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US signals stronger economic engagement with Zimbabwe
As Zimbabwe marked its 45th Independence anniversary last Friday with celebrations led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Gokwe Nembudziya, the United States extended a hand of goodwill and signaled a...Published: 21 Apr 2025 at 09:02hrs | 996 | by Staff reporter
Teachers condemn mandatory civic days to fund Independence Day Celebrations
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) has strongly opposed a government directive mandating schools in Gweru district to hold civic days aimed at raising funds for the upcoming Inde...Published: 26 Mar 2025 at 06:45hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Candidates battle for ZACC posts in high-stakes public interviews
Aspiring commissioners for the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) appeared before Parliament last week for public interviews, streamed live from the National Assembly. The session, a hallmark ...Published: 24 Dec 2024 at 12:39hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
Wadyajena has the last laugh
In a significant legal setback for the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC), the Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling directing the release ...Published: 15 Oct 2024 at 08:39hrs | 1201 | by Staff reporter
ZACC officials recover US$29m assets offshore
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has recovered externalised assets by corrupt citizens worth US$29 million, a new report submitted to Parliament has revealed.Experts say the sout...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 17:32hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
'Sikhala detention, a serious violation of rights'
HUMAN rights defenders have expressed concern over alleged weaponisation of the police, Judiciary and prison services, citing the continued detention of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator ...Published: 18 Jul 2023 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Foreign organisations petition Mnangagwa over Sikhala
A RECORD 18 civil society organisations from different parts of the world have petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa and key figures in his government over the growing trend of judicial persecution ...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 07:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Names vanish from Zimbabwe voters roll
THE on-going Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) voters roll inspection exercise has exposed major anomalies as many people including prominent opposition politicians could not locate their names on t...Published: 30 May 2023 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's democratic credentials non-existent
ON his return from brief exile in South Africa on November 22, 2017 after the late former President Robert Mugabe had been deposed by his military chiefs in a coup, Emmerson Mnangagwa told Zanu-PF sup...Published: 24 May 2023 at 06:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume jailing sends shock waves
Six years ago President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised to transform Zimbabwe's politics, which he said "had become poisoned, rancorous and polarising".After being sworn in to replace long time ru...Published: 30 Apr 2023 at 09:01hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF moots more primary poll reruns
The ruling party on April 15 held primary election reruns in Churu, Mbare, Gokwe Nembudziya and Zvimba West after violence and vote rigging marred the initial polls.The reruns saw Justice mini...Published: 28 Apr 2023 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Politburo endorses final list of candidates
The Politburo yesterday endorsed the final list of candidates who will represent the revolutionary party in the upcoming harmonised elections, with Robert Nyemudzo bouncing back in Chipinge South, aft...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son to stand as Zanu-PF MP
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa' son, Kudakwashe David, has won the ticket to stand as a Zanu-PF youth quota candidate in the Midlands province.This emerged yesterday when Zanu-PF national politi...Published: 18 Apr 2023 at 19:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa allies humiliated
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies were once again left licking their wounds after suffering a second humiliating defeat in the ruling Zanu-PF party primary election re-runs.Mnangagwa had r...Published: 17 Apr 2023 at 06:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa saves humiliated Zanu-PF allies
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa ignored recommendations by a Zanu-PF special ad-hoc committee charged with dealing with the party's primary election disputes to save allies who suffered humiliating defea...Published: 09 Apr 2023 at 11:32hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Primaries: Remaining candidates announced
Zanu-PF has announced the final list of candidates who will represent the party in the forthcoming harmonised elections with 205 candidates cleared, and only five remaining to allow for reruns....Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:38hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Command centres submit Zanu-PF primary elections winners list
ZANU-PF provincial command centres have submitted the names of the winners of primary elections to the party's national elections directorate in Harare, which will officially announce the results....Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:46hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa 'withdraws' Wadyajena criticism
Temba Mliswa, the Norton MP says he has withdrawn his comments concerning a photograph purportedly depicting Gokwe Nembudziya MP, Justice Mayor Wadyajena, enjoying himself on Valentine’s Day....Published: 21 Feb 2023 at 07:28hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
CCC refutes Gokwe violence allegations
MAIN opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has dismissed allegations levelled against it by Zanu-PF over violence that erupted in Gokwe Sunday saying it is an attempt to soil its image ahead ...Published: 14 Feb 2023 at 05:26hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF elites perfect the catch-and-release strategy
THE release of Zanu-PF's Gokwe Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena on grounds that the state was not ready for trial four months after arrest is proof of double standards and that the govern...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:09hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa takes Wadyajena head-on
Outspoken Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa, challenged the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Gokwe Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena's Cottco fraud case.Mliswa said NPA must t...Published: 11 Feb 2023 at 15:52hrs | 12 | by Paul Ndou
Outrage over Wadyajena's removal from remand
THE removal of Gokwe Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena (Zanu-PF) from remand after a Harare magistrate ruled that the legislator had no case to answer following money-laundering and fraud ...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:02hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Wadyajena removed from remand
HARARE regional magistrate Taurai Manuwere has ruled that Gokwe Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena (Zanu-PF) has no case to answer in a matter he was accused of money-laundering and fraud charges i...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 05:03hrs | 404 | by Staff reporter
Wadyajena acquitted in Cottco fraud case
Gokwe Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena, who was accused of fraud has been set free pending completion of investigations after a Harare court granted his application for refusal for furthe...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 16:05hrs | 14 | by Paul Ndou
Thandiwe Mlobane announced new Zacc spokesperson
ZIMBABWE Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) commissioner Thandiwe Mlobane has been announced as the new spokesperson for the commission with immediate effect. This comes after former Zacc ...Published: 02 Nov 2022 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa chases under-fire ZACC commissioner from his Sherwood farm
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Sunday chased Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission (ZACC) spokesman John Makamure from his Precabe Farm in Sherwood, Kwekwe after he went there to plead for clemency, la...Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 20:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Jailed former labour minister launches freedom bid
FORMER Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister Petronella Kagonye (pictured), who was slapped with a 36-month jail term in June this year for corruption, has appealed for bail pending appea...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 19:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wadyajena seeks passport release
Zanu-PF legislator for Gokwe Nembudziya, Justice Mayor Wadyajena, is seeking the release of his passport to travel out of the country on parliamentary business.On his previous remand appearanc...Published: 12 Sep 2022 at 06:18hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda sucked into Wadyajena saga
Justice Mayor Wadyajena's scandals and troubles have sucked in Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda and Clerk of Parliament Chokuda who have been accused of bending Parliamentary rules to fit Justice W...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 15:19hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Wadyajena bought 25 trucks in US$5m Cottco scam, court hears
Justice Mayor Wadyajena, Zanu PF's Gokwe Nembudziya MP and chairman of the parliamentary committee on agriculture, siphoned millions of dollars from the Cotton Company of Zimbabwe in an elaborate scam...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 08:01hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Wadyajena sucked in Cottco looting scandal
CHAIRPERSON of the parliamentary portfolio committee on land and agriculture Justice Mayor Wadyajena has been implicated in the Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (COTTCO) looting scandal after allegations po...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Wadyajena hits back at Musarara
GOKWE Nembudziya legislator Mayor Wadyajena has hit back at Grain Millers Association (GMAZ) chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara who accused the lawmaker of bullying him out of a grain transportation deal....Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 07:07hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Wadyajena harrases Musarara over grain transportation deal
Controversial GOKWE Nembudziya legislator, Justice Mayor Wadyajena, is up in arms with businessman, Tafadzwa Musarara, after he allegedly kicked him out of a grain and inputs transportation deal....Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 19:59hrs | 13 | by Shelton Muchena
Justice Wadyajena: A liability to the vision of the new dispensation
President' Emmerson Mnangagwa and the new dispensation are working tirelessly to build Zimbabwe brick by brick. It is surprising that Midlands politician who claims to be very close to President E...Published: 26 May 2022 at 11:29hrs | 23 | by Lameck Rangwani
Murder, racism claims rock Borrowdale Brooke
GLIDING though the smooth roads lined with a fusion of indigenous and exotic trees marching virtually without interlude but for the occasional glamorous, plush homes, any first timer to this exquisite...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:26hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Wadyejena takes on Borrowdale Brook management over systematic abuse
GLOVES are off between Gokwe Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyejena and Brooke Estate Management with the firebrand legislator claiming systematic abuse and harassment by the latter in a bid to...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:24hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Wadyejena threatens to sue Borrowdale Brooke Homeowners Association
GOKWE Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyejena has threatened to drag the Borrowdale Brooke Homeowners Association (BBHOA) to court for illegally deactivating his vehicle tags and relegating him ...Published: 14 May 2022 at 19:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Confusion, chaos mar by-elections
Acts of violence by suspected Zanu-PF supporters, alleged vote buying, bussing of voters, voters failing to find their names on the voters' roll and voter apathy yesterday marred Zimbabwe's first elec...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa afraid of Chamisa
IT is now crystal clear that Citizens Coalition for Change has become a household name and a very big brand posing a serious threat to the ruling party in this short period since its birth.Wha...Published: 14 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | 3 | by Koni Leonard
Government cancels Zanu-PF MP Wadyajena's road construction tender
FLAMBOYANT Zanu-PF legislator and businessman Justice Mayor Wadyajena's construction company, Mayor Contracting, has had its contract for the rehabilitation of roads in Mashonaland West province termi...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Larry Mavhima crucified Mudha
FORMER State Security Minister Owen Mudha Ncube was fired from his lucrative job after he was crucified by newly installed Zanu-PF Midlands provincial chairman Larry Mavhima during a stormy three-hour...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:10hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Millers rally behind Musarara
The Grain Miller's Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has rubbished the report by Gokwe Nembudziya Legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena alleging massive corruption at the association and that more than...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 13:32hrs | | by Desmond Nleya/Alice Mangwanda
RBZ's $389m headache
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) will today disburse $66 million owed to cotton farmers with bank accounts for the crop delivered to Cottco last season, followed by $436,6 million to be paid via mob...Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wadyajena wants Zanu-PF supporters must shun divisive elements
Gokwe-Nembudziya Legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena has urged party supporters to start the restructuring and verification exercise from the cell ahead of the 2023 general elections.In Gokwe N...Published: 26 May 2021 at 16:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman sparks gold rush
A gold rush spawned by discovery of ore by a woman in Gokwe North District has seen more than 8 000 people descending on Tongogara community a fortnight ago to illegally extract the mineral. ...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Reprieve for Command Agric 'looters'
Farmers under Command Agriculture who failed to repay their loans at the end of last season owing to drought and the Covid-19-induced national lockdown, have been granted a huge relief after Governmen...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 07:50hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
DCCs chaos still mauling Zanu-PF
The chaos that marred Zanu-PF's keenly contested district co-ordinating committee elections last weekend continues to haunt the ruling party, with the former liberation movement failing to announce th...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
GMAZ chairperson win in Zanu-PF DCC elections
ZANU-PF party chairperson Oppah Muchinguri yesterday announced the first batch of the district co-ordinating committee (DCC) election results, adding that there will be reruns in some parts of the cou...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 06:49hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Midlands names DCC poll contestants
The ZANU PF Midlands Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC) has announced the names of the members who have been approved to stand for the upcoming District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections. ...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF DCCs process soiled by factionalism, name-dropping and tribalism
SEVERAL Zanu-PF bigwigs, including Cabinet ministers, survived a nerve-racking and tension-filled process at the weekend as the ruling party chose candidates for its divisive district co-ordinating co...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 19:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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