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Chombo, Chipanga, Hamandishe case deferred
Harare magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje has deferred the matter of former Public Works and National Housing Minister Ignatius Chombo and ex-Zanu-PF youth leaders —Kudzanayi Chipanga, Innocent Hamandi...Published: 6 hrs ago | 838 | by Staff reporter
Why are you allowing Chief Justice Luke Malaba to be made a fool of?
When the present government successfully carried out its coup against the tyrant Robert Mugabe, I applied for a temporary position in public relations. I had lined up a group of professors, we had our...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:26hrs | 1716 | by Ken Mufuka
Simba, Bona's mansion: Monument to corruption
THE huge mansion that former president Robert Mugabe's daughter Bona and son-in-law Simba Mutsahuni have been struggling to complete since the longtime ruler was unceremoniously removed from power thr...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 16:22hrs | 2673 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa endorses Harare dress
The new national dress was endorsed by President Mnangagwa who sees it fostering a sense of patriotism, national identity, sovereignty and pride among Zimbabweans. First Lady Amai Auxillia Mna...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 07:10hrs | 1174 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo pampers Mayor with double storey mansion
IN a first for Bulawayo, the city council is set to pamper the Mayor, Councillor Solomon Mguni, with a mayoral mansion located in the exclusive Hornung Golf Club in the leafy suburb of Burnside, Sunda...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 06:16hrs | 1232 | by Staff reporter
Real change is what the people want
NOVEMBER 17, 2017 marked the end of former President Robert Gabriel Mugabe's reign, who had tormented the people of Zimbabwe since 1980.The Zimbabwe Defence Forces intervened and made Mugabe's...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 06:58hrs | 428 | by Fanuel
Chombo fingered in Augur Investments land scandals
AUGUR Investments, owned by controversial land developer Kern Sharpe, has been caught up in another land scandal involving 239 3923 hectares worth US$$45 428 910.The matter has spilled into th...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:02hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza wage bill exceeds revenue collection, says Minister
LOCAL Government deputy minister Marian Chombo has told Parliament that poor management of funds and a hefty wage bill were crippling Chitungwiza Municipality service delivery.Chombo said this...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 06:52hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
Bona, hubby get 20ha prime land for a song
Then Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo reportedly facilitated a deal whereby the daughter of the late former President Robert Mugabe, Mrs Bona Nyepudzai Mutsahuni, and her husband, Mr Simbarashe Mutsah...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 06:41hrs | 2462 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt funds non-existent provincial councils
GOVERNMENT has reportedly released budgetary allocations to provincial councils, which are yet to be formally constituted in terms of the country's Constitution.Section 268 of the Constitution...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:19hrs | 235 | by Stephen Mpofu
How do you percieve the difference between conscience and conscious as a Zimbabwean?
How does the conscious differ from the conscience? These two terms are sometimes confused in common everyday usage, but they actually mean very different things within the field of psychology....Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 09:58hrs | 542 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Poisoning scare as land barons' war turns nasty
GOVERNMENT'S fight against land barons, accused of illegally parcelling out State land in urban areas, has turned nasty amid reports that Harare's provincial development coordinator (PDC) Tafadzwa Mug...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 2949 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt plots backdoor Chiredzi evictions
THE Zanu-PF government, stung by public outcry and a recent court ruling which annulled its planned mass eviction of Chilonga villagers in Chiredzi, has come up with a subtle ploy to pursue the matter...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 06:30hrs | 1121 | by Staff reporter
Zacc goes after Grace Mugabe
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe and a group of her associates are coming under investigation from anti-corruption authorities following complaints that they grabbed residential stands worth US$10 milli...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 05:29hrs | 4653 | by Staff reporter
Corruption in Zimbabwe fueled by ZANU PF's 'tichingotonga' mentality of a leadership that believes will never leave power
After waking up early in the morning to chop firewood for cooking, in the middle of a low-density suburb - as there has not been any electricity supply in our area for the past two days - there is not...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 14:08hrs | 705 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Charumbira wades into Chief Nyamukoho estate wrangle
CHIEF'S Council president Fortune Charumbira on Sunday waded into Chief Nyamukoho's family wrangle, urging the late traditional leader's family members to find common ground in the distribution of the...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:48hrs | 1979 | by Staff reporter
Chombo grilled over devolution funds
THE Local Government Ministry was last week grilled in Parliament over funds allocated towards devolution, which legislators said were yet to be released from the fiscus.Local Government deput...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 05:05hrs | 1483 | by Staff reporter
Chombo gets bail
Former Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo was today granted bail by Harare regional magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje and was ordered to continue following bail conditions imposed on his other previous co...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 15:40hrs | 945 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe in demo demanding Matanga's resignation
MDC Alliance Harare West MP Joanna Mamombe and scores of party youths Thursday staged a flash demonstration outside the Harare Magistrates' Courts demanding the release of activist Makomborero Haruziv...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 18:38hrs | 3065 | by Staff reporter
Chombo bail ruling tomorrow
FORMER Cabinet Minister Ignatius Morgan Chombo, accused of illegally parcelling pieces of land in Harare and Zvimba Rural District Council during his tenure of office as Local Government Minister betw...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 16:04hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
Chombo remanded in custody
Former Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo, arrested on Tuesday on charges of illegally parcelling out land in Harare and Zvimba, will hear today whether his application for bail is successful a...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 06:20hrs | 719 | by Staff reporter
'Housing co-ops remitted money into Chombo personal bank account'
SEVERAL housing co-operatives around the country reportedly deposited cash into former Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo's personal bank account instead of remitting the money to the State, a ...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 21:51hrs | 1255 | by Staff reporter
Dreaming of Zimbabwe: Stories from the diaspora
NEARLY 24 years ago, Lance Guma came face to face with a gun. A man had followed him out of the main post office in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, before attempting to provoke him into an argument. L...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 21:45hrs | 500 | by Staff reporter
Chombo in court for fraud, abuse of power
FORMER Cabinet Minister Ignatius Morgan Chombo today appeared in court on allegations involving illegal parcelling out of pieces of land in Harare and Zvimba Rural District during his tenure as the Mi...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 17:07hrs | 692 | by Staff reporter
Chombo spends second night in police cells
THE director of Epidemiology and Diseases Control in the Health Ministry, Portia Manangazira will remain behind bars after she was Tuesday denied bail by Harare magistrate Bianca Makwande.Mana...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 20:18hrs | 586 | by Staff reporter
Chombo caged
FORMER Finance minister Ignatius Chombo was last night detained at Rhodesville Police Station in Harare following his arrest on charges of fraud and criminal abuse of office over illegal parcelling ou...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:53hrs | 5684 | by Staff reporter
Chombo arrested
Former Finance minister Ignatious Chombo has been arrested by SACU. Charges are; one count of fraud and 5 counts of criminal abuse of duty as a public officer. All charges arise from the Uchen...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 12:47hrs | 5261 | by Shelton Muchena/ Simbarashe Sithole
Anti-corruption investigator probed
IT is a typical case of a hunter becoming the hunted.First, police commissioner Erasmus Makodza, hunter of note in charge of Matabeleland North province, found himself caged by a Zimbabwe Anti...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 19:13hrs | 1587 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa does not know how to respond to the challenge posed by Mnangagwa
TO some of us monitoring events in urban councils, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's threats to take over the local authorities on the basis of the opposition's failure confirms long-held suspicions that...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:56hrs | 1958 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa exposes plot to destroy Mnangagwa
DETAINED Norton Independent MP Temba Mliswa has implicated State Security Minister Owen ‘Mudha' and his Local Government colleague July Moyo of plotting destroy President Emmerson Mnangagwa's politi...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:33hrs | 4311 | by Staff reporter
Sacu targets looters in around Mnangagwa
THE Special Anti-Corruption Unit (Sacu) in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office yesterday said it would soon be arresting high-profile looters implicated in Auditor-General Mildred Chiri's audit repo...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 05:49hrs | 2231 | by Staff reporter
Harare war rages
OVERNMENT has remained mum over fights that have engulfed the City of Harare, where senior council officials are said to be involved in internecine battles for control of the capital with scant regard...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:37hrs | 1658 | by Staff reporter
Two mayors, town clerks for Harare
HARARE City Council is currently operating with two acting mayors and two town clerks as the fight for control of the capital city reaches boiling point.Councillors Luckson Mukunguma and Stewa...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:24hrs | 1414 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF ministers are polygamists, they love women
Former Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education Professor Jonathan Moyo has revealed that most Zanu-PF ministers love women so much that they are polygamists and have numerous small houses.An...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 21:42hrs | 5194 | by Staff reporter
Who has destroyed Zimbabwe?
The country is troubled to the borne marrow. It is so disheartening that those who destroyed the country through nepotism, corruption, poor governance and thieving are telling the people that they sho...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1639 | by Leonard Koni
A tale of Zimbabwe's oxymoronic justice system
THE justice system in Zimbabwe is an oxymoron. It's difficult to understand how the law operates, but one is tempted to conclude that incarceration in Zimbabwe is just designed for the poor and those ...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 06:35hrs | 221 | by Muchemwa Silence Mugadzaweta
Zanu-PF officials links with land barons exposed
Daggers are drawn in Zanu-PF over ruling party officials that are amassing land in urban areas, which they sell to desperate home seekers, with some disgruntled youths demanding action.A lette...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 08:02hrs | 1420 | by Staff reporter
Daggers drawn in Zanu-PF over land barons
DAGGERS are drawn in Zanu-PF over ruling party officials that are amassing land in urban areas, which they sell to desperate home-seekers, with some disgruntled youths demanding action.A lette...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 07:33hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
Prosecutor arrested for granting notorious armed robber bail
PROSECUTOR Tapiwa Kasema, who is under investigation for consenting to bail for four notorious armed robbers, including suspected gang leader - Musa Taj Abdul - has been arrested this morning and is n...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 17:43hrs | 835 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers prosecutor on the run
PROSECUTOR Tapiwa Kasema, who is under investigation for consenting to bail for four notorious armed robbers led by suspected gang leader - Musa Taj Abdul - is reportedly on the run, hours after he wa...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 06:45hrs | 637 | by Staff reporter
Chombo, former Zanu-PF youth leaders' case deferred
Harare regional magistrate Mr Trynos Utahwashe yesterday deferred the matter involving former Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Ignatius Chombo and ex-Zanu-PF youth leaders ...Published: 16 Dec 2020 at 06:41hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter
Anti-graft crusade: NPA scales up tempo
THE National Prosecution Authority (NPA) is scaling up efforts to seize assets acquired through the proceeds of corruption as part of efforts to fight graft.It will from next week be bringing ...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 19:05hrs | 345 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in Victoria Falls for city status conferment
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa arrived in Victoria Falls yesterday evening and will today officially confer the prestigious city status to the resort town, in another milestone achievement for Matabeleland North...Published: 09 Dec 2020 at 05:44hrs | 629 | by Staff reporter
'Zim prison, a crime against humanity' twittered Biti, prisoner - true all because selling out on reforms
Tendai Biti, MDC A vice President, has been arrested and will spend Friday night in a Police Prison. He is charged with assault, after calling a Russian woman an idiot.Biti has denied any wron...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 00:04hrs | 1149 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa satisfied with Mt Hampden progress
President Mnangagwa has expressed satisfaction with the progress made at the new Parliament building in Mt Hampden.He said this after touring the building this morning to assess progress that ...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 19:03hrs | 592 | by Staff reporter
Let's vanquish opposition, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa wants his ruling Zanu-PF party to vanquish the opposition in by-elections and the 2023 general elections, citing inspiration from the performance of Chama Cha Mapinduzi in...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:20hrs | 3804 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court throws out Chombo's appeal
Court Reporter THE trial of former Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo on charges of criminal abuse of office will go ahead after the Supreme Court threw out his appeal for permanent stay of prosecution....Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:41hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
Non-monetary incentives the way to go
The face-off between government and its workers over salaries has protracted to a magnitude that it's now threatening the realisation of the national vision.The new political dispensation comm...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 15:20hrs | 2046 | by Petros Manyuchwa
Councils mustn't demand forex, says Chombo
GOVERNMENT has threatened to deal with local authorities demanding payment of bills in foreign currency at 1:1 exchange rate.This was said by Local Government deputy minister Marian Chombo yes...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:26hrs | 1431 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere says his hands are clean over Chitungwiza demolitions
FORMER cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere said corruption by politicians and senior council officials and was to blame for the sprouting of illegal structures in ChitungwizaHe was responding ...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 07:43hrs | 3313 | by Staff reporter
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