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GMB executives implicated in grain scam
Grain Marketing Board (GMB) senior executives were today fingered in a maize subsidy abuse scam through allocation of grain to undeserving people who would divert it onto the black market and neighbou...Published: 2 hrs ago | 215 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube explains subsidised roller meal system
GOVERNMENT is next week expected to roll out the new targeted system for the distribution of subsidised roller meal to vulnerable groups with more work still needed to upgrade the database of urban be...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1045 | by Staff reporter
Database for roller meal beneficiaries out soon, says Mthuli Ncube
Government is compiling a database of the vulnerable in urban areas who will benefit from subsidised roller meal. Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday said: "The ex...Published: 14 hrs ago | 767 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Wadyajena misled the nation on GMAZ?
Portfolio Committee on Agriculture Chairperson Mayor Justice Wadyajena has been accused of misleading the nation into believing that the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe has refused to appear bef...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 09:48hrs | 911 | by Mandla Ndlovu
100 000 urbanites to get food aid
Government, working with development partners, has intensified the provision of food aid in all parts of the country, including the less privileged in urban areas, to ensure that no one dies of hunger...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:23hrs | 694 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube fights in Matutu, Tsenengamu's corner
OUTSPOKEN Zanu-PF Politburo member, Tshinga Dube has described the suspension of Zanu-PF youth leaders, Lewis Matutu and Godfrey Tsenengamu as a perpetuation of a culture of intolerance and would wors...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:01hrs | 1263 | by newzimbabwe
Queen Bee and Chinamasa's fat lies
Where just about everything is going nowhere very fast — as is the case in Zimbabwe — even a badly scripted drama series is not a bad idea.There was that time when we were kept glued to th...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:40hrs | 628 | by Tawanda Majoni
Zimbabwe secures more maize from Uganda
ZIMBABWE has secured maize from Uganda, a development that will go a long way in reducing mealie-meal shortages that have been exacerbated by recurrent droughts over the last three years. Pres...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:33hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
Plot to oust Mnangagwa through food riots unearthed
A faction of ZANU PF is plotting to fuel food riots in the country in a bid to cause a State of Emergency and subsequent the impeachment of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a ZANU PF Senior official has ...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 15:51hrs | 6552 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tsenengamu says, 'It's game on'
FORMER Zanu-PF national youth commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu has vowed to continue with the anti-corruption fight, saying plans were at an advanced stage for the first ever anti-corruption conference sl...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:24hrs | 1519 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF hawks query Mnangagwa's capacity
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's 2023 election campaign, which has been underway since the Zanu-PF Esigodini Conference in 2018, is increasingly coming under scrutiny within government, the ruling party...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:56hrs | 7464 | by Staff reporter
Matutu, Tsenengamu defiance irks Zanu-PF
SUSPENDED Zanu-PF youth leaders Lewis Matutu and Godfrey Tsenengamu, who have remained defiant in their anti-corruption campaign, face expulsion from the ruling party after it tasked its commissariat ...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:50hrs | 2560 | by Staff reporter
Government identifies safe havens for flood victims
THE Government has identified a temporary site to accommodate victims of floods and mobilised resources to assist the affected families mainly in Nsungwale under Chief Sinakoma area in Binga. ...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:04hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt introduces roller meal coupons
Coupons will be issued within a week to targeted households to buy subsidised roller meal with the database of beneficiaries at an advanced stage, a Cabinet Minister has said. The coupon syste...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 07:48hrs | 904 | by Staff reporter
Rains leave trail of destruction
Heavy rains have caused extensive damage to infrastructure in Binga and Chimanimani where they destroyed 181 homes and swept away two bridges. They have also severely damaged roads and homes, ...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 07:44hrs | 474 | by Staff reporter
Maize meal 'cartel' boss evades MPs over US$27m RBZ payment
Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) chairman Tafadzwa Musarara, accused of running a cartel by the Zanu-PF Youth League two weeks ago, on Tuesday ducked out of appearing before a parlia...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 10:40hrs | 2026 | by Staff reporter
Police use on opposition a clear sign of an urgent need of security sector reform
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has indicated that the trend in which the ruling government continue to use the police against the opposition political parties and dissent is a sign that there is urgent ne...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 10:09hrs | 309 | by Stephen Jakes
Axed Zanu-PF youth leaders in extortion storm
TWO of the three former Zanu-PF youth leaders, who were axed from their positions last week, allegedly extorted goods and services from businessman and Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) cha...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 06:07hrs | 4218 | by Staff reporter
Grain Millers Association snubs Wadyajena
Gran Millers Association of Zimbabwe chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara, fingered by the Zanu-PF youth league as part of the "corrupt cartel" on Tuesday snubbed the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lan...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 18:47hrs | 1978 | by Staff Reporter
EXCLUSIVE: ZANU PF Youth leaders sued for 10 million
Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe Chairman Tafadzwa Musasa has slapped former ZANU PF Youth leaders Lewis Matutu and Godfrey Tsenengamu with a ZWL10 million lawsuit arising from their press ...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 09:44hrs | 6029 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu PF aligned headman assaulted by villagers over social welfare food
A Zanu PF aligned headman was recently assaulted by his subjects in Hurungwe following a dispute over social welfare food.This is revealed in the latest Zimbabwe Peace Project Report."...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 09:44hrs | 1497 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe to import 80 thousand tonnes monthly
GRAIN Millers Association of Zimbabwe(GMAZ) and its members are working on an import program targeting 80 000 metric tonnes monthly under the roller meal subsidy program.In a statement to ZBC ...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 15:04hrs | 182 | by Staff reporter
EXCLUSIVE: ZANU PF Youth leaders exposed
ZANU PF Youth Leaders Godfrey Tsenengamu and Pupurai Togarepi have been exposed for hypocrisy in their anti-corruption crusade. Information that have been seen by this reporter indicat...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 11:43hrs | 7506 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe to import GMO maize
Zimbabwe finally has a solution to the maize shortage which had created room for roller meal to be diverted to the black market at exorbitant prices. Zimbabwe faces a maize supply deficit of between 8...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 07:21hrs | 2337 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Discord within Zanu-PF is further destabilizing Zimbabwe
Reports from Zimbabwe suggest that security chiefs are becoming increasingly anxious that discontent may lead to unrest. They are said to have deployed large numbers of intelligence officers in civili...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 17:01hrs | 2681 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Mnangagwa warned
SUSPENDED Zanu-PF national youth commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu yesterday warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa that he risks being swept away by an impending revolution if he does not urgently dialogue w...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 06:07hrs | 2726 | by Staff reporter
Zacc corners GMB workers
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has cornered officials at the Grain Marketing Board and discovered that some employees were allegedly channelling as much as 10 000, 20kg bags Government...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 05:59hrs | 438 | by Staff reporter
Zacc busts roller meal syndicate
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has busted a syndicate involving Grain Marketing Board (GMB) workers who are allegedly hoarding mealie-meal for resale on the black market at extortionat...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 05:49hrs | 295 | by Bishop Lazarus
Anti-graft body swoops on Command Agric looters
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has begun swooping on farmers and companies that were repackaging inputs obtained from the Special Grain and Oil Seed programme - commonly known as Comma...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 05:47hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe steps up grain imports
Maize imports have been stepped up to 110 000 tonnes per month to guarantee food security, especially at a time when the 2018-2019 drought - regarded by the United Nations as the worst in 40 years - i...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 05:46hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
'If you spoke to Smith then you can speak to Chamisa,' Mnangagwa told
Suspended Zanu-PF youth league commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to sit down with MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa for the benefit of Zimbabwe. Address...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 17:34hrs | 6381 | by Staff Reporter
Cartels rip up Zanu-PF camps
ZANU-PF infighting came to a head in Wednesday's politburo meeting, where two rival camps sought to deal with corruption allegations levelled against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies by the party...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 06:50hrs | 7285 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa now weak and vulnerable
ZANU-PF yesterday summarily fired President Emmerson Mnangagwa's close allies, youth league leader Pupurai Togarepi and his deputy Lewis Matutu, from its top decision-making body, the politburo, for "...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 18:22hrs | 9205 | by Staff reporter
'ZANU PF Youth leaders pose threat to national food security'
Suspended ZANU PF Youth leaders Tsenengamu and Lewis Matutu have been accused of being a threat to national food security after they accused Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe Boss Tafadzwa Masarar...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 09:10hrs | 2252 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Heads roll in Zanu PF
ZANU PF yesterday summarily fired President Emmerson Mnangagwa's close allies, youth league leader Pupurai Togarepi and his deputy Lewis Matutu, from its top decision-making body, the politburo, for "...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 06:25hrs | 6452 | by Staff reporter
After naming Kudakwashe Tagwirei then what?
We have been witnessing this merry go round drama in Zanu-PF for years, and this is either a simple diversion from the real things happening on the ground or they are factions manifesting from within ...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 17:24hrs | 3013 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Matutu, Tsenengamu to remain as card-carrying members
The Zanu-PF Politburo on Wednesday suspended youth league boss Pupurai Togarepi, his deputy Lewis Matutu and political commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu over a press conference they held on Monday "exposin...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 16:45hrs | 1822 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga walk out: Will Jonathan Moyo's February coup 'prophecy' come to pass
Self-exiled former Zanu-PF minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has defiantly stood by his stance that President Emmerson Mnangagwa will be ousted by a coup this month, and took a scathing attack on criti...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 15:29hrs | 18639 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Chiwenga 'storms out of Zanu-PF Politburo' as Matutu, Tsenengamu and Togarepi 'suspended'
Unconfirmed reports say Vice President Constantino on Wednesday walked out of the Zanu-PF politburo meeting in Harare after a heated debate over a press c...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 14:27hrs | 28995 | by Staff Reporter
Lewis Matutu, Godfrey Tsenengamu sued over press conference
Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) Boss Tafadzwa Masarara has announced that he is instituting legal proceedings against ZANU PF Youth leaders Lewis Matutu and Godfrey Tsenengamu over allega...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 09:55hrs | 3184 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe sugar company Tongaat Hulett to harvest maize
THE harvesting of irrigated maize in Chiredzi grown by Tongaat Hulett Zimbabwe in partnership with the Masvingo Development Trust (MDT) is set for next week.The two parties planted 327 hectare...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 07:16hrs | 1295 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urges government to be in touch with communities
INFORMATION, Publicity & Broadcasting Services Minister Senator Monica Mutsavangwa said Cabinet on Tuesday held is first Cabinet meeting for the year 2020 in the Cabinet room at Munhumutapa office...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 06:48hrs | 626 | by Staff reporter
Businessman denies Zanu-PF youths corruption claims
Chairman of the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ), Tafadzwa Musarara has refuted allegations made against him by ZANU-PF Youth League leaders, that he was diverting maize meal to the black ...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 06:39hrs | 2237 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans freaks over mealie-meal crisis
Long-suffering Zimbabweans yesterday made an imposed plea to the government to work harder to end the biting shortages of mealie-meal in the country. This comes as millers were yet to receive 50 000 t...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 06:26hrs | 2569 | by Staff reporter
The regime is alien to transparency, accountability
THE ruling Zanu-PF party members have been giving Zimbabweans comic relief in the past few months, making the right noises about transparency and accountability in government and the economy, but ques...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 06:12hrs | 293 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Fireworks expected at Zanu-PF politburo
THE Zanu-PF politburo will today sit in a potentially explosive meeting, two days after members of the party's youth league accused some of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies of corruption and for ...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 06:11hrs | 2146 | by Staff reporter
State media sucked into Zanu-PF ‘cartel’ wars
In a confirmation that Zanu-PF controls the state media, youth league boss Pupurai Togarepi has threatened The Herald for its coverage of the wing's "corr...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 18:57hrs | 3368 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF youths demand arrest of tycoon Kudakwashe Tagwirei
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's adviser, Kudakwashe Tagwirei, is a name-dropping wealth accumulator who has amassed a fortune on the back of weak governance systems and buying the silence of politician...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 07:27hrs | 4775 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths finger Mnangagwa allies
ZANU-PF youth leaders yesterday labelled President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally Kuda Tagwirei "the most corrupt person in the country" at an extraordinary Press conference that also exposed growing facti...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 06:13hrs | 1109 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's maize supplies critically low'
NATIONAL maize supplies are critically low as a result of the poor 2019 harvest and limited ability for imports, USAid's food security arm has said.The poor 2018/19 season as a result of droug...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 05:47hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
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