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Tables turn in Esidakeni farm saga
The tables have turned in the Esidakeni Farm wrangle after 2 of the 3 directors were arrested by police last week and they were brought before the courts.Zeph Dlamini was arrested while trying...Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 17:56hrs | 744 | by Nicholas Ncube
Mnangagwa says ministries driving black market
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has for the first time admitted that there has been massive pilferage and corruption in government departments which is driving the black market and prices of goods and se...Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1483 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt chokes hungry nurses
AT least 200 nurses face the axe after government yesterday fired Zimbabwe Professional Nurses Union president, Robert Chiduku for conducting union business at his workplace demanding better wages for...Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 806 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa rules out protests over jailed Sikhala
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has said his party is not a violent and will never engage in any mayhem activities for the release of jailed party members.The opposit...Published: 15 Aug 2022 at 06:45hrs | 3743 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe banks have gone rogue
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says most of Zimbabwe's banks have gone "rogue" and are operating in contravention of the country's laws.Writing in his column in The Sunday Mail, he said only 31%...Published: 15 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 10186 | by Staff reporter
Notorious armed robber with 20 pending cases acquitted
A NOTORIOUS armed robber with 20 pending cases was last Friday acquitted of money laundering charges alongside his wife after a Harare magistrate found him not guilty of the crime.On Friday, m...Published: 15 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 968 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Chiefs switch off ZPC Kariba
Bulawayo Chiefs 2-1 ZPC KaribaWASTEFUL Bulawayo Chiefs needed second half goals to make-up for a glut of missed scoring opportunities to switch off electricity generators ZPC Kariba at Luveve ...Published: 15 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
Cattle rustler jailed 63 years
A 38-year-old serial cattle rustler from Mashonaland Central was sentenced to 63 years in jail after he was convicted by a Bindura magistrate.Dzingai Kambanje of Marine village, Madziva pleade...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:26hrs | 1062 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa's ministry loses ZW$32m in botched car deal
THE Ministry of Information was left counting its loses after being duped by controversial government vehicle supplier, Solution Motors, in a $47m deal, a Harare court heard recently.Solution ...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:23hrs | 476 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gets tough on Government's procurement process
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has spoken tough on the Government procurement process saying he is going to ensure that no public resources will be used to finance economic hitmen and women as has been the case ...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:19hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
Illegal Malawi immigrants jailed
TWELVE illegal Malawi immigrants were sentenced to three months in prison by Mutoko magistrate Rumbidzai Mhandu for illegally staying in Zimbabwe....Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 19:28hrs | 967 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Imbiber bashes friend over missing US$100
Beer drink ended in tears after a Mudzi man severely bashed his friend accusing him of stealing his US$100 note.Tellmore Chatsakama of ...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 19:25hrs | 444 | by Simbarashe Sithole
NPA boss 'bribes' prosecutor to make case of undocumented Zimbabwean national go away'
The start of the corruption trial against Mpumalanga acting Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Matric Luphondo and former head of the Mpumalanga human settlements department Kebone Masange was del...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | 1632 | by Staff reporter
Ex Zanu-PF youth boss Lewis Matutu bounces back
FORMER Zanu-PF deputy youth secretary, Lewis Matutu, who was stopped in his daring anti-corruption fight against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's benefactor Kudakwashe Tagwirei, has resurfaced, this tim...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:51hrs | 4448 | by Staff reporter
'HIV mothers can breastfeed their babies'
FAITH Karuru (not her real name) was infected with HIV by her boyfriend, who fled to South Africa after committing a crime seven years ago."I discovered I was HIV positive when I went to regis...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:48hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
Botswana jails Zimbabwe pensioner for shooting fisherman
A 72-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean pensioner, Ian Douglas Carlisle, has been jailed one year in Botswana for shooting a fisherman whom he found fishing in a river at his farm.The shooting incident occur...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:48hrs | 449 | by Staff reporter
Teenager attacks grandmother with wooden stick
An 18 YEAR-OLD Mudzi who assaulted his grandmother with a wooden stick was arraigned before Mutoko magistrate last week....Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 02:14hrs | 346 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe tightens border security to curb trafficking
ZIMBABWE is tightening security at all border points in a bid to end unauthorised crossings from organised criminal gangs, including child traffickers, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa has said....Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 1026 | by Staff reporter
Can ED tell Zimbabweans where to find this elusive 'independence' we are supposed to be enjoying and 'jealously guarding'!
I honestly feel like screaming and banging my head against the wall, each time I hear those in the country's ruling elitist privileged clique make noise about some 'independence' that we, the people o...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:57hrs | 1533 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF disowns official who called for Nelson Chamisa to be killed
Zanu-PF has disowned a party official filmed telling a rally in Mberengwa that Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa, his supporters and their children should be murdered.Zanu-PF...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:17hrs | 2141 | by Staff reporter
UZ Student steals Campus Geyser
A-24 year-old University of Zimbabwe student has been arraigned before Harare magistrate Yeukai Dzuda to answer to charges of theft of US$1500.The student, Isheanesu Tsigo pleaded guilty to th...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 06:38hrs | 516 | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya bribery trial starts
Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya, who is facing charges of trying to bribe an official from the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) to let her pass when she was carrying...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 06:32hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa thrown under the bus by Wally Rhoode
In his response to the Public Protector, President Cyril Ramaphosa's head of Presidential Protection Service, Wally Rhoode, has revealed the roles allegedly played by the President and his Namibian co...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 12:40hrs | 11446 | by Staff reporter
Tobacco company employees up for fraud
Two Bindura Tobacco company employees were dragged to court yesterday facing fraud charges.Takudzwa Mubariki (23) and Tiny ...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 20:37hrs | 1089 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Machete wielding robbers pounce on a miner
FOUR machete wielding robbers allegedly pounced on a Bindura robber and demanded gold and cash before assaulting him and his wife at night....Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 20:31hrs | 527 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zapu official in trouble over firearm
Top Zapu official who once contested for the party presidency will appear before the Bulawayo Magistrates Court on Thursday next week facing a charge of failing to secure his firearm after it was repo...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:31hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
Pastor caught on camera stealing from his own church
A 31-year-old pastor was caught on camera stealing property worth US$13,000 from his church, a Harare court heard on Wednesday.Adolf Lwazi Moyo appeared in court charged with two theft counts....Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:46hrs | 3871 | by Staff reporter
Manager bashes wife, strips and dumps her
A MANAGER at a Bulawayo clothing company was on Monday brought before provincial magistrate Nobuhle Ndlovu to face charges of abusing his wife after accusing her of denying him his conjugal rights....Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:44hrs | 1773 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police persecutes Chamisa's CCC, shields Zanu-PF rogue elements
POLICE are once again on the spotlight over allegations of selective application of the law where they stand accused of moving at lightning speed to arrest and lock up opposition members suspected of ...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:11hrs | 222 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says he is under siege
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday railed against President Emmerson Mnangagwa for the wave of arrests targeting opposition and civic society leaders and vowed that his Citizens Coalition for ...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:09hrs | 955 | by Staff reporter
Stunner cleared on wife assault case
URBAN Grooves artist Desmond Chideme better known as Stunner has been acquitted in a matter he was accused of assaulting his wife Dione Tafirenyika following a domestic dispute.Harare magistra...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 19:21hrs | 483 | by Staff reporter
Woman jailed 12 months over false rape claim
A WOMAN from Mahatshula North, Bulawayo, has been slapped with a 12-month prison term for making a false rape claim against her husband Doswell Mupundu (52) to spite him.After falling out with...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:06hrs | 663 | by Staff reporter
Cops 'rob' suspect of US$1 000
EIGHT Gweru-based police officers have been arrested for allegedly stealing US$1 000 from a suspect before assaulting him with batons, resulting in him sustaining a fracture on the right leg and a dam...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:06hrs | 764 | by Staff reporter
Bill to compel Zimbabwe NGOs to use banking channels
Additional amendments to the Private Voluntary Organisation Amendment (PVO) Bill are being tabled, criminalising civil society organisations' funding of political parties and candidates and providing ...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:04hrs | 552 | by Staff reporter
Businessman fined $20 000 for insulting friend
A BINGA businessman has been convicted of contravening section 88 of the Postal and Telecommunications Act after sending offensive messages to his "best friend."After snatching his best friend...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:35hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
For a country that was a British colony why has Zimbabwe not learnt that no leader is remotely indispensable?
As I was listening to the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announcing his expected resignation, this afternoon, I could not help being engulfed with a sense of admiration for the beauty of democra...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 15:35hrs | 3035 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Elvis Nyathi's suspected killers back in court
The seven men accused of killing Zimbabwean national, Elvis Nyathi, will return to the Randburg Magistrate's Court on Thursday.The group faces charges of murder, attempted murder, kidnapping, ...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 08:21hrs | 584 | by Staff reporter
High Court declines to hear ex-judge case
The High Court says it has no jurisdiction to hear a request by former judge, Justice Erica Ndewere to quash the tribunal proceedings that led to her dismissal from the bench over gross misconduct....Published: 06 Jul 2022 at 18:04hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe refuses to buckle under pressure from the lesbian, gay, bisexual community
ZIMBABWE has refused to buckle under pressure from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community to accept their predisposition.The local delegation led by Justice, Le...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 07:02hrs | 964 | by Staff reporter
Jailed Zimra staffer loses US$1,1m property
PROPERTIES valued at US$1,1 million including plush mansions in Glen Lorne and Shawasha Hills in Harare, a flat and Mercedes Benz acquired through corrupt means by a Zimra official convicted of fraud ...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 06:55hrs | 652 | by Staff reporter
Secret grave exposes Chinese 'cartel's' identity fraud scam, fraudulent schemes
In a case pregnant with intrigue, bizarre episodes and curious developments involving what appears to be a sophisticated criminal Chinese cartel, the Registrar General's office was forced to cancel a ...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:30hrs | 2017 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Sables World Cup Dream Alive
ZIMBABWE'S Sables have kept alive their dream of ending a 31-year wait to qualify for the Rugby World Cup after getting their final qualification bid off to promising start with a hard-fought 2022 Rug...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:21hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
7 tollgate cashiers fired over million-dollar theft
SEVEN cashiers at the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) Flamingo tollgate in Gweru have been fired while eight have resigned over a million-dollar theft scandal.Acting Zinara chie...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:19hrs | 745 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zimra worker's property forfeited to the State
A former Zimbabwe Revenue Authority accountant who is serving a six-year sentence for stealing over US$1 million from the taxman's bank account has lost two mansions in Glen Lorne in Harare, a flat in...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 20:31hrs | 1543 | by Staff reporter
'Mthuli Ncube, John Mangudya must resign'
OPPOSITION political parties have demanded that Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya resign, accusing them of crafting anti-poor policies that are wo...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:49hrs | 3162 | by Staff reporter
Interbank rate now sole legal rate, huge penalties for breaches
The interbank exchange rate has been set as the sole exchange rate to be used in commercial and other transactions and anyone selling goods and services, who uses any other rate faces a minimum civil ...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:42hrs | 563 | by Staff reporter
nZondo Commission 'a useful distraction' from South Africa's pressing problems
Many South Africans have already drawn their conclusions regarding the judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, corruption and fraud in the Public Sector, including Organs of ...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 19:50hrs | 403 | by Sipho Seepe
Student takes UZ to court over SRC elections
A UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe (UZ) student Alfred Ndlovu has approached the High Court seeking the suspension of Student Representative Council (SRC) elections.Ndlovu was barred from running for pr...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 12:31hrs | 2570 | by Staff reporter
DD Mabuza says 'You flush me, you also flush Cyril Ramaphosa out'
Deputy President David Mabuza has dispelled rumours that he might be gunning for the ANC presidency in December and has affirmed his support for President Cyril Ramaphosa.Mabuza, who was in Ph...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 09:43hrs | 3022 | by Staff reporter
Motorist fined ZW$100,000 for offering traffic cop US$2 bribe
A HARARE motorist has appeared in court following his arrest for attempting to bribe a police officer at a checkpoint.Jameson Manjokota (23) of Southview in Harare was dragged before Chinhoyi ...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:30hrs | 936 | by Staff reporter
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