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Zimbabwe man arrested with rhino horn parts at Harare airport
A 34-year-old Chitungwiza man, Cuthbert Maoko, was arrested at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport for attempting to smuggle five rhino horn pieces out of the country. The incident occurre...Published: 24 Nov 2024 at 10:16hrs | 897 | by Staff reporter
Deported Nigerian journalist who wanted to enter Zimbabwe was using Ghananian documents
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba, has defended the deportation of Nigerian journalist David Hundeyin, saying he was an "agent provocateur."Hundeyin said he was detained on Wednesday a...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nigerian journalist deported from Zimbabwe in visa row
A Nigerian journalist, author and activist has told of his hell after he was detained for 13 hours at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport, before being ordered to board a flight back to hi...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 08:51hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
High Court orders attachment of VFEX listed WestPro's land
A High Court judge has ordered the attachment of land belonging to Victoria Falls Stock Exchange (VFEX) listed West Property Holdings (WestPro) to offset a longstanding debt with a contractor....Published: 15 May 2023 at 18:59hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Biti's accuser fails to answer questions in court
Controversial businesswoman and Russian investor Tatiana Aleshina declined to answer the majority of questions posed to her about Ken Sharpe's company, Augur Investments during court cross-examination...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 10:06hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport now a gateway for smugglers
AFTER watching gold smugglers and money launderers breezing through Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport in Harare travelling to and from Dubai to deliver the proceeds of corruption in Al Jazee...Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 20:28hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer pleads for court protection against "antagonising" Ken Sharpe aide
Top lawyer Alec Muchadehama was forced to plead for court protection against controversial businessman Ken Sharpe's aide, Tatiana Aleshina who had turned abusive after he handed her a torrid time duri...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 22:29hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Sharpe chickens out, withdraws $20 million lawsuit
Ken Sharpe's has chickened out of his $20 million claim against a company he accused of causing him huge financial prejudice by erecting a billboard urging people not to buy stands on land under conte...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 22:11hrs | 3 | by Paul Ndou
More equipment for Harare airport expansion
THE Airports Company of Zimbabwe (ACZ) says it will take delivery of equipment to complete expansion works at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport.The expansion is part of a broad plan ...Published: 27 Dec 2022 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biti accuses businesswoman of forging Harare Airport Road documents
Former Finance minister Tendai Biti has accused a controversial Harare businesswoman of forging documents that saw the construction of the incomplete Harare Airport Road being granted national project...Published: 20 Dec 2022 at 17:24hrs | 4 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Biti details illegal land grab in dodgy deal between Augur Investments and Harare City Council
HARARE East legislator, Tendai Biti has revealed that part of the land reportedly grabbed by Augur Investments in their dispute with the City of Harare (COH) was nefariously seized without the knowled...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 18:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
$3 billion for RG Mugabe Airport upgrade, amid faulty radar system
THE upgrading of the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport in Harare has been allocated ZW$3.1 billion by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube as fears mount that the port of entry has become a major c...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 17:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare airport bird strike grounds Fastjet aircraft
A Fastjet aircraft was grounded recently after experiencing a bird strike upon landing at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport.The incident, according to a statement by the company'...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biti protests
FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti yesterday protested against alleged moves by a Harare land developer to run commentaries in the Press on an ongoing court case in violation of the law.Biti ...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
July Moyo taken to task over Airport Road land deal
Local Government minister July Moyo has been accused of usurping the powers of the prosecutor general by signing a deed of settlement that gave away vast tracts of state land in Harare to a company wi...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ken Sharpe is Zimbabwe's greatest land heist, says Tendai Biti
Politician-cum-lawyer, Tendai Biti has implicated controversial businessman Ken Sharpe in what he said was the greatest land heist in the history of post- independent Zimbabwe.Sharpe owns Augu...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 06:04hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's hands fidgeting repeatedly after reports of failing health
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga was at the Robert Mugabe International Airport in Harare Tuesday to welcome President Emmerson Mnangagwa after social media claims that the Zanu-PF number two was s...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 19:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ian Smith was an archangel compared to Mnangagwa
No one must come to Matabeleland bragging that they fought in a war that brought about Zimbabwe independence. The Zimbabwe independence struggle produced the tribal Shona supremacist government that i...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:47hrs | 13 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa cleared in controversial land deal
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been cleared in a case he was sued to explain a land deal with millionaire and land developer businessman, Ken Sharpe, by a Harare MP and two others.Allan Norm...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono bail conditions removed
Award-winning Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin'ono who was arrested in for obstructing justice and contempt of court, after being accused of breaching his bail conditions by tweeting about the cour...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 11:56hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
PHOTOS: Thousands flood Harare Airport as Mnangagwa lands from UK
Massive crowds turned out on Thursday at the Robert Mugabe International Airport to welcome President Emmerson Mnangagwa from a COP 26 Summit in Glasgow, United Kingdom....Published: 04 Nov 2021 at 11:47hrs | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Hopewell Chin'ono's trial postponed
The trial of controversial journalist Hopewell Chin'ono who is being charged with obstructing justice might be postponed to February 2022 after the State asked for further remand on the basis that the...Published: 03 Nov 2021 at 09:04hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Biti arrest warrant cancelled
A warrant for the arrest of MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti was cancelled on Monday, a few hours after it was issued.In obtaining the warrant, the National Prosecuting Authority said B...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 20:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Dismiss Biti's defamation plea'
Augur Investments has applied for the dismissal of Tendai Biti and MDC Alliance's plea to have the court stop them from paying the company US$1 million defamatory damages.The demand comes afte...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare Airport emerges as major smuggling gateway
THE Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport is emerging as a gateway for mineral smugglers, particularly gold, with state security agents at the centre of the criminal syndicates.In the la...Published: 20 May 2021 at 22:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Augur Investments dismisses land theft scandal
LAND developer Kenneth Raydon Sharpe's Augur Investments has dismissed allegations of misappropriation of council land in its response to the High Court challenging its mention in a land dispute....Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's name dropped in Airport Road scam
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's name has been dropped in a messy land scandal involving controversial Ukranian investors who were given vast tracts of prime land in Harare following the intervention of...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sued over 'illegal' land deal
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been cornered to explain a secret land deal with controversial millionaire businessman Ken Sharpe after a Harare MP and two others went to court to get it reversed....Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 20:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa replaces Mobutu Sese Seko as most corrupt African leader
"If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little."Shocking as it is, the above statement that apparently legitimises graft, is attributed t...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 19:10hrs | 13 | by Israel Dube
Biti, MDC Alliance sued for US$1 million
PROPERTY mogul Ken Sharpe's Augur Investments is demanding USS1 million defamatory damages from the MDC Alliance and its vice president Tendai Biti for allegedly slandering his company on social media...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 07:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zim prison, a crime against humanity' twittered Biti, prisoner - true all because selling out on reforms
Tendai Biti, MDC A vice President, has been arrested and will spend Friday night in a Police Prison. He is charged with assault, after calling a Russian woman an idiot.Biti has denied any wron...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 00:04hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Biti charged with assault, denies wrongdoing
MDC Alliance vice president and lawyer Tendai Biti was arrested and charged with assault on Friday after attending a police station by appointment.Biti's arrest follows an incident at the Hara...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 16:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa flip flops on Mapisa-Nqakula's trip to Zimbabwe
President Cyril Ramaphosa admitted to the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) that the ministerial handbook is often flouted when he approves ministers' requests for travel abroad on "urgent" busines...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 19:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA's white party demands minutes of meeting between Mapisa-Nqakula and Zimbabwean counterpart
The DA wants to see the minutes of the meeting between Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and her Zimbabwean counterpart, Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, during a visit last mont...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 17:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohadi is too shallow-minded - MLF
Vice President Kembo Mohadi is correct in asking who hasn't wronged the other but very wrong in suggesting that Mthwakazi has at some point wronged someone. We have always expected such words from him...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:03hrs | | by Mthwakazi Liberation Front
Zimbabwe engages Japan on major roadworks
GOVERNMENT has applied to the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for multi-million dollar funding for four major road projects including the construction of missing links on Harare Drive, P...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's curse of voodoo economics
I was attending a pre-conference of Christian pastors in Masvingo at the urgent invitation of Prophetess Elizabeth Chademana.I had been charged by the saints in Greenwood District of the Unite...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:30hrs | 1 | by Kenneth Mufuka
4 suspected regime change agents abducted at Harare airport
Members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police on Monday evening abducted and detained four human rights defenders when they landed at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International airport.Their arrest is ...Published: 21 May 2019 at 08:27hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe: A land of squandered potential
I well remember sitting in the AFP bureau in Harare at dusk on November 21, 2017 and hearing the first whoop of delight in the street outside when Robert Mugabe was finally ousted, an extraordinary mo...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:56hrs | 9 | by Ben Shepherd
Joshua Nkomo predicted the split of Zimbabwe in 1986
Just 6 years into the so called independence of Zimbabwe, Dr Joshua Nkomo mentioned among other things, genocide, tribal hate and unfettered corruption as ticking bombs that would cause Zimbabwe implo...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 09:11hrs | | by Israel Dube
Botswana teams up with Zimbabwe and Zambia in Kaza uni-visa
Botswana is considering being included in the Kaza uni-visa. Tourism Update reports Botswana and Zimbabwe held discussions around the visa inclusion to promote during the Bi-National Commissio...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 09:21hrs | | by traveller24
War vets drop bid to remove Mugabe's name from Harare airport
THE Zimbabwe National War Veterans association (ZNLWVA) has dropped its bid to have former president Robert Mugabe's name removed from the country's main airport in Harare.In an interview with...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 08:22hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Fare thee well dear Comrade Callistus Dingiswayo Ndlovu
He was never a mainstream thinker because he thought outside the box all the time, appearing as if he was a rebel in the Zapu leadership setup. In many ways he was controversial because he was...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 22:29hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Mmusi Maimane is a complete puppet,' says Obert Gutu
MDC-T Deputy President Obert Gutu has waded into the debate regarding South African opposition leader Mmusi Maimane's impending visit to Zimbabwe, saying the Democratic Alliance leader is a "full-fled...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 06:34hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
2 people die at Robert Mugabe airport
Two people have reportedly been confirmed dead at Robert Gabriel Mugabe airport after a chaotic Aviation recruitment exercise. Several were reportedly hospitalized as a r...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 10:18hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mugabe's wealth exposed
Robert Mugabe has always been a well-kept secret with no one knowing exactly how much the Mugabes are worth. The only snippets has been the $1.35m diamond ring bought for Grace's wedding anniver...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 14:46hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe's 'enemy of the people' returns home
In our series of letters from Africa, Zimbabwean journalist Wilf Mbanga reflects on his return home after 15 years in exile - and 10 months after long-time leader Robert Mugabe was ousted from office....Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 10:43hrs | 1 | by BBC News
War vets want Mugabe's name removed from Harare airport
The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) says it will hand in a petition advocating for a name change at Zimbabwe's main airport named after former president Robert Mugabe....Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 17:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kofi Annan heads for Zimbabwe
FORMER United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan will led a delegation global leaders to Zimbabwe ahead of the country's July 30 elections.The leaders are expected in Zimbabwe on Thursday....Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 16:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
WikiLeaks: 25 most corrupt ministers and public figures in Zimbabwe
These individuals will never be prosecuted by the Mnangagwa government because he is involved with entirely all of them. Either they were in the deal together or they know too much of his own dirty de...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 11:06hrs | 103 | by WikiLeaks
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