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Mnangagwa to abolish VP post reserved for Ndebeles in Zimbabwe govt?
The toxic politics of tribalism and clanism continues unabated in Zimbabwe as the process of "de- Zezurunisation" and "Karanganisation" of government and all sectors which begun when Mnangagwa (Karang...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 07:38hrs | 9603 | by Israel Dube
Grace Mugabe attacks Mnangagwa?
The escalating row over a farm in Harare's Pomona area, involving Grace Mugabe and a number of land claimants, has now placed the erratic former first lady in the gun-sights of the ruling Zanu-PF. ...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:53hrs | 13464 | by Staff reporter
Court stops Grace Mugabe farm eviction
Three farmers seeking to evict former president Robert Mugabe's widow from a farm in Mazowe must wait until his estate is registered before pursuing the matter, the Harare High Court ruled on Monday....Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 18:11hrs | 9920 | by ZimLive
'Inflation is because TSP failed to factor in drought' - yeah right, sell-out whitewashing Zanu PF tomb
Zimbabwe is well and truly stuck in this hell-on-earth mess! What makes our situation so, so frustrating about it is this is a man-made mess. For the last 39 years and counting the ruling party, Zanu ...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 09:06hrs | 2814 | by Wilbert Mukori
Inflation out of control: Guvamatanga
Finance ministry permanent secretary George Guvamatanga has revealed that the government is not considering removing the 2% tax on mobile transactions despite criticism that it is fuelling inflation....Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:46hrs | 895 | by Staff reporter
Top cop in corruption storm
A TOP Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) official has been fingered in a well-orchestrated police corruption scam by a subordinate who has since been granted protection by the High Court after exposing th...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 05:59hrs | 1189 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga in remarkable recovery, returning home soon
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga, who was airlifted to China from South Africa in July amid poisoning fears, is preparing to return home after making a remarkable recovery at a top hospital in Beij...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 05:18hrs | 1890 | by Staff reporter
$2 coins issuance date set
Bond notes lifespan limitedBOND notes and coins will continue being used as legal tender in Zimbabwe for a limited period alongside new notes and coins, which will be put into circulation this mon...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 06:45hrs | 3302 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe defends $2m defamation suit
FORMER first lady Grace Mugabe has defended a $2 million lawsuit filed against her and her son Russel Goreraza by Lebanese businessman Jamal Hamed, who accuses the two of defaming him during a legal b...Published: 02 Nov 2019 at 13:33hrs | 7368 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt scrambles to save US$1bn Chinese deals
GOVERNMENT officials were this week nervously scrambling to salvage three big Chinese-funded infrastructural projects totalling US$1,324 billion, which are on the verge of collapse after US$10 million...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 06:44hrs | 797 | by Staff reporter
Matanga reassigns police top brass
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has reassigned Deputy Commissioner-Generals to various portfolios to strengthen the force.The reassignments are with immediate effect.Stephen...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 06:34hrs | 1273 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reshuffles Police Deputy Commissioner Generals
THE four police deputy commissioner generals have been reshuffled with immediate effect to enhance performance of the force and maximise their innate crime fighting skills.National police spok...Published: 31 Oct 2019 at 19:46hrs | 5325 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police kill man over $2 bribe
A man was shot dead by a police officer after refusing to hand over a $2 bribe, the High Court has heard.The Harare woman is now suing police chief Godwin Matanga and Home Affairs Minister Cai...Published: 31 Oct 2019 at 08:57hrs | 3409 | by ZimLive
Top cop declared liberation hero
A top police officer, Assistant Commissioner Eliot Muswita, who died last week, was buried on Sunday in Masvingo after being declared a liberation war hero. Asst Comm Muswita, who was responsi...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 06:38hrs | 795 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa snatched Augustine Chihuri's lover'
Former police commissioner Augustine Chihuri did not side with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's faction in the days of the Zanu-PF succession battles when late President Robert Mugabe was still in power...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 18:04hrs | 27929 | by Staff Reporter
Interpol snubs ZRP over G4O
ZIMBABWE Republic Police Commissioner-General, Godwin Matanga yesterday revealed that the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) was not willing to assist Zimbabwe extradite certain sus...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 11:07hrs | 3409 | by Staff reporter
Interpol frustrates hunt for Zimbabwean fugitives
THE International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) is frustrating efforts to extradite people facing criminal charges in the country, Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga said yesterday. ...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 06:04hrs | 2392 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo extradition - Interpol frustrating ZRP over?
The ZRP Commissioner General Godwin Matanga has accused the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) of frustrating their efforts to extradite people facing criminal charges in the countr...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 15:47hrs | 5638 | by Staff reporter
Police link helmet to slain cop
ONE of the 210 anti-riot police helmets recovered from the basement of Robinson House in Harare last week belonged to a police sergeant who was killed in political violence that erupted near Harvest H...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 07:09hrs | 1603 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC seeks police interdict
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has approached the High Court with an urgent application seeking an order to interdict Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema, Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and Off...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 16:20hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe's problems mount by the day
Former first lady Grace Mugabe risks losing one of the properties that forms part of her family's sprawling residence in Harare's leafy suburb of Borrowdale - famously referred to as the Blue Roof - f...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 07:12hrs | 21507 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe fights diamond dealer lawsuit
Former first lady Grace Mugabe has filed notice that she will fight a US$3.9m lawsuit in which she is being sued along with her son Russell Goreraza and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP).Diam...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 17:15hrs | 5733 | by Staff repporter
Grace Mugabe facing eviction
Former first lady Grace Mugabe risk losing all her properties in Mazowe - including her famed Gushungo dairy operations and top-notch school there - after the government indicated that it could re-all...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 07:57hrs | 12677 | by Staff reporter
Cash in-out ban to halt Zimbabwe's commerce
A Zimbabwean government directive banning the purchase and sale of cash through mobile-money services may halt much of the nation's commerce as the biggest system will have to be shut down temporarily...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 18:46hrs | 1842 | by Bloomberg News
'General Chiwenga now drinking liquids only'
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga is now surviving on liquids only a weekly paper Zimbabwe Independent has reported.Quoting family sources, the paper said the feared General was now on the r...Published: 28 Sep 2019 at 11:15hrs | 20338 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chiwenga agonises over Mugabe burial
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga, who was airlifted to China from South Africa in July amid poisoning fears - is now firmly on the recovery path - and wanted to attend former president Robert Mugab...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 07:54hrs | 8561 | by Staff reporter
Bid to abduct Magombeyi foiled?
Police on Tuesday foiled an attempt to snatch Dr Peter Magombeyi, who is in the news following his recent alleged abduction ordeal, Government has said. The incident occurred at a private hospital in ...Published: 26 Sep 2019 at 06:53hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
ZRP, Magombeyi fight
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) yesterday filed an urgent chamber application seeking the correction of an earlier court order interdicting them from preventing the release of the Zimbabwe Hospital...Published: 25 Sep 2019 at 06:37hrs | 1557 | by Staff reporter
Magombeyi seeks mental health services outside Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) acting president Peter Magombeyi requires urgent mental health services in South Africa as his abduction mystery depends.High Court Judge Happious ...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 14:58hrs | 1990 | by newzimbabwe
'Abducted' and released Zimbabwean doctor to be treated in South Africa
The High Court on Tuesday intervened and ordered police to allow a doctors' union leader who was abducted by suspected state security agents for five days last week to travel to South Africa for furth...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 14:46hrs | 2370 | by ZimLive
High Court allows doctors' march
High Court Judge Justice Clement Phiri has granted an order allowing Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) to peacefully march from Parirenyatwa Hospital to within a radius of 20 metres from th...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 14:37hrs | 694 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC takes police head-on
THE MDC has confronted the police demanding an explanation on why Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has allegedly issued an illegal ban on the party's internal meetings across the country....Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 14:34hrs | 4606 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister condemns doc's 'abduction'
THE Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr Obadiah Moyo, has condemned the alleged abduction of Harare Central Hospital medical practitioner, Dr Peter Magombeyi, saying he has since engaged State secur...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 00:02hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter
CIO rubbishes connection to missing doctor's case
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) yesterday told the High Court that there was no connection between the two security institutions and the alleged abductio...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 23:53hrs | 795 | by Staff reporter
'Mliswa should have been arrested over US$400 000 bribe'
Controversial Kwekwe businessman Shepherd Tundiya, who is accused of obstructing the course of justice after allegedly trying to convince mogul James Ross Goddard to withdraw extortion charges against...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 13:04hrs | 1129 | by Staff reporter
Model sues minister, ZRP boss, PG Newsday
HARARE-BASED model, Tafadzwa Mushunje, who was awarded a US$45 000 compensation by the court following her arrest and prosecution over charges of assault and deliberately infecting her lover's child w...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 06:39hrs | 1366 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga undergoes poisoning operation
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga, who was airlifted to China from South Africa in July — sparking intense jostling for his position — underwent a life-saving yet risky operation at a top Beijin...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:45hrs | 6156 | by Staff reporter
Motorist shot by cop wants $100 000
A MAN from Bulawayo who was accidentally shot and wounded by a policeman who opened fire on a suspected robber within the city's Central Business District, is suing Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage ...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
US$5,2bn coal fuels project left to rot
PARLIAMENT yesterday grilled Finance ministry officials over a US$5,2 billion coal project spearheaded by Verify Engineering which failed to attract investors due to the poor investment climate prevai...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 08:04hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
Rape accused Bulawayo man convicted of domestic violence
A 32-YEAR-OLD mechanic from Bulawayo, who was being accused of habitually raping and beating a 61-year-old woman who took him in when his relatives threw him out in 2011, has been acquitted of rape bu...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 07:58hrs | 653 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's end is nigh, says Chamisa
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday warned that President Emmerson Mnangagwa would soon go the same way as some of the world's worst dictators, who were elbowed out of power over gross huma...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 08:00hrs | 3786 | by Staff reporter
Police Commissioner fights junior cop's reinstatement
POLICE Commissioner General, Godwin Matanga, is challenging the reinstatement by the High Court of a junior police officer who was fired by his predecessor for refusing to move to his new station with...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:04hrs | 1511 | by Staff reporter
Motorist sues Mathema, Matanga over shooting
A MOTORIST accidentally shot by a police officer pursuing thieves breaking into vehicles, stealing various goods, has sued Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema and Police Commissioner-General Godwin Mat...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:43hrs | 465 | by Staff reporter
Family demands $900,000 for anti-govt protester's death
A MARONDERA woman, Erenia Guwa, whose husband was fatally shot by members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) during the January 2019 demonstration, has approached the High Court, demanding compensa...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:49hrs | 2098 | by Staff reporter
Cain Mathema and Police Boss challenged over abductions
Political activist Mlungisi Dube has challenged the Minister of Home Affairs Cin Ndabazekhaya Ginyilitshe Mathema and Police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga to speak out on the recent wave of abdu...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 06:29hrs | 1067 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Army brutality land Muchinguri in trouble
A Chinhoyi woman is suing two ministers and the police chief for $300 000 after she was brutalised by four soldiers at her home during the army crackdown that followed the violent January protests....Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 18:53hrs | 973 | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri, Mathema, army, police hit with fresh $3,5 million lawsuit
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) have been slapped with a $3, 5 million lawsuit as more civilians mount claims following episodes of a brutal crakdown by security fo...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:34hrs | 2350 | by newzimbabwe
Man (32) subjects woman (61) to bizarre 'rape ordeal'
A 32-YEAR-OLD mechanic from Bulawayo allegedly habitually raped and beat a 61-year-old woman who gave him a home when his relatives threw him out in 2011. Over seven years, the man allegedly told the ...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:12hrs | 1117 | by Staff reporter
'Baba Jukwa' sues police, defence ministers for wrongful umbrella arrest
Journalist Edmund Kudzayi of the "Baba Jukwa" fame is suing Home Affairs and Defence ministers for $500,000 as compensation for his unlawful arrest over possession of a camouflage umbrella.The...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 17:49hrs | 2983 | by ZimLive
Police in 5-day cybercrime training
AS the anti-cybercrime fight intensifies, the Zimbabwe Republic Police has conducted a five-day train-the-trainer cybercrime first offenders' course to equip officers with the requisite skills to curb...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:44hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter
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