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Ghost workers at Zimbabwe's major hospitals

Zimbabwe's biggest hospitals are losing billions of dollars in public funds due to ghost workers, missing drugs, and a complete lack of oversight, a damning Auditor-General's report has revealed.The hard-hitting audit exposes shocking mism…

Published: 04 Aug 2025 at 13:00hrs | | by Staff reporter

Kariba turns into ghost town

The eastern shoreline of Kariba, once a crown jewel in Zimbabwe's tourism industry, is fast slipping into obscurity as tourism operators flee the area amid plummeting visitor numbers, collapsing infrastructure, and rising investor pessimis…

Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 12:04hrs | | by Staff reporter

Manager in court over ghost workers

Tinashe Madzima, a human resources manager at Livetouch Investments Private Limited, appeared in court on Tuesday facing fraud charges after allegedly creating fictitious employee accounts to defraud three microfinance companies. Magistrat…

Published: 31 Oct 2024 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter

Ghost wards attributed to Hwange poor performance

Hwange Local Board (HLB) has been facing significant challenges in service delivery, a situation exacerbated by the existence of 10 "ghost" wards. These wards, whose councillors do not fall under HLB's jurisdiction, have been a key factor …

Published: 16 Sep 2024 at 08:16hrs | 374 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa anxious to exorcise election ghost

THE upcoming Sadc summit is important for President Emmerson Mnangagwa not only because he will assume the chairmanship of the regional bloc but he will also use it attain legitimacy by, among other things, sanitising the results of last y…

Published: 19 May 2024 at 11:53hrs | | by Staff reporter

Ghost voters haunt Zimbabwe elections

On election day in Zimbabwe this month, Tendai and his wife will leave home and head in opposite directions.The couple, from the central town of Kadoma, live under the same roof but have been assigned to different polling stations in one o…

Published: 13 Aug 2023 at 21:58hrs | | by Staff reporter

Chamisa's CCC must not be a ghost organisation, it needs to be accountable

The question of whether or not CCC must frame a constitution, come up with structures and go to congress to select party leaders is, no doubt, such a hot and wearying one.But that's one question you would not want to wish away too soon, no…

Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 12:34hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni

MDC and the colonial ghost of whiteness

David Coltart, the self-confessed former British South African Police (BSAP) member, who authored a rehashed moribund autobiography, recently rebounded as treasurer of the MDC at the party's congress held in Gweru.It is almost 19 years sin…

Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Ranga Mataire

3 million ghosts on the voters' roll?

ZIMBABWE once again finds herself being railroaded into an election, despite tangible proof that conditions on the ground are not yet conducive for a free and fair poll. All this flies against postulations by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's…

Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Mkhululi Tshuma

Morgan Tsvangirai and ghost of July 31

THERE shall be no coalition of opposition political parties any time soon beside the delusions of a "grand" one. That means Zanu-PF is left to fight demons only from within for possibly a landslide victory bigger than it got in 2013.For al…

Published: 28 Jul 2017 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Joram Nyathi

A 'ghost prostitute' called Peggy

It is in the early 1980s. A man is downing a beer at Machipisa Shopping Centre in Harare's Highfield suburb.As the nightclub closes, he wanders along Mangwende Drive, hunting for a little action.His drunken search leads him to a strikingly…

Published: 15 Nov 2015 at 08:11hrs | 27 | by Tendai Chara

Rapist 'ghost' targets pregnant women

"When the ghost abused you, all the other women sleeping in that room also noticed. They did not have strength to shout for help or rescue you. The 'man' was so powerful that you could not push him once he grabbed you"Ever heard of a dead …

Published: 16 May 2015 at 11:44hrs | | by Noah Pito

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