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Magistrate denies bail to cops accused of bribery
Two police officers caught on video allegedly taking bribes from kombis, pirate taxis, and public service vehicles have been denied bail by Harare magistrate Mrs. Marehwanazvo Gofa. The officers, Serg...Published: 19 Nov 2024 at 08:30hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
Bribe-taking Zimbabwean cops suspended
Two Harare-based policemen have been suspended from duty following a viral video showing them allegedly accepting bribes from motorists along the Harare-Mutare Road, near the Mabvuku turn-off. Sergean...Published: 15 Nov 2024 at 08:29hrs | 405 | by Staff reporter
Kombi driver and conductor arrested for bribing cops
A kombi driver and his conductor have been arrested following a viral video that allegedly shows two police officers accepting bribes from motorists along the Harare-Mutare Road. The two Zimbabwe Repu...Published: 09 Nov 2024 at 17:01hrs | 102 | by Staff reporter
Kombi crew implicated in bribing cops
A commuter omnibus (kombi) driver and his conductor have been arrested for allegedly offering bribes to two policemen, following a viral video that showed the officers accepting cash from motorists. T...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 13:19hrs | 634 | by Staff reporter
'Bribery' cops in court
TWO police officers who went viral on social media at the weekend for allegedly receiving bribery money at Mabvuku turn-off along the Harare-Mutare Highway have appeared in court.James Chifamb...Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 07:08hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
Bribe-taking cops remain in custody
Two Harare police officers, Sergeant James Chifamba (46) and Constable Trymore Mukunza (36), were remanded in custody yesterday after appearing in court on charges of criminal abuse of office. The off...Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 06:56hrs | 128 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police arrest traffic cops in the viral video
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has announced the arrest of two officers following the emergence of a viral social media post showing them accepting bribes from pirate kombis, taxis, and registered...Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 13:35hrs | 1660 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean cow horn artist aims to tap into Chinese market at CIIE
Cow horns are often regarded as waste material at slaughterhouses, a Zimbabwean craftsman, however, has struck gold in them.Joseph Chifamba, a businessman who makes jewelry and other products ...Published: 02 Nov 2024 at 08:51hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints two permanent secretaries
President Mnangagwa has appointed Mr Albert Tagiwa Chikondo and Ambassador Tadeous Tafirenyika Chifamba as permanent secretaries for the Ministries of Veterans of the Liberation Struggle Affairs and E...Published: 24 Aug 2024 at 18:32hrs | 1293 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa taking over SADC chairmanship a travesty'
Zimbabweans living abroad have expressed concerns over the Southern African Development Community's (SADC) lack of action against President Emmerson Mnangagwa for leading what they consider an "illegi...Published: 31 Jul 2024 at 07:08hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
Miner stabbed to death during robbery
A Mazowe miner was fatally stabbed by three suspected robbers at his mine during a midnight robbery.The matter came to light at Bindura magistrates courts on Friday where Michael Mutodza, Mose...Published: 26 Jul 2024 at 15:25hrs | 1077 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Portion of buttocks cut off from dead man in Church shrine
Madzibaba Ekedi Mawodzwa, a religious leader based in Kuwadzana, Harare, is accused of involvement in the killing of eleven relatives at his shrine, allegedly in pursuit of spiritual powers. T...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 17:34hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
American chamber scouts for opportunities in Zimbabwe
THE CEO Africa Roundtable (CEO ART) has roped in an American-based organisation, Atlanta Black Chambers (ABC), in an investment scouting programme in the country.The Zimbabwe embassy in the Un...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 05:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
African-American investors eye Zimbabwe opportunities
Zimbabwe is set to benefit from investments valued at more than US$500 million in several sectors of the economy from a group of African-American owned businesses that have set their eye on the local ...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 04:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Luxury estate to launch in May
WESTPROP Holdings chief executive Ken Sharpe has revealed that the company will launch the highly-anticipated US$100 million mixed use Hills Luxury Lifestyle Estate in May this year."It is wit...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 04:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Greedy in-laws disinherit children'
Improper handling of inheritance matters by greedy in-laws continues to haunt children, resulting in many turning destitute and becoming drug addicts, right's groups have said.They said the ri...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 07:33hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
ZAA Australia relaunches
After a three-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Australia edition of the Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) is back for its fourth season, boasting a remarkable list of nominees across 12 ...Published: 21 Sep 2023 at 14:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to attend high level US-Africa Business Summit
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is expected to leave the country this afternoon to join fellow African Heads of State at the high-level 15th US-Africa Business Summit that kicks off at the Royal Aria Convention C...Published: 11 Jul 2023 at 07:38hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zesa cable thieves in dock
TWO Harare men yesterday appeared before magistrate Munashe Chibanda on charges of vandalising and stealing Zesa cables in differed parts of the city.Willis Chifamba (30) and Peace Kupak...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rural women drive Zimbabwe's green transition
As a rural woman from Wedza, about 140 kilometers from Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, 53-year-old Adefi Mtambo never remotely imagined herself in the driver's seat."I could only operate an o...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Senators demand peaceful polls
SENATORS have demanded that the country must hold peaceful polls this year.Currently, Senate is debating a report on elections, where opposition senators are demanding free and fair polls....Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 05:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
RBZ to issue gold coins on demand
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says it will continue to mint more gold coins provided there is demand from the market, following the bullion coins' positive contribution to efforts aimed at taming...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 04:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mapfumo sings 'Hona Satan arikutonga'
LEGENDARY Chimurenga Music singer Thomas Mapfumo has released a hard hitting single, Ndikutambire, a direct critique of the Zanu-PF regime as he prepares to drop his latest album which is similarly ti...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:56hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe steps up re-engagement with US, investors
ZIMBABWE will use the United States-Africa summit which opened here yesterday to court investors, and initiate further dialogue with the US both on the political and economic fronts, the Minister of F...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Former ZESA CEO blames low tariffs
FORMER Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) chief executive officer, Engineer Josh Chifamba has blamed unfavourable tariffs and delayed sacrifices for plunging the nation into the current elec...Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 18:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
How high-level corruption at ZESA plunged Zimbabwe into darkness!
The reason Zimbabwe is suffering by daily 20-hour electricity cuts is not necessarily due to antiquated equipment, neither can it ever be a so-called 'growing economy' - but, had everything to do with...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 09:39hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe keeps bank rate at 200%
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has kept its bank policy rate at 200 percent after its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) expressed satisfaction with how the current tight monetary policy stance has h...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 04:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa promotes 40 senior military officers
Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, President Mnangagwa, has promoted 40 Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) senior officers.Twenty Lieutenant Colonels were promoted to full Colonels w...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:54hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Cop charged with interrupting Zanu-PF meeting
A BULAWAYO police officer was Tuesday dragged before a city magistrate for allegedly interrupting a Zanu-PF meeting in New Magwegwe suburb on Saturday.Eriezel Gondo (33) was charged with "dist...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gives ambassadors new orders
ZIMBABWE's engagement and re-engagement drive has assumed new levels after President Mnangagwa yesterday met Zimbabwean Ambassadors accredited to foreign missions in a closed-door meeting at State Hou...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Some Zimbabwe embassies so broke they can't afford a flag'
Some of Zimbabwe's embassies around the world are so broke they cannot afford flags to display outside, diplomats said on Thursday.Responding to information minister Monica Mutsvangwa's commen...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hectic schedule for Mnangagwa in New York ahead of UNGA
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa arrived here yesterday for the United Nations General Assembly debate, the biggest global diplomatic event where world leaders tackle challenges facing the world for a better futur...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chipinge celebrates Sithole's hero status
THE journey for the man regarded as militant by the settler regime began on July 21,1920 in Nyamandlovu in colonial Rhodesia, a product of a Ndau father and a Ndebele mother. His entry into poli...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean Nuclear Scientist Embarks On Ambitious Project To Build A Scientific Research Center In Chihota
HARARE - Cain Manzira, a nuclear scientist based in the United States, has come up with a project to build a scientific research center in Chihota area wh...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 20:20hrs | 23 | by Agencies
Zesa bosses acquitted over debt collectors
FORMER Zesa Holdings chief executive Joshua Chifamba and two other senior officials, who were appearing in court on allegations of appointing a Harare law firm as debt collectors paying it US$3 millio...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa siblings denied bail
TWO siblings who were arrested for conspiracy to commit armed robbery and unlawful possession of firearms three weeks ago denied the charges yesterday, saying they were framed.The duo, Tawanda...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's nephews denied bail in firearms case
HIGH Court judge, Justice Benjamin Chikowero, has denied bail to two siblings, believed to be President Emmerson Mnangagwa's nephews who were allegedly involved in a foiled robbery attempt....Published: 17 May 2022 at 20:00hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Police bar lawyer, media in a machete gangs indaba
OFFICER Commanding Mashonaland Central Commissioner Witcliff Makamachi was forced yesterday to descend with his provincial team to Guruv...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 21:23hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Court acquits student teachers accused of staging illegal demo
HARARE magistrate Judith Taruvinga Friday freed 10 students who were facing allegations of staging an unsanctioned demonstration at Belvedere Teachers College.The ten are students Belvedere Te...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Killer Zivhu not contesting as an independent
FORMER Chivi South legislator Killer Zivhu yesterday said he would not be contesting the March 26 by-elections as an independent candidate.Zivhu was expelled from Zanu-PF in June 2020 after he...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 05:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Power play rocks Zimra
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) board was allegedly pressured by Treasury to appoint Morris Mpofu as acting commissioner-general, a move which was quickly reversed last week by the government i...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zesa bosses implicated in illegal debt collection deal
ZESA Holdings Group financial controller, Mr Tafireyi Chikwenhere, yesterday told the court that three top executives at the power utility allowed a local law firm to perform debt collection services ...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:18hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
RBZ names another 47 over illegal currency deals
Another 47 people were blacklisted yesterday by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe for operating on the foreign currency black market, taking to 77 the number of people whose bank and mobile money accounts ...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:51hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Suicide cases trigger alarm in Zimbabwe
"It is so hard to take it in because I could not hear him scream or anything, it is too painful," those are the heart-breaking words from Farai Munemo's mother Felistas Mundere.Munemo would ha...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe begs US for talks on sanctions
THE Zimbabwean government has pleaded for a meeting with United States Senate officials, in a bid to push for sanctions against President Emmerson Mnangagwa and members of his administration to be lif...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jail term for leaking whistle-blowers' identity
Staff of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) who leak names or identify whistle-blowers will face jail terms of up to six months, along with ordinary disciplinary action under legal amendme...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man stabbed to death over shebeen queen
TWO Battlefields men have been arraigned before Kadoma magistrate Shingirai Mutiro for allegedly stabbing a drinking mate to death during a scuffle over a shebeen queen.Kennedy Madyo (23) and ...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Battlefieds man stabbed to death over shebeen queen
TWO Battlefields men appeared before Kadoma resident magistrate Shingirai Mutiro after they allegedly stabbed their colleague several times with knives....Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 17:46hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Shun violence, says Chief Charumbira
Chiefs' Council president fortune Charumbira on Saturday urged his subjects in Masvingo to shun political violence ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections.He was speaking at the burial of 85-ye...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 09:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa has never been serious
On Monday last week, principals of the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) met at the Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs offices in Harare to deliberate on electoral reforms. This was ...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 06:01hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
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