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ZANU PF factions revealed
The Zimbabwe African Nationalists Union (Patriotic Front) ZANU PF is an interesting political and liberation movement which is currently the reigning and undisputed champion of Zimbabwean politics...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:10hrs | 16756 | by Nicholas Ncube
The man who will save Zimbabwe revealed
The country is experiencing probably one of the worst power shortages. Industry is losing money , city councils do not have power to pump water to residents , there is very little fuel available and i...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 09:41hrs | 53641 | by Nicholas Ncube
Patrick Zhuwawo speaks out
Exiled former Cabinet Minister Patrick Zhuwawo says the G40 organized million man march events were aimed at initiating a transition from old leadership to a new breed of dynamic young leaders who wil...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 09:32hrs | 22368 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ignatius Chombo case dents Zimbabwe courts' image
THAT it is now more than one-and-a-half years since former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo was arrested in dramatic fashion at the height of a coup that toppled ex-President Robert Mugabe, speaks to ...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 09:54hrs | 1871 | by Newsday Comment
Chombo 'sold' govt house to Zanu-PF colleague
FORMER Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo yesterday appeared in court facing criminal abuse of office charges for allegedly facilitating the sale of a government house in Mutare to ex-Zanu-PF l...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 08:17hrs | 2188 | by Staff reporter
Chombo faces fresh charges
Former Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo yesterday appeared in court on fresh charges after he allegedly sold a Government house in Mutare without following due process. He is jointly charged with Laza...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 07:51hrs | 730 | by Staff reporter
Chombo re-arrested
A HARARE magistrate yesterday dismissed an application for the temporary release of former Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo's passport.Magistrate Estere Chivasa argued that she could ...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 08:43hrs | 6468 | by Staff reporter
Chombo denied passport again
Former Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo has failed in his appeal to get his passport returned to allow him to travel abroad to seek medical attention.His passport was allegedly recently seized...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 18:28hrs | 1538 | by Staff reporter
State opposes Chombo passport request
THE State yesterday opposed an application for temporary release of former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo (pictured)'s passport on medical grounds, saying he was seeking to evade trial.Chomb...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:19hrs | 350 | by Staff reporter
Chombo implicated in Midlands land scam
FORMER Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo has been implicated in the irregular allocation of State land to private developers in the Midlands province.Cecilia Chitiyo, the former Midlan...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:47hrs | 1143 | by Staff reporter
Chombo implicated in land scam
FORMER Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo has been implicated in the irregular allocation of State land to private developers in the Midlands province.Cecilia Chitiyo, the former Midlan...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 08:36hrs | 1799 | by Staff Reporter
Chombo's health deteriorating
Former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo's health has deteriorated after missing scheduled medical reviews because his passport was seized by security agents at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International ...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 06:24hrs | 4348 | by Staff reporter
MPs demand regular ministerial updates
LEGISLATORS yesterday demanded Cabinet ministers to regularly bring ministerial statements before the House explaining the economic challenges affecting the country.Zvimba North MP Marian Chom...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 17:04hrs | 549 | by Staff reporter
Chombo passport appeal thrown out
Former Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo has failed in his appeal to get his passport returned to allow him to travel abroad to seek medical attention. His passport was allegedly recently seize...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 07:35hrs | 469 | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo accuse Biti of demonising the country
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's push for foreign investment is not attracting serious attention because of corruption and the failure to deal decisively with the vice, the ruling Zanu-PF has admitted....Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 12:31hrs | 3644 | by Staff reporter
Chombo petitions Supreme Court over seized passport
AILING former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo, whose passport was recently seized by a State security agent at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport as he sought to fly to South Africa for ...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 07:57hrs | 322 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa now mirror of Mugabe's patronage system
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent appointments of High Court Judge Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo to lead the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) and Gerald Mlotshwa to the Sports and Recreatio...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:51hrs | 1925 | by Staff reporter
Guvamombe seeks relaxed bail conditions
Suspended chief magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe, who is facing criminal abuse of office charges, yesterday filed an application for permanent release of his passport.Appearing before Harare magis...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:41hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Court orders govt to compensate MDC-T activist ZWL$13k
High Court judge Justice Nyaradzo Munangati-Manongwa has ordered Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema, Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi to atone for the i...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:39hrs | 1013 | by Staff reporter
Chombo case dents courts' image
THAT it is now more than one-and-a-half years since former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo was arrested in dramatic fashion at the height of a coup that toppled ex-President Robert Mugabe, speaks to ...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:30hrs | 783 | by Newsday - Editorial
Chombo misses medical check-up
High Court judge Justice Nyaradzo Priscilla Munangati-Manongwa has dismissed an application by ailing former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo to have his passport back after it was seized by security ...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 08:00hrs | 1300 | by Staff reporter
'Black market rates to tumble'
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) top officials yesterday insisted that the parallel market rates will soon tumble because the current balance of RTGS dollars in circulation cannot sustain the prevailing...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:41hrs | 4257 | by Staff reporter
Chombo passport application hits a snag
A bid by former Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo to get his passport back to enable him to travel abroad, yesterday hit a snag after the court dismissed the application.Chombo, who is facing c...Published: 21 May 2019 at 06:17hrs | 383 | by Staff reporter
Chombo passport release case takes a new twist
Former Cabinet minister, Ignatius Chombo, who is in the courts fighting for the release of his passport which was illegally confiscated had his case dismissed by the magistrate court as the court has ...Published: 20 May 2019 at 18:11hrs | 4666 | by Staff reporter
If Zanu is not for Mugabe, Sithole, Nkala, Mujuru or Gumbo, then how can it be yours?
Anyone who thinks is a Zanu Member, is a proper fool who will never Learn. Foolishness is the Quality to be Unable to Learn, and unfortunately, in Zimbabwe, we have a surplus of that Quality.D...Published: 18 May 2019 at 18:24hrs | 1334 | by Multiverse Dungani
Zimbabwe prosecutors strike over colleague's arrest
Prosecutors with the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), have gone on strike in protest over the arrest of Tapiwa Kasema who is under fire for allegedly releasing the passport of former cabinet Mini...Published: 16 May 2019 at 17:56hrs | 4924 | by Staff reporter
Prosecutor arrested over Chombo's passport
A SENIOR Harare prosecutor was arrested yesterday on criminal abuse of office charges after he allegedly consented to the release of a passport belonging to former Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo, wh...Published: 16 May 2019 at 07:05hrs | 5146 | by Staff reporter
Chombo barred from travelling to SA
A FORMER Cabinet minister was on Sunday forced to abort his trip after security agents forcibly took his passport at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport in Harare.Ignatius Chombo's pas...Published: 14 May 2019 at 11:30hrs | 3353 | by Satff reporter
Mnangagwa is a worried man
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has expressed disquiet over the slow movement in the battle against corruption following the arrest of several high-profile figures in the sprawling graft probe in the country. ...Published: 14 May 2019 at 07:26hrs | 2504 | by Staff reporter
Of corruption and political will
THE latest Zinara graft scandal is the freshest in a series of corruption scandals which routinely grab the headlines for a short while before they fade into oblivion.The finer details of each...Published: 11 May 2019 at 14:58hrs | 346 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Chombo, Chipanga trial postponed
The trial for estranged former cabinet minister and Zanu PF National Secretary for Administration, Ignatius Chombo is yet to kick-off a year after corruption charges were brought against him.H...Published: 10 May 2019 at 22:05hrs | 381 | by Staff reporter
14 high-profile graft cases stalled
AT least 14 high-profile corruption trials have been stopped for various reasons by the High Court since last year, a development that has sparked public debate on the seriousness by some stakeholders...Published: 06 May 2019 at 08:11hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa's anti-corruption crusade is fast-losing steam
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) launched the special anti-corruption courts with fanfare slightly more than a year ago, but a cocktail of challenges is retarding the prosecution of graft-accused...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:27hrs | 330 | by Charles Laiton
Police, courts corrupt, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has said the country's institutions such as police, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the judiciary are so corrupt so much that it is a herculean task to fight ...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 11:12hrs | 2119 | by Staff reporter
How Chiwenga's soldiers killed two Israeli snipers
Commandos under the command of Vice President Constantino Guvheya Chiwenga are reported to have killed two Israeli bodyguards who were guarding the then Minister of Finance Ignatius Chombo's house dur...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 14:27hrs | 26014 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Nigerian scammers target Chombo
Nigerian scammers have pounced on former Minister Home Affairs Igatius Chombo by creating a fake email which they have circulating to various emails to various people across the world pleading for Fin...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 13:10hrs | 3162 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa sucked into deadly chiefs' territorial war
ZVISHAVANE traditional leader Chief Mapanzure has been accused of illegally extending his territory into Insiza Chief Jahana's in a battle that has stoked tribal tensions between the two.What ...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 13:35hrs | 1955 | by Staff reporter
Nigerian military ruler says it was a military coup in Zimbabwe
FORMER Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, who served as a millitary leader between 1976 and 1979, says Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa seized power through a millitary coup that toppled his...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:12hrs | 5169 | by Staff reporter
CIO boss coup death: Family wants justice
THE family of senior Central Intelligence Organisation operative Peter Munetsi, who died in military detention during the November 2017 coup that toppled former president Robert Mugabe, has written to...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:55hrs | 4428 | by Staff reporter
Agribank sues Chombo over $33 000 loan
Agribank has approached the courts seeking to recover a real time gross settlement of a (ZWR) $33 720 loan advanced to former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo six years ago.The former minister...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:38hrs | 783 | by Staff reporter
New dispensation rejects corruption
The advent of the new dispensation in November 2017 has seen a new impetus in the fight against the scourge of corruption. Right beginning with his inauguration speech on 24 November 2017, President M...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 12:25hrs | 735 | by Bevan Musoko
Chombo goes to Supreme Court
Former Finance and Economic Development Minister Ignatius Chombo has approached the Supreme Court seeking permanent stay of proceedings in the magistrates' court where he is facing several cases invol...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:38hrs | 1009 | by Staff reporter
Chombo trial deferred
FORMER Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo's trial on corruption charges was Friday pushed to May this year pending a Supreme Court's determination on his application for stay of prosecution on rights gr...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:01hrs | 243 | by newzimbabwe
Chombo was tortured, but must face trial, says Court
THE High Court has dismissed an application for a permanent stay of prosecution filed by former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo, who is facing several cases involving corruption, fraud and criminal n...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 06:54hrs | 704 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo to be extradited
GOVERNMENT has activated plans to invoke the Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime Amendment Act to forfeit properties and assets of individuals who skip the country to escape prosecution for corrupt...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:33hrs | 5905 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa goes after Jonathan Moyo's properties
The net is closing on fugitives who fled the country to escape justice as Government intends to invoke the Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime Amendment Act to forfeit their properties and assets....Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:26hrs | 2057 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe sister's fraud charges to be dropped
The State is considering dropping charges against former first lady Grace Mugabe's sister Shuvai Gumbochuma for fraudulently processing the sale of State land.Gumbochuma appeared before Harare...Published: 23 Feb 2019 at 19:26hrs | 2044 | by Staff reporter
Chombo allowed SA return for medical treatment
FORMER finance minister Ignatius Chombo was on Monday allowed to return to South Africa for medication a day after he came back home from the same country.The fraud and criminal nuisance-accus...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:40hrs | 776 | by newzimbabwe
ZACC reconfiguration was long overdue
The acceptance by President Emmerson Mnangagwa of the resignation of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) chairperson, Dr Job Whabira and his Commissioners has brought a sigh of relief to th...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:16hrs | 338 | by Elijah Chihota
Chombo gets his passport back
Former Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo yesterday heaved a sigh of relief after his travel documents were temporarily released. His lawyer Mr Tungamirai Muganhiri applied for the temporary rel...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 05:46hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
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