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Ex-minister Mupfumira's last corruption case collapses
Former Public Service Minister Prisca Mupfumira has been removed from remand and cleared of theft charges related to public funds. The charges stemmed from accusations that she misappropriated a US$90...Published: 16 Aug 2024 at 08:22hrs | 508 | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister detained in Zimbabwe
Former Minister of National Healing, Moses Mzila Ndlovu, has been detained by police following a confrontation involving livestock belonging to one of the invaders occupying his farm in Matobo distric...Published: 01 Aug 2024 at 13:58hrs | 1923 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Minister blames devolution delay for Ndebele language woes
A former government minister has criticised the government for failing to fully implement devolution, which he claims has led to the deployment of non-local language-speaking teachers in Matabeleland....Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 16:35hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
The imbecility of Macron - 'Africa can't manage the world!'
Imbecility of MacronFollowing a wave of anti-French feelings across Francophone Africa, a former Economic Minister for France, one Thierry Breton, took to twitter and posted the following: "It...Published: 18 May 2024 at 10:43hrs | 200 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Ex-ministers' fraud case deferred
FORMER Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development deputy minister Douglas Karoro's fraud case was yesterday postponed again.Karoro, who is being charged along with his accompli...Published: 11 Apr 2024 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ignatius Chombo plots dramatic political renaissance
THERE was excitement among Zanu-PF activists on Sunday following the official announcement of former long-serving Local Government minister, Ignatius Chombo's return to the party after a five-year hia...Published: 27 Mar 2024 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zipra celebrates Mutsvangwa sacking
The Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) war veterans association has said the sacking of War veterans minister Christopher Mutsvangwa is good riddance after he snubbed their efforts to ...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 04:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister's wife in fuel scandal
FORMER Information minister Webster Shamhu's wife, Constance, yesterday appeared before Harare magistrate Ruth Moyo for failing to display fuel prices at her service station.The accused is one...Published: 17 Feb 2024 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister released from prison, suffers another blow
The Zanu-PF Mashonaland East provincial leadership has prohibited former Public Service minister Petronella Kagonye from carrying out party activities following her release from prison.Kagonye...Published: 06 Dec 2023 at 05:06hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean court halts ex-minister's eviction
BULAWAYO High Court judge Justice Bongani Ndlovu last Friday issued an interdict barring government from evicting former Cabinet minister Moses Mzila-Ndlovu from his farm in Matobo district, Matabelel...Published: 16 Nov 2023 at 05:04hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere challenges Mnangagwa secrecy bid
Ex-minister Saviour Kasukuwere, barred from running for president, says the Mutapa Sovereign Wealth Fund and a decree by President Mnangagwa exempting nearly 2 dozen companies from public procurement ...Published: 01 Oct 2023 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Minister's widow jailed
FORMER Finance Minister Christophe Kuruneri's wife Paidamoyo (60) was slapped with six months jail term for defeating the course of justice by Concession magistrate Joshua Nembaware on Monday....Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 18:33hrs | 5 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chamisa's candidate, ex-minister clash in Gokwe
FORMER Cabinet minister Flora Bhuka, who is also the Zanu-PF candidate for the Gokwe-Nembudziya constituency, has been accused of threatening teachers at various schools in the constituency.Th...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 06:51hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Minister's wife nabbed for defeating the course of justice
Former finance Minister Chris Kuruneri's wife Paidamoyo (60) has been arrested together with her driver Sinotile Magezi (54) after they allegedly blocked ...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 19:19hrs | 6 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Justice Mangota given house hours before Kasukuwere hearing, court hears
A High Court judge was given a house by the state on the same day he was due to hear an application by a Zanu-PF activist seeking to have Saviour Kasukuwere barred from running for president in the Au...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 11:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF activist bids to stop Tyson
INDEPENDENT presidential aspirant Saviour Kasukuwere says nothing will stop him from running for the top office in the land after a Zanu-PF activist threatened to approach the courts seeking an order ...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 06:30hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to do everything to keep power
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday declared that Zanu-PF will do everything to keep power as he officially launched the ruling party's campaign for the August 23 elections.Mnangagwa presid...Published: 25 Jun 2023 at 09:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZANU-PF elbows Ex-Minister again
ZANU PF has blocked disgraced former deputy Agriculture Minister and Mbire legislator Douglas Karoro from submitting his nomination papers at the Bindura ...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 14:28hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Kasukuwere raps Mnangagwa for reneging on 2018 campaign promises, looting minerals
SELF-EXILED former cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere says he will be filing his papers when the nomination court sits on Wednesday to select candidates for the upcoming general elections.He ...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere threatens knockout punch, but doubts persist
POLITICAL analysts say former cabinet minister and Zanu-PF commissar Saviour Kasukuwere's entry into the presidential election race set for 23 August will eat into President Emmerson Mnangagwa's votes...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister released from Chikurubi Female Prison
FORMER Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare, Petronella Kagonye is out of jail after serving an effective 16 months behind bars.Her lawyer Rungano Mahuni confirmed.Kag...Published: 02 May 2023 at 22:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-Minister's trial date set
Harare regional magistrate Mr Taurai Manuwere has set May 17 as the trial date for former Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Water, Fisheries and Rural Development Douglas Karoro and Grain Marketing Boar...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 19:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bhasikiti cleared of rape
Former Masvingo Minister of State Kudakwashe 8hasikiti has, today, been absolved of raping a teenage girl at his orphanage in Mwenezi. Bhasikiti was acquitted of raping a then 12 year old girl...Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 20:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
High Court dismisses Mupfumira's appeal
The High Court has dismissed an application for appeal by former Cabinet minister Prisca Mupfumira who was challenging the lower court's decision to dismiss her application for discharge at the close ...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mahere conviction on 'dead crime' draws anger
The conviction Wednesday of opposition politician Fadzayi Mahere following a two-year long trial on a crime lawyers argue was long parked away from national statutes has drawn anger from her party and...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 20:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi, more Zanu-PF heavyweights fall in party primaries
Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has suffered defeat in weekend Zanu-PF primary elections, becoming one of the high profile casualties in the just ended ruling party internal polls.A fervent l...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primaries 'spell chaos'
A RUSHED ruling Zanu-PF party internal poll set for tomorrow could trigger waves of discontentment in the former liberation movement, insiders warned this week.They said the short notice to ho...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 18:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-deputy minister's theft case in new twist
The state's case against former Agriculture deputy minister Douglas Karoro on Thursday seemed to crumble after the prosecution's star witness exonerated him.Karoro is accused of stealing 700 b...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 11:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court says magistrate was too lenient with Ex-minister Kagonye
HIGH Court judge, Justice Benjamin Chikowero, has lashed out at jailed former minister, Petronella Kagonye after she the sought Supreme Court's intervention in her appeal against imprisonment, stating...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Jonathan Moyo preparing for life after Mnangagwa'
THE open letter of apology by self-exiled former ministers Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao - addressed to Zanu-PF members - shows that the two politicians may be preparing for life after Emmerson Mna...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 18:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa enforcer and ex-minister laments death of provincial hero
"It's painful that one of our own dies whilst we have the means of assisting her", former State security minister Owen ‘Mudha' Ncube said last Wednesday at the funeral of a Zanu-PF official while su...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe and some of her relatives stripped of corruptly acquired stands
Former First Lady Grace Mugabe and some of her relatives and allies are being stripped of 14 stands worth almost US$12,6 million in one of the most upmarket developments in Borrowdale, Harare, on the ...Published: 02 Nov 2022 at 05:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints AG office board
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed a four member Attorney-General (AG)'s office board to provide oversight and supervisory roles to the office.The board will be chaired by Attorney-Gen...Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF stalwarts and ex-ministers troop back
Zanu-PF stalwarts and ex-ministers in the current administration and late former President Robert Mugabe's government are plotting a political comeback after they were cleared by the politburo to cont...Published: 08 Oct 2022 at 21:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs deplore top govt officials
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is under fire from senior Zanu-PF officials, including those stationed at party headquarters, who have raised concern over the failure by ruling party officials deployed i...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 19:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-Minister convicted, fined $30k for gun crime
FORMER Mashonaland West Resident Minister, Faber Chidarikire (75), was Wednesday found guilty of failing to safeguard his revolver in a gun cabinet after losing the firearm to a burglar who had broken...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-Minister Kagonye jailed 16 months
Former Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Petronella Kagonye has been sentenced to 16 months imprisonment by Harare magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti.This follows her conviction on ...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 16:30hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Minister Mupfumira attacks Zanu-PF rival
FORMER cabinet minister, Prisca Mupfumira chose a state function to vent anger at her estranged ally who is eyeing to dislodge her from an influential Zanu-PF central committee post.The ex-pub...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-corruption crusade fizzles out deplorably
HIGH-PROFILE corruption cases from as far back as 2017 are yet to be finalised, almost five years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised to decisively tackle graft.The development also de...Published: 03 May 2022 at 16:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister Mupfumira seeks High Court review
FORMER Public Service minister Priscah Mupfumira has asked the High Court to suspend her trial pending a review of magistrate Ngoni Nduna's decision to put her on trial.Mupfumira is accused of...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister refutes graft allegations
FORMER Public Service minister Petronella Kagonye yesterday appeared in court denying criminal abuse of office charges being levelled against her.In her defence, she said the allegations were ...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa invites Chamisa, ex-ministers to Uhuru celebrations
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said Independence was brought about by all Zimbabweans living or dead, hence he is inviting all political parties, current and former Government Ministers for the main celebrat...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 19:21hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa agents hunt for Jonathan Moyo
From fierce clashes in the Zanu-PF politburo meetings after a bitter political fallout over a hotly contested leadership succession during the late former president Robert Mugabe's rule to resorting t...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 19:22hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
US extends Zimbabwe sanctions after Russia/ Ukraine vote
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's re-engagement drive suffered a major setback yesterday after United States President Joe Biden extended sanctions imposed on the country by another year under the cover ...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
No sufficient evidence to nail ex-minister, says Zacc
A ZIMBABWE Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) investigating officer in the matter of former Public Service minister Petronella Kagonye on Tuesday said there was insufficient evidence against her in one...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:41hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere, ex-Zanu-PF MPs' meeting jolts party
Zanu-PF is reportedly fretting over a meeting involving exiled former party commissar Savior Kasukuwere, vocal former Chivi West MP Killer Zivhu and Norton MP Temba Mliswa (Independent) in South Afric...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa enforcer's fall from grace
FAMED for his role as Zanu-PF's political enforcer for the Midlands province, former State Security minister Owen Ncube popularly known as "Mudha" had a nasty fall from the echelons of power to the st...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister Obert Mpofu dragged to court over Esidakeni Farm invasion
Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu has been dragged to court after settling himself on a disputed farm in Matabeleland North.The former mines minister, who already has large land...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:08hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa information dynasty as Mnangagwa reorganises politburo
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday appointed new secretaries in his Zanu-PF party's politburo, while reassigning others.The mini-reshuffle will see former diplomat Christopher Mutsvangw...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:36hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira did not influence me, says witness
A WITNESS in the matter of former Public Service minister Priscah Mupfumira, who is accused of criminal abuse of office after allegedly flouting tender procedures, has made a U-turn on her earlier tes...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 06:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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