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A critical review of Al Jazeera's Gold Mafia documentary
APRIL, famously characterised as "the cruellest month" by distinguished poet and literary critic TS Eliot in his critically acclaimed essay "The Wasteland" - not because its first day celebrates fools...Published: 28 May 2023 at 17:07hrs | 702 | by Jonathan Moyo
Inside elections: Can the yellow wave shake-up Mashonaland East?
This is the first in a series of (inside elections) articles examining the politics and possible voting patterns of 2023's general election in expected swing/marginal National Assembly constituencies....Published: 26 May 2023 at 10:16hrs | 502 | by Farai Chirimumimba
Why Ngarivhume matters: PART 1
This is the third week since Magistrate Faresi Chakanyuka sentenced Transform Zimbabwe President Jacob Ngarivhume to an effective 3 years in prison for inciting public violence. Not only was t...Published: 16 May 2023 at 17:25hrs | 774 | by F Muridzo
Gold Mafia: RBZ under sharp scrutiny
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has come under renewed pressure to deal with allegations of gold smuggling and money laundering after a leading think-tank said the central bank's operations should ...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 07:31hrs | 779 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean minister sweats over idle platinum miner
INVESTORS in one of Zimbabwe's biggest platinum projects - Todal Mining - were this week said to have dumped the project, turning the heat on Mines minister Winston Chitando to cancel its licence....Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 19:47hrs | 866 | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya spared govt gold crackdown
WHILE the Zimbabwean government says it has taken measures to freeze accounts of the gold mafia and investigate the gold smuggling, money laundering and corruption, one of the kingpins, Henrietta Rush...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 14:20hrs | 9018 | by Staff reporter
Gold Mafia exposes Mnangagwa's US$240m election war chest
SELF-STYLED prophet and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ambassador-at-large Uebert Madzanire, aka Uebert Angel, has claimed that Mnangagwa will spend US$240 million for his re-election bid.Appe...Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 09:15hrs | 1108 | by Staff reporter
Uebert Angel, Rudland accounts frozen
INDIVIDUALS implicated in the gold Mafia scandal including prophet Uebert Angel have had their assets frozen by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's Financial Intelligence Unit with arrests imminent....Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 09:10hrs | 976 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe 'Gold Mafia' suspects' assets frozen
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has frozen the assets of four officials who are implicated in gold smuggling, money laundering, bribery and other corrupt activities whos...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:41hrs | 2037 | by Staff reporter
Fidelity Printers in kickbacks storm
FORMER Fidelity Printers and Refiners general manager Fradreck Kunak (pictured) a and the company's head of gold operations Mehluleli Dube were allegedly paid US$30 000 and US$3 000 kickbacks apiece e...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 11:11hrs | 3101 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe stockpiles 350kg of gold after new policy
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has stockpiled more than 350 kilogrammes of gold collected under a new law compelling companies mining gold, diamonds, lithium and platinum group of metals (PGMs) to...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 11:00hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa asked to intervene in mine row
THE Ministry of Industry and Commerce has requested President Emmerson Mnangagwa to intervene in a mining wrangle between Chemplex Corporation and a former executive with the Industrial Development Co...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 07:09hrs | 2394 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF affiliate wants Winky D music banned
An organisation linked to the ruling party ZANU PF has called for the ban of Winky D's music following the launch of his highly subscribed latest album Eureka.While addressing the media today ...Published: 03 Jan 2023 at 20:19hrs | 3220 | by Desmond Nleya
5,000 teachers to attend Mnangagwa event in Harare
GOVERNMENT has drawn criticism for endorsing the planned launch of the so-called Teachers for Economic Development group scheduled for today, with unions and the opposition saying the event is needles...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 06:05hrs | 1212 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa violates 2017 coup agreement?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will not be contested at Zanu-PF's elective congress next month which will go ahead regardless of a court bid to block it and murmurings of disappointment by Vice-Presiden...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 18:58hrs | 13464 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa fear that Sikhala will overthrow him'
Outspoken former Zanu-PF youth leader Jim Kunaka has accused Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa of deliberate failure to step up calls for Job Sikhala's release out of fear t...Published: 01 Sep 2022 at 20:40hrs | 3879 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa living on borrowed time'
FORMER Zanu-PF national youth political commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu yesterday said President Emmerson Mnangagwa will be hounded for continually detaining Citizens Coalitions for Change (CCC) legislat...Published: 01 Sep 2022 at 20:40hrs | 7719 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa 'folding his hands' while Sikhala languishes in prison
FORMER Zanu-PF youth leader, Jim Kunaka, has fired salvos at main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa, for "folding his hands" while legislators, Job Sikhala and Godf...Published: 01 Sep 2022 at 06:36hrs | 3641 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa seeks new mandate as Zanu-PF president
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is seeking re-election as Zanu-PF leader and party presidential candidate for elections next year amid signs of discomfort within the former liberation movement over his c...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 19:51hrs | 3584 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa on the brink, analysts say
POLITICAL analysts say President Emmerson Mnangagwa will likely retain his post in Zanu-PF at the party's October congress but his political life is on the brink ahead of the 2023 polls due to the com...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 17:55hrs | 9558 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa will not give power to Chiwenga'
A KEY member of the clique that planned and executed President Robert Mugabe's ouster through a 2017 coup has said his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa will not cede power to deputy Constantino Chiwenga a...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 06:31hrs | 8506 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga backs Mnangagwa for 2023 amid tension claims
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has backed Zanu-PF leader Emmerson Chiwenga as the ruling party's sole candidate for the State presidency in general elections due next year.Chiwenga's rema...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:35hrs | 4374 | by Staff reporter
Chiwengwa says Mnangagwa will be Zanu-PF's candidate for the 2023 elections
VICE PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has reiterated that President Mnangagwa will be Zanu-PF's candidate for the 2023 harmonised elections.Speaking during a Zanu-PF rally at Nhedziwa High Schoo...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:28hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere: To be or not to be!
Widening Russian War Aims What a week we have had! War works largely on laws of the unforeseen and the unintended. The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, has ominously hinted at ...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:27hrs | 364 | by Jamwanda
Mnangagwa not going anywhere
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday declared that he would be in power beyond 2023 to foresee all the infrastructural projects he has initiated.Speaking during the ground-breaking ceremony ...Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:45hrs | 5843 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa fighting for his political life'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is fighting for his political life ahead of a Zanu-PF congress slated for October, according to political analyst Ibbo Mandaza.Mandaza believes the Zanu-PF leader,...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 18:23hrs | 7528 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga fallout, Zanu-PF youths spring to Mnangagwa defence
A SENIOR Zanu-PF youth league official has hit out ruling party "renegades" who recently claimed there was mounting tension over a power handover agreement between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 08:20hrs | 11229 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Youth League rubbishes factionalism claims
THE Zanu-PF Youth League has dismissed reports of factionalism within the revolutionary party, describing them as hallucinations of expelled persons who have no locus standi to comment on party issues...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:36hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF threatens 'renegade' group 'with tragic consequences'
Zanu-PF has threatened 'with tragic consequences' a dissident group claiming to be part of them which recently claimed President Emmerson Mnangagwa no longer served interests of the party.The ...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:15hrs | 2179 | by Staff reporter
Mnanaggwa haunted by 2017 coup skeletons
NEW information emerging from Zanu-PF corridors indicates that the current factional fights in the ruling party are emanating from a 2017 power-sharing deal gone sour, NewsDay has gathered.Pre...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 19:27hrs | 2939 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere appealed to Mnangagwa over return from exile
Exiled former Zanu-PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere bristled on Monday after President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman claimed he had "appealed" to be allowed to return.George Charamba...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 19:27hrs | 11104 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Original begs for Kasukuwere return
A NEWLY-LAUNCHED political outfit going by the monicker Zanu-PF Original has called on self-exiled former Cabinet minister Saviour "Tyson" Kasukuwere to come back home and lead the party's campaign ah...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:35hrs | 4019 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF warns renegades
Zanu-PF has warned fired former party members, Godfrey Tsenengamu and Jimu Kunaka, against abusing the revolutionary party's regalia and trademarks as appropriate action would be taken against them....Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:23hrs | 1263 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF group says Mnangagwa must go
A GROUPING of 'dissident' Zanu-PF members has hit out at President Emmerson Mnangagwa accusing him of reneging on an earlier pact to serve a single presidential term before handing over power....Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:19hrs | 5531 | by Staff reporter
Bedbugs terrorise Mbare residents
IN 2018, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga promised residents in one of Harare's oldest suburbs, Mbare that their poor neighbourhood would be transformed after the elections.Amid cheers, Chi...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:37hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
Jerrycan links Taj Abdul gang to spate of robberies
A victim of armed robbery yesterday positively identified a jerry can which had his initials at the bottom, as the High Court murder trial of suspected armed robber Musa Taj Abdul and his eight co-acc...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 07:51hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF faces 2023 polls defeat under Mnangagwa
Zanu-PF is facing the risk of losing the 2023 elections if it fails to reform and deploy a new candidate to replace President Emmerson Mnangagwa whose popularity in and out of the party is waning, a f...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 19:22hrs | 2772 | by Staff reporter
Mama's peanut butter maker injects US$1,5m, lifts award
LEADING agro-processor, Associated Foods of Zimbabwe (AFZ,) which scooped the Most Improved Manufacturer for the Year 2021 gong at the Buy Zimbabwe 2021 awards held last week, will establish groundnut...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 08:58hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
Man blames City Council for the death of his son
A Harare man is demanding at least USD 1 663.00 from the City Fathers following the death of his son who was ran over by a municipal police vehicle in Cen...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 20:55hrs | 957 | by Ndou Paul
Jubilation as more boreholes are sunk in Harare
THERE was jubilation in Glen Norah yesterday after President Mnangagwa dispatched borehole drilling equipment with the aim of providing clean water to residents.It was the same in Epworth, whe...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:34hrs | 171 | by Staf reporter
Covid scare at Monet Cassino Girls High, parents arrested
Parents revolted at Monte Cassino Girls high school today after being denied taking their children home after they had tested positive of Covid-19....Published: 18 Dec 2021 at 07:46hrs | 2077 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
No to abortion in Zimbabwe
IN recent months, there has been a lot of buzz about abortion. Tens of thousands of women in America have demonstrated as they felt outraged that their right to kill their unborn child is threatened....Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:30hrs | 10 | by Alexio Rashirai
Tagwirei linked companies cited in US$49m privatisation deal
AS Treasury maintains a tight lid over the identity of gold producers who snapped 60% shareholding in Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR), emerging details show that Kuvimba Mining House, Better Bran...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:22hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe says administrators rescued the insolvent airline
AIR Zimbabwe administrators Grant Thornton, whose term of office came to an end last week when government appointed a six-member board, saved the airline from litigious creditors and set the troubled ...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 15:26hrs | 70 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe primed for rebound
Air Zimbabwe administrators handed over control of the business back to management on Thursday, with a robust six-year strategic plan most likely to see the State-owned airline reclaim its status as a...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:35hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Biti throws away summons
There was drama at the Harare Magistrates Court yesterday when MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti ran away from a police officer who was trying to serve him with summons for a case of public viol...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gold receipts plunge 35%
Zimbabwe's gold export receipts have plunged 35% to US$78.4m in May from US$120m achieved in the prior comparative period as the yellow metal deliveries to the country's sole buyer and marketer, Fidel...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 08:34hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
State agents draw up civic society hit list
ZIMBABWE'S security services last year intensified the hounding of civic society activists at a time Zimbabwe is expected to redouble its international re-engagement drive following months of simmerin...Published: 26 May 2021 at 16:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
3 Zesa senior managers arrested
THREE Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution (ZETDC) senior managers from the southern region have been arrested for alleged criminal abuse of office as public officers. ZETDC is a subsidi...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 06:42hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
'ZRP officers corrupt'
It is not arguable that Zimbabwe Republic police officers are the most corrupt people in the country.FOUR police officers in Bulawayo were arrested for demanding and receiving a posh car as a ...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 09:10hrs | 21 | by Shelton Muchena
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