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Community share ownership trust CEO faces arrest
TRADITIONAL leaders, villagers and other stakeholders have called for the arrest Chiadzwa Community Share Ownership Trust (CCSOT) Chief executive officer Hardwork Mukwada over charges of abuse of fund...Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 13:42hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
We have neglected Manicaland for too long Mr President Sir
On the 24th of June 2023, the President and First secretary of Zanu-PF, Cde ED Mnangagwa, will launch the Zanu PF campaign foundation upon which this year’s election bid will be built upon in Chipin...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 16:29hrs | 1 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Chiadzwa community, govt and ZCDC smoke peace pipe
GOVERNMENT and the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Corporation (ZCDC) have backed down from a protracted confrontation with the Chiadzwa community over a contentious proposal to invest US$400 million in...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Corrupt US$400m deal morphs into political fix
The controversial deal to get state-run Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Corporation (ZCDC) to acquire a 33% shareholding in Great Dyke Investment (GDI) for US$400 million has taken a political turn, wit...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 19:46hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Trust gets US$5million, collapses in 3 years
THE Marange-Zimunya Community Share Ownership Trust (MZCSOT) has collapsed only three years after the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamonds Corporation (ZCDC) injected US$5 million to prop it, a Zimbabwe Ind...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 18:58hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
600 Matebeleland South miners forfeit gold claims
CLOSE to 600 gold claims owned by small-scale miners in Matebeleland South province have been forfeited to the Mines ministry after the owners failed to pay inspection fees.Zimbabwe Miners Fed...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:48hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Community trust funds looted'
MEMBERS of the Thematic Committee on Indigenisation and Empowerment have accused the Mhondoro-Ngezi and Shurugwi Community Share Ownership Trust (CSOT) board of trustees of mismanaging funds released ...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Share ownership trust funds abused: Mavima
MIDLANDS Provincial Affairs minister Larry Mavima has castigated community share ownership trusts (CSOT) in the province over "improper" use of funds, which he said were not benefiting communities....Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu courts chiefs' wrath
THE legal fight between Minister of Home Affairs and Culture Dr Obert Mpofu and Chief Felix Nhlanhla Ndiweni got a little nastier last Friday, when the latter teamed up with two other chiefs from Mata...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 07:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu has last laugh as court dismisses theft charge
THE High Court has dismissed an application by Chief Felix Nhlanhla Ndiweni who accused Home Affairs and Culture Minister Dr Obert Mpofu of working with Zanu-PF's Matabeleland North chairperson Richar...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 12:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chief Ndiweni lose court case against Obert Mpofu
THE High Court has dismissed an application by Chief Felix Nhlanhla Ndiweni who accused Home Affairs and Culture Minister Dr Obert Mpofu of working with Zanu-PF's Matabeleland North chairperson Richar...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Share ownership schemes empower communities
Since the adoption of the indigenisation and economic empowerment policy by the Zimbabwean Government ten years ago, a number of communities have benefitted from the programme. This has helped t...Published: 19 Sep 2017 at 14:19hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Why President Mugabe is the darling of Zimbabweans and the hero of Africa
President Robert Mugabe has been on the receiving end of all manner of criticism from the West and its local minions, the opposition. He has been cast in the most negative of terms because of his prin...Published: 16 Sep 2017 at 19:33hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Robin Hoods must avert State capture
The political identity and executive authority of the State of Zimbabwe is vested in its Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Forces, President Robert Gabriel Mugabe. It ...Published: 30 Oct 2016 at 10:35hrs | 1 | by Rangu Nyamurundira
Kasukuwere ready for fight Mnangagwa's ally
LOCAL Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere yesterday said he welcomed any scrutiny of the Zimunya-Marange Community Share Ownership Trust (CSOT) and was ready to answer any queries.A dam...Published: 27 Oct 2016 at 09:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Army comments trigger concern
The unusual statement by the army this week that the government should deal more decisively with corruption, by aggressively pursuing public officials implicated in graft, has fuelled fears that Zanu-...Published: 27 Oct 2016 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere in deep trouble for 'fooling' Mugabe
Local government minister Saviour Kasukuwere is in deep trouble after parliament said he mislead President Robert Mugabe by presented a dummy $1,5m cheque to the Zimunya Marange CSOT.Parliamen...Published: 26 Oct 2016 at 07:10hrs | | by Mary Charamba
Buyanga eyes Lafarge
FLAMBOYANT businessman, Frank Buyanga, is eyeing a 40 percent stake in cement manufacturer, Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe, a unit of Lafarge-Holcim, the world's largest building materials producer with oper...Published: 27 May 2016 at 08:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to provide free meals for school kids
Government will in coming weeks start providing meals to school pupils countrywide to shield them from drought-induced hunger and to promote high nutrition levels.It is also implementing multi...Published: 07 Feb 2016 at 07:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Diaspora worth $50bln says Mugabe's nephew
ZIMBABWE'S Diaspora has potential to invest at least US$50 billion in the economy, but the country needs clear strategies on how to reach out to its expatriates and address policy inconsistencie...Published: 24 Sep 2015 at 05:57hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Mugabe's nephew targets foreign companies
Newly appointed Indigenisation minister Patrick Zhuwao says he is going after all foreign-owned companies who have not honoured their obligations to communities they are operating in under the Com...Published: 22 Sep 2015 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZELA calls for consultants to document governance issues in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) a public interest group that works on promoting improved environmental and natural resources governance in Zimbabwe has called for consultants to docu...Published: 13 Sep 2015 at 09:13hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Kasukuwere exposed in recording
A recording of Zanu-PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere misleading the eastern region that funds were about to be availed in the Marange-Zimunya Community Share Ownership Trust (CSOT) h...Published: 12 Aug 2015 at 18:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gamatox 2 brewing, says Jonathan Moyo
Zanu-PF politburo member and Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo has accused sections of the party calling for Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere's censure of pushing an agenda sim...Published: 31 Jul 2015 at 10:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere to be grilled over 'murky' multi-million dollar empowerment deals
Embattled former Youth and Indigenisation minister, Saviour Kasukuwere, faces further scrutiny as he appears in Parliament tomorrow to explain "murky" multi-million dollar empowerment deals handled by...Published: 08 Jul 2015 at 15:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Over 100 delegates expected at the 2015 Midlands Provincial Alternative Mining Indaba
Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association has announced that over 100 delegates are expected at the 2015 Midlands Provincial Alternative Mining Indaba.ZELA will host the third Midlands Provin...Published: 03 Jun 2015 at 05:52hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Chidhakwa attacks Nhema
Mines Minister Walter Chidhakwa has accused former Indigenous minister Francis Nhema of abrogating his duties by failing to force mining companies to capitalise Community Share Ownership Trusts wh...Published: 17 Mar 2015 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Beware of Chinese,' warns Zanu-PF MP
CONTROVESIAL Kwekwe Central legislator Masango Matambanadzo yesterday said some Chinese nationals working in Zimbabwe are only interested in plundering the country's resources.Matambanadzo, a ...Published: 26 Sep 2014 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe should make Community Share Ownership Trusts compulsory
Government's initiative of effecting the indigenization and economic empowerment policy to the mining sector through Community Share Ownership Trust (CSOT) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) pr...Published: 23 Jul 2014 at 20:42hrs | | by Peacemaker Zano
'Zanu-PF minister caught in web of lies'
Christopher Mushowe, the Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister, yesterday squirmed under tough probing over ex-Mines minister Saviour Kasukuwere's dubious documents that sought to justify claims that...Published: 11 Apr 2014 at 10:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mpofu could be in trouble with Mugabe
Former Mines and Mining Development Minister Obert Mpofu is under spotlight from after saying on Monday that he was not aware of the existence of the Marange-Zimunya Community Share Ownership Trus...Published: 12 Mar 2014 at 15:55hrs | | by Matthews Estell
Marange community receives measly $400,000 from diamond firms
The Marange-Zimunya Community has so far received only $400 000 from two companies out of a possible $50 million pledged by five companies operating in Chiadzwa, a parliamentary portfolio committee he...Published: 13 Feb 2014 at 14:39hrs | | by Rumbidzayi Zinyuke
Vumbachikwe Mine given 21-day ultimatum
THE National Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Board (NIEEB) has issued a 21-day ultimatum to Vumbachikwe Mine to comply with the Indigenisation Act.Vumbachikwe Mine, located 16km fr...Published: 04 Oct 2013 at 15:32hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
Fulltext - Mugabe's 33rd Independence Day speech
Address by His Excellency, The President and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence forces, Comrade Robert Gabriel Mugabe, on the occasion of Zimbabwe's 33rd Independence Day Celebrations, H...Published: 19 Apr 2013 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mat South ready for Community Share Ownership Scheme launch
THE Matabeleland South Community Share Ownership Trust/Scheme (CSOT/S) will be launched at Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) in Colleen Bawn in Gwanda on Friday.The CSOT/S is a countrywide Govern...Published: 15 May 2012 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiefs grateful for the just ended conference
CHIEFS yesterday said their annual conference, which ended in Bulawayo yesterday was a success as it gave them an opportunity to interact with the country's senior leadership.Speaking in separ...Published: 10 Mar 2012 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
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