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AMH editor-in-chief appears in court
The editor-in-chief of Alpha Media Holdings (AMH), Kholwani Nyathi, appeared in court on Thursday representing the media company as it faces charges of undermining the authority of President Emmerson ...Published: 10 Jul 2025 at 20:39hrs | 572 | by Staff reporter
Edgar Lungu: untidy facts surrounding his burial place?
The death of former President of Zambia, Advocate Lungu is opening a can of worms. How did he get a Zimbabwean diplomatic green passport from Zimbabwe. This question must be asked by Zimbabweans too, ...Published: 02 Jul 2025 at 10:17hrs | 1576 | by Nomazulu Thata
Edgar Lungu did not hold a Zimbabwean diplomatic passport
Zimbabwe's Permanent Secretary for Information, Nick Mangwana, has denied widespread claims that the late former Zambian president Edgar Chagwa Lungu was in possession of a Zimbabwean diplomatic passp...Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 21:45hrs | 1770 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa cronies get lucrative tenders
On 5 May 2025, Youth Minister Tinoda Machakaire posted a seemingly heartfelt message on social media expressing deep concern over the dire state of Zimbabwe's public health institutions. Visiting a ho...Published: 18 Jun 2025 at 18:42hrs | 606 | by Staff reporter
'There is no friction between Zanu PF and CCC!' boasted Mnangagwa
In Zimbabwe there is no friction between Zanu PF and the opposition party!" Mnangagwa boasted at the festive party held at his Kwe kwe farm to celebrate that Zanu PF and CCC opposition MPs had agreed ...Published: 14 Jan 2025 at 22:27hrs | 307 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mthuli Ncube divorced from reality
On November 30, 2023, in the bustling halls of the new Parliament building in Mt Hampden, Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion minister Mthuli Ncube , a proud holder of a diplomatic ...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 06:12hrs | 11 | by Harriet Chikandiwa
Zambian's Hichilema strips ex-President Lungu of retirement benefits
Zambia's government has withdrawn retirement benefits and privileges from former President Edgar Lungu following his decision to return to active politics.Lungu lost the presidency to Hakainde...Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 20:17hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs' diplomatic passports: A clear case of bribery
The call for granting diplomatic passports to traditional chiefs in Zimbabwe ahead of the 2023 elections presents both opportunities and challenges.THE call for granting diplomatic passports t...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 08:32hrs | 8 | by Concerned
Chiefs ask for diplomatic passports
CHIEFS have asked for diplomatic passports for ease of travel across borders.The call was made by Chief Clemence Nembiri of Mt Darwin in Manicaland province on Wednesday during a Civil Registr...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 18:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
UK flags Zimbabwe over soaring corruption
LORD Robin Goldsmith, the United Kingdom's minister for Overseas Territories, Commonwealth, Energy, Climate and Environment at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has told the British Pa...Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
UK will not give any special treatment to Mnangagwa's ambassador-at-large
THE United Kingdom will not give any special treatment to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ambassador-at-large, Uebert Angel, who is embroiled in a money laundering and gold smuggling scandal, a ministe...Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:09hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, Mnangagwa entangled in massive chrome scandal
COMPANIES linked to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga received US$3 million from South African chrome miner Zunaid Moti following a US$120 million deal signed betwee...Published: 28 Apr 2023 at 20:19hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Uebert Angel's PR disaster
Uebert Angel is, easily, the man of the moment, for all the wrong reasons.He was recently outed by the Al Jazeera undercover investigative team for trying to aid gold and money laundering usin...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 07:48hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni
Jonathan Moyo lampoons Former Zambian foreign minister over Gold Mafia saga
Former Zambian foreign minister [@HarryKalaba] should keep to himself his criminal advice - in support of KarryKalabathe disgraced Ambassador Plenipotentiary Uebert Angel exposed by Al Jazeera's #Gold...Published: 17 Apr 2023 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
White gold dealer flees Zimbabwe, Uebert Angel fired, faces prosecution
Economist and ex-opposition legislator Eddie Cross has claimed that Mnangagwa's Ambassador at large linked to gold smuggling in Zimbabwe has been stripped of his diplomatic passport and title....Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 08:00hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport now a gateway for smugglers
AFTER watching gold smugglers and money launderers breezing through Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport in Harare travelling to and from Dubai to deliver the proceeds of corruption in Al Jazee...Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 20:28hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Uebert Angel will neither be prosecuted nor charged!
Dear Bulawayo 24 News Staff Writer: Upon reading, your article entitled: 'Mnangagwa throws Prophet Uebert Angel under the bus,' I went to my dictionary to verify the meaning of the idiomat...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 03:41hrs | 1 | by Tawandah Mudzingwah
Mnangagwa's name mired in underworld gold activities
FROM the Macmillan family and their gold-smuggling activities to the Kwekwe underworld mining adventures and Henrietta Rushwaya's sensational arrest three years ago, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's nam...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 14:00hrs | 67 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's stolen dollars linked to CIA?
South Africa and the world would have never known about President Cyril Ramaphosa's alleged illicit financial mess if the millions of US dollars had not been stolen from his Phala Phala farm.T...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe family snubs Mnangagwa
Late former President Robert Mugabe's artefacts are not part of the fascinating array of Zimbabwe liberation heroes' war relics currently on display at the much-hyped Museum of African Liberation in H...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa deploys war vets battalion
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has turned to ex-combatants to lead mass mobilisation campaigns as fears of a possible electoral defeat in the 2023 elections send tremors down Zanu-PF corridors.G...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Elections terror scare
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has turned to ex-combatants to lead mass mobilisation campaigns as fears of a possible electoral defeat in the 2023 elections send tremors down Zanu-PF corridors.G...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is it just naivety or simply greed driving POLAD to believe sitting around table with corrupt power-greedy regime will yield res
A few years ago, a dear cousin of mine - who worked quite closely with the then president Robert Gabriel Mugabe, especially in the health sector (having held top positions in both government, and the ...Published: 20 May 2022 at 10:23hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa pampers Mwonzora & co
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government splashed cash on leaders of opposition political parties, including MDC-T Alliance leader Douglas Mwonzora, to facilitate their attendance of Independence Day...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lillian Mutambo must apologize to Prophet Isaiah Sovi
Life has been bumpy for Lillian Mutambo ever since she made false claims against Prophet Shepherd Bushiri and Prophet Isaiah Brian Sovi who are both spiritual sins of Uebert Angel. Lillian Mut...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 14:24hrs | 6 | by Nicholas Ncube
Zimbabweans honour Butau
ZIMBABWEANS yesterday hailed as a hero Sirizani Butau, who risked his life to save at least eight people from a bus that caught fire along the Harare-Mutare Highway on Christmas eve.Batau, who...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:18hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Govt fails to service stands for MPs, senators
GOVERNMENT has been failing to allocate stands to MPs because it has failed to service the identified land to ensure it has amenities such as sewage and water reticulation.This was disclosed b...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mahere says youth of Zimbabwe will show Zanu-PF who's boss in 2023 general elections
The youth will show you who's boss in Zimbabwe come the 2023 general elections.This is the gist of MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere's reaction to Zanu-PF's tactic of blocking Nelson Ch...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 21:03hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe awards passport production contract to Belgian firm
A Belgian company linked to bribes-for-tenders in over half-a-dozen countries has been awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to produce biometric passports for Zimbabwe, ZimLive reported.Zim...Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 12:06hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa under fire
RESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is under fire and faces a potential lawsuit for alleged abuse of public funds after buying vehicles for the controversial Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) platform members...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 08:56hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Is it hunger, or pure greed and amorality, that leads Zimbabweans to betray and abandon the suffering majority?
One image has been haunting me this morning - which got me thinking long and hard on the apparent extremely troubling propensity for Zimbabweans to betray and abandon their fellow suffering countrymen...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 13:46hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Polad divided over election postponement
THE Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) platform set up by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in 2018 yesterday exposed a serious rift in the group over whether the country should postpone the 2023 elections....Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt has a constitutional obligation to fund political parties
THE Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) members still want to be pampered more by government after they said they would campaign for more vehicles and accessories to enable them to move across the count...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe can do more than just receiving covid-19 vaccines donations - Mhondoro-Ngezi SMP
In a recent telephone conversation with this reporter, the Shadow-Member of Parliament (SMP) for Mhondoro-Ngezi Constituency situate in Mashonaland West Province has commended the Government of Zimbab...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 09:09hrs | 11 | by Maxwell Teedzai
War vets make fresh demands for pension increases
MEMBERS of the Zimbabwe Liberation War Veterans Association (ZLWVA) Harare province Monday petitioned Parliament demanding equal monthly pensions awarded to other serving ex-combatants still employed ...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 08:21hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira appeals against warrant of arrest
Former minister Prisca Mupfumira has appealed to the High Court over the warrant of arrest issued last week by a Harare magistrate when she failed to turn up for her trial on corruption-related charge...Published: 25 May 2021 at 07:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Warrant of arrest for ex-minister Prisca Mupfumira
A warrant of arrest was issued yesterday for former Cabinet Minister Prisca Mupfumira, at present in South Africa on official Parliamentary business, after she failed to attend court for her trial on ...Published: 22 May 2021 at 07:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare Airport emerges as major smuggling gateway
THE Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport is emerging as a gateway for mineral smugglers, particularly gold, with state security agents at the centre of the criminal syndicates.In the la...Published: 20 May 2021 at 22:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt, MPs clash over unserviced legislators' housing stands
THE government and lawmakers are at loggerheads after the state indicated to the legislators it had no funds to service housing stands allocated to the legislators recently with the MPs saying it was ...Published: 19 May 2021 at 06:27hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Marry opens up on her relationship with Chiwenga
An ailing Chiwenga was airlifted to China from South Africa on 21 July where he underwent life-saving treatment at a top Beijing hospital amid revelations by his close associates that he could have be...Published: 03 May 2021 at 07:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora apologises to Parliament, begs for diplomatic passports
MDC-T leader Mr Douglas Mwonzora on Tuesday apologised to Parliament for the breaches of parliamentary rules and custom by members of his party, citing pressure from the then MDC-Alliance leadership. ...Published: 22 Apr 2021 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
118 MDC MPs face Parly sanctions
The 118 sitting and former MDC Members of Parliament and senators who sang, remained seated or walked out when President Mnangagwa came to Parliament on five formal occasions should be found in contem...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
POLAD's opportunism and greed exposes a poverty-stricken nation whose leaders are so hungry would sleep with the devil for a pla
In some of my articles, I have usually expressed how I had been shocked by something that would had occured, but this time around, what I have just come from reading did not shock me at all - rather, ...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 10:02hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's Polad allies 'greed' exposed
LEADERS of fringe political parties that are part of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's preferred dialogue platform are making extravagant demands such as diplomatic passports and farms as rewards for the...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Uebert Angel earmarked for Goodwill Ambassador post
EVANGELICAL preacher, Prophet Uebert Angel, will be appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for Zimbabwe contrary to widespread reports that he has been appointed to serve as an envoy in one of the coun...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:06hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Bushiri takes refuge in Malawian custody
Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) church leader, Prophet Shepherd Bushiri, has handed himself over to the Malawian Police following corruption and money laundering charges amounting to more than R...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 13:17hrs | 23 | by Daniel Itai, Lilongwe, Malawi
'Prophet' in court over attempted smuggling
Self-styled Johane Masowe eChishanu apostolic church prophet and leader, Lazarus Simbarashe Nengomasha, known as Madzibaba Simba yesterday appeared at Harare magistrates court on allegations of attemp...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gazettes Mphoko's benefits
President Mnangagwa last week gazetted benefits for spouses of former presidents and vice presidents that have served the country since 1987. The benefits are contained in Statutory Instrument...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's recalled MP dies after suffering stroke
An MDC Alliance MP who was recalled from Parliament in June by the Thokozani Khupe MDC Alliance has died, her party said.Annah Muyambo, who was an MP for Harare province after entering parliam...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 19:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
War veterans demand honorary degrees and tax exemptions
Veterans of Zimbabwe's 1970s independence war have made fresh demands including honorary degrees, diplomatic passports and automatic promotions in state institutions.Douglas Mahiya, the secret...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 11:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
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