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Mnangagwa stalling the return of ZPRA properties
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is intentionally delaying the return of properties confiscated from ZPRA veterans, according to Andreas Ethan Mathibela, a faction leader of the Zimbabwe National Liberati...Published: 21 Oct 2024 at 14:42hrs | 1483 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra combatants await distribution of Nitram Properties
Former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) combatants and their beneficiaries have been urged to remain patient as the long-awaited distribution of assets under Nitram Properties approaches r...Published: 10 Sep 2024 at 07:22hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
ConCourt grants Umvutcha farmer's appeal over property caveats
The Constitutional Court (ConCourt) has granted an appeal to Alistair Michael Fletcher, an Umvutcha farmer, challenging a Supreme Court decision that overturned a High Court ruling regarding caveats p...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 07:41hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ConCourt to decide definition of rural land
The Constitutional Court must decide if a farm near Bulawayo, incorporated into Bulawayo City Council in 1999, still qualifies as rural land. The distinction affects compensation processes for state-a...Published: 13 Jun 2024 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZPRA veterans pile pressure on Mnangagwa's govt
ZPRA veterans have submitted a list of their properties that were seized in the 80's by the government to President Emmerson Mnangagwa to push for their return.Mnangagwa promised to ensure the...Published: 19 May 2024 at 19:58hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zipra ups ante on 100 seized properties
ZIPRA'S Nitram properties committee has handed over its final list of 100 properties seized by the Zanu-PF government during the 1980s Gukurahundi disturbances to its patron Tshinga Dube.Dube ...Published: 15 Feb 2024 at 10:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nkomo fumes over PVO Bill
OPPOSITION Zapu leader Sibangilizwe Nkomo has rapped the Zanu-PF government for pushing for the enactment of the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Bill that he described as retrogressively against...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 14:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Umvutcha farm dispute referred to Constitutional Court
LANDS minister Anxious Masuka has been taken to the Constitutional Court over a raging farm dispute in Umvutcha on the outskirts of Bulawayo.Farmer Alistair Michael Fletcher (81) is challengin...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:39hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
2 arrested for Umvutcha Farm invasion
Police have arrested two suspects in connection with the invasion of Umvutcha Farm on the outskirts of Bulawayo.The property has been in dispute for years after the Ministry of Lands allegedly...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 13:43hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
ConCourt judges flout JSC code of conduct
THREE Constitutional Court judges have come under the spotlight after they failed to comply with the Judicial Service Commission code of ethics which requires them to deliver a judgement reserved with...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 10:45hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Law Society of Zimbabwe probes lawyer in property scam
The Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) is looking into a case in which prominent Mutare lawyer Cosmas Chibaya of Chibaya and Partners Legal Practitioners is accused of selling a residential stand he knew w...Published: 29 May 2023 at 19:35hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe's passport application dismissed
The application by CCC Member of Parliament Joana Mamombe for the temporary release of her passport to visit Kenya for a training conference has been dismissed by Harare magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanj...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe may suffer an internet shutdown
ZIMBABWE may suffer an internet shutdown in the 2023 general election, just like Uganda and Zambia in 2021. In 2019, Freedom House rated Zimbabwe as a "not free" country with a 28% global freedom scor...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 07:42hrs | | by Phillip Anjorin
Zimbabwe govt hit with US$20bn bill over grabbed properties
EX-COMBATANTS from Zapu's military wing during the armed struggle are demanding US$20 billion as compensation for properties that were confiscated by the government at the height of Gukurahundi....Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Don't read much into campaign crowds
ZIMBABWEANS are set to cast their votes in key parliamentary and local government by-elections tomorrow. The by-elections have the potential to set the tone for next year's national elections....Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:12hrs | | by James Muzondidya/ Munyaradzi Mushonga
The Transfer of Title Deeds 101
WE have been discussing over the past few weeks' actions that a homeowner can take to help sell their property for the desired price. So you have done all these things, and now you have an offer...Published: 20 Feb 2022 at 08:53hrs | | by Real Estate Issues, with Jonathan Thompson
Bulawayo bars, nightclubs operating illegally
AT a time when most nightclubs and bars are expecting to record brisk business as the festive season fever grips the country, the Bulawayo City Council may soon shut doors of some nightspots amid reve...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 06:53hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Over 280 000 Zipra cadres not vetted
THE Zipra War Veterans Association has claimed that over 280 000 of its members were yet to be vetted amid fears that they might be left out of government programmes meant to empower freedom fighters....Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:51hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
ZACC probes court sheriff
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is investigating High Court Sherriff McDuff Madega for suspected criminal abuse of office and the illegal sale of more than 10 properties attached by the...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:37hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Property dispute takes new twist
A local company, Bariadie Investments (Pvt) Ltd, which is still trying to gain ownership of a Mount Pleasant property despite having lost in the High Court, has now attacked the judge who heard the ca...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Businessman files complaint against High Court judge over property deal
HARARE businessman Kingston Hamutendi Munyawarara, the executive director of Bariadie Investments (Private) Limited, has lodged an official complaint against High Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi (...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Angry ex-Zipra fighters warn govt
Disgruntled Zipra war veterans say they will now take matters into their own hands because President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is dithering about returning their properties seized during the Guk...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt playing games with Zapu properties
ZAPU and the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) veterans yesterday accused the government of "playing games" with its properties seized in the 1980s.Zipra was the military wing of Za...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 06:06hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
High Court Sheriff under probe
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has launched investigations into High Court Sherriff McDuff Madega over several cases in which he is alleged to have illegally sold properties attached b...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bogus lawyer up for fraud
A HARARE woman who allegedly masquaraded as a lawyer and as Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga's daughter, has been arrested after she defrauded a homeseeker of US$2 395.Evelyn Matanga...Published: 15 May 2021 at 09:47hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Ngoni Kudenga rejected by CSC creditors
CREDITORS of the defunct Cold Storage Company have voted Mr Vonani Majoko of Majoko and Majoko Legal Practitioners as the new interim corporate rescue practitioner for the country's meat processor and...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to receive 1 million COVID-19 doses
ZIMBABWE will likely receive just over one million doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine in the first quarter under the Covax Facility, a document released by the organisers yesterday has s...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 21:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Christmas SOS for Zapu, Zpra veterans
CHILDREN of Zapu and Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zpra) have come together in a fundraising drive to mobilise financial resources to bring Christmas cheer to liberation war veterans.A...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Right to demonstrate not absolute,' says Mnangagwa's spin doctor
GOVERNMENT is entitled to impose limitations on the right to demonstrate by citizens because such right does not take away other rights that are enshrined in the law, a senior official has said. ...Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Regulating the right to protest
One of the biggest duties and responsibilities of any government is the protection of its citizens and all those that fall within its jurisdiction. Ironically, that protection is from other citizens. ...Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:33hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
MDC national elective Congress 2019: Biti-Ncube rebirth or death
Less than a month to the MDC crunch congress slated for Gweru, a lot is happening within the mainstream opposition outfit as the jostle for positions heats up. Interim party President Advocate & p...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 08:19hrs | | by Benny Gudo
MDC's Kucaca Phulu slams Ziyambi
MDC national secretary for constitutional and parliamentary affairs, Kucaca Phulu, has rapped Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi for rubbishing Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) report on State-sp...Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 10:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC read EU observers riot act: 'You are not monitors!' - observe but say nothing and touch nothing
ZEC has read the riot act to the International Election observers reminding them in no uncertain terms that they are OBSERVERS and not monitors. "The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission chairperson ...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 09:21hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabwe lost $144 billion
ZIMBABWE has lost US$144 billion in potential revenue from the mining sector since 2009, largely due to a plethora of problems, among them a power supply crisis, punitive tax regime and investor fatig...Published: 27 Apr 2017 at 18:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu to lose 50 properties over $2 million debt
MACRO-ECONOMIC Planning and Investment Promotion minister and business tycoon Obert Mpofu is set to lose 50 properties he reportedly surrendered as surety to secure a $2 million loan from CBZ Bank...Published: 15 Mar 2017 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu hit hard times
Proprerty mogul and Macro-Economic Planning and Investment Promotion minister Obert Mpofu is in deep trouble as he is on the verge of losing set 50 properties he reportedly surrendere...Published: 15 Mar 2017 at 04:09hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Its time Mai Mujuru started answering many questions
I like NERA. No, let me rephrase that, I like the ideas that NERA stands for. Our electoral system is a shambles, created and managed with one aim and only one in mind, keeping Ebagum in power, and hi...Published: 09 Feb 2017 at 07:41hrs | | by Tinomudaishe Chinyoka
Church takes Mugabe to court over farm
The Trustees of the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe (RCZ) has taken President Robert Mugabe and Lands minister Douglas Mombeshora to the High Court seeking the upliftment of a caveat placed on the chu...Published: 06 Jul 2016 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zipra war vets want properties back
THE Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) Bulawayo Province yesterday appointed a five-member committee which will press for the holding of a meeting of all ex-Zipra combatant...Published: 26 Jun 2016 at 19:27hrs | | by Dumisani Sibanda
Fighting Corruption Is Everyone's Responsibility
President Robert Gabriel Mugabe is famously known for declaring zero tolerance on corruption. He vows zero tolerance on corruption in the public sector and all relevant arms of Government. He warned t...Published: 03 May 2016 at 17:50hrs | | by Sparkleford Masiyambiri
Zanu-PF: Stop kicking and start pulling, please
Some members of ZANU-PF have been seized with attacking each other using social media platforms like Twitter at the expense of pressing issues like the El Nino-induced droughtThe Exchequer...Published: 16 Feb 2016 at 05:17hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
Eradicate Corruption now to Save Zimbabwe
The existence and prevalence of gross corruption in our society is so ugly and disheartening. Corruption is the illegal exploitation of legitimate authority endowed into someone, who in most cases is ...Published: 11 Dec 2015 at 09:25hrs | | by Suitable Kajau
Ibrahim Boubacar Keita wins Mali election
Bamako - Former Prime Minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita won Mali's presidency after his opponent conceded defeat late on Monday in an election aimed at restoring stability to a country wracked by a rebe...Published: 13 Aug 2013 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Lobels invest US$3,6 million on refurbishing
Lobels Holdings will soon invest US$3,6 million on refurbishing and replacing its Harare and Bulawayo plants with a view to significantly ramp up production. The country's oldest bakery has reportedly...Published: 24 Jan 2012 at 21:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Caveats and opportunities of secret Zanu-PF, MDC talks
There is every reason to worry whenever there are talks between Zanu-PF and its opponents and the reported secret talks with the two MDC formations (The Zimbabwean 30/07/11) are no exception. The expe...Published: 31 Jul 2011 at 14:59hrs | | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
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