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Was Kudzi Keita a diamond dealer and a hustler?
THE first thing which would hit you about Kudzai Keita was his SURNAME.It's not a common surname in Zimbabwe and rarely does one find it being associated with a name like Kudzai.It's a...Published: 01 Nov 2024 at 10:08hrs | 1423 | by Staff reporter
Mtukudzi's widow gets cheered by a morally bankrupt society
Daisy Mtukudzi, the widow of renowned Zimbabwean music icon Oliver Mtukudzi, received a brand new Toyota Fortuner on Tuesday, gifted by controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo. This gesture comes a...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 10:11hrs | 955 | by Staff reporter
Harare roads being dualised
Road construction in Harare has gathered pace, with car sales that had been erected along Harare-Chirundu Highway on Nemakonde Road (formerly Lomagundi Road), having been demolished to pave way for th...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 04:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pastor in court for theft
A SELF-CONFESSED pastor on Friday appeared before Harare magistrate Apollonia Marutya facing three counts of theft of trust property valued at US$9 300.Albert Muremo (50) denied the allegation...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 04:52hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo frets over Zacc probe
SOCIALITE and businessman Wicknell Chivayo has mocked the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) for allegedly trying to investigate the source of his unexplained wealth.Chivayo has spent ...Published: 11 Feb 2024 at 21:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
£33 000 lost in botched car import deal
A HARARE man lost £33 470 to a car dealer whom he had engaged to import three vehicles to Zimbabwe.Vitalis Munemo, a car dealer at MCV Car Sales, appeared before Harare magistrate Denni...Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 04:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZACC recovers 36 vehicles from bogus civil servants
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission and the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority have joined forces to curb the abuse of tax rebates extended to civil servants by the Government so they could import vehicle...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's know it all female car enthusiast
Nyaradzo Munhamo regards herself as Bulawayo's know it all female car enthusiast and always envisioned herself as the owner of a fancy and expensive vehicle but never thought she would work as a car s...Published: 20 May 2023 at 19:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa expands empire in Kwekwe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, members of the First Family and his close allies, who include former State Security minister Owen Ncube, have amassed significant wealth in the form of immovable property...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 17:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Dr Nandipha left Merc at Zimbabwe border, returned on foot
As South African law enforcement continues the search for fugitive murderer-rapist Thabo Bester - known as the "Facebook rapist" - and his accomplice girlfriend Dr Nandipha Magudumana, more informatio...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 10:42hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Wanted SA rapist Thabo Bester skipped the country to Zimbabwe?
Thabo Bester skipped the country to Zimbabwe to lay low after escaping from the Mangaung maximum security prison where he allegedly paid R5 million to at least nine prison warders who helped him escap...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 16:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo CBD expansion to cover Suburbs, Kumalo
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is considering extending the Central Business District (CBD) into residential areas such as Suburbs and Kumalo in line with current trends that have seen some companies and...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 07:25hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Robbed businessman vows to continue shining
A Buhera-born businessman Maxwell Chikwangwani who recently survived a hair-raising kidnapping and robbery ordeal has promised to hit the ground running.Chikwangwani fell prey to four armed ro...Published: 15 Dec 2022 at 14:18hrs | 23 | by Edson Mapani
If Mnangagwa is unable to explain 'sanctions on Zimbabwe' then just how real are they?
Did you know that countries that have genuine economic sanctions imposed on them by world powers, oftentimes, actually deny their true impact on the affected nation's economy?Why?Simpl...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 06:12hrs | 13 | by Tendai Mbofana
If Mnangagwa unable to explain 'sanctions on Zimbabwe' then just how real are they?
Did you know that countries that have genuine economic sanctions imposed on them by world powers, oftentimes, actually deny their true impact on the affected nation's economy?Why? Simp...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 20:54hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Biti lands self in trouble
A COMPANY alleged by Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) vice president Tendai Biti to have been used as a conduit for corrupt government operations has written to the former finance minister demandin...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 19:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil servants abusing vehicle import rebate
Some of the civil servants recently allowed to import vehicles duty-free are now abusing the privilege, importing vehicles for other people and charging a "fee" of between US$700 and US$1 500 dependin...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt puts space barons on notice
THE Harare Metropolitan province yesterday announced plans to set up a taskforce targeting space barons and businesses operating without permits.The taskforce will comprise the police, the Zim...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
7-day ultimatum for businesses operating illegally
More than 70 percent of businesses in Harare are operating in defiance of regulations or by-laws and Government will descend on them if they fail to regularise their operations within seven days....Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimra defends blitz on improperly imported vehicles
The blitz on improperly imported vehicles carried by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is in line with the law and anyone who feels disadvantaged is free to seek redress.The intervention ...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:27hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Scramble for Rhodes' estate
Groups of people are scrambling for the multi-million-dollar estate left behind by a descendant of former colonialist Cecil John Rhodes amid reports that the Registrar of Companies has so far nullifie...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Auto spares gobble US$160m in 2021
Zimbabwe spent US$60 million more on auto spares in 2021 than a year earlier, figures from the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) show, as trade with the rest of the world increased due to ...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vehicle number plates distribution decentralised
Twelve post offices and seven Zimra tax offices will today start distributing the bulk of the 12 183 sets of number plates now available, with just a small batch going through the Central Vehicle Regi...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:29hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Car dealer loses US$40K to fraudster
A HARARE businessman lost US$40 000 to a fraudster in a botched vehicle clearance deal.The issue was heard yesterday by Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi when the accused, Maganga Robert Pembed...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 07:36hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Carjacking syndicate busted
SEVEN suspected car jackers, including four employees of a local car sale, believed to be part of a syndicate that has been targeting and stealing vehicles parked at houses and business premises in an...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 07:26hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Malunga farm invader's car 'likely smuggled' - report
A National University of Science and Technology (NUST) lecturer accused of trying to grab a Nyamandlovu farm may be driving a stolen car, ZimLive reported.Dumisani Madzivanyathi stormed Esidak...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 09:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Outrage over minister's £330 000 super car
Revelations that an unnamed Zimbabwean government minister is importing a luxurious Rolls Royce Phantom worth £330 000 from the United Kingdom have sparked outrage from local and British activists....Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe deputy minister shells out $770,000 on Rolls Royce
Deputy sports minister Tinomudaishe Machakaire has splashed US$770,000 on a Rolls Royce Phantom - the latest illustration of the gulf between Zimbabwe's poor and super rich political elites.Th...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 15:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Crime spree ends for robber couple
After more than an hour of fending off police gunfire and unsuccessfully trying to commit suicide four times, suspected armed robber Godfrey Josi (41) and his wife Juliet Gavaza (36) succumbed to the ...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 08:23hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Chaos as demolitions rock Harare
POLICE yesterday barricaded roads leading into Harare's oldest and most populous suburb of Mbare to pave way for demolitions of informal business structures in an operation sanctioned by President Emm...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC led Harare, Chitungwiza kick-start demolitions
HUNDREDS of informal traders in Harare and Chitungwiza were yesterday left without livelihoods after their councils joined forces with the police to demolish "illegal" vending structures across the ca...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Murambatsvina is back at MDC led councils
Hundreds of informal traders who had built shacks and shelters on road verges and the sides of the roads in Harare Metropolitan province had their structures demolished yesterday after they failed to ...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
3-day ultimatum for roadside car sales
All informal traders including car dealers operating along road servitudes in Harare Metropolitan province have been given three days to vacate their premises and destroy any developments done, provin...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 18:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Residents fume over looming demolitions
CHITUNGWIZA residents yesterday reacted angrily to a warning by council that it would destroy structures owned by people conducting business "illegally".Acting town clerk Evangelista Machona y...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 07:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Govt goes after car sales
GOVERNMENT is planning to launch a blitz on car sales in Harare and Chitungwiza, accusing them of turning the urban areas into havens of drug peddling and prostitution.The move will likely spe...Published: 20 May 2021 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza plots blitz against illegal car parks
CHITUNGWIZA Municipality says it will conduct a joint operation with the police to rid the town of illegal car parks mushrooming in the dormitory town as well as unregistered car sales and brick-mould...Published: 01 May 2021 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean vehicle maker partners US-based company
A LOCAL vehicle manufacturer, Hende Moto, has secured a partnership with a United States-based Max Sound Corp, which will see the two providing high-definition audio technology on all the company's ve...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:02hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Gold buyer dismisses gun crime claims
THE Bulawayo gold dealer who stands accused of pulling out a gun in a dispute over a Honda Fit has claimed that he did not do such a thing but instead was robbed of US$30 000. Police in Bulawa...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa top aide implicates Cabinet Secretary in duty-free vehicle import ring
Douglas Tapfuma, a top aide of President Emmerson Mnangagwa facing corruption charges, on Thursday implicated Chief Cabinet Secretary Misheck Sibanda.Prosecutors say Tapfuma, while working as ...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 19:34hrs | | by ZimLive
Your time is up - ZACC chairperson warn politicians
Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission chairperson Loice Matanda Moyo has warned politicians to stop interfering with the Commission's work while declaring an end of the road for those who joined politic...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 17:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Protests: MDC caught between the devil and the deep blue sea
Conversations with insiders suggest that the MDC has been agonising over whether or not to call for protests since the beginning of the year. That no decision has been reached on the matter speaks to ...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 12:29hrs | 1 | by Tendai Chimunda
Chipinge sangoma's earth-shaking list include prophets, musicians, businesspeople, footballers, politicians
In an earth-shaking revelation, several well-known people, from in and outside Zimbabwe, to include but not limited to prophets, traditional healers, musicians, businesspeople, footballers, politician...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 10:45hrs | 81 | by Staff reporter
2 failed marriages, a broken past define Mukanya
Two broken marriages, transition from village life to the ghetto, a miscalculated sojourn into the diaspora, failed investments, a broken youth life, all carved the character of this man. This...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 05:46hrs | 11 | by STaff reporter
BREAKING: Mohadi's son arrested
There are reports that Vice President Kembo Mohadi's son Bruce Mohadi has been arrested for armed robbery after a gun raid on a car sales in Eastlea, Harare.Vice President Mohadi has been link...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 18:04hrs | 17 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Woman flees from court
A Harare medical doctor's wife, who was dragged to court by her husband of two months, was convicted yesterday but fled from court before sentence.Christina Hamilton was convicted by Harare re...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 15:38hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge gets rid of car shells
Beitbridge Municipality has partnered with a private company to rid the transit town and its environs of numerous abandoned vehicles and shells.A public notice posted by the local authority la...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean businessman to assemble, sell cars locally
A ZIMBABWEAN professional and businessman based in the United States of America has partnered an Indian and Italian car maker to set up a car assembling plant in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe, focusing mainly on a...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:27hrs | 7 | by Elijah Chihota
Harare's booming automotive market
Downtown Harare is an economic hub.Here, money arguably changes hands more than in any other part of the city.It is typically the Wall Street of the capital.Household goods, sc...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by Staff repoirter
Cars, luxury goods imports gobble $1.4 billion
Zimbabwe has in the first 10 months of this year spent at least US$1.4 billion on cars and luxury imports, forcing the government through treasury to effect duty payments in forex as part of measures ...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 12:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's blow hits car sales
CAR dealers in Bulawayo have lamented the decline in sales since Government announced that people importing vehicles will now pay duty in foreign currency. In his 2019 National Budget statemen...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
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