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Thuli Phongolo not dating Zimbabwean gold dealer Scott Sakupwanya
Actress and DJ Thuli Phongolo has come out to refute claims she is dating Zimbabwean businessman Scott Sakupwanya.This after controversial celebrity blogger Musa Khawula alleged the two were a...Published: 03 Jun 2025 at 10:29hrs | 988 | by Staff reporter
Fresh US$100m gold scandal rocks treasury as top Zanu-PF ally implicated
A major financial scandal has erupted at Zimbabwe's Finance Ministry, exposing what appears to be a fraudulent US$100 million payout to a shadowy company linked to a top Zanu-PF gold dealer, Pedzisayi...Published: 22 Apr 2025 at 08:29hrs | 6545 | by Staff reporter
Emmerson Mnangagwa and the 26 criminals around him
In November 2017, former President Robert Mugabe was removed from office and his crime, according to the putschists who ousted him in a coup, was that he had allowed himself to be surrounded by crimin...Published: 08 Mar 2025 at 15:51hrs | 1724 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Gold dealer dies in car crash
Glendale based George Makwati died in a road traffic accident on Saturday afternoon after his Toyota Fortuner rammed into a stationary haulage truck along...Published: 21 Dec 2024 at 20:15hrs | 2968 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Glendale
Zanu-PF gold baron refutes owing US$3m in gold deliveries, threatens
Zanu-PF's Insiza North Member of Parliament, Farai Taruvinga, a well-known gold magnate in Matabeleland South, is embroiled in a legal battle with gold buyer Shasha Richard Gomez over an unpaid gold d...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 17:12hrs | 4011 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP lives luxury lifestyle, fails to pay debts
Despite his ongoing development of a US$5 million rural shopping complex at Skuta Business Centre along the Bulawayo-Masvingo highway in Filabusi, Zanu PF Insiza North MP Farai Taruvinga is facing leg...Published: 15 Oct 2024 at 09:18hrs | 3107 | by Staff reporter
Khama Billiat's jersey sales smash records
Khama Billiat's jersey sales have set new records in Zimbabwe, generating an impressive R2.1 million for his club, Yadah FC. This extraordinary amount highlights the former Kaizer Chiefs star's consid...Published: 06 Sep 2024 at 08:01hrs | 1460 | by Staff reporter
Man jumps off car over US$30,000 botched gold deal
A local businessman, Tawanda Makoni (28) from Domboshava, faces fraud charges after allegedly deceiving a client into purchasing fake gold. Makoni appeared before Harare magistrate Mr. Simon Kandiyero...Published: 24 Jul 2024 at 11:11hrs | 1381 | by Staff reporter
Scottland beat Bosso on Dzingai
Scottland, a title contender in the Northern Region Soccer League (NRSL), has successfully signed former Warriors' defender Jimmy Dzingai, outmaneuvering Premiership giants Highlanders. ...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 07:40hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chimombe, Mpofu to turn state witnesses against Chivayo?
Two businessmen linked to the inflation of contracts worth over US$100 million awarded by the Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) were grilled by anti-corruption investigators on Monday.Moses M...Published: 24 Jun 2024 at 11:24hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo hijacks US$40m corrupt ZEC deal
CONTROVERSIAL businessman Wicknell Chivayo, who is close to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other high-profile government officials, corruptly got a windfall from a murky Zimbabwe Election Commission...Published: 28 May 2024 at 12:47hrs | 35 | by Staff reporter
Has Chamisa been bought?
IN early 2008, Simba Makoni, with the covert but obvious backing of the late powerful ex-general, Solomon Mujuru, sprung up to the podium and made the brave announcement to stand against Robert Mugabe...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:28hrs | 6 | by Tawanda Majoni
The Zimbabwe currency crisis as seen from abroad!
AS we go to press, US financial news media has become aware of the Zimbabwe financial crisis.Bloomberg news agency and the Financial Times have reported authoritatively on the events surroundi...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:25hrs | 7 | by Kenneth Mafuka
Uncle Sam not letting go of little Zimbabwe
THERE is something interesting about the new United States sanctions regime announced this week. Besides President Joseph Biden making a statement, the US National Security Council made one too. What ...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 09:16hrs | 7 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Gold Mafia exposes Mnangagwa's US$240m election war chest
SELF-STYLED prophet and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ambassador-at-large Uebert Madzanire, aka Uebert Angel, has claimed that Mnangagwa will spend US$240 million for his re-election bid.Appe...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 04:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Scott Sakupwanya controls half of Zimbabwe's gold sales?
Gold dealer Scott Sakupwanya says he delivered almost half of the gold sold to the official buyer, Fidelity, in 2023.Sakupwanya says his company Better Brands delivered 13 tonnes of gold to Fi...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 09:24hrs | 73 | by Staff reporter
Fake gold dealers nabbed
Two alleged fake gold dealers who swindled $2150 from a buyer in Concession have been arrested.Robert Makina (50) and Milton Kanoti were dragged to Concession magistrates courts on Monday wher...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 08:55hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa pampers cronies with borehole drilling contracts
Zanu-PF legislator and gold dealer Scott Sakupwanya's firm Better Brands is one of the eight firms that was granted lucrative contracts to sink boreholes across the country under President Emmerson Mn...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 18:23hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa main beneficiary of 'Gold Mafia' deals
INVESTIGATIVE journalists who worked on Qatar-based global news network Al Jazeera's Gold Mafia documentary say whistleblowers and an accountant for one of Africa's most notorious gold dealers confirm...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 15:43hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Gold mafia paid Mnangagwa
Investigative journalists who worked on Qatar-based global news network Al Jazeera's Gold Mafia documentary say whistleblowers and an accountant for one of Africa's most notorious gold dealers confirm...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 13:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa connections spared Rushwaya jail
A FORTNIGHT ago, we boldly declared "Rushwaya exhausts nine lives" in one of our headlines. How wrong we were!At the time, it seemed the chickens had finally come home to roost for Henrietta R...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
D-Day for gold smuggler Rushwaya
ZIMBABWE Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya, recently convicted of trying to smuggle 6kg of gold worth more than US$333 000 to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, will be sentenced at the High Co...Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 05:09hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa niece's gold smuggling: State closes case?
The state has closed its case against Henrietta Rushwaya (56) who is appearing in the Anti-Corruption Court at the High Court of Harare on charges of smuggling 6kg of gold valued at USD333 042.28...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 12:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF in massive witch-hunt
Zanu-PF has reportedly initiated a massive witch-hunt to punish party leaders accused of sabotaging President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa after they won more votes than him in the August 23 and 24 electi...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Voters reject Zanu-PF's big spenders
Zanu-PF big spenders suffered electoral defeats in urban areas with analysts saying the urban electorate could never be swayed by temporary trinkets, which did not address the issue of poverty....Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 13:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Losing Zanu-PF returns to speak to the voters who rejected him
Losing Zanu-PF Parliamentary candidate for Mabvuku and Tafara constituency Scott Sakupwanya has humbly returned to speak to the voters who rejected him in the 2023 Zimbabwe Elections.Millionai...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 16:47hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Several candidates concede defeat in Zimbabwe polls
SEVERAL candidates yesterday conceded defeat after it became apparent that they had lost in elections held on Wednesday.Among the first to concede defeat was Norton candidate Temba Mliswa (Ind...Published: 25 Aug 2023 at 19:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Losing Zanu-PF candidate's supporters promise 'Night of Terror' in Mabvuku-Tafara
RESIDENTS of Mabvuku have been warned to brace for a night of terror from defeated Zanu-PF parliamentary candidate Scott Sakupwanya's supporters.Sakupwanya a well-known gold dealer who had eye...Published: 24 Aug 2023 at 21:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
American rappers troop to Zimbabwe
UNITED STATES-BASED media and entertainment company, ROAR Entertainment, appears to have developed a soft spot for Zimbabwe if their continued bringing in of US musicians to the country is anything to...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 06:46hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Rough campaign for opposition as election nears
AS Zimbabwe gears for the polls, opposition members have been arrested, dozens of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) events blocked and the party complains of being given little airtime on national t...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by AFP
AU accomplice in Zimbabwe corruption
THE sincerity of African leaders and institutions in fighting corruption has come under scrutiny following the appointment of controversial Zimbabwean self-styled prophet Uebert Angel as its Pan-Afric...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 08:24hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Scott Sakupwanya's flamboyant campaign under the spotlight
A convoy of high-end vehicles led by police escorts snakes its way into Number One Grounds in Harare's Mabvuku high density suburb on a late Thursday afternoon.Brown dust rises as three ...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 08:12hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF defends lavish spending on Mayweather
Zanu-PF has come out guns blazing defending the lavish spending and Hollywood-style treatment given to former world Welterweight boxing champion, Floyd Mayweather Jnr by gold dealer Pedzisai "Scott" S...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 07:00hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Floyd Mayweather Jr. thrills crowd in Zimbabwe during 'Motherland Tour'
It's not really a place where you'd expect to come across the richest boxer of all time.An event held on a dusty soccer field in Mabvuku, one of Zimbabwe's oldest Black townships, saw a crowd ...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 19:01hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF councillor to host Floyd Mayweather in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean gold dealer-cum-politician Scott Pedzisayi Sakupwanya will be hosting retired American boxer Floyd Mayweather in the capital Harare at the end of this week.Sakupwanya is the council...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 08:12hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Highway robbers cause havoc in Zimbabwe
FORTY-FIVE-year-old Jonas Kabasa is among several truck drivers whose dislike for passing through Zimbabwe on long-distance trips is all too apparent.He drives trucks from South Africa to Zamb...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's corruption double talk
THE latest row over patronage and opaque procurement in the government shows the widening rift between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga, and their attempts to favour th...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 06:43hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Fake gold dealer nabbed
A 30-YEAR-OLD Harare man is in soup after he allegedly sold 393 grams of Brass thereby defrauding gold dealers of their US$13K.Brandon Kachidza was dragged to Concession magistrates courts yes...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 14:20hrs | 29 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Redwing: a tale of plunder, impunity, chaos and death
Redwing Gold Mine, once touted as a giant gold mining venture capable of transforming the quality of life in the Penhalonga area of Manicaland province and a cash cow for the national economy, has bec...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 12:12hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa threatens to legislate against foreign currency use
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has, in a yet-to-be-aired interview, declared Zimbabwe will continue using its waning currency despite it fast-losing value.In snippets of the interview shared by ...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
A critical review of Al Jazeera's Gold Mafia documentary
APRIL, famously characterised as "the cruellest month" by distinguished poet and literary critic TS Eliot in his critically acclaimed essay "The Wasteland" - not because its first day celebrates fools...Published: 28 May 2023 at 17:07hrs | 6 | by Jonathan Moyo
Confidence in August poll hits rock bottom
A NEW report reveals that confidence in the August general election has struck rock bottom, with the country failing the litmus test on tenets of electoral international best practice, less than three...Published: 24 May 2023 at 17:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Confidence in August poll hits rock bottom
A NEW report reveals that confidence in the August general election has struck rock bottom, with the country failing the litmus test on tenets of electoral international best practice, less than three...Published: 22 May 2023 at 19:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ireland fugitive put on Interpol's most wanted list
FUGITIVE Gweru businessman Peter Dube, who is being sought by police in connection with three murder cases committed in 2021, has been put on the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol)'...Published: 14 May 2023 at 11:31hrs | 13 | by Staff reportetr
Mnangagwa's dark trail
CorruptionAs for the optics and visuals, you wouldn't say President Emmerson Mnangagwa - where corruption is concerned - has disappointed.During the hot days - months before the late R...Published: 07 May 2023 at 19:33hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni
Caledonia starts direct sale of gold outside Zimbabwe
MULTI-ASSET gold producer Caledonia Mining Corporation has commenced the direct sale of gold produced from Blanket Mine — its flagship operation — to a refiner outside Zimbabwe, NewsDay Business c...Published: 05 May 2023 at 06:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa plots Angel retribution for embarrassing him
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's biographer Eddie Cross says the Zimbabwean leader is plotting revenge against name-dropping Zimbabwe Ambassador-at-large Eubert Angel for embarrassing him through incrim...Published: 02 May 2023 at 22:10hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally suffers another Victoria Falls blow
A bid by one of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies to evict a leading tour operator in Victoria Falls suffered another setback after the local municipality withdrew his offer letter for a prime pie...Published: 30 Apr 2023 at 09:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Ambassador-at-large on a property-buying spree
PRESIDENTIAL Envoy and Ambassador-at-Large Uebert Angel, who is holed up in Dubai after being exposed as a player in gold smuggling and money laundering activities, has been on a property-buying spree...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 17:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa has refused to be stampeded into the 'Gold Mafia' mess
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has refused to be stampeded into the "Gold Mafia" mess following talk the opposition chief and lawyer once defended one of the culprits and ha...Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
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