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Corruption in Zimbabwe fueled by ZANU PF's 'tichingotonga' mentality of a leadership that believes will never leave power
After waking up early in the morning to chop firewood for cooking, in the middle of a low-density suburb - as there has not been any electricity supply in our area for the past two days - there is not...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 14:08hrs | 666 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Govt must revisit their anti-graft strategies
HE latest arrest of principal director in the epidemiology and disease control department in the Health and Child Care ministry, Portia Manangazira, brings the effectiveness and seriousness of the who...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 05:00hrs | 163 | by Nkosilathi Lesley Ngwenya
Man in court over US$4m fraud
A HARARE man was on Saturday arraigned before a magistrate facing a fraud charge involving US$4 million after he allegedly manufactured fake documents to change the ownership of an industrial stand be...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 04:56hrs | 1292 | by Staff reporter
Individuals with questionable assets face probe
THE net is closing in on individuals with questionable assets worth at least US$100 000 after the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) yesterday appealed for information to enable it to investig...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 04:49hrs | 854 | by Staff reporter
Soul Jah Love debacle exposes rot
A popular dancehall artiste, Soul Musaka, known to many as Soul Jah Love, passed on just under two weeks ago.What happened subsequently sparked the now fickle and feeble debate on the conferme...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:57hrs | 1864 | by Tawanda Majoni
Without title deeds, Matobo residents fear losing their homes
Mafuyana residents in Maphisa, Matobo district, never imagined they would one day lose their houses.The ward 22- suburb residents are beneficiaries of a 2005 government housing programme named...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:55hrs | 700 | by Staff reporter
Calls to curb Zimbabwe vote fraud
Zimbabwe's electoral framework outlining the transmission of presidential election results from polling stations to the collation centre must be reviewed to prevent vote fraud, an independent election...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:53hrs | 243 | by Staff reporter
Time to revisit anti-corruption strategies
The latest in a string of arrests - that of Portia Manangazira, the principal director in the epidemiology and disease control department in the Health and Child Care ministry - once again brings the ...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:50hrs | 55 | by Nkosilathi Lesley Ngwenya
Mnangagwa, Ziyambi divided over Justice Malaba retirement
WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa wants Chief Justice Luke Malaba to continue serving until 2023 so that he becomes his last line of defence should the presidential election be contested in court, se...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 19:03hrs | 5141 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in quandary due to a leadership that has no idea what leadership entails
If ever there is one sure thing to expect from Zimbabwe's leadership, it is that they will never accept any responsibility for anything that goes wrong in the country, nor will they apologize and allo...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 10:28hrs | 598 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Timveos departure from MDC Alliance to ZANU PF fraught with hypocrisy and deceit, and needs introspection
In my life, I have come across my fare share of strange things - some, which could be characterized as stranger than fiction - but, the open letter allegedly penned by former MDC Alliance member and s...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 09:40hrs | 1937 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
How your business can benefit from OCR technology
Optical Character Recognition or Optical Character Reader is the electronic and mechanical conversion of the image typed into machine-encoded text. OCR is a field of research in pattern recogn...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 09:03hrs | 180 | by Staff Writer
Mapfumo calls for UN intervention in Zimbabwe
CELEBRATED United States- based Zimbabwean Chimurenga musician and human rights activist, Thomas Mapfumo, has appealed to the international community to immediately intervene and stop what he calls an...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 08:26hrs | 741 | by Staff reporter
Zec clears way for fraud-accused Shava swearing-in
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) yesterday gazetted the nomination of Dr Frederick Shava and Dorothy Mabika to replace the late Dr Sibusiso Moyo and Dr Ellen Gwaradzimba respectively as Senator...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 07:35hrs | 546 | by Staff reporter
Chombo gets bail
Former Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo was today granted bail by Harare regional magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje and was ordered to continue following bail conditions imposed on his other previous co...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 15:40hrs | 942 | by Staff reporter
Chombo bail ruling tomorrow
FORMER Cabinet Minister Ignatius Morgan Chombo, accused of illegally parcelling pieces of land in Harare and Zvimba Rural District Council during his tenure of office as Local Government Minister betw...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 16:04hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
Top cop wants ZACC officer arrested
A senior police officer Chief Superintendent Joseph Josphat Matipforo has filed a report alleging that Zimbabwe Anti Corruption (ZACC) investigator Eric Chacha is obstructing the course of justice and...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 06:21hrs | 1337 | by Staff reporter
Chombo remanded in custody
Former Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo, arrested on Tuesday on charges of illegally parcelling out land in Harare and Zvimba, will hear today whether his application for bail is successful a...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 06:20hrs | 709 | by Staff reporter
'Housing co-ops remitted money into Chombo personal bank account'
SEVERAL housing co-operatives around the country reportedly deposited cash into former Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo's personal bank account instead of remitting the money to the State, a ...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 21:51hrs | 1246 | by Staff reporter
Chombo in court for fraud, abuse of power
FORMER Cabinet Minister Ignatius Morgan Chombo today appeared in court on allegations involving illegal parcelling out of pieces of land in Harare and Zvimba Rural District during his tenure as the Mi...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 17:07hrs | 689 | by Staff reporter
Chombo spends second night in police cells
THE director of Epidemiology and Diseases Control in the Health Ministry, Portia Manangazira will remain behind bars after she was Tuesday denied bail by Harare magistrate Bianca Makwande.Mana...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 20:18hrs | 581 | by Staff reporter
Chombo caged
FORMER Finance minister Ignatius Chombo was last night detained at Rhodesville Police Station in Harare following his arrest on charges of fraud and criminal abuse of office over illegal parcelling ou...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:53hrs | 5666 | by Staff reporter
Chombo arrested
Former Finance minister Ignatious Chombo has been arrested by SACU. Charges are; one count of fraud and 5 counts of criminal abuse of duty as a public officer. All charges arise from the Uchen...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 12:47hrs | 5252 | by Shelton Muchena/ Simbarashe Sithole
Kagonye fingered in farm invasion
Ex-cabinet minister Petronella Kagonye has been fingered in a Bromley farm invasion where she is reportedly barring an indigenous farmer from utilising it and influencing invaders to resist eviction....Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 23:36hrs | 1801 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Zimbabwe urban house rentals becomes very expensive
The United Nations predicts that by 2050, seventy percent of the population in Africa will be living in urban areas hence there will be many challenges ,risks as well as opportunities which comes with...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 20:47hrs | 644 | by Noel Mavura
400 storm Police station over US$80 000 pyramid scam
More than 400 residents of Mvuma and nearby areas thronged the local Police Station this week after they allegedly lost US$80 000 to a pyramid scam (mukando) operated by an organisation called Devine ...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:19hrs | 2714 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa wants Malaba to stay on 2023
DESPITE the fact that Chief Justice Luke Malaba's judicial reign is coming to an end by operation of law at midnight on 15 May 2021 when he turns 70, President Emmerson Mnangagwa wants him to stay on ...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 19:15hrs | 3212 | by Staff reporter
Anti-corruption investigator probed
IT is a typical case of a hunter becoming the hunted.First, police commissioner Erasmus Makodza, hunter of note in charge of Matabeleland North province, found himself caged by a Zimbabwe Anti...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 19:13hrs | 1569 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe urban house rentals become very expensive
The United Nations predicts that by 2050, seventy percent of the population in Africa will be living in urban areas hence there will be many challenges, risks as well as opportunities which comes with...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:40hrs | 1290 | by Noel Mavura
Mob bays for pyramid scheme founder's blood
MORE than 400 people besieged Mvuma Police Station baying for the blood of a 60-year-old woman who initiated a pyramid scheme that collapsed and prejudiced them of more than US$80 000. Police ...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:49hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe, Matanga taken to court over seized diesel
DINSON Colliery Company (Private) Limited (Dinson Colliery) has dragged Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe to court claiming police unlawfully seized its 40 000 litres diesel.Also cited as ...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 06:33hrs | 1419 | by Staff reporter
CMED wins US$2,7m fuel suit
A private fuel supplier, First Oil, has been ordered to refund CMED US$2,7 million it received from the State-run transport entity for the supply of three million litres of diesel in a botched fuel de...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 06:22hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
Unrepentant female fraudster caged
An unrepentant Bindura fraudster Mary Matseka (35) has been sentenced to 7 years in jail by a Bindura magistrate for five counts of fraud....Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 20:56hrs | 2100 | by Simbarashe Sithole/Lloyd Rabaya
Govt rescues duped UDCORP beneficiaries
THE government has pledged to assist Urban Development Corporation (Udcorp) beneficiaries that paid for residential stands four years ago in Chitungwiza that were not delivered.The stands in q...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 08:01hrs | 643 | by Staff reporter
5-year ban for fake Covid-19 certificates
TRAVELLERS entering South Africa using fake Covid-19-free certificates will be denied entry into that country and subsequently issued with a five-year travel ban. According to the World Health...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 06:48hrs | 514 | by Staff reporter
Bring back the reed basket
Some of our African identity paraphernalia, artifacts, customs and traditions continue to vanish right under our noses. Time gnawing at them slowly as we all pretend not to notice, do not forget its s...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 18:10hrs | 851 | by Tondo Murisa
The weaponisation of Covid-19 in Zanu-PF factional wars
A new deadly political threatTHERE is a new and dangerous security threat in Zimbabwe's politically dysfunctional post-November 2017 military state, under an increasingly factionalised Zanu-PF...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:50hrs | 328 | by Jonathan Moyo
Should social media platform proprietors be held responsible for abuses or individual users only?
It is now being suggested that the social media platform proprietors (eg Facebook ), must take full responsibility of any abuses perpetrated to others by the users of those social media platforms. Thi...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 09:34hrs | 158 | by Njabulo
How to avoid funeral policy claim rejection
IN Zimbabwe, getting claims settled by funeral policy insurers now seems to be very challenging. Many think insurers give flimsy excuses, but in most cases, the blame lies with policyholders.W...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:53hrs | 290 | by Farai Francis Zhara
Khanyi Mbau romantically linked to 'fugitive' Zimbabwean millionaire
KHANYI Mbau got tongues wagging after it emerged that she's apparently romantically linked to alleged Zimbabwean fugitive and millionaire, Kudzai Terrence Mushonga.In a now-deleted post, Khany...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 10:01hrs | 3084 | by Staff reporter
Mandiwanzira hits out at 'staggering incompetence' over 'cartels' report
Former Cabinet Minister Supa Mandiwanzira has been left crying foul over what he called "staggering incompetence" by a South African publication, the Daily Maverick, whose exclusive report on the mass...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:55hrs | 3270 | by Staff reporter
Pensions scandal rocks CSC
Former managers and ex-board members of the Cold Storage Company (CSC) spirited away millions of dollars from the company's pension fund – magnifying the rot in State owned enterprises and parastata...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:40hrs | 683 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's wife files Supreme Court appeal
Marry Mubaiwa has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court challenging a High Court decision refusing to release her passport to enable her travel to South Africa for treatment. She is facing a st...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:35hrs | 916 | by Staff reporter
SA Home Affairs vows to crackdown on 'dubious' visas, permits
The Department of Home Affairs says it will leave no stone unturned in uncovering "dubious" visas and permits, such as permanent residence and special citizenships, which were granted irregularly. ...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 18:38hrs | 2700 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T faces implosion
PLANS are afoot to challenge the constitutionality of the MDC-T extraordinary congress (EOC), its election results and the subsequent appointments made by its new leader Douglas Mwonzora after an atte...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 06:22hrs | 4144 | by Staff reporter
R1,2 million fraud case rolled over
Harare provincial magistrate Mrs Vongai Muchuchuti Guwuriro has rolled over to tommorow ruling in the bail application for a Sasai employee who defrauded a commodity broker Simon Seven of his 1,2 mill...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 14:52hrs | 891 | by Staff reporter
Trump's madness a reflection of American hypocrisy
Today people on Central African Time (CAT), like this writer, woke up to news that the madman from New York, Donald John Trump, will actually have to defend himself in an impeachment trial that seeks ...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 12:16hrs | 687 | by Charles Motsi
G40 kingpins sing praise for Willowgate convict Shava
Newly-appointed foreign affairs minister Frederick Shava has won the praise of exiled G40 kingpins Walter Mzembi and Saviour Kasukuwere despite being dragged online by critics, citing his role in the ...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 07:37hrs | 4659 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa Cabinet appointees don't inspire hope
WE note with concern that President Emmerson Mnangagwa seems to be replicating his predecessor, the late former President Robert Mugabe's style of recycling deadwood, particularly his pick for the For...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 06:17hrs | 1049 | by Staff reporter
Sasai employee allegedly defraud broker of R1,2m in botched deal
The Herald Prosper Dembedza Court Correspondent An employee of social media platform, Sasai, appeared in court yesterday on allegations of defrauding a commodity broker of R1,2 million in a botched ca...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 05:37hrs | 300 | by Staff reporter
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