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Fraud accused wails uncontrollably, court adjourns
A court sitting in Gweru was forced to adjourn for some minutes after a businesswoman accused of swindling a music promoter and businessman of US$17 000 wept uncontrollably after she was asked to stan...Published: 7 hrs ago | 797 | by Staff reporter
Ncube's budget gets thumbs down
Zimbabwe's month-on-month inflation rate quickened to 38,75% in October from 17,7% the previous month as analysts warned that Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's 2020 budget will be rendered useless by so...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:03hrs | 1164 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife must step back
Barely two years into her husband's tenure as president, first lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has diminished the little dignity she enjoyed having come into the comforts of State House on the back of a milit...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:57hrs | 1426 | by Edmund Kudzai
Matebeleland South police ban knobkerries
POLICE in Gwanda, Bulilima and Mangwe districts of Matebeleland South have imposed a three-month ban on the carrying of knobkerries and catapults, among other "weapons", citing increased crime in the ...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:17hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Businessman sues wife for malicious prosecution
Local businessman, Ian Ross Waters, has approached the High Court filing an application of malicious prosecution in which he is claiming $750,000 from his former wife Arpana Waters (nee Patel), accusi...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 21:55hrs | 1351 | by Staff reporter
Rhodies we know, where are Zimbos?
MONDAY, November 11, marked the 54th anniversary of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) by then Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith, a move that severed the white colony from the B...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:40hrs | 737 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Armed gang bags US$20 000
A FILABUSI businessman lost US$20 660, R72 300 and $1 100 among other valuables to four men armed with pistols who stormed his home in a pre-dawn raid, police confirmed yesterday. Matabeleland...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:35hrs | 847 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally buys BNC
ASA Resources Group (ASA) has finally exited Bindura Nickel Corporation (BNC), the country's largest nickel producer, after agreeing to dispose of its 74,7 percent majority shareholding to Sotic Inter...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 21:37hrs | 8135 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife dragged into Buyanga's case
FIRST lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's name has been dragged into the messy wrangle between businessman Frank Buyanga and his former girlfriend over the custody of their child following the leaking of an aud...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:49hrs | 740 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's money merry go-round
Zimbabwe is trying everything in the book to address a currency crisis that has undermined its productive capacity and threatened its economic sustainability. But its measures so far seem to have had ...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:45hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife sucked into Buyanga, girlfriend child custody wrangle
FIRST Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa has been placed at the centre of a custody wrangle between South Africa based property tycoon Frank Buyanga and his ex-girlfriend Chantelle Muteswa.An audio leaked...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 12:43hrs | 3813 | by newzimbabwe
Businessman threatens kombi driver over girlfriend
BULAWAYO businessman, Elvis Basira, has been reported to the police for allegedly threatening to shoot kombi driver Edgar Gumbo for dating his ex-girlfriend.Bulawayo police spokesperson Chief ...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 05:46hrs | 903 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo donates $16 000 to an ill Gwanda man
Maverick Businessman Wicknell Chivayo has donated ZWL$16 000 towards medical fees for one Tamson Phiri from Gwanda who is suffering from invasive squamous cell carcinoma. Chivayo responded to ...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 17:48hrs | 1174 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa to headline economic indaba
President Mnangagwa headlines an economic and financial indaba in Harare on Thursday, which is set to deliberate on solutions to the country's economic challenges, including foreign currency shortages...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 06:43hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
'Cash injection to end bank queues'
THE move by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to inject $1 billion new notes and coins by mid this month will ease cash shortages, economists have said. Bank queues had become a norm in Zimba...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 05:54hrs | 891 | by Staff reporter
Russia's 'troll factory' is alive and well in Africa
(CNN) - In the runup to the 2020 election, the graduates of Russia's infamous "troll factory" are honing their fake-news skills. This time, they are doing it openly, using Africa as a proving ground -...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 17:02hrs | 1445 | by Mary Ilyushina, CNN
Gwanda girl's dream to be a pilot takes off
A quick glance into her small room at the students' residency before the interview, which came only an hour before her first experience in the air as a pilot, revealed there was panic and disquiet at ...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:54hrs | 1773 | by Staff reporter
Bravura procures exploration equipment
The multi-million dollar platinum mining and beneficiation project spearheaded by the government and Nigerian businessman Benedict Peters' Bravura is taking shape following the procurement of explorat...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:49hrs | 167 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe defends $2m defamation suit
FORMER first lady Grace Mugabe has defended a $2 million lawsuit filed against her and her son Russel Goreraza by Lebanese businessman Jamal Hamed, who accuses the two of defaming him during a legal b...Published: 02 Nov 2019 at 13:33hrs | 7371 | by Staff reporter
Shepherd Tundiya discharged in Goddard case
KWEKWE businessman Shepherd Tundiya, who was facing allegations of coercing the director of JR Goddard Contracting (Pvt) Ltd to withdraw a criminal abuse of office report he made against four members ...Published: 02 Nov 2019 at 07:01hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
China still committed to financing Zimbabwe projects
THE African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (Afrodad), together with the Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd), this week held a multi-stakeholder public debt conference to di...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 06:45hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
Oppah Muchinguri sued over property seizure
Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri and an army-owned company, have been taken to court by an Oman-based businessman, Thamer Said Ahmed Al Shanfari following moves to seize his Harare properties....Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 06:35hrs | 1999 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers bag US$36 000 in home raid
SEVEN masked armed robbers pounced on a family in Bulawayo's Morningside suburb and beat them up before getting away with US$39 000 and R118 000 using their victims' car. The robbers who were ...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 06:29hrs | 613 | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister loses upmarket Harare property
Former Lands minister Douglas Mombeshora and his wife Millicent have lost their bid to claim co-ownership of a Borrowdale property which was bought by a Harare businessman, through a public auction co...Published: 31 Oct 2019 at 07:17hrs | 1009 | by Staff reporter
Makamba wins Telecel shareholding battle
HIGH Court judge Justice Edith Mushore has ruled in favour of the once exiled businessman James Makamba in a long-drawn Telecel Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd share ownership battle with a war veterans organisati...Published: 30 Oct 2019 at 07:51hrs | 3192 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo to stand trial for bribery
Flamboyant businessman Wicknell Chivayo, who is facing a charge of bribery after his company, Intratrek, transferred $10 000 to former Zimbabwe Power Company board chairperson Stanley Kazhanje's perso...Published: 30 Oct 2019 at 07:38hrs | 1139 | by Staff Reporter
LISTEN: Chiwenga's ex-wife threatens businessman after refusing to pay for batteries
A shocking audio recording has emerged of controversial motor-mouth Jocelyn Chiwenga, the ex-wife of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, bullying a Harare businessman named Mapfumo and refusing to pa...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 19:36hrs | 9898 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe set to gain from depreciating currency
Zimbabwe may have to roll up its sleeve with regards to the newly-established single continental market for goods and services, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).AfCFTA will ope...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 09:52hrs | 1220 | by Staff reporter
Gold Baron turns to God
There is common wisdom that "change" is the only constant in life and nothing else. This view is borrowed from an ancient Greek philosopher and means that there is nothing in life which is stationary ...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 09:37hrs | 374 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo moves to stop criminal trial
Local businessman Wicknell Chivayo, who is set to answer to US$10 000 bribery charges alongside his company Intratrek Zimbabwe, has approached the High Court seeking an order to stay the criminal tria...Published: 26 Oct 2019 at 07:37hrs | 282 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe wanted to kill Makamba over Grace
FORMER Telecel Zimbabwe boss and businessman, James Makamba last year revealed that he fled the country and remained in self-imposed exile for 13 years after former President Robert Mugabe (pictured) ...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 17:27hrs | 20101 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo moves to stop criminal trial
Local businessman Wicknell Chivayo, who is set to answer to US$10 000 bribery charges alongside his company Intratrek Zimbabwe, has approached the High Court seeking an order to stay the criminal tria...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 10:51hrs | 1086 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally swoops on US$500m platinum project
Commodities baron Kudakwashe Tagwirei's Landela Mining Ventures has emerged as the new joint venture partner in the Russian-led Darwendale platinum mine project, which has also roped in former Impala ...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 09:33hrs | 2849 | by Staff reporter
Police pursue Zanu-PF armed robbery gang leader's assassins
The police are yet to arrest assassins who raided a business man's house in Maphisa, Matabeleland South on Tuesday morning before fatally shooting him and making off without taking anything. T...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 17:37hrs | 7290 | by Staff Reporter
Mliswa demands Parly committee chair reshuffling
Norton MP Temba Mliswa (independent) yesterday called for rotation of parliamentary portfolio committee chairpersons in a move targeted at removal of Gokwe Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena, who l...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 07:01hrs | 1515 | by Staff reporter
Businessman dies in hail of bullets
A PROMINENT Maphisa businessman was early yesterday morning shot dead in his home at the growth point in Matabeleland South. Tapson Ncube, who had business interests in mining, transport, reta...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 05:59hrs | 3031 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally in failed Kambuzuma land grab
CONTROVERSIAL businessman and close ally of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Billy Rautenbach allegedly forged a Deeds of Transfer document to gain ownership of a residential area at the centre of a lega...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 05:58hrs | 3451 | by newzimbabwe
Windfall or State capture bait?
An MDC official has revealed that his party has received about US$100 000, from a South African businessman whom he named but whose name will not be published until his confirmation or denial of the c...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 21:31hrs | 4886 | by Farai Tivatye
Obert Mpofu sues Matutu for $10 million
ZANU-PF secretary for administration Dr Obert Mpofu is suing the party's Youth Affairs deputy secretary Lewis Matutu for $10 million after the latter accused him of being corrupt.The claim ema...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 15:48hrs | 3882 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya appears in court
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Dr John Mangudya yesterday testified as the last State witness in the case where Kwekwe businessman Shepherd Tundiya is alleged to have coerced the director of ...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 07:12hrs | 3468 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi's ex-wife jailed
Vice-President Kembo Mohadi's former wife was last week jailed for 90 days for interfering with farming activities at the Zanu-PF heavy weight's farm.Tambudzani, a Zanu-PF senator, violated a ...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:55hrs | 5240 | by Staff reporter
'Tortured' vendor dies in prison
A Harare vendor died in remand prison yesterday after he was allegedly tortured by police, triggering an angry reaction from human rights defenders.Tafadzwa Hilton Tamangani was one of the 11 ...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:53hrs | 616 | by Staff reporter
Old habits die hard for Zimbabwe police
The death of a Harare vendor in remand prison after he was allegedly tortured during interrogation is yet another indication that old habits in the police force have not been banished.Hilton T...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:52hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
Kombani changes the face of Plumtree
PLUMTREE businessman Charles Moyo has changed the face of the border town's tourism industry by establishing a three star lodge.Moyo, who owns CBC Construction Company in South Africa responde...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:50hrs | 1189 | by Staff reporter
Thomas Mapfumo promises fireworks in SA
Chimurenga music guru Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo, who is set to perform at two shows in South Africa next weekend, has promised his legion of fans a show to remember.The shows, which will be hel...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:49hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
Uncle Roland Muchegwa speaks out
Businessman and socialite Roland Muchegwa has opened up on the pictures that have gone viral on social media in the past week. Muchegwa who is reported to be a truck operator and fuel dealer s...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 10:38hrs | 14724 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Police link helmet to slain cop
ONE of the 210 anti-riot police helmets recovered from the basement of Robinson House in Harare last week belonged to a police sergeant who was killed in political violence that erupted near Harvest H...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 07:09hrs | 1604 | by Staff reporter
14 nabbed over Tenda bus owner smuggling case
DETECTIVES in Mutare have arrested 14 touts who were allegedly hired by prominent businessman, Ernest Mungwari, to block cops and Zimbabwe Revenue Authority officials from confiscating an assortment o...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 06:54hrs | 3754 | by Staff reporter
Curb corruption in the police force now
The recent case involving 11 police constables from different police stations who were arrested in Borrowdale while trying to extort money from a businessman they accused of illegally dealing in forei...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 08:48hrs | 7 | by Beaven Dhliwayo
Chamisa's MDC seeks police interdict
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has approached the High Court with an urgent application seeking an order to interdict Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema, Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and Off...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 16:20hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
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