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Harare Council bid to splash US$2m on 500 desktops exposed
Some Harare City Council officials have been caught in a procurement scam in which they are fighting for the purchase of 500 desktop computers at US$4 000 each, above the market price of about US$700....Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 04:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Auxillia Mnangagwa laptops stolen
Five Form 2 students from Chrome High School in Shurugwi have been granted bail until Monday after they were accused of stealing 16 laptops that had been donated to Selukwe Primary School by the Presi...Published: 23 Sep 2023 at 20:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Shambolic accounts haunt city
HARARE City Council has been failing to properly account for its revenues over the past four years due to a manual accounting system prone to human error and manipulation.In 2019, the local au...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare City in US$51m ICT scam
The allegations of dubious conduct arise as the IT boss Mr Samson Madzokere with some top managers are already reeling in the eye of a storm amid allegations of spending US$20 000 per trip on numerous...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
No internet at Harare municipality offices
HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume yesterday grilled the council's Information Communication and Technology department (ICT) after it emerged that the municipality has gone for weeks without internet services....Published: 02 Nov 2022 at 05:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Court blocks prisoners from voting
THE High Court has dismissed with costs an application by former prisoners seeking voting rights for inmates during elections.Through their lawyer Tererai Mafukidze of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for...Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
14 CCC members' bail bid rejected
The group of 14 CCC members, facing charges of assault, arson and looting after the violence that rocked Nyatsime area after Moreblessing Ali was kidnapped and murdered by a former boyfriend, have had...Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parly grills Harare over missing US$200m
PARLIAMENT yesterday opened an inquiry into the disappearance of US$200 million from Harare City Council coffers after the local authority terminated a contract with its financial software supplier....Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 07:15hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC denies dumping jailed activists
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has denied claims it has dumped its 16 activists who have been languishing in remand prison for nearly two months charged with the violence that rocked Nyatsime in ...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 20:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa barred
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa on Monday waited three hours and was finally forced to abandon his visit to Chikurubi Maximum Prison to see jailed party activists including l...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 15:42hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Court reserves judgment in prisoners' quest to vote
HIGH Court judge Justice Munamato Mutevedzi yesterday reserved judgment in an application seeking voting rights for prisoners during elections, saying all parties involved in the matter would be notif...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:46hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Prisoners demand voting right
THE High Court will for the second time hear an application filed by prisoners in 2017, seeking to be allowed to vote during elections, after the judge who initially heard the matter, Justice Clement ...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:34hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
CBZ manager jailed for stealing US$8 000
CBZ Agribusiness manager Tafadzwa Madzokere was on Friday sentenced to 24 months imprisonment after she stole US$8 500 and mobile phones from her estranged boyfriend, Solomon Sibanda.Madzokere...Published: 23 Oct 2021 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa 'compensates' Last Maengahama with National Executive post
MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa has appointed Last Maengahama, who spent 10 years in prison, only to be proven innocent this year, as the opposition party's secretary for policy and research....Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:33hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
US$12 000 compensation can't soothe activist for unjustified imprisonment
AT the age of 28, Linda Musiyamhanje was charged with the murder of a police officer and spent almost a year in prison.She left her two-year-old son in the care of her siblings and together wi...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's MDC unperturbed by ex-inmate activists joining Chamisa
THE Douglas Mwonzora led MDC-T says it respects the decision by Last Maengahama and Tungamirai Madzokere to align themselves with the rival MDC Alliance faction following the pair's recent release fro...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:47hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
MDC jailbirds recount tale of horror
PAIN was scribbled all over his face as he narrated his ordeal in prison, which lasted for 10 years, served for a crime that he did not commit.MDC Alliance activist Tungamirai Madzokere finall...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new tool against dissent
THE incarceration at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison and delayed acquittal of two opposition activists by the Supreme Court last week is symptomatic of Zanu-PF's desperate attempt to weaponise the l...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Suffering Zimbabweans not alone: UN Watch
UNITED Nations Watch executive director Hillel Neue yesterday assured Zimbabweans that they were not alone in their suffering amid human rights abuses perpetrated on political activists and civilians ...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa promises a new dawn to Maengahama
President for MDC Alliance Nelson Chamisa promised a consolatory party position to Last Maengahama who was released from jail on Friday after serving eigh...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 21:16hrs | 8 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Chamisa demands compensation for MDC Alliance duo
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday demanded that government should compensate party activists Last Maengahama and Tungamirai Madzokere, who clocked eight years at Chikurubi Maximu...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Swaziland born top human rights lawyer says Zimbabwe police should be sued
TOP human rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa says police officers who take the law into their own hands through visiting forms of brutalities on suspects or turn some incidents into political cases, must ...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 19:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Madzokere's pain over his lost wife after 10 years behind bars wrongly jailed
HARARE - Jailed for 10 years for a murder he might not have committed. Tungamirai Madzokere on Monday surveyed the ruins that are his personal life and remarked: "I lost everything."Madzokere ...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 17:08hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC's Madzokere abandoned by wife
FREED MDC activist Tungamirai Madzokere carried a broken figure as he narrated how he only got to know his wife had abandoned their matrimonial home eight months ago.Dejected and seemingly out...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
CJ Malaba case stokes fire
TOP human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa has called for investigation and suspension of Judicial Service Commission (JSC) secretary Walter Chikwana over his alleged meeting with one of the judges assig...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance veterans condemn 'captured' justice system
THE MDC Alliance Veterans Activist Association (VAA) yesterday blasted the country's justice system saying it was compromised to the extent that innocent people clocked several years in jail without p...Published: 07 Jun 2021 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC duo acquitted after 8 years in jail
THE Supreme Court yesterday acquitted MDC Alliance activists Last Maengahama and Tungamirai Madzokere of the murder of a senior police officer after it ruled that their conviction by the High Court wa...Published: 05 Jun 2021 at 09:29hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Dembare rebuff Caps Utd
DYNAMOS have rebuffed Caps United's demand for compensation following striker Newman Sianchali's decision to quit the Green Machine to join Dembare.Sianchali is at the centre of a dispute betw...Published: 15 May 2021 at 09:44hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
PSL coaches ready to rumble
FOR the country's flagship sport - football - the coronavirus-induced break has been a journey in the wilderness.And for Premiership coaches it is now 16 months without sitting in the dugout....Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:01hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says Zanu-PF brutality could plunge Zimbabwe into Mozambique chaos
MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa says the country risked plunging into extremism just witnessed in neighbouring Mozambique if the ruling Zanu-PF party persists with its brutal politics.The ...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rare Uhuru Cup promises fireworks
EVERY time Dynamos and Highlanders clash, the match is always an explosive affair, and it seems the President's Uhuru Cup this afternoon would not be any different despite the coronavirus having a hug...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 08:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare ship in turbulent waters
HARARE giants Dynamos' preparations for the 2021 season were yesterday thrown into disarray following the shock suspension of goalkeepers' coach Gift Muzadzi while goalkeeper Simb...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 21:05hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Haruzivishe represents everything wrong about opposition politics
A young member of the MDC formation led by Nelson Chamisa, Makomborero Haruzivishe, was sentenced to 14 months in prison by the Harare Magistrates Court this week for inciting public violence. ...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:16hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Dembare hunts for assistant coach
DYNAMOS coach Tonderai Ndiraya has begun the hunt for an assistant, almost one year after the death of his deputy, Biggie Zuze. The latter succumbed to a respiratory-related illness in June 2020....Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 05:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jailed MDC activists appeal to Malaba over delayed ruling
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has been asked to look into a year-long delay on pronouncement of judgment on an appeal by incarcerated MDC activists Tungamira Madzokere and Last Maengahama.The two ...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa tells Mnangagwa to stop violence
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stop violence in the country, arbitrary arrests, abductions and torture of civilians under his watch as suc...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa requests Zimbabweans to pray for Joana Mamombe
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has urged Zimbabweans to pray for jailed MDC MP Joana Mamombe and other political prisoners who are languishing in prison. In a Twitter post on Saturda...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 11:06hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Acquittals prove political abuse of the courts
While we welcome the good news of the acquittal of Honourable Settlement Chikwinya and Lloyd Mukapiko on spurious charges of incitement to commit public violence; we have to place it on record that th...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 17:15hrs | | by Innocent Gonese
Rahman Gumbo keeps his options open
RAHMAN GUMBO says he will keep his options open if an offer comes from Zifa for him to become the next Warriors coach. The 55-year old gaffer, who was part of the technical team led by Sunday ...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:22hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Warriors begin life after Mhofu
ZIMBABWE'S Warriors begin life without Sunday "Mhofu'' Chidzambwa when they face Mauritius at the George V Stadium in Curepipe today with the bunch of home-grown talent seeking to get their African Na...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
More woes for Warriors
ZIMBABWE'S poor performance at the Africa Cup of Nations continue to haunt the team after they moved down the Fifa rankings released yesterday, which has dire consequences on their qualification for t...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Highlanders dominate national team
HIGHLANDERS provided the highest number of players to the final travelling 18 men Warriors squad that left for Mauritius this morning for the first leg of the Chan qualifier on Sunday.The squa...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 20:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Josta disappointed
CAPS United's flourishing midfielder Joel "Josta" Ngodzo, is disappointed that he has been overlooked in the Warriors provisional 32-member squad for the 2020 African Nations Championships (CHAN) qual...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zephania joins cry over 'childish' Warriors' selection
FORMER Warriors' defender, Zephania Ngodzo, has joined a growing list of discontented local football fans over the decision by national team coaches to omit Caps United's Joel Ngodzo as well as Highla...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Perennial failure continues as Warriors coach
CAPS midfielder Joel "Josta" Ngodzo was the surprise omission from the Warriors' 32-member squad announced by coach Sunday Chidzambga yesterday for the 2020 African Nations Championship (Chan) qualifi...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa is a master of empty promises'
MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa has earned himself several sobriquets, all deriving from his knack for lying with a straight face.The youthful opposition leader has become a habitual liar and a mas...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says Zimbabwe prisons in sorry state
MDC activists jailed for the murder of police inspector Petros Mutedza in Glen View in 2011, together with other inmates, are living in squalid and overcrowded conditions at the Chikurubi Maximum Secu...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa descends on Zimbabwe prisons
Today President Nelson Chamisa visited MDC members who are incarcerated for political reasons. He was accompanied by the party Deputy Spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka, Secretary for Public Service and S...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 14:57hrs | | by Maureen Kademaunga
MDC Reading protest and fundraiser
MDC Reading has just held its first demonstration since the end of the National Congress held in Zimbabwe, where the young and vibrant leader Nelson Chamisa was democratically elected as its President...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 19:40hrs | 3 | by Thabo Makuyana
Warriors off to Nigeria
THE ZIMBABWE Warriors yesterday set off for the second leg of the Afcon preparations when they flew to Nigeria for their high-profile international match against the Super Eagles at Stephen Keshi Stad...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
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