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Severe Service Deterioration and Allegations of Corruption at Ruwa Local Board
The Ruwa Local Board/Council is experiencing a rapid and alarming decline in service delivery, raising serious concerns among residents. Essential municipal services, for which residents pay rates, ha...Published: 22 Mar 2025 at 20:49hrs | 719 | by Sam Wezhira
Harare Town Clerk arrested over US$9,2 million tender scandal
Harare City Council (HCC), town clerk engineer Hosiah Chisango, has been arrested charged with unprocedural awarding of a US$9,2 million tender without following due process.In a Wednesday sta...Published: 25 Jul 2024 at 07:51hrs | 1147 | by Staff reporter
Who is protecting Henrieta Rushwaya?
Zimbabwe is in a state of disaster where the leaders are caught in a web of corruption, putting the young people and the next generation into a hopeless future of wallowing in abject poverty wit...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 20:21hrs | 17 | by Leonard Koni
Chaos in ACCZ, as dismissed clergymen resist Ndanga's unconstitutional authority
In yet another dismal performance episode and absolute testimony of failure, the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe's few remaining bishops have resisted dismissal by its former leader, Arch-bish...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 08:01hrs | 80 | by Ndou Paul in Zvishavane
MDC politician fined for assaulting opposition activist
Yvonne Musarurwa, a politician from the MDC, has been issued a $100 fine for her involvement in the assault of Kudzanai Mashumba, who served as the party's chief of protocol. This altercation had garn...Published: 26 Oct 2023 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Charumbira not fired from PAP, it's fake news
The Pan African Parliament speaks on the fake story of the firing of Chief Charumbira.Team Pachedu on Friday said in a statement:"Chief Fortune Charumbira (ZANU-PF) has been fired from...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 21:17hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Social media campaigner targets corruption and theft at NSSA
A social media campaign to amplify citizens' voices against the unending vice of corruption and embezzlement of funds at the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) has kicked off amid calls for sta...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 05:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Govt tops pension defaulters list
STATE enterprises and parastatals top the list of 50 employers paying their former workers measly pensions, while owing the Insurance and Pensions Commission (Ipec) $5,3 billion in pension contributio...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:41hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
77 goats die at LSU due to procurement malpractices
Seventy-seven (77) goats died at Lupane State University due to procurement malpractices in a clear abuse of state funds.The $52 000 000 for Innovation and Industrialisation from ZIMDEF has co...Published: 22 May 2022 at 13:37hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
MDC-T MP arrested for assault
MDC-T proportional representation MP, Yvonne Musarurwa was arrested yesterday for allegedly assaulting party vice-president Thokozani Khupe's aide Kudzanai Mashumba at a Press conference last month....Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 08:13hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu PF MPs throw Wadyajena under the bus
ZANU PF Members of Parliament under the Portfolio Committee on Lands, Agriculture, Water, Fisheries and Rural Development have distanced themselves from a report presented by the committee chairperson...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 13:53hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa accused of fomenting ZCTU wars
The MDC Alliance has been accused of making frantic efforts to sponsor a camp aligned to the president of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) Mr Peter Mutasa who is losing support following a...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe wins the mantra for a bad loser
In a bizarre move characteristic of child play.Thokozani Khupe becomes referee in a contest where she is a player. While the practices of the MDC(s) provide Zimbabwe with a comedy to cheer the nation ...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 14:33hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Sanctions were fashioned to kill Zimbabwe - Academic
THE sanctions imposed by the West on Zimbabwe, are no longer about inculcating good governance and freedoms but a tactless, miscalculated economic warfare, fashioned to ‘kill' Zimbabwe.Curio...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by David Matsanga in London United Kingdom
Zanu-PF getting ready for 2023 elections
ZANU-PF is like a sleeping giant which is often teased by smaller political parties which have no political ideology, but those parties remain teaser bulls, nothing more. The party works in ve...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Elijah Chihota
ZANU PF getting ready for 2023 elections
ZANU PF is like a sleeping giant which is often teased by smaller political parties which have no political ideology. The Party works in very mysterious ways to such an extent that when people think i...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 14:34hrs | 1 | by Elijah Chihota
Mthuli Ncube launches 7 year IPSAS implementation strategy plan
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube Wednesday launched the Migration to Accrual Based International Sector Accounting Standards implementation plan that will see government institutions move up to speed wit...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 07:17hrs | 2 | by newzimbabwe
Headmaster sucked into $50 000 misappropriation whirlpool
HAMILTON High School in Bulawayo has been rocked by allegations of embezzlement of funds running into thousands of dollars allegedly "masterminded" by the school's headmaster Jamani Fuyana.The...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 07:21hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans need to find each other as a nation
As we begin 2019, there are key lessons from the coup and Zimbabwe's post-coup experiences. The key lessons going forward relate to ethical leadership, public sector performance management, service de...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:00hrs | 1 | by Brian Kagoro
Parliament urged to oversee govt spending
PARLIAMENT has to keep strict checks and balances on government expenditure to control the budget deficit, economists have advised.Last week, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube presented his maiden...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
A year after Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean politics appear to have changed due to the media reportage of the past twelve months since Robert Mugabe's ouster in the political scene. The question of a new Zimbabwe in the name of the n...Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 12:29hrs | 4 | by Brian Maregedze
Tsholotsho RDC CEO suspended
Tsholotsho Rural District Council has suspended its chief executive officer Themba Moyo over allegations of corruption and embezzlement of funds.A forensic report presented on the 30th of Octo...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 14:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu Presidency has not deviated
During the past 2 weeks there has been a deliberate but vehement psychological attack on Zapu. First it was its President who was reported to have endorsed Emmerson Mnangagwa. Some misguided journalis...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 08:42hrs | 2 | by Mkhululi Zulu
Vulnerability of politicians when they fall from grace
Political leaders appear to be saints for as long as they are in power but tumble off that pedestal of cleanliness once they are out of the power equation.This, however, is not limited to Zimb...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 08:56hrs | | by Eddie Zvinonzwa
Zimbabwe must invest more agriculture to improve food security
Politics of grandstanding should be a thing of the past and must not find its way to the new political dispensation currently prevailing in the country. People now want tangible things.Zimbabw...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 12:40hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Highlanders board says 'NO' to Maphepha again
ERNEST "Maphepha" Sibanda was barred for the second time in a row from contesting the Highlanders' executive chairman position by the club's board on Tuesday.Sibanda, a former Bosso chairman, ...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 05:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education
REF: Dokora axing-a close look While the official version is saying Dokora's sacking as Minister of Primary and Secondary Education has to d...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 11:54hrs | | by Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere
Zanu-PF Youth leader suspended
ZANU-PF party has suspended its Manicaland provincial youth chairperson Mubuso Chinguno, who is facing charges of misappropriating over US$400 000 mobilised to service youth residential stands in Chip...Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 04:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
All set for Mugabe's Bulawayo interface rally
Zanu-PF heavyweights will be descending on Bulawayo today to announce the date for President Robert Mugabe's ninth presidential youth interface rally.Zanu-PF youth leader Kudzanai Chipanga sai...Published: 26 Oct 2017 at 13:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru in $4.5 million scam
NATIONAL People's Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru has been accused of defrauding her former party, Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF), of $4,5 million which had been raised by her British-based supporters ...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
NPP member accuses Mujuru of pretending to be opposition yet she is still Zanu PF
A member of the National People's Party Joyinani Mlilo has written a letter to the party Leader Joice Mujuru accusing her of pretending to be a leader of the opposition party when infect she is pushin...Published: 14 Oct 2017 at 17:25hrs | 10 | by Stephen Jakes
Development and democracy has been killed in Zimbabwe
Zimbabweans are no longer confident of themselves when they are on the international arena. I write this article with a heavy heart considering how Zanu Pf Government has ran down all state institutio...Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 15:39hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Housing waiting list 'fraud' at Bulawayo City Council
Bulawayo City Council could be defrauding residents registering to be on the housing waiting list as it did not retain receipts for the home seekers, the Auditor General has said.In her latest...Published: 04 Jul 2017 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe dumps top allies
Hundreds of Zanu-PF women's league members yesterday called for the ouster of their deputy politburo secretary and Bulawayo Provincial Affairs minister Eunice Sandi-Moyo and treasurer Sarah Mahoka...Published: 23 Mar 2017 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe officially picks Gono for President
COLOGNE/CAPE TOWN - President Robert Mugabe has reportedly cherry-picked, former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, Gideon Gono, for president and to become his successor of choice in an afterma...Published: 24 Feb 2017 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Itai Mushekwe/Mary-Kate Kahari
Corruption needs to be dealt with decisively
Recent reports that the suspended Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NetOne, Mr Reward Kangai has been relieved of his duties for allegedly swindling the government-owned-mobile-network company of more ...Published: 21 Sep 2016 at 09:46hrs | | by Kazamula Matilaya
Fighting corruption needs combined effort from everyone
Zimbabweans have been made to believe that the scourge of sanctions imposed in the country by the western countries more than a decade ago were behind the demise of the Zimbabwean economy yet corrupti...Published: 08 Jun 2016 at 09:57hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
History of Labor in Zimbabwe before and after independence - Part one
If the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia; Ian Douglas Smith was alive today he would concur that the white regime lost the war because of the failure of the government to implement labor laws an...Published: 17 Jan 2016 at 12:50hrs | 45 | by Nomazulu Thata
Corruption: Zimbabwe should emulate China
Zimbabwe is in dire need of the foreign direct investment which could make the economic turnaround of the economy viable but such a move cannot be possible if a country is full of corrupt individuals ...Published: 03 Dec 2015 at 14:20hrs | 1 | by John Mukumbo
Explosive Bosso AGM
HIGHLANDERS Football Club members meet this morning at their clubhouse in North End in what is expected to be an explosive annual general meeting with the disqualification of Ernest "Maphepha" Sibanda...Published: 25 Jan 2015 at 11:59hrs | 1 | by Sports Reporter
Pro-Mnangagwa youth chairman kicked out
Zanu-PF Mashonaland West youth league has fired its chairman Vengesai Musengi for theft and misappropriation of funds.Musengi was part of the so-called "Famous 7" youth league chairpersons wh...Published: 03 Nov 2014 at 11:38hrs | 1 | by staff reporter
Youths targeted in Zanu-PF purge
Some Zanu-PF provincial committees want youth leaders who supported the First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe to assume the position of National Secretary for Women's Affairs to be expelled from the party and ...Published: 27 Aug 2014 at 07:53hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe should take a leaf from China on corruption
The story in the Newsday of March 31, 2014, indicating that the Chinese authorities have seized assets worth at least fourteen and half billion (14, 5 Billion) from more than three hundred (300) ...Published: 02 Apr 2014 at 16:47hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Mugabe mocks Zifa board candidates
Former Zifa chairman Leo Mugabe sees abject failure characterising the tenure of any candidate to be voted Zifa president on March 29.Mugabe, who was at the helm of Zifa...Published: 16 Mar 2014 at 15:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe groups clash
DAGGERS have been drawn out between two co-operatives in Victoria Falls over the use of President Robert Mugabe's name and allocation of stands amid reports of embezzlement of funds, the Southern Eye...Published: 05 Jan 2014 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Parents accuse school head of misusing funds
PARENTS at Mawaba Primary School in Lobengula West suburb in Bulawayo, have petitioned the Education, Sport, Arts and Culture ministry to investigate the alleged embezzlement of funds at the school by...Published: 19 Jun 2013 at 11:17hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Nicholas Vingirai arrested by Taiwan Criminal Investigation Bureau
Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) arrested Nicholas Mugawaga Vingirai who is still an internationally wanted Zimbabwe suspect Wednesday at a hotel in Taipei.CIB officials received ...Published: 17 Aug 2011 at 14:15hrs | 4 | by .
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