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One night stand haunts Harare man
A Harare man is refusing to take care of his unborn child as he is arguing that he does not know the mother who he met at a bar and had unprotected sex with.This emerged at the Harare civil co...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 07:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CCC filed a false report against Energy Mutodi, investigations reveal
In a desperate bid to woe supporters after fielding a weak candidate, the opposition CCC reportedly filed a false police report against Goromonzi West legislator Energy Mutodi who is aspiring Memb...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 10:43hrs | 7 | by Tapiwa Chirandu
Charges against CCC activists thrown out
TWO Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters have been acquitted on charges of tearing political campaign posters belonging to a Zanu-PF candidate in Manicaland.Zephenia Nyangani and Lea...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Inter Africa bus accident, three die
Speeding lnter Africa bus allegedly hit three people thereby killing them on spot at Madondo village along Zaka-Makuwaza road on New Year’s Eve....Published: 01 Jan 2023 at 08:21hrs | | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Mutsvangwa's ministry loses ZW$32m in botched car deal
THE Ministry of Information was left counting its loses after being duped by controversial government vehicle supplier, Solution Motors, in a $47m deal, a Harare court heard recently.Solution ...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Deputy Sheriff fired
Divorce orders obtained fraudulently by some greedy men with a view to stripping their spouses in the Diaspora of matrimonial property, are now on the increase amid reports that a Deputy Sheriff was r...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Praz boss loses court case against govt
FORMER Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) chief executive Nyasha Chizu has lost a High Court challenge against his employer after the authority terminated his employment contract in O...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 11:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Salaries must revert to 2018 levels'
WITH the onset of the new year, there has been an increase in the demand by workers to be paid their salaries in hard currency. This has been prompted by the rapid fall in value of the Zimbabwe dollar...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 21:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Madiro, war veterans square off
RECENTLY re-elected Zanu-PF Manicaland provincial chairperson Mike Madiro has blasted "a few war veterans" whom he accused of causing divisions in the party.His statement comes after war veter...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mystery deaths deepen in Zimbabwe
DEATH is never easy and, whenever it strikes, the grief it causes is traumatic for family and friends who would have lost a loved one.This encounter with mortality always leaves the surviving ...Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 18:49hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe forex rules 'a tragedy of good intentions'
LAST week's promulgation of Statutory Instrument 127 of 2021, which penalises issuance of local currency receipt for foreign currency purchases and pricing goods above the official auction rate, among...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 09:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why I dumbed Chamisa
LAST week, two senior MDC officials, former Midlands senator Lillian Timveous and former Kwekwe Central MP Blessing Chebundo, jumped ship and joined President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF party...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC is doomed, says Chebundo
ONE OF the prominent founding members of the MDC and former legislator, Blessing Chebundo, says the country's opposition is going downhill due to tribalism, senseless infighting and a hatred for new i...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 16:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Investigator nails CID boss
AN INVESTIGATOR in the case involving Stephen Kuwaza, 42, the officer-in-charge of police Theft From Car department - arrested for allegedly interfering with a witness in the probe against suspended C...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Commuters fume over fares hike
Commuter omnibus operators in Mutare on Tuesday hiked fares to a maximum of $3 from $2 per trip following an increase in fuel prices, leaving residents fuming. Mrs Enia Kuwaza told The Herald ...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
New twist to Zesa bigwigs' case
THE lawyer representing former Zesa chief executive officer Joshua Chifamba last week cornered the investigation officer Energy Mundandishe into making concessions which are likely to affect the State...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt has squandered immense goodwill
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) this week called a three-day stayaway to protest the government's decision to hike fuel prices amid a rapidly deteriorating economic environment and rising...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Change of currency not ideal to revive Zimbabwe economy
THE country's economic crisis has deepened since the recent fiscal and monetary measures announced by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and Reserve Bank governor John Mangudya. The economy has plu...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe women bank snubs Matebeleland talent
HISTORY was made when the Zimbabwe Women's Microfinance Bank (ZWMB) was unveiled, becoming the first bank in Southern Africa dedicated solely to transform and economically empower women. A look at the...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 16:47hrs | 2 | by Ndou Paul
ZRP, ZACC in a spot over Chivayo
PARLIAMENT has urged the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc)and the police to immediately investigate businessman Wicknell Chivayo and four former energy ministers for alleged corrupt activitie...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 20:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
4 ex-ministers face probe over Chivayo deals
FOUR former Energy ministers, who served under ex-President Robert Mugabe between 2013 and 2017 are being investigated for allegedly turning the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) into their feeding trough,...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 06:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo spills the beans on deals
Controversial and high-living businessman, Wicknell Chivayo, yesterday told Parliament how former president Robert Mugabe's office and two ministers had used their influence to have him awarded multi-...Published: 13 Feb 2018 at 14:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe implicated in Chivayo shady deals
DEPOSED President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace were yesterday named in businessman Wicknell Chivayo's shady $7 million Gwanda solar project, as members of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on ...Published: 13 Feb 2018 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa grills Chivayo
Businessman Mr Wicknell Chivayo was yesterday taken to task by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy over the $5 million he received from the Zimbabwe Power Company for the Gwanda ...Published: 13 Feb 2018 at 05:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Poet praises Chiwenga
Mutare based poet has penned a poem depicting Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) General Constantino Chiwenga as Zimbabwe's Nehemiah who came to rescue Zimbabwe from corrupt administration that become syno...Published: 12 Dec 2017 at 12:59hrs | | by Farai Shawn Matiashe in Mutare
Diamond dealer loses $17k to illegal panners
A PROMINENT Mutare dealer lost $17 000 to four illegal diamond panners who lured him to the Chiadzwa diamond fields on the pretext of selling him some precious gems but later robbed him in broad dayli...Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 09:39hrs | | by Straff Reporter
Police ‘complete' Kuwaza death investigations
Police have reportedly completed investigations into circumstances leading to the mysterious death of former State Procurement Board (SPB) executive chairman, Charles Kuwaza and handed it to a judicia...Published: 12 Jun 2017 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Slain tender board chief death inquest to be held
AN inquest will be held to determine the circumstances under which former State Procurement Board executive chairman Charles Kuwaza died, as suspicion that the career bureaucrat was killed mafia-style...Published: 05 May 2017 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mafia-style murdered tender chief was scheduled to meet Mugabe
THE late former State Procurement Board executive chairman Charles Kuwaza was scheduled to privately meeting with President Robert Mugabe this past Wednesday, where he wanted to reveal the goings-on a...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 13:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government torment late Kuwaza: demands $870 000 from his estate
The State Procurement Board has launched an audacious drive to recover about $870 000 from the estate of former chairperson, the late Charles Kuwaza.The amount is part of the money that the Zi...Published: 27 Apr 2017 at 05:13hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mafia-style murderd Zimbabwe's tender board boss buried
FORMER State Procurement Board (SPB)executive chairperson, Charles Kuwaza, who died under mysterious circumstances on Tuesday, was laid to rest at a low-key burial at Glen Forest Memorial Park...Published: 22 Apr 2017 at 10:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's tender board boss murderd mafia-style
FORMER State Procurement Board (SPB) executive chairman and senior professional bureaucrat Charles Kuwaza could have been murdered, contrary to the narrative he committed suicide by jumping to his dea...Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 12:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's top civil servant's suicide: Questions arise
Family members and friends of former top civil servant and chairperson of the State Procurement Board (SPB), Charles Kuwaza - who died on Tuesday after falling nine floors from a high-rise Harare buil...Published: 20 Apr 2017 at 12:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's top civil servant jumps to his death
Top civil servant and former State Procurement Board (SPB) chairperson Charles Tawonerera Kuwaza died early today in a case of suspected suicide.Mr Kuwaza reportedly leapt to his death...Published: 18 Apr 2017 at 15:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Aah looters continue !!!
At Havard School of Law there is a very interesting Latin inscription which reads: "sub homine sed sub deo et lege, which when translated into English simply mean, "It is not by men but by God and the...Published: 27 Mar 2017 at 15:46hrs | | by Garikai Mafirakureva
Zinara grader tender was not above board
Just too often, corporates step up to say lofty things about themselves, especially when there are questions around their conduct. This is predictable because capital mostly tends to rebel against ins...Published: 26 Mar 2017 at 10:11hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Former State Procurement Board chairperson arrested
Former State Procurement Board (SPB) chairperson Charles Tawonerera Kuwaza has been arrested on five counts of corruption involving over $1 million and ZW$2,5 billion, which he committed while at ...Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara, Univern ties raise stink
Former Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) CEO, Frank Chitukutuku, left his post in a huff in 2014.His contract was due to expire in March 2015 but he offered to leave by Decem...Published: 12 Mar 2017 at 08:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Parastal boss in trouble, cops set on him for corruption
Former State Procurement Board chairperson Mr Charles Kuwaza is facing arrest after the new board reported him to the police for alleged criminal abuse of office during his tenure bordering on tax eva...Published: 07 Sep 2016 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
REWIND: 'Tribalism caused MDC split'
THE 2005 split of Zimbabwe's main opposition Movement for Democratic (MDC) party was likely fuelled by strains caused by Morgan Tsvangirai's treason trial and TRIBALISM, an unpublished report compiled...Published: 26 Jul 2016 at 13:28hrs | | by online
Kuwaza's refusal to vacate Government mansion a tip of the ice burg
The stance taken by the embattled former State Procurement Board (SPB) chairperson, Charles Kuwaza, to refuse vacating an official SPB house that he used during his service, demanding that the propert...Published: 14 Apr 2016 at 12:13hrs | | by Sparkleford Masiyambiri
Journalist, CSO officials freed on charges of taking pictures outside prisons
A journalist and a member of the Civil Society Organisation who were accused of taking pictures outside Zimbabwe prisons complex have been freed by the courts.The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Hu...Published: 18 Feb 2016 at 05:29hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe's Office orders Kuwaza audit
Government has ordered an audit of deals approved by former chairperson of the State Procurement Board (SPB) Mr Charles Kuwaza in the past four years in preparation for takeover by a new board chaired...Published: 09 Jan 2016 at 07:01hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Zimra garnishes State Procurement Board
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has reportedly garnished the State Procurement Board's (SPB) bank account for the second time to recover over $800 000 in Pay As You Earn (PAYE) arrears for its ...Published: 14 Dec 2015 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Six human rights activists appear in court
Six activists who were arrested for visiting 16 members of the National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (NAVUZ), who were detained for more than two weeks at Chikhurubi remand prison in July have been summo...Published: 05 Sep 2015 at 08:13hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Journalist, activists released from police cells
Photographers who were arrested on Friday for taking pictures at protected areas were on Saturday released after the intervention by lawyers for human rights from the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Ri...Published: 26 Jul 2015 at 07:24hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Tender scam rocks Bulawayo council
PROCUREMENT contracts with a combined value of about $8,7 million were re-tendered or extended after winning companies either disappeared or failed to complete works, a massive tender scandal that has...Published: 12 Jul 2015 at 09:36hrs | | by Vusumuzi Dube and Lungile Tshuma
Bloodbath at village court
HEADMAN Isaac Nyamana's traditional court turned into a bloodbath recently as villagers exchanged blows in the middle of a ritual murder case hearing in which a suspect was arraigned to answer allegat...Published: 04 May 2015 at 07:16hrs | | by Abel Zhakata
Court session turns bloody
HEADMAN Isaac Nyamana's traditional court turned into a blood bath recently as villagers exchanged blows in the middle of a ritual murder case hearing in which a suspect was arraigned to answer allega...Published: 25 Apr 2015 at 10:01hrs | | by Abel Zhakata
Joseph Chinotimba wins
A BID by the Zimbabwe Urban and Rural Council Workers Union executive led by Mr Bernard Dhanda to bar Buhera South legislator Joseph Chinotimba from taking over leadership of the union hit a snag whe...Published: 13 Sep 2014 at 12:24hrs | | by Daniel Nemukuyu
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