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Bushiri extradition hearing set for tomorrow
THE extradition hearing against self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri, and his wife, Mary, is expected to begin in the Lilongwe Magistrate's Court in Malawi tomorrow.The charismatic preache...Published: 5 hrs ago | 535 | by Staff reporter
ZACC goes after US$13m external assets
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has started the process to track down, seize and repatriate movable and immovable assets worth more than US$13 million acquired by Zimbabweans in five fo...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 21:33hrs | 1011 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono #DemLoots Mduduzi Mathuthu's award?
Filmmaker and journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has won the Greenfield People Journalism Prize for Africa for his "investigative reporting on the Covid-19 procurement corruption by high profile ministers."...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 09:28hrs | 1773 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe retains dubious spot among highly corrupt countries
Zimbabwe has retained its dubious position among some of the highly corrupt countries in the world, only moving one rung up in the 2020 Transparency International Index.The latest barometer, w...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 07:14hrs | 1708 | by Staff reporter
ZimStat stops releasing poverty data
THE Zimbabwe National Statistical Agency (ZimStat) has abandoned the release of poverty datum line (PDL) data for a family of five to focus only on individual data, the NewsDay Business has establishe...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 06:26hrs | 629 | by Staff reporter
Bushiri has the last laugh, court rules against his arrest
The Lilongwe Magistrate's Court on Wednesday ruled against the arrest of self-appointed prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary, Malawi media reported.The State made a fresh application see...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 16:21hrs | 5274 | by Staff reporter
Interpol issues Covid-19 alert
The International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) has issued a global alert to law enforcement agencies in its 194-member countries to prepare for organised crime networks targeting Covid-19 v...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 08:00hrs | 1187 | by Staff reporter
CID team investigating Mnangagwa ally arrested
Alleged Covid-19 procurement corruption mastermind Delish Nguwaya could walk free after criminal proceedings against him all but collapsed on Tuesday when a court removed him from remand.Magis...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 09:26hrs | 7124 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Bushiri credits Court victory to God
Prophet Shepherd Bushiri, leader of the Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) church has attributed yesterday's court victory to God.Yesterday Magistrate Viva Nyimba acquitted all charges laid...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 15:53hrs | 4520 | by Daniel Itai
Malawi court releases Bushiri, wife 'unconditionally'
Self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary were "released unconditionally" from custody by a magistrate in the Malawian capital Lilongwe on Thursday afternoon.Magistrate Viva N...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 21:24hrs | 802 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Bushiri's case (an analysis)
Prophet Bushiri was right to flee persecution from South Africa. From what I gathered, there is an impending danger to his life and that of his family(, wife and children). lf one is facing such probl...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 08:40hrs | 3980 | by Njabulo
Securocrats scale up surveillance
THE State security establishment is reportedly planning to track and attack perceived opponents of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime, with local and foreign based journalists, ex-security officers...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:39hrs | 2749 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya investigated over women abuse
WOMEN Affairs minister Sithembiso Nyoni last week revealed that her ministry through the Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) investigated Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walther...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:28hrs | 5687 | by Staff reporter
'Beitbridge faces myriad of challenges'
HE Beitbridge Border Post faces a host of administrative problems centred around archaic infrastructure which has rendered the facility insecure and vulnerable to security breaches particularly this f...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:45hrs | 2186 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Botswana President arrests journalists and opposition members
The Botswana Government wishes to draw the attention of the public to a grossly inaccurate and abusive spate of utterances carried by the South African private television station eNCA on 27" September...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 15:03hrs | 8751 | by Botswana Presidency
Cross-border donkey rustlers on the prowl
To new arrivals, "Dip 27" is no different from any other rural service centre in Madabe communal lands south of Plumtree in Zimbabwe.Yet locals know that the daytime semblance of law-abiding p...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:21hrs | 676 | by Oscar Nkala
ZRP ropes in Interpol
POLICE have roped in the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) and their counterparts in South Africa and Botswana to assist in locating four armed robbers who escaped arrest following...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 15:34hrs | 2493 | by Staff reporter
New Twist to Frank Buyanga's Child custody court case
Frank Buyanga Sadiqi's son was being physically abused by his maternal grandmother, the Sandton based businessman has revealed. In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Buyanga said he reported the matt...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:22hrs | 1449 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa wants to kill Jonathan Moyo?
EXILED former Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo claims President Emmerson Mnangagwa tried to assassinate him and he has evidence to prove it.Moyo made the claims as he reacted to reports...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:04hrs | 7148 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri failing to feed family
FORMER Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri has disputed the valuation done on his vast properties describing it as mischievous political persecution that has compromised his family's surviva...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 8964 | by newzimbabwe
Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump, asks Interpol to help
Iran has issued an arrest warrant and asked Interpol for help in detaining US President Donald Trump and dozens of others it believes carried out the drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in ...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 13:57hrs | 3965 | by Al Jazeera and news agencies
Mnangagwa snatched Chihuri's pregnant wife?
FORMER police boss Augustine Chihuri has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of hounding him to settle scores after they clashed over a woman.Chihuri, who is on the verge of losing his sprawl...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:25hrs | 17401 | by Staff reporter
New twist to US$60m Covid-19 deal
A company that is at the centre of a US$60 million coronavirus supplies procurement storm, was cleared by permanent secretary in the Finance ministry, George Guvamatanga, lawyers defending its r...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:48hrs | 2379 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pulled the plug on shady Covid-19 deals, claims Charamba
WITH the advent of the global pandemic, coronavirus (Covid-19), many civil society organisations have called for transparency in the use of various donations that the government has been receiving....Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 19:01hrs | 1988 | by Staff reporter
Fight over tycoon's estate rages
The fight for control of Waverley Blankets founder Victor Cohen's estate is still raging three years after his death and now his children say their relatives, who allegedly grabbed his companies want ...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:15hrs | 1729 | by Staff reporter
Covidgate scandal explodes in Zimbabwe
A controversial businessman with alleged links to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's family was given government contracts worth US$42 million to buy materials to fight Covid-19 after supplying false info...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:10hrs | 1605 | by Staff reporter
Obadiah Moyo probed over coronavirus deals
HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo is in the dog box after the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) opened a docket to probe his qualifications and controversial coronavirus deals following a complain...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 17:14hrs | 3044 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to 'Stop these guerilla tactics'
Your Excellency,RE: FRANK BUYANGA SADIQI V CHANTELLE TATENDA MUTESWA: CUSTODY MATTERSAs the current President of Zimbabwe, it is prudent that I disclose information relating to the unw...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 17:00hrs | 8747 | by Staff reporter
'Police boss Matanga unfit for office'
BUSINESSMAN Frank Buyanga has sensationally claimed that Zimbabwe Republic Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga is unfit for office and pleaded with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to fire him....Published: 15 May 2020 at 07:42hrs | 1394 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga dares Matanga on Interpol
Businessman Frank Buyanga Sadiqi has dared the Commissioner General of the Zimbabwe Republic Police to place him on Interpol wanted list saying he had not been convicted of any criminal offence....Published: 04 May 2020 at 08:18hrs | 924 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga, Muteswa using courts as 'playground', says High Court judge
An exasperated judge on Thursday said he wished he could stop businessman Frank Buyanga and his ex-girlfriend Chantelle Mutesewa from using courts as a "playground" in their long, drawn-out child cust...Published: 02 May 2020 at 08:08hrs | 2369 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga responds to The Herald article
On 1 May 2020, the Zimbabwe Herald newspaper printed an article child. It is not a criminal matter and Mr Sadiqi has not been found headlined "Buyanga a fugitive from justice: Police chief". We find t...Published: 02 May 2020 at 07:45hrs | 830 | by William Wilcock
Buyanga a fugitive from justice, says Police chief
Frank Buyanga, who snatched his five-year-old son from his ex-girlfriend movie style last month, is now regarded as a fugitive from justice after fleeing the country with the boy, Police Commissioner-...Published: 01 May 2020 at 07:47hrs | 316 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga placed on Interpol red alert?
THE Zimbabwe government has enlisted the services of the International Police (Interpol) to help arrest flamboyant businessman Frank Buyanga claiming he is a fugitive.Buyanga has been involved...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 12:21hrs | 2114 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe laws don't protect women from sex trafficking
SIMILO Ntuli looks like an ordinary, fashion-savvy woman in her twenties. As a hairdresser and beauty therapist in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest city, Ntuli has her finger on the pulse of the la...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:06hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Victims count the cost of fake hand sanitisers
CROOKED traders are bilking consumers by selling fake hand sanitisers, raising fears cheated members of the public might be exposed to the coronavirus.The global outbreak of Covid-19 has led t...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:28hrs | 1185 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe women still vulnerable to sex trafficking
SIMILO NTULI (not her real name) looks like an ordinary, fashion-savvy woman in her twenties. As a hairdresser and beauty therapist in Zimbabwe's second-largest city of Bulawayo, Ntuli has her finger ...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 12:56hrs | 928 | by Staff reporter
South African armed robbers killed by Zimbabwe police in shoot-out
Two of the five armed robbers killed in a shoot-out with police along Glenara Avenue in Harare yesterday were South Africans, while the other three who were captured alive were Zimbabweans; but the ga...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 05:44hrs | 3824 | by Staff reporter
Police boss fails to quash stolen car case
THE officer-in-charge of CID Gweru, Detective Inspector Leonard Gwandu, who is facing criminal abuse of office charges for allegedly releasing a stolen vehicle that was being held by the police as an ...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 05:52hrs | 501 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean fugitive fingered in South Africa R5 million scam
CRACK South African investigative unit, The Hawks, are on the trail of an alleged fugitive from Zimbabwe identified as Bruce Nyamurima, whom they believe executed, with connivance of a sophisticated c...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 09:06hrs | 1670 | by Staff reporter
CID boss faces criminal abuse of office charges
THE officer-in-charge of CID Gweru, Detective Inspector Leonard Gwandu, has appeared in court facing criminal abuse of office charges for allegedly releasing a vehicle stolen from South Africa that wa...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 05:38hrs | 855 | by Staff reporter
CID boss trial date set
THE trial of Gweru Officer-in-Charge Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Detective Inspector Leonard Gwandu who was recently arrested on allegations of criminal abuse of office after he allegedly...Published: 02 Feb 2020 at 13:09hrs | 1745 | by Staff reporter
Police, children rights lobby group target child abusers
POLICE in partnership with Save the Children is working towards connecting its database with the Interpol to track paedophiles and other child abusers and molesters to combat cases of child online abu...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 10:12hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Interpol snubs ZRP over G4O
ZIMBABWE Republic Police Commissioner-General, Godwin Matanga yesterday revealed that the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) was not willing to assist Zimbabwe extradite certain sus...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 11:07hrs | 3433 | by Staff reporter
Interpol frustrates hunt for Zimbabwean fugitives
THE International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) is frustrating efforts to extradite people facing criminal charges in the country, Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga said yesterday. ...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 06:04hrs | 2431 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo extradition - Interpol frustrating ZRP over?
The ZRP Commissioner General Godwin Matanga has accused the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) of frustrating their efforts to extradite people facing criminal charges in the countr...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 15:47hrs | 5683 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa on corruption
Zimbabwean businessman and Econet Wireless founder Mr Strive Masiyiwa has called for a genuine reform of policies and stronger accountability mechanisms if corruption has to be defeated in Africa....Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 08:08hrs | 5433 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe fights diamond dealer lawsuit
Former first lady Grace Mugabe has filed notice that she will fight a US$3.9m lawsuit in which she is being sued along with her son Russell Goreraza and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP).Diam...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 17:15hrs | 5784 | by Staff repporter
Zunaid Moti close to Zimbabwe pullout
Controversial South African tycoon Zunaid Moti is scaling down his Zimbabwe mining operations amid revelations that his relationship with President Emmerson Mnangagwa has soured.Moti and petro...Published: 23 Sep 2019 at 16:02hrs | 4112 | by ZimLive
Vela battles anti-corruption tide
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is lobbying the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) to issue red notices for former National Social Security Authority (Nssa) board cha...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:41hrs | 618 | by Staff reporter
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