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Ignatius Chombo readmitted back to Zanu-PF
Notable figures who have bounced back are former Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration Dr Ignatius Chombo, Killer Zivhu, Robert Nyemudzo, and Petronella Kagonye, among others.Zanu-PF Secretary-...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 19:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF eyes Goromonzi South seat
Zanu-PF party leadership in Mashonaland East province has begun mobilising for support in Goromonzi South constituency ahead of a February 3 by-election.The seat is one of the biggest peri-urb...Published: 03 Jan 2024 at 05:28hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister released from prison, suffers another blow
The Zanu-PF Mashonaland East provincial leadership has prohibited former Public Service minister Petronella Kagonye from carrying out party activities following her release from prison.Kagonye...Published: 06 Dec 2023 at 05:06hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's minister completes jail term
FORMER Cabinet minister Petronella Kagonye has completed her 16-month jail term for theft of trust property, her lawyer Rungano Mahuni confirmed yesterday.Kagonye was jailed in June 2022 for h...Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister released from Chikurubi Female Prison
FORMER Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare, Petronella Kagonye is out of jail after serving an effective 16 months behind bars.Her lawyer Rungano Mahuni confirmed.Kag...Published: 02 May 2023 at 22:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court says magistrate was too lenient with Ex-minister Kagonye
HIGH Court judge, Justice Benjamin Chikowero, has lashed out at jailed former minister, Petronella Kagonye after she the sought Supreme Court's intervention in her appeal against imprisonment, stating...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Lobels COO Andrew Dinhidza
Hundreds of Lobels workers staged protests against Chief Operating Officer Andrew Dinhidza over allegations of nepotism, sexual harassment and several other allegations. Dinhidza is no strange...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 17:46hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mugabe minister loses appeal against sentence
FORMER Cabinet minister Petronella Kagonye's appeal against conviction and sentence for criminal abuse of office was dismissed yesterday by High Court judges of appeal Benjamin Chikowero and Rodgers M...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 05:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jailed former labour minister launches freedom bid
FORMER Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister Petronella Kagonye (pictured), who was slapped with a 36-month jail term in June this year for corruption, has appealed for bail pending appea...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 19:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-Minister Kagonye jailed 16 months
Former Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Petronella Kagonye has been sentenced to 16 months imprisonment by Harare magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti.This follows her conviction on ...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 16:30hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF non-performers face axe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday threatened to wield the axe on poorly performing Zanu-PF members and those deployed in government because they would cost the ruling party in the 2023 elections....Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:44hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Court orders code of conduct for VPs, ministers
HIGH Court judge Justice David Mangota yesterday ordered government to craft a law within 45 days stipulating the code of conduct for Vice-Presidents, ministers and deputy ministers.Mangota ma...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kagonye remanded in custody
THE State has called for a custodial sentence against convicted former Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Petronella Kagonye when the court sentences her today.Kagonye was yest...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF and Ex Minister convicted for theft of laptops
Zanu PF member and Former Cabinet Minister Petronella Kagonye was today convicted for stealing 20 laptops which were meant to benefit schools in Goromonzi...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 20:50hrs | 7 | by Shelton Muchena
Ex-Labour Minister Kagonye convicted for stealing school laptops
Former Public Service Minister Petronella Kagonye has been convicted for personalising computers donated to schools in her Goromonzi South constituency by the Postal and Telecommunication Regulation A...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 18:15hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-corruption crusade fizzles out deplorably
HIGH-PROFILE corruption cases from as far back as 2017 are yet to be finalised, almost five years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised to decisively tackle graft.The development also de...Published: 03 May 2022 at 16:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister refutes graft allegations
FORMER Public Service minister Petronella Kagonye yesterday appeared in court denying criminal abuse of office charges being levelled against her.In her defence, she said the allegations were ...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's minister has case to answer
A HARARE magistrate yesterday said former Labour minister Petronella Kagonye has a case to answer on fraud charges after dismissing her application for discharge at the close of the State case....Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
No sufficient evidence to nail ex-minister, says Zacc
A ZIMBABWE Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) investigating officer in the matter of former Public Service minister Petronella Kagonye on Tuesday said there was insufficient evidence against her in one...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:41hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Minister 'plotted' Kagonye's arrest
COMPLAINANTS in a case where former Public Service minister Petronella Kagonye was being accused of converting US$18 000 meant for residential stands to her own use, have withdrawn the case saying the...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Security guard shot as armed robbers strike at Natpharm
A SECURITY guard was allegedly shot and injured yesterday morning at the National Pharmaceutical (Natpharm) warehouse in Bulawayo in a suspected robbery attempt.Mr Given Mawonawangu (22) who i...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:47hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Kagonye accused of duping housing cooperatives
FORMER Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Petronella Kagonye yesterday denied allegations of duping two housing cooperatives of US$38 500 in the sale of residential stands at Solomio F...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:47hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF terror leaves opposition on the edge
TRUE to his middle name, Chenjerai Hondo Masviba, the struggle lives on.Masviba, a victim of recent unprovoked Zanu-PF-sponsored violence, says he will not abandon the struggle, and the people...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 07:13hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
ZACC in another catch and release storm
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) was Monday caught up in yet another catch and release storm after its investigators pounced on Minister of State for Masvingo Province Ezra Chadzamira in...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 18:26hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF implodes
Zanu-PF internal fights have marred preparations for the party's Mashonaland East province elections.A recent meeting at the provincial party offices in Marondera resulted in the provincial wo...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt 'frees' Caledonia from Harare
GOVERNMENT has separated the sprawling suburb of Caledonia from Harare and announced that the underdeveloped settlement will now be under Mashonaland East Province.This was revealed last week ...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister Kagonye back in court
Investigations into the case of former Minister of Labour and Social Welfare Petronella Kagonye, who is facing six counts of fraud, theft and criminal abuse of office charges, is expected to be comple...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Land barons, infighting cost Zanu-PF Goromonzi South seat
THE Zanu-PF Mashonaland East provincial leadership has admitted that infighting and land barons caused them to lose Goromonzi south constituency to the opposition MDC alliance in the 2018 elections....Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tracy Mutinhiri dumps Chamisa, rejoins Zanu-PF
FORMER MDC Alliance top official Tracy Mutinhiri is set for a sensational return to Zanu-PF after handing in an application letter at the Mashonaland East provincial offices in Marondera declaring her...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Poisoning scare as land barons' war turns nasty
GOVERNMENT'S fight against land barons, accused of illegally parcelling out State land in urban areas, has turned nasty amid reports that Harare's provincial development coordinator (PDC) Tafadzwa Mug...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kagonye fingered in farm invasion
Ex-cabinet minister Petronella Kagonye has been fingered in a Bromley farm invasion where she is reportedly barring an indigenous farmer from utilising it and influencing invaders to resist eviction....Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 23:36hrs | 6 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Ex-minister's US$400k case raises eyebrows
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has allegedly been sitting on a dossier implicating former Labour and Social Welfare minister in the siphoning of public funds for over two years amid cl...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF disowns housing co-operatives
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday said it was supportive of government and Harare City Council's proposed demolition of illegal structures, including those under co-operatives led by party members....Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Help in cleaning up urban settlements - Zanu-PF
ZANU-PF has urged all its structures to cooperate with the Government team set-up to bring normalcy to urban settlements that had become feeding troughs for land barons and some councillors. T...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kagonye hit with 6 corruption charges, granted $30,000 bail
Former labour minister Petronella Kagonye was freed on bail Tuesday after she was charged with four counts of fraud, one of theft and one of criminal abuse of office as a public officer.The 43...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 14:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance duo granted $10,000 bail each
Justice Webster Chinamora has ordered release of MDC Alliance duo Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri on $10,000 bail each after hearing arguments by lawyers and NPA. The judge set aside refusa...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 11:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Land probe opens can of worms
GOVERNMENT'S latest blitz on land barons has exposed serious political undercurrents, with one of the suspected barons, Wellington Peyama, sensationally claiming that he was being hounded by Housing a...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:43hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Kagonye to answer to fraud charges
Former Minister of Labour and Social Welfare Petronella Kagonye is expected in court today to answer fraud allegations relating to the illegal sale of State land in Harare and Mashonaland East Provinc...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kagone spends another night in police cage
FORMER Labour Minister and once Zanu-PF's Goromonzi South MP Petronella Kagonye, who was arrested Sunday over graft charges, will spend her second night behind bars after she failed to appear in court...Published: 08 Feb 2021 at 19:10hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Land for votes haunts Zanu-PF
FORMER Labour and Social Welfare minister and ex-Zanu-PF Member of Parliament for Goromonzi, Petronella Kagonye (pictured) was yesterday arrested over alleged illegal land dealings.Kagonye ser...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 19:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zanu-PF MP arrested for fraud
FORMER Labour and Social Welfare Minister Petronella Kagonye has been arrested on allegations of fraud.Zimbabwe Republic Police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the ar...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 18:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga walking the talk, Kagonye nabbed
Former Labour and Social Welfare Minister Petronella Kagonye has been arrested on allegations of fraud.Kagonye is in police custody at Morris Deport (SACU)on charges related to illegal parcell...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 12:47hrs | | by Shelton Muchena
Former minister grilled over land
THE government is probing former Labour minister Petronella Kagonye on allegations of improperly acquiring six farms in Mashonaland East under her real estate firm, Glorious Properties.On her ...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 15:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa forced Nssa to appoint his baby Mama
OUTSPOKEN Independent Norton legislature Temba Mliswa used his political position to influence the appointment of the mother of his two children to senior position in National Social Security Authorit...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 08:16hrs | | by newzimbabwe
'Mugabe's labour minister blew US$400k NSSA funds on campaign'
Former public service, labour and social welfare minister Petronella Kagonye forced the National Social Security (NSSA) board to shell out US$400,000 to her political campaign, the former chairman of ...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 17:21hrs | | by ZimLive
Sparks fly over NSSA scandal
Former National Social Security Authority (NSSA) board chairman Robin Vela says he will challenge the damning forensic audit report in court claiming that it was part of a witch-hunt.The repor...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
500 Zanu-PF supporters fight eviction
THERE was pandemonium at Lot H, Whiteside Farm in Bromley on Friday after 500 illegal settlers attacked the High Court Sheriff who was evicting them to pave way for a new owner.The settlers, m...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's minister wins 'corpse-dumping' lawsuit
FORMER Labour and Social Welfare minister Petronella Kagonye, who was slapped with a $500 000 lawsuit for allegedly dumping a corpse at a war veteran, Oswell Gwanzura's premises in Goromonzi, has now ...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF executive rescues Mutoko MP
A HIGH-POWERED Zanu-PF delegation from Mashonaland East province at the weekend descended on Mutoko district, where they held three rallies as the ruling party moved to resolve the impasse between the...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
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