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Why Kamala Harris Lost and How Donald Trump Won: A Deep Analysis of the 2024 US Election
Today I am mourning, but this too shall favour me - Donald Trump's victory and Kamala Harris's loss carry lessons for us all. She joined the race just 107 days ago, facing a former president who began...Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 12:43hrs | 1722 | by Ifeanyi Abraham
Zimbabwe army faces scrutiny over unlawful gold mining operations
Rusununguko/Nkululeko Holdings (Pvt) Ltd, a company owned by the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), is allegedly conducting an unauthorized alluvial gold mining operation in Allied Timbers' Tarka Forest, ...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 12:23hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
'Israel won't last long'
Iran's supreme leader has vowed retaliation for West Jerusalem's incursion into Lebanon and siege of GazaThe surprise attack on Israel launched by Hamas last year was a "logical and legal" ste...Published: 06 Oct 2024 at 13:36hrs | 2938 | by Staff reporter
Israeli soldiers killed in clashes with Hezbollah
Eight Israeli soldiers have been killed in combat with Hezbollah in south Lebanon, the Israeli military said in a statement on Wednesday. Three of those killed are commanders, and seven other soldiers...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 16:40hrs | 1134 | by Staff reporter
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe appoints tainted Mpofu
TRUST, confidence and credibility of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has been put at stake after the new central bank governor John Mushayavanhu appointed tainted banker Morris Bekezela Mpofu as hi...Published: 19 May 2024 at 11:54hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe set to announce fate of Zimdollar
Zimbabwe's currency plunged to yet another record low as citizens rushed to the safety of the US dollar amid speculation an announcement from the central bank on the fate of the local unit is imminent...Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africa's biggest challenge is getting an honest workforce
I used to criticise African companies like Dangote Group who hire so many Indians while there are many unemployed Africans, but now I understand their painful decision.The biggest challenge in...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 20:14hrs | 1 | by Karim KONE
CIO raises alarm over illicit army gold mining
ZIMBABWE'S state security agency, the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), has raised serious national security fears over an illicit gold mining operation run by an army-owned company, Rusununguk...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 13:50hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
RBZ in gems mop up deal
THE government has structured a deal that will see the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) buying excess diamonds as it moves to shut out unscrupulous dealers that have been dribbling authorities....Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 19:30hrs | | by Staff rteporter
Kazembe, Matanga taken to court
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe have been sued over their arbitrary ban on a demonstration against the looting of diamonds in Marange and failure b...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
US$20m externalised in Zimbabwe diamond sales
MORE than US$20 million was illegally moved out of the country's borders in murky deals involving blacklisted diamond dealer Jamal Ahmed in an opaque sale of one million carats of diamonds from the Mi...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 19:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diamond scam hits Zimbabwe
One buyer has been snapping up all parcels at diamond auctions amid concerns some officials from the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) and the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MM...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga-linked cartels take over public firms, mines, fuel sector - report
HIGHLY secretive cartels linked to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga are reported to have taken over the operations of key state-owned companies, including private f...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 07:33hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Matanga seeks to be excused from Grace Mugabe's US$4m lawsuit
Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga, who is being sued by a Lebanese businessman together with former First Lady Grace Mugabe in a US$4 million defamation lawsuit, has approached the High Court...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 09:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe slapped with US$4m lawsuit
Lebanese businessman Jamal Hamed has approached the High Court demanding US$4 million from former First Lady Grace Mugabe in defamation compensation and damages to his three houses that she seized....Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Meet the white man accused of plotting to unseat Mnangagwa
The Zimbabwean government has accused a Serbian national Srdja Popovic of training civic society activists in Zimbabwe.The state-controlled Herald has reported that Srdja Popovic's CANVAS orga...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 11:05hrs | 12 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mugabe stews in legal bills
FOR over 37 years, former president Robert Mugabe had remained untouchable as many citizens suffered in silence at the hands of the autocratic leader. But when his rule came to a dramatic end nearly t...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 13:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe in $280 000 legal fees headache
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe has been ordered to pay $278 304 to a local law firm which represented her in several court cases involving a botched $1,4 million diamond ring deal.Manase and M...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe to lose property
FORMER First Lady Mrs Grace Mugabe is now set to lose property after failing to pay legal fees amounting to $278 000 to a Harare law firm. Manase & Manase Legal Practitioners, who represen...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 22:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga suffers from a rare condition
Zimbabweans in the social media have taken chances to cartoon the Vice President Cde Chiwenga because of his unique pronunciation of the words with letter "L" in English. Most people have found joy in...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 14:45hrs | 19 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe: We rise and fall together
The prophets of 'scorched earth politics are at it again. Suddenly, according to their reading Zimbabwe is back to year 2008. What utter nonsense! The scenarios could never be more different. If we ar...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 18:23hrs | 2 | by Lloyd Msipa
Financial illiteracy is our biggest enemy in Zimbabwe
I found a very interesting letter in one of my old books that I last read in 2004. It is a letter that I received from Barclays Bank (Zimbabwe), offering me a Z$1 million overdraft facility. Three yea...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 06:47hrs | | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Grace Mugabe sued for $278K
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe has been sued by lawyers who represented her in several court cases involving a $1,2 million diamond ring deal after she failed to pay them legal fees amounting to $278 ...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Grace Mugabe evicted
POLICE superintendent Kennedy Fero, who was roped in by Mrs Grace Mugabe to grab three low-density houses from Lebanese businessman Mr Jamal Ahmed, has been ordered off the properties to pave way for ...Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe given 48 hours to leave 3 properties
Grace Mugabe and her son Russel have been ordered to leave 3 properties that they had illegally occupied in 2016 over a diamond ring deal worth US$1,4 million that had gone wrong. They were gi...Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 18:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe conned diamond investor
FORMER President Robert Mugabe's confidante and ex-pilot, Robert Mhlanga, has accused the deposed Zanu-PF leader of conning Grandwell Holdings chairperson David Kassel of his multi-million-dollar inve...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tycoon fights Grace Mugabe
A Lebanese businessman who is locked in a $1,3 million diamond ring wrangle with former first lady Grace Mugabe has filed opposing papers in the High Court, claiming the ex-Zanu-PF women’s league se...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 10:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Foreigners in Zimbabwe mine wrangle
A FIVE-YEAR–OLD mine wrangle between a Lebanese-born Australian businessman and a Russian working with local partners has affected operations at two chrome mines in Midlands after one of the parties...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 15:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cops dump Grace Mugabe
MEMBERS of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) tasked to guard five properties owned by Lebanese entrepreneur Jamal Joseph Hamed in Harare's plush suburbs, allegedly at the behest of former First Lady ...Published: 01 Jan 2018 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Grace Mugabe $1,4m ring saga rages on
SELF-EXILED Lebanese national Jamal Joseph Ahmed, who is embroiled in a $1,4 million diamond ring wrangle with former First Lady Grace Mugabe, was last week handed a lifeline after the High Court allo...Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 05:20hrs | | by Staff reorter
Mnangagwa's 'controversial' chrome deal?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been in office for less than a week, and online publications are already reporting on a "controversial" chrome deal he apparently helped facilitate with South African ...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 15:46hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Future of Grace Mugabe's farms, assets uncertain
For years, a group of Zimbabwean villagers resisted efforts by the wife of President Robert Mugabe to force them off a farm near the capital, enduring police raids and the demolition of their homes....Published: 27 Nov 2017 at 06:30hrs | | by AP
This is the wealth Robert Mugabe accumulated while Zim crumbled
We break down how much 'the poorest president in the world' is actually worth.Here is a look at some of the assets Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe owns....Published: 19 Nov 2017 at 16:30hrs | 12 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe suffers Mubarak Ceausescu shame
THE army has taken President Robert Mugabe and his wife into custody, triggering speculation of a military coup, though the military's supporters called it as a "bloodless correction." It wasn't clear...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 10:47hrs | 1 | by Associated Press
Dirty cops and Corrupt journalists hired to smear Mnangagwa
Robert Greene, an American author wrote a book entitled, The 48 Laws of Power. In this book he outlines and explain the different types of power and influence and how those who exercise them can do so...Published: 11 Nov 2017 at 15:49hrs | 2 | by Lloyd Msipa
Grace Mugabe's diamond ring saga takes new twist
LEBANESE businessman Jamal Joseph Hamed, who is entangled in a $1,2 million diamond ring wrangle with First Lady Grace Mugabe , is demanding clear particulars to enable him to properly defend the laws...Published: 21 Oct 2017 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Grace Mugabe files $1 million lawsuit against Lebanese businessman
FIRST Lady Dr Grace Mugabe is suing fugitive Lebanese businessman Mr Jamal Joseph Ahmed for $1 230 000 over a diamond ring deal that went sour last year.Dr Mugabe in April 2015 approached Mr A...Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe's 'diamond ring debtor' slapped with $1.4m default judgment
LEBANESE businessman Jamal Joseph Ahmed, who is embroiled in a $1,4 million diamond ring wrangle with First Lady Grace Mugabe, has been slapped with a $1,475 million default judgment after failing to ...Published: 06 Sep 2017 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mbeki's visit to Zimbabwe leaves more questions than answers
Ex-South African president Thabo Mbeki may be a nice person in his personal life, but there is something nasty about his trip to meet his long-time ally, Robert Mugabe, in Harare recently. It is time ...Published: 13 Aug 2017 at 12:57hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Grace Mugabe's $1,4m diamond ring saga rages on
LEBANESE businessman Jamal Ahmed, who is embroiled in a $1,4 million diamond ring wrangle with First Lady Grace Mugabe, has approached the Supreme Court challenging Judge President George Chiweshe's r...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 08:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
High Court clears Grace Mugabe
THE High Court has rescinded an erroneous court order that compelled First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe and her son Mr Russell Goreraza to vacate three houses belonging to a fugitive Lebanese businessman Ja...Published: 29 Jun 2017 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe in court victory
THE High Court has rescinded an erroneous court order that compelled First Lady Dr Grace Mugabe and her son Mr Russell Goreraza to vacate three houses belonging to a fugitive Lebanese businessman Jama...Published: 28 Jun 2017 at 16:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Al Jazeera on the brink of being shut down
Four Arab states have sent Qatar a list of 13 demands it must meet if it wants them to lift their sanctions.Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain are asking the Gulf state ...Published: 23 Jun 2017 at 09:41hrs | | by BBC
Mugabe boast of booting Chinese out of Marange, 'I'm bitter!' - subtle warning in naming and shaming
Whilst one can understand Mugabe's "bitterness" at being made to look the fool parading a fat cheque not even worth the paper it was written on. Still one has to question why he found it necessary to ...Published: 20 Jun 2017 at 21:02hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Hunt for Zimbabwe's new Prosecutor-General begins
The Judiciary Service Commission (JSC) has begun the hunt for the new Prosecutor-General (PG) after it issued a notice inviting nominations for candidates seeking to fill one of the country's coveted ...Published: 20 Jun 2017 at 13:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I'm bitter, paraded $1.5 m dishonour cheque,' says Mugabe - perish thought, what about $15b
In 2012, the late Edward Chindori-Chininga said in parliamentary report that no one, no one in the companies doing mining, the local partner (whoever it happened to be) or anyone in position of author...Published: 20 Jun 2017 at 09:48hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Diamond companies fooled Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe has publicly admitted that he was fooled after being paraded holding up a $1,5 million dummy cheque by Chiadzwa diamond mining companies at the behest of then Indigenisation mi...Published: 19 Jun 2017 at 13:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe lashes out at Chinese for using him
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has lashed out at his "all-weather friends" - the Chinese - for allegedly using him to hoodwink the people of Manicaland province into believing they would benefit from proceed...Published: 19 Jun 2017 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Serious jockeying for Tomana's job
Before the dust has even settled following the axing of former Prosecutor-General (PG) Johannes Tomana, serious jockeying for the top post has started in earnest, as rival factions within the warring ...Published: 13 Jun 2017 at 10:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe'ss diamond ring dealer fears for his life
LEBANESE businessman Jamal Ahmed, who dragged First Lady Grace Mugabe to court after she allegedly invaded his three upmarket houses in Harare in a dispute over the purchase of a US$1,4 million diamon...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 13:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
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