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BREAKING: Mary Chiwenga arrested
Award winning journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has reported that Mary Chiwenga, the wife of Vice President General Constantino Chiwenga has been arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission for fra...Published: 7 hrs ago | 4947 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chiwenga's wife fights $700k damages claim by ex-husband
Marry Chiwenga will defend a $700,000 damages claim filed by her ex-husband Shingayi Kaondera, who accuses her of forging his signature and deceiving a court to grant her a divorce.Kaondera in...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 17:44hrs | 7277 | by Staff reporter
Jury still out on Mnangagwa
IF Zimbabwe were a normal country, revelations that ruling party bigwigs and politically-connected land barons, housing co-operative leaders and property developers illegally sold $3 billion worth of ...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 08:00hrs | 452 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa faces fresh Zifa headache
FORMER Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) president Philip Chiyangwa has been reported to the police for allegedly milking tens of thousands of dollars from the organisation, with documents showing ...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 07:58hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
Former Minister attempts to evict 109 families
Former Cabinet minister Nyasha Chikwinya is trying to evict 109 families settled on a 150-hectare piece of land at Glen Forest Farm in Harare after she gave up her offer letter for the land upon recei...Published: 12 Dec 2019 at 13:16hrs | 1866 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa's deputy sued over Mphoko debt
FORMER Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko and son Siqokoqela have taken their former lawyer Welshman Ncube to court demanding payment of $1 452 205,50 he allegedly received in trust on their behalf fro...Published: 11 Dec 2019 at 06:50hrs | 1541 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa in trouble over $30,000 Zifa withdrawals
FORMER Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa is in trouble following a cocktail of allegations in which he is accused of stealing money from the association's bank account, fraud, abuse of office and misapp...Published: 11 Dec 2019 at 06:50hrs | 3468 | by Staff reporter
Cryptocurrency Exchange - Here are tips to choose the best
The exchange you must have decided to make use of will greatly determine whether your crypto investment will be profitable or not in the long run. There are lots of investors who have ignored this asp...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 10:09hrs | 596 | by Staff Writer
Mnangagwa's govt told not to fund terror gangs
MANICALAND Senator Douglas Mwonzora has called on government to stop funding terror gangs that torment the electorate.Mwonzora said this in the Senate during debate on the Money Laundering and...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 07:34hrs | 2099 | by Staff reporter
US$10k fraud in house deal
A MAN from Bulawayo has been arrested for allegedly defrauding another of US$10 000 on claims that he was selling a house in Hope Fountain suburb in the city. Nkosana Ndlovu (55) of Hope Fount...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 06:56hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
NetOne sues thieving employee
NETONE Cellular (Private) Limited has dragged its former employee, Lawrence Gora to court after he failed to account for stock worth US$29 651.The company accuses Gora of having stolen or negl...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 12:11hrs | 1949 | by newzimbabwe
Chiwenga's wife in another divorce battle
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's wife, Marry has filed court papers challenging a US$700 000 claim filed by her former husband and ex-Zimbabwe Warriors striker, Shingai KaonderaIn July th...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:55hrs | 3214 | by Staff reporter
Fresh graft probe against Kasukuwere
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has commenced a probe into a raft of allegations of corruption at the Gokwe Town Council (GTC) where former Local Government minister, Saviour Kasukuwere...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:54hrs | 928 | by Staff reporter
Businesswoman faces US$700K fraud
A 43-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo businesswoman has appeared in court facing charges of defrauding a fellow city businessman of US$700 000 in a well-calculated plan where she sought to offset debt with a local b...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:50hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
Security forces fingered in Youth Games scam
SECURITY forces could have helped themselves to huge sums of money meant for the African Union Sports Council (AUSC) Region 5 Under-20 Youth Games that were hosted in Bulawayo in December 2014, a fore...Published: 07 Dec 2019 at 12:18hrs | 531 | by Staff reporter
12 land barons arrested
Twelve suspected land barons in Harare accused of duping desperate home seekers and illegally selling land have been arrested as police intensify its operation targeted at weeding out illegal sales....Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 14:34hrs | 3354 | by Staff reporter
Zinara boss resignation raises eyebrows
The Zimbabwe National Road Authority (Zinara)'s acting chief executive officer Saston Muzenda resigned recently amid reports that operations at the troubled parastatal have been affected by interferen...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 14:29hrs | 1624 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo's Gwanda solar project impasse rages on
Businessman Wicknell Chivayo, who is embroiled in an impasse with the Zimbabwe Power Copany (ZPC) over a US$5 million Gwanda solar power project, has approached the High Court seeking to rectify a rec...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 14:27hrs | 631 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga files for divorce
VICE-President Constantino Chiwenga (pictured) is on the brink of divorcing his wife, ex model Marry Chiwenga, after the pair had a nasty fallout when he was seriously ill and hospitalised in South Af...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:34hrs | 11105 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs commodities exchange markets
The recent revelations by the Zimbabwean government that the country loses over 30 tonnes of Gold (Worth around US$2 billion) to South Africa and other world markets, through smuggling every year are ...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 10:14hrs | 787 | by Victor Bhoroma
Doctor, tenant fight over house
HARARE medical doctor, Christine Peta recently won a protracted legal wrangle with city businessman Shepherd Katurudza who grabbed her double-storey Borrowdale house, but the latter has taken the matt...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:18hrs | 663 | by Staff reporter
Zacc zeroes in on Gokwe Town Council
THE Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-SA) has petitioned the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) to investigate alleged corruption and maladministration at Gokwe Town Council....Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:17hrs | 381 | by Staff reporter
'CIO' denied bail
THE High Court has dismissed an application for bail pending trial by a serial Bulawayo fraudster who allegedly masqueraded as a top Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) officer and President Mnang...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:08hrs | 1102 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa being fooled by events in Latin America
There are very interesting parallels between political developments in Zimbabwe and in four South American countries, namely Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela. In all these countries, ther...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:01hrs | 1914 | by Bevan Musoko
Political power is key to Matebeleland's existence
Ever since Zimbabwe attained it's independence in 1980, the Southern region popularly known as Mthwakazi has never known peace. There has been an attempt by Shona supremacists to destroy the diverse p...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 22:04hrs | 1336 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Mthuli Ncube budget statement a fraud, says Biti
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube's 2020 budget statement is in a shambles with several errors and inconsistences in figures compared to those in the proposed estimates of expenditure (Blue Book), former ...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:21hrs | 386 | by Staff rpeorter
Chamisa not abandoning Mnangagwa legitimacy challenge
MDC Monday stood firm it will never relent on its stance not to recognise President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the country's legitimately elected leader.This comes after Family of God Church founde...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:18hrs | 1189 | by newzimbabwe
Mugabe's will goes missing
THE family of Zimbabwe's late founding President, Robert Mugabe, have failed to locate an inheritance will for the distribution of the national hero's estate, a development that has prompted the Maste...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:16hrs | 2462 | by Staff reporter
Police pounce on land barons
POLICE in Harare have arrested eight land barons, including a former MDC councillor, as part of government efforts to bring sanity in the allocation of residential stands in the capital.Police...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:14hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube private prosecution fight spills into the High Court
Lawyers for a pro-democracy activist have asked the High Court to compel the Prosecutor General to issue a certificate for the private prosecution of finance minister Mthuli Ncube on corruption charge...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:13hrs | 1679 | by Staff reporter
Trio jailed for fraud
A Gweru based trio has been sentenced to three years in prison for defrauding a local land developing firm of six thousand United States dollars.Gweru magistrate, Mr Edwin Machera sent Emmanue...Published: 02 Dec 2019 at 14:44hrs | 1268 | by Staff Reporter
SADC waiting to see a bloodbath in Zimbabwe before finally taking explosive situation seriously!
As the political and economic situation in Zimbabwe continually deteriorates beyond the average citizen's minimum threshold - as the suffering and over-burdened people increasingly become restive with...Published: 02 Dec 2019 at 12:10hrs | 2810 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
US1850 theft lands employee in court
A Bulawayo firm, LEC BIOTEC is alleged to have lost a total of US$1850 to its employee.The employee Olga Ndlovu (28) who is charged with fraud appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Tinashe Tasha...Published: 02 Dec 2019 at 09:14hrs | 1375 | by Stephen Jakes
SWAPO wins Namibian election amid corruption scandal
President Hage Geingob and his ruling Namibian South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) party won Wednesday's election, the country's electoral commission announced.The SWAPO party rece...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:27hrs | 1534 | by Al Jazeera
Expired products on shop shelves, streets
EXPIRED products are finding their way into households as unscrupulous retailers are duping their clients, The Sunday Mail Society has established.Goods ranging from dairy products, beverages,...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 05:49hrs | 238 | by Staff rpeorter
If amnesia is a disease, we are all sick!
Fate and fortune, just as life itself, have a weird sense of humour.Just as Bishop Lazarus was busy narrating the age-old anecdotal tale of the "Arab and The Camel" last week, well, our very o...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 05:47hrs | 76 | by Bishop Lazarus
MDC councillor troubles moved to 2020
FORGERY accused MDC Bulawayo ward 24 councillor, Arnold Batirai Dube (33)'s case failed to kick off Friday after both the State and the accused‘s lawyer agreed to postpone the matter to January next...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 10:41hrs | 121 | by newzimbabwe
Prominent lawyer faces 22 counts of fraud, forgery
Prominent Harare lawyer, Farai Chauke has appeared in court facing 22 charges of fraud and forgery.Chauke appeared before Chiredzi Magistrate, Geraldine Mutsoto this Wednesday accused of dupin...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 16:33hrs | 4461 | by Staff reporter
Is Zimbabwe's e-nurse recruiting scandalous?
Following an outcry over the selection process of student nurses at Mpilo and UBH Central hospitals that were published by this paper, the Ministry of Health and Child and Care (MOHCC) claimed tha...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 07:43hrs | 3264 | by Robert Ndlovu
Woman up for US$700,000 fraud
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has arrested Bean There Restaurant managing director Delny Deanna Ashley Davies on allegations of defrauding a fellow businessman of US$700 000.D...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 06:45hrs | 2921 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa lauds China, takes swipe at US
GOVERNMENT's Chinese funded new Parliament building under construction at Mt. Hampden, some 32 kilometres northwest of Harare, is now taking shape.President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday too...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 20:39hrs | 2752 | by newzimbabwe
Passport fees to be increased significantly
Passport fees will have to be increased significantly to enable the Registrar-General's office to clear large backlogs. This will result in the rapid processing of applications since materials...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 07:19hrs | 335 | by Staff reporter
ZACC nabs three Harare council employees
Three Harare City council employees who allegedly awarded tenders to supply goods and services to companies they have links with were arrested on Friday by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZAC...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 17:12hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa signs new MFIs law
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed into law the Microfinance Institutions (Amendment) Act, which seeks to tighten regulations for micro finance institutions (MFIs).Some of the key changes...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:37hrs | 543 | by Staff reporter
What is Decolonial Heroism?
EVERY living philosophy has its dilemmas and frustrations. Philosophies, if they are not sophistry and charlatanry, always arise from perplexity. The perplexity of decoloniality as a philosoph...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:15hrs | 91 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Zinara officers arrested in forex toll fraud
Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) officers have defrauded the entity of at least US$30 000, and perhaps as much as US$450 000 in a cheating scam using tollgate coupons issued to foreign ...Published: 23 Nov 2019 at 06:39hrs | 1046 | by Staff reporter
RBZ raids US$3,2bn in depositors' funds
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) raided depositors' accounts, wiping out US$3,2 billion in the process, before introducing bond notes in 2016 and eventually outlawing the use of foreign currency in ...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 18:07hrs | 5394 | by Staff reporter
Zacc swoops on car smugglers
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has made several arrests in connection with the massive car smuggling racket in which government may have lost millions of dollars in unpaid duty at the ...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 18:05hrs | 655 | by Staff reporter
Zacc swoops on car smugglers
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has made several arrests in connection with the massive car smuggling racket in which government may have lost millions of dollars in unpaid duty at the ...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 16:41hrs | 893 | by Staff Reporter
Muchinguri challenges 'fugitive' property claimant
Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri has described Oman-based businessman, Thamer Said Ahmed Al Shanfari as a "fugitive" and accused him of fraudulently attempting to claim properties that belongs to the...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 21:04hrs | 350 | by Staff reporter
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