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Nguwaya savages Temba Mliswa
HARARE businessman Dilesh Nguwaya, has savaged Norton legislator TembaMliswa for maligning his reputation by labelling him as corrupt without providing evidence.This comes after Mliswa accused...Published: 14 hrs ago | 3819 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga loses party grip, close allies sink
BELEAGUERED Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga made spirited but futile efforts to save his allies from the Zanu-PF political guillotine during Wednesday's tense politburo meeting in which a titanic ...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:44hrs | 17316 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa wants Matanga probed for corruption
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa (Independent) has pleaded with the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga for alleged corruption and abuse of offi...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:37hrs | 1373 | by Staff reporter
'ZRP must adopt regional policing protocol'
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum has called on local police officers to adopt the Southern African Regional Police Chiefs Cooperation Organisation (SARPCCO) guidelines to instil discipline in the f...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:35hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
Matanga accused of shady car deals, bribery
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has been accused of being involved in a raft of corrupt activities including inflating prices of police vehicles, flouting tender processes; and bribing Spec...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:22hrs | 1419 | by Staff reporter
Zesa gets nod to buy coal in forex
The government has rescinded its earlier decision to bar power utility Zesa from paying for its coal supplies in foreign currency, fearing the move could trigger crippling load shedding, Business Time...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 07:21hrs | 1618 | by Staff Reporter
Dealers appeal for removal of VAT on rice
Players in the rice supply chain have appealed to Government to reconsider a 14,5 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) charge on the commodity. A Government VAT payment request in retrospect, for a p...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:43hrs | 51 | by Staff reporter
Teargas-throwing cops to be charged, says Matanga
Seven police officers who threw teargas canisters onto a bus full of passengers at the Harare Exhibition Park will be charged under the Police Act, Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has said. ...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 16:24hrs | 525 | by Staff reporter
Matanga admits bus teargassing cops messed up
POLICE Commissioner General Godwin Matanga has admitted his subordinates messed up when they threw teargas cannisters into a bus full of passengers at a bus stop near the Harare showgrounds early this...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 20:27hrs | 2147 | by Staff reporter
ZRP says recruiting 1,000 police officers
The Zimbabwe Republic Police says it will recruit 1,000 new police officers as soon as the coronavirus pandemic eases up.Police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga told a news conference in Ha...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 20:26hrs | 538 | by Staff reporter
Kurauone slaps Govt with $2 million lawsuit for unlawful arrest
MDC-Alliance party youth leader Godfrey Kurauone has slapped President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government and other accomplices with a $2.4 million lawsuit over his unlawful arrest, detention and malicio...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 16:29hrs | 759 | by Stephen Jakes
Top ZRP bosses witchhunt for moles at CID
SENIOR Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers have launched a massive witchhunt against perceived moles leaking information about underhand dealings involving bosses stationed at the Criminal Investi...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:23hrs | 5909 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe female magistrates sexually harassed at work, says former boss
CORRUPTION accused former chief magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe has made startling claims Zimbabwean female magistrates were being sexually harassed at work.The one-time topmost magistrate said t...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:32hrs | 1522 | by Staff reporter
MDC youth leader sues for illegal detention
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance youth leader and Masvingo ward 4 councillor, Godfrey Kurauone, has given notice to sue police for $2,4 million in damages following his arrest on trumped-up violence charges....Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | 619 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe, Mthuli face contempt over $17k damages
AN ACTIVIST who was granted $17 000 damages by the High Court after being brutally assaulted by the police while demonstrating against xenophobia at the South African Embassy in 2015 is now seeking to...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 18:50hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Former mayor charged over niece 'rape'
The former mayor of Gwanda Rido Mpofu appeared in court on Wednesday accused of raping his 15-year-old niece on several occasions.Mpofu, 70, briefly appeared before Gwanda magistrate Caroline ...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:16hrs | 1345 | by Staff reporter
Chinese companies ditch Zimbabwe projects
MAJOR Chinese insurance firms are refusing to underwrite critical infrastructure projects in Zimbabwe due to government's failure to pay commitment fees and other related costs, it has emerged....Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 10:19hrs | 8442 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police criminal syndicate busted
THE Special Anti-Corruption Unit (SACU) and the Drugs and Narcotics outfit that falls under the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have busted an alleged underground syndicate comprising top poli...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:48hrs | 5885 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe faces $500 000 lawsuit over bungled abortion
A HARARE woman is claiming $500 000 damages from Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe in respect of non patrimonial loss suffered as a result of failure by the police to carry out their constitutiona...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:54hrs | 3979 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa blasts ZACC, SACU
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa Wednesday urged Parliament to act on a land scandal in Aspindale, Harare involving businessman Billy Rautenbach and the state as the anti-corruption bodies were failing to prote...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:17hrs | 1715 | by Staff reporter
Drax graft busters arrested
THREE police officers who were actively involved in the arrest of Delish Nguwaya, the Zimbabwean representative of Drax International, a company implicated in the US$60 million COVID-19 equipment proc...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 08:01hrs | 4704 | by Staff reporter
Treasury boss faces arrest
THE Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday directed Clerk of Parliament, Kennedy Chokuda to summon Finance ministry secretary George Guvamatanga on a warrant of arrest to appear before Parliament f...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:36hrs | 4072 | by Staff reporter
Biti calls for Guvamatanga arrest
PUBLIC Accounts Committee chairperson Tendai Biti Monday directed the Clerk of Parliament to issue a warrant of arrest against Ministry of Finance secretary, George Guvamatanga following his failure t...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 20:46hrs | 4331 | by Staff reporter
High Court reverses Mawarire's lawsuit loss
HIGH Court judge Justice Edith Mushore has rescinded a default judgment entered against #ThisFlag campaign leader and clergyman, Evan Mawarire, who had lost his $65 000 damages claim against the Zimba...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:06hrs | 2245 | by Staff reporter
Man wins $56k suit against Zimbabwe police
OME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga have been ordered to pay $56 640 as compensation to a Mazowe man whose car was burnt to a shell by law enforcement a...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:05hrs | 1260 | by Staff reporter
Top cop takes boss to court
A TOP cop who was recently acquitted on charges of allegedly stealing guns, more than 180 live bullets and an assortment of related weaponry from the police armoury has taken his boss, Police Commissi...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:46hrs | 1031 | by Staff reporter
'Police Boss Godwin Matanga selling fraudulent stands' Mliswa says
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has accused Commissioner General of the Police Godwin Matanga of working with Minister of Local government July Moyo to sell fraudulently acquired stands...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 10:51hrs | 4454 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe may be sitting on more oil and gas deposits
ZIMBABWE may be sitting on more oil and gas deposits than initially projected. The country has five other basins capable of hosting hydrocarbons such as oil and gas, in addition to the Zambezi V...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:04hrs | 1154 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's sons are corrupt: Mliswa
OUTSPOKEN Norton legislator Temba Mliswa (independent) has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's sons Collins and Sean of engaging in criminal activities and associating with suspected con-artist, De...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:52hrs | 6158 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa twins have 'corrupt relationship' with Delish Nguwaya'
In a bombshell voice note sent to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's twin sons Shaun and Collins, Norton MP Temba Mliswa - who enjoys close ties with the Zanu-PF leader - hits the roof accusing the duo of...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 17:12hrs | 2942 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's family friend in extortion storm
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Special Anti-Corruption Unit (SACU) and the President's family friend, Delish Nguwaya have been accused of visiting a Harare businessman in remand prison to try to extor...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:30hrs | 9904 | by Staff reporter
Some rural shops have rendered e-wallets redundant
Most rural traders and general dealer shop owners order their goods from N. Richards and Mahomed Mussa Wholesalers where they buy using e-wallets. On reaching the countryside they fleece the m...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:03hrs | 234 | by Tondo
Top cop challenges retirement
THE officer-in-charge of Hwange Police Station Chief Inspector Samuel Tadzaushe, who is set to go on retirement this Friday, has approached the High Court challenging the decision by Police Commission...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 15:49hrs | 4206 | by Staff reporter
Zacc descends on police top brass
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has launched a massive crackdown targeting senior Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers implicated in corruption.Already, some of ZRP's top bra...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:28hrs | 5971 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's dangerous drift puts Mnangagwa under spotlight
ZIMBABWE is quiet for now after President Emmerson Mnangagwa clamped heavily on dissent while figures who have led calls for protests have been locked up in jail, with investigative journalist Hopewel...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:15hrs | 2286 | by Alfonce Mbizwo
MRP petitions govt over police harassment
SECESSIONIST Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has petitioned government to register its displeasure over harassment and physical abuse of Bulawayo residents by State security agents, particularly at roa...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:13hrs | 505 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF decides on expelled Mugabe allies' readmission pleas
MIDLANDS based former government ministers and allies to late ex-President Robert Mugabe will know their Zanu-PF membership status when the party's provincial executive meets this week to examine thei...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:08hrs | 2005 | by Staff reporter
Top cop faces car theft charge
A TOP police officer has been accused of stealing her employer's vehicle, an Isuzu KB truck.Police have since seized the truck, worth $1 200 000, which Superintendent Modesta Manungo Masukusa ...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 14:24hrs | 1933 | by Stff reporter
Mugabe coup announcer emerges front-runner in Zanu-PF succession race
FOREIGN Minister Sibusiso Moyo has emerged as a centre of power in government and the ruling Zanu-PF party, and now fancies his chances of becoming Zimbabwe's next president.This was said by e...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 07:36hrs | 15531 | by newzimbabwe
Govt sweats over Drax payment
Government is in a dilemma on whether to retain or pay US$2 million to Drax SAGL International for the supply and delivery of medicines and consumables as part of a US$20 million contract it later can...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:29hrs | 4176 | by Staff reporter
Businesses warned for flouting forex auction rate
GOVERNMENT has condemned the practice by some businesses to charge people paying in local currency using rates that are above the foreign currency auction rate. Most shops are not adhering to ...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:07hrs | 400 | by Staff reporter
G40 members apply to re-join Zanu-PF
Two former cabinet ministers have made applied to re-join the ruling Zanu-PFparty, two years after they were expelled, the Midlands provincial chairperson has said.In an interview, ZANU-PF Mid...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 20:14hrs | 2733 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ripe for change!
When I read the statement by Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa in her reaction to the Catholic bishops' pastoral letter, I was shocked at the ignorance and arrogance displayed in it. I said to my...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 11:17hrs | 607 | by Ken Mufuka
WATCH: New twist to Drax US$60 million saga
Zimbabwe was never prejudiced in the US$60 million Drax deal, Secretary for Finance George Guvamantanga has said. In an interview with ZBC, Guvamatanga said Zimbabwe only paid US$2 million for...Published: 19 Aug 2020 at 14:27hrs | 4758 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe did not lose any money on DRAX 'deal'
FINANCE and economic development Permanent Secretary Mr George Guvamatanga has insisted that Zimbabwe did not lose any money from the alleged fraud regarding Drax International Covid-19 procurement de...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 17:16hrs | 1552 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's Permanent Secretary explains source of wealth
Finance and Economic Development Permanent Secretary, Mr George Guvamatanga, said he made his money working in the private sector for more than 30 years, and rising to chief executive of Barclays Bank...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 08:24hrs | 2669 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo threatens to expose Mthuli Ncube's ministry
Professor Jonathan Moyo has given the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development 48n hours to give a full disclosure of the alleged US$1.2 Billion SOTIC deal.Prof Moyo alleges that NOIC was ...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 10:32hrs | 8901 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe men can be jailed for failing to assist police in arresting suspects
Zimbabwe's Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act [Chapter 9:07] makes it a crime for Zimbabwean men aged 16-65 if they refuse to work with law enforcement agents in arresting a suspected criminal. ...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 09:40hrs | 4543 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli Ncube's permanent secretary flies family in private aircraft after beating Covid-19
Super-rich ministry finance permanent secretary George Guvamatanga has celebrated beating the coronavirus by hiring a private aircraft to fly his family to Victoria Falls.Guvamatanga was hospi...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:22hrs | 2950 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo's claims on Chasi dismissal rubbished
THE Government has dismissed as patently false claims by exiled former Cabinet Minister, Professor Jonathan Moyo, that the National Oil and Infrastructure Company (NOIC) received a US$1.2 billion loan...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:18hrs | 790 | by Staff reporter
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