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Zimbabwean man denied bail in SA over rape of landlord's daughter
The Atteridgeville Magistrate's Court in Pretoria has denied bail to a 55-year-old Zimbabwean national based in Saulsville, who was charged with three counts of raping his landlord's 12-year-old daugh...Published: 18 Jul 2025 at 08:52hrs | 901 | by Staff reporter
Siblings' inheritance dispute spills into court
A Glen View woman has successfully obtained a protection order against her brother following a violent altercation over the distribution of their late father's estate.Alice Muteve appeared bef...Published: 07 Jul 2025 at 08:51hrs | 393 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo, Bushiri cases dominate Anti-Corruption Conference
The high-profile cases of fugitive Malawian preacher Shepherd Bushiri and controversial Zimbabwean businessman Wicknell Chivayo have taken centre stage at the 15th Commonwealth Regional Conference for...Published: 07 May 2025 at 15:47hrs | 1983 | by Staff reporter
South Africa arrests Nyokayemabhunu, Zimbabwe seeks extradition
Wellington Masiwa, a vocal critic of the Zimbabwean government known by his social media alias Nyokayemabhunu, is facing possible deportation from South Africa after Zimbabwe issued an international a...Published: 01 May 2025 at 12:33hrs | 2134 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe diplomat defrauded of US$1.3 million in international scam
Interpol London has confirmed that Richard Kaye, the alleged mastermind behind an elaborate investment scam that defrauded the late Zimbabwean diplomat Ambassador Hurudza Punungwe and his wife of US$1...Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 06:35hrs | 1059 | by Staff reporter
Gweru court orders bogus lawyer to pay US$15,000
A Gweru magistrate has ordered a man who posed as a lawyer to repay US$15,000 he fraudulently obtained from a local woman in a botched divorce settlement.Takunda Manjokota, 37, was sentenced b...Published: 24 Jan 2025 at 07:54hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
'CIO operative' dupes farmer of US$30,000
A man accused of impersonating a State security agent, Shepherd Mangoma, appeared before Harare Magistrate Ruth Moyo on Friday facing charges of impersonation, fraud, and theft of trust property. Mang...Published: 31 Dec 2024 at 13:55hrs | 467 | by Staff reporter
Late former ambassador, wife lose US$1,3m in investment scam
Authorities in Zimbabwe are intensifying efforts to recover nearly US$1.3 million defrauded from the late Ambassador Hurudza Gift Punungwe and his wife, Runako Beauty Punungwe, in an investment scam d...Published: 30 Nov 2024 at 12:50hrs | 271 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe eyes China's $50 billion African modernisation fund
Zimbabwe is gearing up to tap into a US$50 billion fund that China pledged to support Africa's modernisation and industrialisation efforts during the recent Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) S...Published: 09 Nov 2024 at 17:08hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa lauds land reform programme beneficiaries
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has commended Zimbabwean farmers who benefitted from the country's controversial land reform programme, highlighting their success in transforming farming into business ve...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 07:07hrs | 171 | by Staff reporter
NPA clears 69 708 criminal cases
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) of Zimbabwe successfully cleared 69,708 out of 101,112 cases between January and September 2024, marking a significant achievement in the country's judicial sy...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 07:44hrs | 61 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe era farm grab victims to make way for Mnangagwa's wife
In a distressing echo of past land disputes, villagers residing at Arnold Farm, commonly known as Manzou, are reportedly facing pressures to vacate their homes to make way for First Lady Auxilia Mnang...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 13:40hrs | 2239 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, China sign 17 major deals
Zimbabwe and China have reaffirmed their Comprehensive Strategic Partnership of Cooperation by signing 17 agreements and Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) across multiple sectors, including agricult...Published: 04 Sep 2024 at 07:50hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
Zacc recovers 350 corruptly imported vehicles
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has recovered more than 350 vehicles that were illegally imported through the abuse of the civil servants' vehicle rebate scheme that allows established ...Published: 09 Aug 2024 at 07:43hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe criticises nonobjective corruption index ranking
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has called on developed countries to aid African nations in combating corruption by providing timely legal assistance and repatriating proceeds of crime....Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 18:27hrs | 35 | by Staff reporter
SADC police chiefs meet
Police commanders from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region will convene in Lusaka, Zambia, from June 13 to 14 for the 29th Annual General Meeting of the Chiefs of Police Sub ...Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 06:28hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zacc struggles to recover US$1bn tainted assets
Zimbabwe's weak extra-territorial judicial systems are hampering the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) from recovering looted funds believed to be hidden in foreign countries, NewsDay has rep...Published: 31 May 2024 at 21:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army boss ordered to pay ZiG40,000 to torture victim
Defense Minister Oppah Muchinguri and Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) Commander Anselem Sanyatwe have been directed by Harare magistrate Tamara Chibindi to compensate Muchademba Muponde of Glenview with ...Published: 11 Apr 2024 at 08:49hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers call for job action over salaries
THE Federation of Zimbabwe Educators Unions, (Fozeu), has called for an immediate job action starting from tomorrow after teachers declared incapacitation amid rising inflation and cost of living....Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 12:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare tops Zimbabwe's corruption list
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has revealed in its 2022 annual report that Harare constituted the highest number of suspected corruption cases, with over 70%.In its fourth repo...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 20:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
100 Zimbabweans probed over US$70m ill-gotten wealth
Over 100 individuals suspected of acquiring assets worth US$70 million through money laundering and illicit financial activities are currently under investigation. The National Prosecuting Authority (...Published: 22 Oct 2023 at 09:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Suicide now associated with cyber-bullying
Worldwide cyberbullying has been associated with suicide among school children in several recent cases, a phenomenon that has been newly termed cyberbullicide. With access to modern technology and the...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 13:23hrs | 18 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Moreblessing Ali will not be buried until Job Sikhala is released
A year has gone by since the abduction, murder and dismemberment of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Moreblessing Ali and her remains are still to be buried.Ali's daughter, Nyasha ...Published: 15 Jun 2023 at 16:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Foreign organisations petition Mnangagwa over Sikhala
A RECORD 18 civil society organisations from different parts of the world have petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa and key figures in his government over the growing trend of judicial persecution ...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 07:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Scammers bleed Natfoods US$6m
IN what could be one of the biggest cybercrimes ever reported in the country, National Foods, a local manufacturer and marketer of food products, lost over US$6 million to criminals who hacked into it...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil society approaches AU
A GROUPING of civil society organisations, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum), has taken the country's human rights fight to the African Union, predicting a bloody election due to the gov...Published: 15 May 2023 at 19:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Independence makes no sense to a people still suffering!
During my short two-year stint in South Africa, between 2008 and 2010, I worked with two NGOs (non-governmental organizations) - whose main focus was with the less privileged.The first one I w...Published: 17 Apr 2023 at 14:13hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chiwenga ex-wife's foreign trial bid flops
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife, Marry Mubaiwa may have lost the battle to have her case of allegedly trying to kill her ex-husband tried in South Africa.It emerged that Z...Published: 21 Mar 2023 at 19:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Wadyajena seeks release from remand over trial delay
Fraud-charged Member of Parliament, Justice Mayor Wadyajena, and his co-accused have applied for release from remand, citing delays in the commencement of their trial.The legislator is accused...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 19:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa promises to end 'terror tactics'
The Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) has described an attack on a lawyer by police on Saturday as a "new low" for the country's checkered human rights record.In a statement, the LSZ demanded an i...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 11:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police crackdown on Chamisa's CCC
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) organising secretary Amos Chibaya and Budiriro legislator Costa Machingauta were arrested in Harare yesterday alongside 23 other party members while attending an in...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 11:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga ex-wife's Pretoria home, Range Rovers seized by South African authorities
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's ex-wife Marry Mubaiwa's troubles continue mounting after a South African court has ordered the seizure of her Pretoria home and her two Land Rover vehicles until ...Published: 20 Dec 2022 at 20:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to testify on murder attempt
VICE-President Constantino Chiwenga is set to testify in a case where his ex-wife Marry Mubaiwa is accused of attempting to kill him in South Africa two years ago.Mubaiwa, who is being represe...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 05:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Controversy around reinstatement of acquitted army captain
...he feels he is unfair treated THERE is controversy around the reinstatement of a former Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) Captain Solomon Ndlovu wh...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 11:33hrs | 6 | by Stephen Jakes
Zacc fails to recover stolen US$7 billion
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's anti-corruption fight has been exposed as nothing but hot air following revelations that less than US$2 million out of identified US$7 billion ill-gotten wealth stashed ...Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 08:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga ex-wife's bid to shift attempted murder trial to SA fails
Court has rejected a bid by Marry Mubaiwa to have her trial shifted to South Africa where the attempted murder on her ex-husband and Zimbabwe Vice President Constantino Chiwenga allegedly took place....Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 17:08hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe agrees extradition deal with Rwanda
ZIMBABWE and Rwanda last week signed an agreement that will help expedite "two specific criminal cases" as Kigali seeks the extradition of individuals suspected of involvement in the country's 1994 ge...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa thrown under the bus by Wally Rhoode
In his response to the Public Protector, President Cyril Ramaphosa's head of Presidential Protection Service, Wally Rhoode, has revealed the roles allegedly played by the President and his Namibian co...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 12:40hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
'West abetting corruption in Zimbabwe'
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi on Tuesday accused Western countries of supporting organisations that have been breeding corruption in Zimbabwe in a bid to propagate a negative narrative that Preside...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Crime Intelligence funds used for Ramaphosa's Phala Phala 'farmgate' cover-up
A secret Crime Intelligence fund was used to finance the clandestine operations set up to trace the thieves who stole millions of dollars from President Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala farm in February ...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 10:31hrs | 1 | by Mzilikazi Wa Afrika
FBI roped in to investigate 'money laundering' at Ramaphosa's Phala Phala farm
The burglary, which happened in February 2020, came to light earlier this month when former spy boss Arthur Fraser laid criminal charges against Ramaphosa.He claims $4 million was taken from t...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 14:19hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's NPA snubbed Namibian police over Phala Phala robbery
South African authorities allegedly gave the Namibian police the silent treatment to frustrate their investigation into suspects linked to the robbery at President Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala farm....Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 11:12hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
ZACC vows to recover ill-gotten wealth even after jail
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC), which is targeting to recover US$50 million worth of assets believed to be proceeds of corruption, has said it will strip criminals of their ill-gotten ...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Anti-human trafficking efforts hit snag, says Minister
THE government has accused law enforcement agents in countries such as Oman of refusing to co-operate with local police to curb human trafficking.Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa told Ne...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 05:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa rally murder: 11 out
ELEVEN of the 16 youths who were arrested in connection with the murder of a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporter at a rally in Kwekwe, Midlands province, on Sunday have been released amid re...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's estranged wife's R14m house seized in SA
SOUTH African authorities have seized property belonging to Zimbabwean vice-president Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife Marry Mubaiwa.The property includes Mubaiwa's R14m upmarket house in...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 15:31hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zacc salvages US$1m property in SA
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), with the assistance of South African authorities, has managed to seize and forfeit property worth US$1 million suspected to have been illegally acquired...Published: 20 Feb 2022 at 08:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ritual killings leave Zimbabweans reeling
TEARS run down Michael Benza's face as he recalls the recent deaths of his son Dylan and nephew's daughter, Melissa. They were both seven."I was away from home, and when I came back, there was...Published: 14 Jan 2022 at 05:21hrs | 1 | by Gamuchirai Masiyiwa/Linda Mujuru
ZACC boast 'great strides in stamping out corruption', seized US$700M - super slow applaud, 6% gold looted in one decade alone
"The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) said it had seized property worth over $700 million," reported Zimeye."The anti-corruption body has also filed 18 unexplained wealth order case file...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 13:58hrs | 13 | by Wilbert Mukori
Fugitive R10m fraudster nabbed, faces extradition
CORDIAL relations between Zimbabwe and South Africa have led to the arrest of a fugitive who swindled a South African company of over R10 million, jumped bail and later sneaked into Zimbabwe where he ...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 12:51hrs | 16 | by Staff Reporter
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