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Mnangagwa sued
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been taken to court by one Tendai Chitinhe who is involved in a fierce wrangle for the Chivero chieftainship with Cornleous Chengera.Chengero was recently appo...Published: 3 hrs ago | 1285 | by Staff reporter
The greatest threat to Zimbabwe's peace and security are not foreign entities, or their 'stooges', but it's ZANU PF itself!
Reading the media in Zimbabwe, even since the November 2017 military coup d'etat - which toppled long-time tyrant Robert Gabriel Mugabe, replacing him with his decades-long right-hand man and protégÃ...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 14:46hrs | 2000 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa wants to kill Jonathan Moyo?
EXILED former Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo claims President Emmerson Mnangagwa tried to assassinate him and he has evidence to prove it.Moyo made the claims as he reacted to reports...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:04hrs | 7089 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo faces extradition from Kenya?
Former minister Professor Jonathan Moyo may have to flee Kenya to avoid extradition to Zimbabwe on fraud and related charges involving the alleged diversion of US$244 575 from the Zimbabwe Manpower De...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 16:16hrs | 4302 | by Staff reporter
Plot to assasinate Tendai Biti
MDC Vice President Tendai Biti has reported that unnamed persons in the government are plotting to assassinate him. In a sensational claim posted on Twitter, Biti said, "The desperate regime i...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 08:45hrs | 9404 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa asks Kenya to urgently deport Jonathan Moyo
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has requested assistance from the government of Kenya to assist in the extradition of Professor Jonathan Moyo. Moyo who went to exile in 2017 after th...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 07:33hrs | 8248 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The Ecocash heist - A modern tale of irresponsible corporate behaviour
Sometime in 2013, I applied and became an Ecocash Agent (Agent), and immediately set shop in at least two locations within Harare CBD. The setup and running costs for me as an Agent were high, but the...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 19:27hrs | 6348 | by Tendayi Mudhadha
Bogus land officer swindles Zanu-PF supporters
A BOGUS lands officer appeared in court on Wednesday facing allegations of fraud after he allegedly demanded Zanu-PF membership cards and cash from desperate home seekers in Banket.Lovemore Lu...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:53hrs | 835 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira trial kicks off
THE trial of former cabinet minister Prisca Mupfumira has kicked off at the Harare Magistrates court this Wednesday with both Mupfumira and her then Permanent Secretary, Ngoni Masoka pleading not guil...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 20:23hrs | 3071 | by Staff reporter
A new oppostion front stronger than MDC threatens ZANU PF
Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba has revealed that the government is aware of a new opposition front led by market manipulators which seeks to overthrow the government. In an intervie...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 11:02hrs | 22325 | by Mandla Ndlovu
485 irregularly imported vehicles unearthed
A special post-vehicle clearance audit last year into vehicle imports, unearthed 485 irregular import documents with a potential revenue inflow prejudice to Treasury valued at US$70 million, the Zimba...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:12hrs | 1397 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri failing to feed family
FORMER Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri has disputed the valuation done on his vast properties describing it as mischievous political persecution that has compromised his family's surviva...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 8911 | by newzimbabwe
Bid to soil ex-lover's academic credentials flops
A JILTED man's attempt to soil his ex-lover with academic fraud allegations, recently hit a snag after the court found no credible evidence against the woman before throwing out his US$1 200 claim for...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:54hrs | 1134 | by Staff reporter
Plot to destabilise Zimbabwe economy exposed?
AS Government intensifies efforts to close channels that are fuelling the black market and other illicit financial activities, it has emerged that some foreign nations and individuals have been trying...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:52hrs | 2095 | by Staff reporter
Government gazettes new mobile money laws
THE government has gazetted a Statutory Instrument (SI) to regulate mobile banking and money transmission in the country, apparently to back up the controversial decision to suspend all monetary trans...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:48hrs | 2100 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition facing extinction?
IT WAS a journey of 40 years, one which the children of Israel endured until they reached Canaan, but unlike the Israelites, who turned a corner after four decades, the opposition in Zimbabwe has rema...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:48hrs | 565 | by Tendai Kamhungira
Mphoko wants charges dropped
FORMER vice president Phelekezela Mphoko, pictured, who is facing allegations of criminal abuse of office after he allegedly ordered the release of two Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:45hrs | 487 | by Staff reporter
The three pendulums of Zimbabwean politics
The names Mugabe, Mujuru and Mnangagwa have hogged the headlines of Zimbabwean politics for over a century collectively. The three have nothing to show for the hectares of space that their names have ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 09:58hrs | 2752 | by Joseph 'Slovo' Mupokosera
Mobile money transactions not to blame for economic woes
FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti has called government's ban on trading on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) and all mobile money transactions as "madness" with terrible consequences.The ba...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:15hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
Businessmen's fight drags in NPA boss
A TOP National Prosecuting Agency (NPA) official has been implicated in a scandal involving a Bulawayo couple embroiled in an alleged US$75 million loan fraud.Chris Mutangadura, the NPA's chie...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:02hrs | 334 | by Staff reporter
Sticky-fingered conductors strike Zupco, again
PILFERING staffers have been the proverbial monkey on Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco)'s case ever since it was brought back to life.Last year, the mass public transport operator jett...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:15hrs | 988 | by Staff reporter
Govt suspends EcoCash, 3 other platforms
GOVERNMENT has, with immediate effect, suspended all monetary transactions on mobile money platforms "to deal with malpractices, criminality and economic sabotage perpetuated by the wolves in sheep sk...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:03hrs | 1095 | by Staff reporter
Drax saga clouded by mist, says Judge
HIGH Court judge Justice Pisirayi Kwenda yesterday said the infamous Drax International COVID-19 tender scam, which has led to the arrest of Health minister Obadiah Moyo for criminal abuse of office, ...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:34hrs | 1614 | by Staff reporter
Mobile money services banned
THE Government has suspended phone-based money transactions with immediate effect as investigations into allegations that they fuel black market transactions that have caused runaway inflation gather ...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:08hrs | 730 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa associate's bail ruling reserved
The High Court has reserved judgment in the case in which Delish Nguwaya is contesting the decision of the magistrates' court to deny him bail on charges of misrepresenting to Government that his comp...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:05hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe suspends phone based mobile money transactions - Fulltext
The Statement of Suspension on Monetary Transaction on Phone-Based Mobile Money TransactionsThe government of Zimbabwe has with immediate effect suspended all mobile money services and trading...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 19:41hrs | 7709 | by Staff reporter
Zimra investigates over 600 corruption cases
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) investigated 600 corruption cases during 2019, with $154 million being identified for recovery as the institution goes after properties acquired through fraudule...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 19:40hrs | 2128 | by Staff reporter
Zimra nets $23,1bn revenue in 2019
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) says it managed to collect a net revenue of $23, 19 billion in 2019 against a planned $18, 6 billion target for the year. The tax authority is employing ...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:57hrs | 137 | by Staff reporter
Prisons boss to testify in fraud case
Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services Commissioner General Paradzai Zimondi is on Monday next week expected to testify against three former top prison officers at Chikurubi Maximum Prison, who ar...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:55hrs | 562 | by Staff reporter
Justice Luke Malaba's nephew out on R100 000 bail over R2 billion bank heist
Justice Luke Malaba's nephew Sipho Malaba has been granted R100 000 bail by the Johannesburg Specialised Commercial Crimes Court, sitting in the Palm Ridge Regional Court. Malaba was the KPMG ...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 18:45hrs | 2774 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Woman who shared nudes with friend on WhatsApp arrested with three other women (Mpopoma woman)
Many people are not aware that they will be committing a crime, when they distribute their nude pictures or their videos or such pictures or videos of others.So, there is a need for the media ...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 17:59hrs | 2300 | by Njabulo
The truth behind Temba Mliswa, Paul Westwood and Never Katiyo contested case
There has been a talk about Temba Mliswa and Westwood and the criminal activities Temba is alleged to have committed abusing ZANU PF and the first family then. A lot of complaints were lodged and accu...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 17:47hrs | 2011 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Civil servants pay temporary arrangement'
THE Health Services Board (HSB) has said the recently announced review of salaries for civil servants was just an interim arrangement while they await Treasury's response on a request for a potential ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:19hrs | 4903 | by Staff reporter
US$1 million gold theft: Judge revokes bail
HIGH Court judge Justice Thompson Mabhikwa has revoked bail for eight suspects allegedly involved in the theft of nearly US$1 million worth of gold at Plumtree Police Station after being infuriated by...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:09hrs | 647 | by Staff reporter
Prominent lawyer locked up in a vicious war with lawyer nephew
HARARE lawyer Everson Samukange, who is locked in a vicious war with his fellow lawyer and uncle Jonathan for allegedly embezzling nearly US$286 000, has petitioned the State to withdraw its criminal ...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 19:34hrs | 3973 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate who denied bail to MDC 'abduction' trio is promoted
A magistrate who denied bail to three female MDC Alliance activists accused of staging their own abduction has been promoted.Bianca Makwande refused bail for Harare West MP Joana Mamombe, Nets...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 14:58hrs | 2551 | by Staff reporter
Bredenkamp: A dark overlord taking Zimbabwe's darkest secrets to the grave
AN entry on the website of one of John Bredenkamp's companies tells us all we need to know about the controversial businessman: "In Africa, it is essential to work with change, not against it." Breden...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 08:00hrs | 1639 | by Staff reporter
Undenge in fresh bid for freedom
JAILED former Energy minister Samuel Undenge has approached the High Court seeking release on bail.This was after the courts recently upheld an earlier two and half years he was given followin...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:59hrs | 798 | by newzimbabwe
Nguwaya has no diplomatic passport, says SB Moyo
FOREIGN Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo has denied jailed businessman Delish Nguwaya was issued with a diplomatic passport by government.Nguwaya is currently languishing in remand prison facing...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:45hrs | 452 | by newzimbabwe
WATCH: General SB Moyo throws Delish Nguwaya under the bus
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Retired Major General Sibusiso Moyo has denied social media reports that jailed businessman Delish Nguwaya is a holder of a diplomatic passport. ...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 20:13hrs | 8500 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Shock as Mangudya buys VIP cars for US$400 000 per vehicle
A video that has gone viral on social media reveals that the Ministry of Finance and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe falsified reports that the two institutions purchased VIP vehicles for US$400 000 inst...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 14:06hrs | 36652 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Gold Leaf Tobacco boss wins property wrangle
THE High Court has absolved local business tycoon Simon George Rudland, co-owner of Gold Leaf Tobacco Corporation, of any wrongdoing in a matter in which he was being accused of transferring his busin...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:10hrs | 522 | by Staff reporter
Obadiah Moyo shot in the head?
The last few days were very dramatic and seriously revealing. The nation was entertained with the saga surrounding the Drakegate featuring a businessman Mr. Nguwaya and the other side presenting the m...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 18:03hrs | 10746 | by Dr. Masimba Mavaza
SA tycoon in US$40m Zimbabwe fraud storm
South African business tycoon, Martin Simmons is embroiled in a fraud storm after allegedly prejudicing a local businesswoman of nearly US$40m in a botched mining deal, Business Times can reveal....Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 17:36hrs | 2646 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa staggering against the ropes?
IS THE MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa staggering against the ropes?Chamisa has proved himself time and time again to be on top of the situation yet this time he's on the back foot....Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 17:01hrs | 2634 | by Black Edward
Mzembi questions Mnangagwa why Delish Nguwaya holds Diplomatic passport
INCARCERATED local businessman Delish Nguwaya holds a diplomatic passport and former tourism minister, Walter Mzembi has demanded that President Emmerson Mnangagwa explains how a man with a chequered ...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:05hrs | 4221 | by newzimbabwe
Senior MDC Alliance officials didn't loot party funds, claims Coltart
STATEMENT ON FALSE ALLEGATIONS OF FINANCIAL MISMANAGEMENT IN MDC-ALLIANCEI have noted with concern the allegations by Mr Mashakada reported in The Herald of the 16th of June, 2020 alleging tha...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 20:36hrs | 1749 | by David Coltart
Zimbabwe government struggles to cope with Covid-19
Although government failure has been normalized in Zimbabwe, from failure to curb the hyperinflation, failure to create employment, failure to deliver on campaign promises, the incompetence exhibited ...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 20:35hrs | 615 | by Mberi Prince
Mnangagwa told to fix politics to save economy
BOTH political and economic experts have implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF to move with urgency to resolve Zimbabwe's long running political crisis if the deepening local economic rot ...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 17:19hrs | 5992 | by Staff reporter
MDC trio says their arrest a cover up
MDC Alliance youth leaders - Harare West MP Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova - have said their arrest over falsifying abduction was meant to cover up their alleged abduction and tortu...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 17:17hrs | 4926 | by Staff reporter
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