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Garwe approves residential stands for councillors
Local Government and Public Works Minister Daniel Garwe has authorised the allocation of a single residential stand - at a discounted rate - to councillors who do not reside wi...Published: 4 hrs ago | 91 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt cracks down on local authority extravagance
The Government has introduced sweeping new controls on foreign travel and allowances for councillors and local authority officials as part of measures aimed at curbing the misuse of public funds and r...Published: 20 Jul 2025 at 09:21hrs | 667 | by Staff reporter
Govt increases councillors' allowances
The Government has announced a new comprehensive package of allowances and benefits for local authority officials, offering them housing stands, motorbike loans, and other perks such as free parking a...Published: 17 Jul 2025 at 20:51hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
Battle over new NSSA boss intensifies
The fight to appoint a new general manager for Zimbabwe's US$1.2 billion National Social Security Authority (NSSA) has descended into a chaotic and politically charged standoff, marked by corruption a...Published: 14 May 2025 at 15:35hrs | 1313 | by Staff reporter
Zimpapers faces US$13 million scandal amid Audit revelations
A shocking internal audit at Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) Ltd (Zimpapers), the country's largest and oldest media conglomerate, has uncovered a potential US$13 million misappropriation of funds, raising...Published: 14 Apr 2025 at 12:57hrs | 1916 | by Staff reporter
Workers in Zimbabwe applaud govt over new retrenchment regulations
Workers in Zimbabwe have welcomed the government's recent overhaul of retrenchment regulations, hailing it as a progressive step towards better protection for employees amid the nation's economic chal...Published: 12 Dec 2024 at 06:51hrs | 17144 | by Staff reporter
Fired BancABC managers threaten to wash 'dirty linen' in public
A bitter and escalating dispute between dismissed BancABC managers and the bank's leadership is threatening to destabilize one of Zimbabwe's leading financial institutions. The conflict, which involve...Published: 10 Nov 2024 at 11:04hrs | 1526 | by Staff reporter
BancABC uses 'dirty tactics' to silence bosses?
BancABC is engulfed in controversy, facing accusations of fabricating charges against at least nine top managers as part of a strategy to evade paying retrenchment packages, NewZimbabwe.com has learne...Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 06:50hrs | 1367 | by Staff reporter
Hwende joins Zanu-PF
Former Chiredzi Town Council (CTC) Chairperson, Alderman Gibson Hwende has officially joined Zanu-PF after serving two decades as opposition's Ward 1 councilor in Chiredzi Urban.Hwende confirm...Published: 14 Jul 2024 at 10:47hrs | 1477 | by Staff reporter
Ex-CCC Council chair Gibson Hwende joins Zanu-PF
Former Chiredzi Town Council (CTC) Chairperson, Alderman Gibson Hwende has officially joined Zanu-PF after serving two decades as opposition's Ward 1 councilor in Chiredzi Urban.Hwende confirm...Published: 13 Jul 2024 at 12:22hrs | 49 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa annihilates G40 camp
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa this week consolidated his plan to obliterate the G40 faction in Zanu-PF that once fought fierce battles to block his ascendency to power when he invited its ringleaders t...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 17:45hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo mayor to purchase car for US$9 000
BULAWAYO Mayor Councillor Solomon Mguni will buy his mayoral vehicle at a discounted price of about US$9 000 after the Government gave local authorities the greenlight to dispose of vehicles to all ou...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:22hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Government okays disposal of mayoral vehicles
THE Government has given the greenlight to local authorities, that can afford, to have their outgoing mayors and chairpersons buy vehicles that have been allocated to them.A few months ago, Bu...Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 08:53hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo mayor prepares for life outside council
BULAWAYO mayor councillor Solomon Nguni is preparing for life outside council as he has already requested to purchase the mayoral pool vehicle at a give-away price of US$16 494 as his exit package....Published: 10 May 2023 at 05:57hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga summoned
PARLIAMENT has summoned Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to give a ministerial statement on the chaos at Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas), as well as inform the nation why the public hea...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 14:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's scorecard after 4 years
THIS week had two special days - Workers Day and Press Freedom Day - they both had muted celebrations. Something has changed, the economy is not working and the two are now holidays threatened by exti...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 13 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Police releases disputed Gweru mayoral car
Police in Gweru have today released the mayoral pool car which was being held at Gweru Central Police following a dispute between former Mayor Josiah Makombe and council.The vehicle was set to...Published: 05 May 2022 at 20:37hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Fresh upheavals rock Air Zimbabwe
AIR Zimbabwe (AirZim) acting chief executive officer Joseph Makonise left the airline in a surprise top-chair reshuffle this week, according to an internal communication obtained by the Zimbabwe Indep...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 20:08hrs | 10 | by Staff Reporter
A red card or exit package for ED and his ZANU-PF Govt in 2023
The ground is shaking for EDiot and his cronies as they crave to hold onto power in 2023 when their fall is imminent. The sudden rise and revival of ZAPU with Sibangilizwe as the man- of - the...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 14:25hrs | 1 | by Mjibha Ndlovu
'Tagwirei gift to Guvamatanga a bribe'
Treasury secretary George Guvamatanga's acceptance of lavish gifts from corruption-accused business tycoon Kudakwashe Tagwirei is legally questionable, lawyers have said.Guvamatanga spared no ...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 20:32hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Kaseke refuses ZTA package
CORRESPONDENCE between former Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) former board chairperson Chipo Mtasa and former Tourism minister Walter Mzembi has exposed how the ZTA board has over the years failed to...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 18:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
TelOne lays off 184 digitally-handicapped workers
State-owned telecommunications company, TelOne, has retrenched more than 180 workers whose qualifications it says did not meet the standard for its evolution into the digital world.In a statem...Published: 22 Apr 2021 at 06:20hrs | 74 | by Staff reporter
Gweru ignores poor service delivery, parades new wheels
Gweru City Council has come under fire as residents are demanding that the local authority must sell the new Toyota VX Land Cruiser bought for the office of the town clerk and channel the money toward...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 21:27hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Kamambo digs in
ZIFA president Felton Kamambo has rubbished suggestions by the Premier Soccer League (PSL) that the association's disbursement of the Fifa Covid-19 relief funds was not in the best interest of the dom...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Women give Gweru council 14-day ultimatum
WOMEN Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) Midlands Chapter has given Gweru City Council 14 days to explain the source of funding for former town clerk, Daniel Matawu's exit package as well as resolve the cit...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mphoko to get his exit package
Former vice president (VP) Phelekezela Mphoko, is now likely to get his terminal benefits, more than a year after he was booted out of government. According to the independently-owned Daily Ne...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Canaan Banana's widow seriously ill
Former first lady Janet Banana is seriously ill and is seeking medical treatment.The 83-year-old wife of Zimbabwe's first post-independence president Canaan Sodindo Banana is being taken care ...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 08:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Old Mutual Zimbabwe may retrench 10% of its staff
Old Mutual Zimbabwe may shed 10% of its workforce in an effort to resize the business.In an email to employees, seen by Fin24, Old Mutual Zimbabwe said it is offering a retrenchment package to...Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 16:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dissolves Zacc
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday disbanded the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) amid claims that it had become a white elephant, with some of the members allegedly involved in corrupt ...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 09:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
SADC want Chamisa to lead new GNU - idiotic and dangerous fixation with recycling same deadwood
"A reliable source in the MDC standing committee who spoke to us on condition of anonymity revealed to us that the meeting between Ramaphosa and Chamisa was one of the series of meetings that have bee...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 20:13hrs | 8 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa to disband Zacc
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has initiated a process to restructure the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) which will see commissioners being forced out.The development comes amid alle...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 09:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa offers Mnangagwa exit package?
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa brokered a deal between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC leader Nelson Chamisa reports have emerged.A reliable source in the MDC standing committee who ...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 12:03hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mphoko's world crumbling?
Former vice president Phelekezela Mphoko's world is crumbling down following his fall from grace in November last year.The diplomat could just be on the verge of losing what many consider to b...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 14:11hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents complain over MDC mayoral perks
BULAWAYO Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) has questioned the city council's decision to award former mayor Martin Moyo a mayoral car as part of his exit package.BPRA yesterday said the...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 05:49hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube’s back and forth bad for economic recovery
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube turns out to be the biggest flip flopper, he is an ingredient to the administration's failure to build confidence domestically and internationally.The hallmark of...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 14:18hrs | 4 | by Jacob Mapfume
'Free' car for outgoing MDC Alliance mayor
THE Bulawayo City Council recently mooted plans to have former mayor, Alderman Martin Moyo awarded one of the mayoral cars for free or a paltry $3 000, as part of his exit package, it has emerged....Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 12:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
The most expensive cars in Zimbabwe
As you drive in the streets of the Sunshine City you realise the number of expensive cars is growing at a very fast rate.Competition for the most luxurious is also increasing at an alarming rate.From ...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 15:05hrs | 91 | by Prince Ngwenya
Mnangagwa gets ultimatum over Mphoko's pension
GOVERNMENT has up to early December to process former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko's full pension or risk a civil suit, his lawyer Welshman Ncube has said.Mphoko is yet to receive his ter...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe ally fights for pension payment
Former deputy president Phelekezela Mphoko is still not receiving his pension, four months after government promised to settle it, a report says.Mphoko - a Grace Mugabe ally - lost his job aft...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 09:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T Mayor who refused posh car and opted for bicycle ousted
FORMER Kwekwe mayor Shadreck Tobaiwa who bounced back into council after the July 30 elections has been tipped to reclaim the city's top job.He would replace mayor Matenda Madzoke who lost cou...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Heath Streak's hefty package
Former National cricket team coach Heath Streak, who officially lost his job on Monday after his contract was terminated by the Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC), will walk away with close to $100 000.Str...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Mphoko fight over pension
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is at logger-heads with former vice president Phelekezela Mphoko over his pension, insisting that the fallen second-in-command must not enjoy full benefits be...Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 12:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe playing a dangerous game, goes after Mnangagwa
The country's sulking former leader, Robert Mugabe - together with his restless wife, Grace - is said to be stepping up his efforts to get back at his successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, despite ...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 11:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Mugabe fallout - Mugabe security further reduced
GOVERNMENT has reduced the number of security officers protecting former president Robert Mugabe's family as the fallout between incumbent leader Emmerson Mnangagwa and his predecessor gathers momentu...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 16:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Mugabe fallout - Mugabe security further reduced
GOVERNMENT has reduced the number of security officers protecting former president Robert Mugabe's family as the fallout between incumbent leader Emmerson Mnangagwa and his predecessor gathers momentu...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 16:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Bill to limit State entities CEOs' term to 10 years looms
Chief executives of State enterprises and parastatals who have served for 10 years and above are facing the chop as the Public Entities Corporate Governance Bill, which is expected to become law next ...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe keeps Zim1 Mercedes-Benz limo
FORMER president Robert Mugabe has been given the iconic Mercedes-Benz S600 Pullman Guard limousine he was using for official duties as part of his exit package following his dramatic ouster last Nove...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 16:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Is 7c per litre fuel cut a bribe as trucks for Chiefs - absolutely not, they are a world apart
No government on earth would increase the price of goods or services just before elections, that is a universally accepted rule of thumb. The Zimbabwe government is no exception. "The Ministry of Fina...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Matebeles too alert to fall for the so called "New Era"
Mischievous elements in the political circles in Zimbabwe have worked around the clock to put lipstick on a pig. They have described a clear coup d'etat as the new era, new dispensation or bloodless c...Published: 20 Jan 2018 at 15:21hrs | 1 | by Wilson Mahlafuna and Khohliso Maqhoba
Mphoko under corruption probe
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is scrutinising a docket alleging abuse of office and obstruction of the course of justice by former vice president Phelekezela Mphoko while he was still in go...Published: 20 Jan 2018 at 13:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
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