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BREAKING: David Chapfika dies in tragic car accident
Former Deputy Minister of Finance and long-serving ZANU PF politician David Chapfika has died in a fatal road accident near Chabwino, along the bridge at Stondon, authorities confirmed on Thursday....Published: 19 Jun 2025 at 13:33hrs | 4646 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF old guard retain CC posts
THE ruling Zanu-PF party retained its old guard in the recently held central committee (CC) elections with a few young guns making it into the party's highest decision-making body.The party's ...Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
AAG revived Passion Java lands top post
On the 15th of July 2019, I wrote an article calling on Dr Phillip Chiyangwa to revive the Affirmative Action Group AAG.On the 23rd of April 2021, AAG is back with a bang and a refreshing line...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 18:15hrs | 3 | by Nicholas Ncube
David Chapfika and the Jatropha years, a memoir
David Chapfika came along as a snappy dresser- shiny suits and foreign cologne were the hallmark.As a rookie reporter with New Ziana then, I had the opportunity to mix and mingle with the elit...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 21:25hrs | 19 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
It's time to revive the Affirmative Action Group
The Affirmative Action Group AAG was a powerful entity which made a huge difference in the business sector. AAG was a successful pressure group which contributed immensely to the growth of several bla...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 08:50hrs | 4 | by Nicholas Ncube
RBZ scandal in new twist
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya insists the central bank is not fuelling the foreign currency parallel market despite suspending four directors allegedly linked to the illicit de...Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's ex-finance minister granted 5-year separation with wife
FORMER Finance deputy minister and Zanu-PF legislator David Chapfika, has been ordered to separate with his wife of over 32-years in marriage, Abina Chapfika (nee Mutimusakwa), for the next five years...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa headache over moneychangers
Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has blamed the police for failing to arrest unlicensed foreign currency traders saying there was a legal framework in place to curb the vice.This comes as th...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 15:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Money Laundering Bill sails through
THE Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime Bill yesterday sailed through the National Assembly, with MPs suggesting that the legislation should deal with illegal foreign currency dealers.The B...Published: 06 Jun 2018 at 07:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Government urged to set up financial intelligence unit
THE Government should establish an independent financial intelligence unit, outside the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, to guarantee its effectiveness under the Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime Act....Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 09:01hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF running scared
Zanu-PF is dangling ambassadorial postings, directorships in parastatal boards and other consolations to aspiring Members of Parliament who lost in its hotly-disputed primary elections to avert electo...Published: 20 May 2018 at 19:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Losing Zanu-PF MPs in rebellion
Zanu-PF legislators who lost in the recently-held primary polls are becoming rebellious in their attitude in the National Assembly which could force the ruling party to rely on the whip system to push...Published: 15 May 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parly demands validation of $500m Zisco debt
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Finance and Economic Development has demanded validation of the $500 million Zisco debt to authenticate the arrears before Government takes over the firm's lia...Published: 14 May 2018 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga power clashes intensify
UNDERLYING tensions between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and top military commanders this week publicly exploded in the aftermath of the chaotic and hotly-disputed Zanu PF primary elections which left...Published: 11 May 2018 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MPs revolt over cash shortages
ZANU PF MPs yesterday blasted Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa for being evasive over the unending cash crisis and his failure to rein in illegal money changers.Zanu PF legislators, most of ...Published: 10 May 2018 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bad omen for Mnangagwa
As State-controlled media journalists, who lost in Zanu-PF primary elections retracted to their newsrooms, ethical quandaries they face constitute material for my future article.In view of the...Published: 09 May 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Cyprian Ndawana
Zanu-PF postpones the release of primary election winners list
AMID chaos and irregularities and rigging allegations in the just ended Zanu-PF primary elections, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has postponed the announcement of winning candidates to allow for politb...Published: 05 May 2018 at 14:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa allies fall
Some of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's key allies fell dramatically in Zanu PF primary polls held between April 29 and May 1, setting the stage for what is promising to be nail-biting general election...Published: 03 May 2018 at 14:03hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primary poll winners list out
Zanu-PF yesterday announced the official list of candidates who will contest the forthcoming National Assembly elections on the ruling party's ticket. The results reflect a renewal of the party after ...Published: 03 May 2018 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zisco's $500m debt queried
GOVERNMENT should first carry out an audit to determine how the now defunct parastatal, Zisco, accrued arrears before taking over the $500 million debt, stakeholders in Bulawayo said yesterday....Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's ex-Finance minister to lose property over $366,000 debt
FORMER Finance deputy minister David Chapfika is set to lose his late brother's up-market Harare property which he had used as collateral security to secure a $366 014 loan from Cabs Bank in 2011....Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 05:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chapfika's debt woes mount
Woes continue to mount for ex- deputy Finance minister and Zanu-PF Mutoko South MP David Chapfika after he was dragged before the High Court for failing to pay $300 000 for electricity consumed at his...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 09:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fuel, electricity top imports bill
FUEL, cooking oil and electricity are on average chewing more than half of the $230 million allocated for imports monthly, showing very little signs of the foreign currency shortages easing anytime so...Published: 14 Mar 2018 at 05:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's ex-Finance minister cornered over $366,000 debt
FORMER deputy Finance minister David Chapfika has been taken to court over $366 000 debt owed to Cabs.The bank is seeking a default judgment against the former Zanu PF legislator.Accor...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 06:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's ex-finance minister in nasty divorce
Ex- finance minister and Zanu-PF Mutoko South MP David Chapfika is set to lose property worth $1 500 as recompense for legal fees arising from an ongoing divorce case before the High Court.Cha...Published: 14 Dec 2017 at 08:49hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa makes sweeping changes
FINANCE minister Patrick Chinamasa has introduced a raft of cost-cutting measures, among them a drastic reduction in government travel, other luxuries and fired over 3 000 national youth service gradu...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 05:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge raises concerns over projects completion delays
BEITBRIDGE residents have called on Government to avail adequate funding in the 2018 national budget towards completion of outstanding projects under the Beitbridge Redevelopment programme.Par...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army general abandoned family, move in with 'mistress'
One of the country's decorated liberation war icons, retired Air Vice Marshal Henry Muchena, is entangled in an acrimonious divorce with his wife of 31 years, who is claiming in court papers that the ...Published: 12 Jul 2017 at 13:12hrs | 48 | by Staff reporter
'Ministers sabotage Mugabe'
Zanu PF Mutoko South legislator, David Chapfika, has blamed ministers for the country's never-ending economic crisis, claiming the cabinet was sabotaging and defying President Robert Mugabe on policy ...Published: 06 Jul 2017 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe told to cut Zimbabwe army, police by half
A respected economist and advisor in the Office of the President and Cabinet has recommended that the government must reduce the size of the army and police by half to stimulate the economy.Pr...Published: 02 Jul 2017 at 10:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs bleed banks dry
Politicians, particularly the elite in Zanu-PF, are proving to be a thorn in the flesh for the financial services sector, with hardly a month passing without the Deputy Sheriff being called in to put ...Published: 19 Jun 2017 at 13:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Retrench civil servants, parliament says
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Finance and Economic Development has recommended that government carry out a restructuring of the civil service and reduce the wage bill to 70% of the budget w...Published: 17 Feb 2017 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Govt drafts law for bond notes committee
GOVERNMENT is in the process of drafting a Statutory Instrument (SI) that will give legal effect to the committee that is supposed to superintend the administration of bond notes on the local mark...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 12:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Residents grill MPs over bond notes
Gwanda residents have grilled the legislators who visited the mining town in Reserve Bank and Procurement laws consultation over the introduction of bond notes.The residents Association spokes...Published: 03 Dec 2016 at 07:28hrs | 60 | by Stephen Jakes
MDC-T, ZimPF in recruitment drive
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has reported that in August MDC-T and ZimPF are trying hard to grow their membership base especially in rural areas as they prepare for the 2018 general elections. Ironicall...Published: 29 Sep 2016 at 07:03hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Harare companies dupe BCC
BULAWAYO City Council might have lost over $1 million through misappropriation of funds and irregularities in awarding tenders.The council has been accused of awarding tenders to non-traceable...Published: 23 Aug 2016 at 07:18hrs | 4 | by Auxilia Katongomara
Condoms found in car, Chapfika's marriage on the rocks
FORMER Finance Deputy Minister David Chapfika's wife Abina (nee Mutimusakwa) says her estranged husband is a man of violent disposition who uses death threats each time she confronts him over his prom...Published: 07 Jul 2016 at 07:18hrs | 2 | by Court Reporter
Zanu-PF MP duped of $20 000
Former deputy Finance Minister and Zanu-pf Mutoko South MP David Chapfika was duped of $20 000 meant to import a car for his daughter from South Africa.The suspected conman Marshal Chidawu (36...Published: 09 Jun 2016 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Fungai Lupande
Anti-corruption blitz targets Wicknell Chivayo and other bigwigs
Government is on a major anti-corruption operation, with investigators raiding ministries, parastatals, Harare City Council and housing co-operatives last Thursday and Friday.In 2015, Presiden...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 11:25hrs | | by Brian Chitemba
Mudenda reprimands Kereke
The Speaker of the National Assembly Advocate Jacob Mudenda yesterday reprimanded Bikita West Member of the National Assembly Dr Munyaradzi Kereke for deviating from findings of a portfolio committee ...Published: 04 May 2016 at 06:47hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
'Smallhouses' wreck Chapfika's marriage
Former Finance deputy minister and Zanu-PF Mutoko South MP David Chapfika's wife of over 32 years, Abina (nee Mutimusakwa), has filed for divorce at the High Court on the basis that the union has irre...Published: 16 Jan 2016 at 16:22hrs | 127 | by Staff reporter
Parliament endorses 2016 budget
Parliament has endorsed the 2016 national budget for incorporating some of the inputs made during the pre-budget indaba held in Victoria Falls.According to the legislators there is need for al...Published: 08 Dec 2015 at 21:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF MPs breaks ranks over passing of job cuts bill
A sizeable number of Zanu-PF legislators, mostly those in business, have openly expressed their displeasure over the proposed Labour Amendment Bill especially clauses that will result in retrospective...Published: 21 Aug 2015 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa rapped over inconsistencies
The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Finance and Economic Development has criticized Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa for providing inconsistent mining trajectories in his 2015 Mid-Term Budg...Published: 07 Aug 2015 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudenda denied US visa
THE Speaker of the National Assembly Advocate Jacob Mudenda who was recently denied a visa to the US has called for sanctions against Zimbabwe to go.Mudenda and the chairperson of the Portfoli...Published: 09 May 2015 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Cross, Porusingazi escape contempt of Parly charges
Bulawayo South MP Eddie Cross (MDC-T) and Chipinge South MP Enock Porusingazi yesterday escaped contempt of Parliament charges when Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda ruled that the ch...Published: 20 Mar 2015 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Broke Government to import food - Mnangagwa
GOVERNMENT has resolved to import food due to looming drought caused by low rain but parliamentarians urged government to fully utilise $400 000 set aside for cloud seeding.Legislators said im...Published: 12 Mar 2015 at 06:00hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
MP's Must Reject Chinamasa's Shocking Irresponsibility
The MDC-T UK hereby registers our shock at the ZANU's government's proposal that the nation should take on a $1,2 billion Reserve Bank debt which includes $200 million dished out to Zanu (PF) bosses...Published: 07 Feb 2015 at 04:55hrs | | by Tonderai Samanyanga, MDC-T UK chairman
Kereke uncharacteristically heaps praise on Gono
Munyaradzi Kereke, Zanu-PF MP for Bikita West, yesterday uncharacteristically thanked retired Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono for saving Zimbabwe's economy through quasi-fiscal...Published: 06 Feb 2015 at 15:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gono in trouble
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Budget and Finance wants former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono charged with contempt of Parliament following media reports attributed to him ...Published: 06 Feb 2015 at 07:50hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
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