriage shaken as wife calls hubby psychopath
Controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo's marriage has shaken with the wife and in-laws taking the marital woes to social media.Chivayo's wife Sonja Madzikanda took to her Instagram to vent...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 15:52hrs | 5256 | by Staff reporter
'How Buyanga sold my house'
A Harare man yesterday narrated how businessman Frank Buyanga allegedly fraudulently processed change of ownership of his house before selling it behind his back, a court heard.Buyanga had adv...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 13:22hrs | 703 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo wife explodes on social media
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. It has become a trend for women to blast their spouses on social media to let the world know about their haggling. Joining the list of controversial Oli...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 06:36hrs | 3439 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa paid at least $550 000 to hire plane for Grace using private funds
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is reported to have spent a minimum of $550 000 chartering a private Gulfstream 650 plane from Qatar to allow former first lady Grace Mugabe to travel to her mother's fune...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 18:48hrs | 2970 | by Sithabile Mafu
Chamisa takes over the appointment of Harare City Council committee chairpersons
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has reportedly taken over the appointment of Harare City Council committee chairpersons in a bid to ensure his allies control key positions to effectively drive the ...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 07:02hrs | 2343 | by Staff reporter
Jere lands PSL top post
Caps United president Farai Jere yesterday landed the Premier Soccer League (PSL) top post after he was elected chairman for the organisation, narrowly beating Triangle's Lovemore Matikinye in an elec...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:53hrs | 265 | by Staff reporter
Potts crowned Miss Zimbabwe
Twenty one-year-old Masvingo beauty Hajirah Belinda Potts, shrugged off competition from 13 other stunning models to be crowned Miss World Zimbabwe 2018 at a glittering ceremony held at Orchid Gardens...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:30hrs | 581 | by Staff reporter
The 'scania' operator who became a businessman
PHINIAS GOMBA hates the sport of soccer. FOR the first 20 years of his life, he had loved it like most young men in soccer mad Zimbabwe. This all changed one night after another heavyweight bout betwe...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:37hrs | 939 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa, residents fight re-ignites
The fight between Southlea Park Home Owners Association and businessman Philip Chiyangwa has resurfaced after the parties went back to the High Court on Thursday, seeking the court to make a determina...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 18:05hrs | 734 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa for Caf executive post
ZIFA and Cosafa president, Phillip Chiyangwa, is set to replace banned Zambian football legend Kalusha Bwalya in the Caf executive committee if recommendations by Cosafa are endorsed. Accordin...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:24hrs | 479 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa silences critics with new Cabinet
A developmental Cabinet I would call it. Brilliant balance between old and trusted hands, technocrats and youthfulness. A well thought out Cabinet that balances the competing demands of the economy an...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 19:23hrs | 15349 | by Lloyd Msipa
Mnangagwa appoints Prof Mthuli Ncube as Finance minister
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed the Professor Businessman Mthuli Ncube as Finance Minister replacing the long serving minister Patrick Chinamasa.Ncube owned the now defunct Barbican...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 15:24hrs | 6819 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa, Mnangagwa lawyers join hand, fight in Wicknell's corner
INTRATREK Zimbabwe, founded by businessman Wicknell Chivayo, has filed a lawsuit at the High Court demanding $25 million from Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) in damages for alleged repudiation of a multi...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:22hrs | 10058 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe industry capacity utilisation to exceed 50%
THE country's manufacturing sector capacity utilisation is set to exceed 50 percent this year on the back of gains achieved in the last two years, with more positive prospects under the new political ...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 06:49hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
Gweru mayor, deputy elected unopposed
WARD Two councillor Josiah Makombe is the new mayor of Gweru after being elected unopposed while Clr Cleopas Shiri will deputise him after also sailing through unopposed. Gweru councillors wer...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 06:40hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa petitioned over Zesa corruption
Youth Against Corruption (Yac) has petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa demanding him to act on corruption at power utility Zesa Holdings (Zesa).Yac accused Zesa senior management of firing...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 13:42hrs | 1858 | by Staff reporter
Modi hits ground running
BUSINESSMAN and Bulawayo South MP, Mr Raj Modi, has bought a brick-moulding machine worth $20 000 to capacitate residents under his constituency as part of his pre-election promises. The promi...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 06:49hrs | 1567 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi, Chivayo fraud trial resumes
HARARE businessman Genius Kadungure, also known as Ginimbi, who is accused of swindling a Zanu-PF member Dexter Nduna of R1 581 890 in a botched mining supply deal, was summoned to appear in court on ...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 06:46hrs | 1528 | by Staff reporter
Nyambirai's security guards shoot 4 miners in gold spat
SECURITY guards at businessman Tawanda Nyambirai's Arcturus Mine in Goromonzi reportedly shot and injured four artisanal miners on Sunday as the gold dispute at the mine rages on.The security ...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 06:41hrs | 290 | by Staff reporter
SA's murky world of pension funds exposed by death of Zimbabwean businessman
The death of South African based Zimbabwean businessman Abraham Ndoro has opened a can of worms, shedding light on the murky pension industry in the Southern Africa powerful economy.Exactly 16...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 19:38hrs | 3526 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe businessman's death exposes South Africa's murky world of pension funds
HARARE - The death of South African based Zimbabwean businessman Abraham Ndoro has opened a can of worms, shedding light on the murky pension industry in the Southern Africa powerful economy.E...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 10:10hrs | 2975 | by Staff Reporter
Slay Queen Faith Nketsi to party in Zimbabwe
SOUTH African slay queen Faith Nketsi has decided to visit Zimbabwe for the first time to party with locals and have a taste of the champagne lifestyle at businessman Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure's nigh...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:48hrs | 1859 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate cautions Chivayo
A Harare magistrate has cautioned businessman Wicknell Chivayo, who is facing fraud charges to abide by bail conditions after he defaulted reporting to police during Heroes' holidays.Chivayo a...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 12:56hrs | 3190 | by staff reporter
The 'lazy man' debate, Zimbo men not willing to work?
"ZIMBABWEAN men in the UK have graduated into lazy benefit seekers content to stay in council houses with no zeal to develop their lives," laments one Angela."Most of them have turned into a g...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 07:37hrs | 2090 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Acting Prosecutor-General guns for Chivayo
ACTING Prosecutor-General (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi has raised a red flag over the failure by judicial officers to place businessman Wicknell Chivayo on remand after the latter was charged with swindling th...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 06:21hrs | 1537 | by Staff reporter
Judge blasts police in Chivayo case
The High Court has blasted the police over the arrest of businessman and Intratrek (Private) Limited director Wicknell Chivayo on weak charges of allegedly swindling Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) of ov...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:31hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter
Anti-Corruption Commission investigating Biti over $30 million deal
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission is investigating former Finance Minister Mr Tendai Biti over a $30 million deal between the National Social Security Authority and the now defunct Renaissance B...Published: 26 Aug 2018 at 08:06hrs | 7544 | by Staff Reporter
Man bludgeoned to death over soya chunks
A MAN armed with an iron bar allegedly bludgeoned a Lupane businessman to death for refusing to sell him some soya chunks last year.Ndumiso Mlilo allegedly killed Mr Fanet Ndlovu (41), who ope...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 06:36hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
Tugwi-Mukosi: All that glitters is not gold
WHEN the 1,8 billion cubic metre Tugwi-Mukosi Dam, the largest inland water reservoir in the country, was completed in December 2016, many thought the perennial woes of the drought-prone Masvingo prov...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:12hrs | 464 | by Staff reporter
Modi to hold business expo
BULAWAYO businessman Mr Raj Modi is set to hold a business expo aimed at reviving industries in the city.The business expo will be run by the Modi Family Trust.Mr Modi said the expo wo...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:05hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
It never rains but pours for Undenge
It never rains but it pours for former Energy minister Samuel Undenge after he was dragged back to court on Saturday on another charge.In the latest charge, Undenge is facing fraud allegations...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 07:09hrs | 2783 | by Staff reporter
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