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Fugitive Zambian MP apprehended in Zimbabwe
Emmanuel Jay Banda, a Zambian legislator who escaped from lawful custody earlier this year, has been apprehended by Zimbabwean police after being on the run for over three months. Banda, the Independe...Published: 21 Nov 2024 at 06:32hrs | 819 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga in fresh bid to nullify warrant of arrest
South African-based business tycoon Frank Buyanga, who is facing kidnapping charges, has launched a new effort to have a warrant of arrest against him canceled.Buyanga has been in custody sinc...Published: 02 Sep 2024 at 17:50hrs | 1032 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe rendition saga ends with a suspended sentence 14 years on
Friday saw the end of the controversial Zimbabwe rendition sage, which had dragged on for nearly 14 years.The matter was even heard before the Zondo Commission, and saw former top police offic...Published: 30 Jul 2024 at 07:43hrs | 474 | by Staff reporter
SADC police chiefs meet
Police commanders from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region will convene in Lusaka, Zambia, from June 13 to 14 for the 29th Annual General Meeting of the Chiefs of Police Sub ...Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fugitive killer to be extradited to Zimbabwe
Peter Dube, a suspected fugitive killer, has been apprehended in Mozambique after evading capture for two years, and he will soon be extradited to Zimbabwe.It has come to light that Dube, who ...Published: 08 Oct 2023 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF uneasy about Kasukuwere's presidential bid
The Zanu-PF party has labeled its former commissar, Savior Kasukuwere, who is running for president, as a "criminal" who lacks the ability to win over the public, a development that some analysts said...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 12:16hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga in another bid to block extradition to Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWEAN businessman Frank Buyanga incarcerated in South Africa has launched a fresh bid in the High Court to avert extradition to his home country.Buyanga has been in a Johannesburg prison ...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 06:26hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere to contest as an independent
ZIMBABWE cannot afford another five years of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's misrule characterised by toxic political differences, a failed economy and social strife, former Zanu-PF stalwart Saviour Ka...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe triple murder suspect arrested in Ireland after two years on run
Man wanted in Zimbabwe for allegedly shooting second wife, her suspected lover and female friendA man from Zimbabwe who is wanted to face charges for three murders there has been arrested by g...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:59hrs | 6 | 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
Kasukuwere wants warrant of arrest cancelled
EXILED former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere has filed an application seeking the cancellation of his warrant of arrest to allow him to contest in the August 23 presidential race.The warr...Published: 08 Jun 2023 at 09:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere to divide the Zanu-PF vote?
SELF-EXILED former Zanu-PF political commissar and Cabinet minister, Saviour Kasukuwere has joined the presidential race ahead of this year's harmonised elections set for August 23.Last week, ...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Uebert Angel finally returns to Britain
PRESIDENTIAL Envoy and Ambassador-at-Large Uebert Angel - who fears being thrown under the bus should he return to Zimbabwe, because of the starring role he played in Al Jazeera's investigative Gold M...Published: 15 May 2023 at 19:29hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Ireland fugitive put on Interpol's most wanted list
FUGITIVE Gweru businessman Peter Dube, who is being sought by police in connection with three murder cases committed in 2021, has been put on the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol)'...Published: 14 May 2023 at 11:31hrs | 8 | by Staff reportetr
Buyanga denies SA prison escape bid
Troubled Zimbabwe business tycoon, Frank Buyanga has denied attempts to skip jail and has demanded apology and retraction of a South African Police Services (SAPS) statement inferring he colluded with...Published: 04 May 2023 at 19:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Uebert Angel holed up in Dubai
PRESIDENTIAL Envoy and Ambassador-at-Large Uebert Angel is currently holed up in Dubai alongside several prominent members of rival gangs exposed in Al Jazeera's Gold Mafia investigative documentary a...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 17:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is Zimbabwe a nation of liars and thieves?
When I was attentively watching the last episode of the Al Jazeera 'Gold Mafia' exposé yesterday - there were expectedly some more troubling revelations made pertaining to the acts of corruption root...Published: 16 Apr 2023 at 18:45hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
UAE refuses SA's request to extradite Gupta brothers for money launder. Pattni and other Gold Mafia must be relieved
Remember the many stories of State Capture involving former SA President Jacob Zuma and the Gupta brothers? Well whatever peanut butter bait the South African government was using in its Agatha Christ...Published: 11 Apr 2023 at 16:19hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
UAE refuses to extradite Gupta brothers to South Africa
South Africa said on Friday it had learned with "shock and dismay" that the United Arab Emirates had turned down its request to extradite two brothers accused of orchestrating industrial-scale corrupt...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 09:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
8 Zimbabweans on Interpol Red Notice
EIGHT Zimbabweans, including a Makonde woman wanted for kidnapping three minors in separate incidents, have been placed on the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol)'s most wanted list....Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:18hrs | 52 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Prophet Bushiri wins court case in Malawi
Legal team of Shepherd Bushiri welcomes high court decision in Malawi that ruled in favour of the Man of God to have South African witnesses go to Malawi and physically testify in his ongoing extradit...Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 21:56hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mozambique decline to hand over fugitive Wedza triple murder suspect to Zimbabwe?
Victims of triple murder suspect Jaison Muvevi could wait for many months, even years, to get justice after Mozambican authorities said they would try him on gun charges.Muvevi was on the run ...Published: 16 Jan 2023 at 18:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala case clouds Zimbabwe's Commonwealth readmission bid
UNITED Kingdom (UK)'s House of Lords member Kate Hoey has said Zimbabwe must not be re-admitted into the Commonwealth club over the country's deteriorating human rights record and continued detention ...Published: 06 Jan 2023 at 18:11hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, China renew extradition treaty
Zimbabwe and China have renewed their extradition treaty with effect from Dec. 23, 2022, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe has said.The two countries first signed the...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Buyanga bailed but remains in jail on new charges
Frank Buyanga was Friday released from a South African prison where he has been held for over a month but his freedom was immediately curtailed by new charges which were slapped on the property tycoon...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 17:54hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga appeals reinstatement of arrest warrant
The appeal against a decision by a High Court judge not to recuse himself from the application by the National Prosecuting Authority for a review of cancellation of Frank Buyanga Sadiqi's Zimbabwean w...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 04:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Frank Buyanga attacked in SA prison
ZIMBABWEAN businessman Frank Buyanga Sadiqi, who was recently arrested in South Africa for potential extradition to Zimbabwe, has reportedly been attacked in a Johannesburg remand prison by other inma...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:06hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
NPA challenge cancellation of Buyanga's arrest warrant
THE National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has applied to the High Court challenging the cancellation of a warrant of arrest for controversial businessperson Frank Sadiq Buyanga by Harare provincial mag...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 04:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Buyanga blames Mnangagwa family for arrest
BUSINESS mogul Frank Buyanga, who is involved in a nasty fight over the custody of his minor son with ex-girlfriend Chantelle Muteswa, is languishing in jail after he was denied bail by a South Africa...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 04:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe court cancels arrest warrant for Buyanga
A Zimbabwean court on Monday cancelled a warrant for the arrest of millionaire businessman Frank Buyanga who was arrested by Interpol in Johannesburg on November 10 accused of abducting his son two ye...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 19:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere lives in fear in Joburg as Harare steps up pressure
SELF-EXILED former Zimbabwean minister and Zanu-PF political heavyweight Saviour Kasukuwere is living in fear in Johannesburg, South Africa, as the Harare government steps up pressure behind the scene...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Kagame comes to Zimbabwe to bolster Zanu-PF's 2023 poll campaign
RWANDAN President Paul Kagame will be in Zimbabwe next week to launch a massive US$800 million rural electrification project which President Emmerson Mnangagwa sees as a game changer in his bid to sec...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe agrees extradition deal with Rwanda
ZIMBABWE and Rwanda last week signed an agreement that will help expedite "two specific criminal cases" as Kigali seeks the extradition of individuals suspected of involvement in the country's 1994 ge...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Australian police open probe into Mnangagwa over rape complaint
Australian police on Tuesday said they would work with international bodies to investigate rape allegations against Zimbabwe's president Emmerson Mnangagwa.Mnangagwa, 79, was accused of sexual...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 20:45hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Namibians demand ombudsman investigate Geingob over Ramaphosa cover-up
The Namibian Economic Freedom Fighters (NEFF) is demanding the country's ombudsman, Basilius Dyakugha, launch an investigation into claims that President Hage Geingob is implicated in an alleged cover...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tightens firm chokehold on Jonathan Moyo
FORMER cabinet minister, MP and Zanu-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo, who escaped by death by a whisker when the army stormed his home and that of a friend guns blazing during the 2017 military coup...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:39hrs | 2 | 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 | 10 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo hunter named acting prosecutor general
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday named Nelson Mutsonziwa as the acting prosecutor general, following the involuntary resignation of Kumbirai Hodzi last week.Mutsonziwa is the deputy pro...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 07:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe - Botswana extradition treaty comes into effect
The Extradition Treaty of criminal suspects between Zimbabwe and Botswana is now in force after Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe gazetted the text recently as the two countr...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
8 Zimbabweans on Interpol wanted list
EIGHT Zimbabweans, including a Bulawayo woman who is charged for fraud and corruption, are currently on the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) most wanted list for allegedly committ...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zacc pushes for whistleblower protection
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has come up with a cocktail of measures to combat rampant corruption through amending the Anti-Corruption Act, pushing for a whistleblower protection law...Published: 17 Dec 2021 at 23:38hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
South Africa court halts removal of Buyanga's son to Zimbabwe
Millionaire businessman Frank Buyanga has obtained a temporary interdict at the South African High Court stopping attempts to remove his seven-year-old son to Zimbabwe, where authorities say he was un...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:15hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Fugitive R10m fraudster nabbed, faces extradition
CORDIAL relations between Zimbabwe and South Africa have led to the arrest of a fugitive who swindled a South African company of over R10 million, jumped bail and later sneaked into Zimbabwe where he ...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 12:51hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter
UK deportees will not be mistreated by Zimbabwe government
The arrival in Harare of a batch of 14 Zimbabweans deported from Britain is in many ways a welcome sign that the British government has developed a far more realistic attitude to Zimbabwe and reckons ...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa claims that fight against corruption has intensified
Zimbabwe is putting in place appropriate legislative and institutional arrangements to facilitate greater cooperation with other sates in the event of requests for mutual legal assistance, extradition...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
7 Zimbabweans on Interpol Red Notice
SEVEN Zimbabweans, including a man from Gweru who brutally murdered his wife and left their six-month-old son suckling from the corpse, have been placed on the International Police Organisation (Inter...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga placed on Interpol Red Notice
Millionaire businessman Frank Buyanga has been placed on Interpol's Red Notice at the request of Zimbabwean police, freshly-leaked documents show.The 41-year-old gold coins trader - who has sq...Published: 22 Apr 2021 at 21:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
If you sow mischief, you harvest grief
IN 2019, Zimbabwe experienced three days of darkness between January 14 and January 17.It seemed looneys had broken from the asylum and set fire on the tinderbox.Chaos and madness reig...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bushiri extradition hearing: SA witnesses must appear in Malawi court, magistrate rules
South African witnesses, whose statements are included in the extradition request for self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary, must appear in the Malawi lower court, magistrate Patr...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 18:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's' top ally arrested in DRC
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's top ally, Alexander Zingman, an alleged arms dealer whom the Zanu-PF leader appointed Zimbabwe's honorary consul to Belarus in 2019, was arrested in the Democratic Repub...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
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