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Makorokoza arrested
POLICE in Mashonaland Central Province have so far arrested 53 illegal artisanal miners and impounded 27 vehicles as they move in to get rid of criminal elements and bring sanity to the mining sector....Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 19:39hrs | 598 | by Staff reporter
ZRP beefs up security in 'machete warzone'
POLICE have beefed up security in "machete warzones" to end bloodshed among artisanal miners and to reduce other criminal activities. Several people have died this year in bloody fights betwee...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 05:45hrs | 585 | by Staff reporter
Net closes in on machete attackers
Criminal activities by marauding gangs of artisanal miners turned machete attackers have surged countrywide, with reported cases of murder, rape, assault, housebreaking and stock theft leaving many co...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 05:29hrs | 601 | by Staff reporter
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 | 14049 | 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 | 9990 | by ZimLive
High Court removes Mugabe case from court roll
The High Court has removed from the court roll a case involving the late former President Robert Mugabe in which three Mazowe farmers are challenging their eviction from Teviotdale Farm in 2009....Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 14:28hrs | 2622 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe sets thugs on land claimants
There was pandemonium at a Harare farm that is occupied by erratic former first lady Grace Mugabe and her children, after she recently unleashed thugs on people who had been granted the right to occup...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 06:49hrs | 7462 | by Staff reporter
School wrecked by storm
OVER 1000 pupils at Chakomo Primary School in Dotito, Mt Darwin, on Thursday escaped death after a whirlwind blew off rooftops of two classroom blocks, destroying property worth over $200 000....Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 10:12hrs | 953 | by Staff reporter
Gushungo bomber writes to High Court
Zimbabwe People's Front political party president Owen Kuchata, who is serving a nine-year jail term for attempting to petrol-bomb the former First Family's Alpha Omega Dairy Farm in Mazowe, has claim...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 10:04hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
Gushungo dairy bomber seeks redress
Zimbabwe People's Front political party president Owen Kuchata who is serving nine years in jail for attempting to petrol-bomb the former first family's Alpha Omega Dairy farm in Mazowe has made a u-t...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 21:07hrs | 1217 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pledges to end machete wars
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday pledged to descend heavily on perpetrators of machete violence, reiterating that deterrent sentences must be imposed on those found in possession of the weapons....Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 05:46hrs | 453 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fires 80+ striking doctors ….As they snub disciplinary hearings
The President Emmerson Mnangagwa government has reportedly fired more than 80 doctors who snubbed disciplinary hearings sitting at central hospitals in Harare and Bulawayo on Friday to try them over t...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 16:41hrs | 7533 | by Staff Reporter
Panners invade Kuruneri farm
FORMER Finance minister Christopher Tichaona Kuruneri has approached the High Court seeking an order to bar Mines minister Winston Chitando and his subordinates from issuing mining licences, permits o...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 07:15hrs | 3100 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe family taken to court
A Mazowe miner, Ngoni Edward Mutopo, has applied for an urgent interdict at the High Court against Gushungo Holdings (Pvt) Limited which he is accusing of chasing him away from his two blocks of mines...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 06:33hrs | 12225 | by Staff reporter
MaShurugwi menace poses danger to Zimbabwe
OUTSPOKEN Member of Parliament for Norton Temba Mliswa once called for decisive action against marauding criminals going by the moniker MaShurugwi who are unleashing untold violence in mining communit...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 11:34hrs | 1734 | by By Toby Sithole
Grace feared Mugabe used juju
FIRST LADY Grace Mugabe once said the first thing she searched for in President Robert Mugabe's bedroom was evidence of juju after wide speculation that the long-serving ruler depended on powers from ...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 13:56hrs | 40759 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe's world crumbles
Former Mazowe Estate residents who were evicted from their land to pave way for the expansion of late former President Robert Mugabe's family business, Gushungo Holdings (Pvt) Ltd, have made a beeline...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 07:01hrs | 24582 | by Staff reporter
MaShurugwi terror grips Zimbabwe's gold rich areas
Takesure Choga considers himself lucky to be alive after he was abducted by thugs driving an unregistered car, who stripped him naked and dumped him in a bush in Kwekwe.Choga, a human rights a...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:52hrs | 758 | by Staff reporter
Naming and shaming corrupt Bigwigs is not enough: They ought to rot in jail - Nomboka
Responding to a question posed by this reporter during a live interview on ‘what should have been done by seating parliamentarians which they were apparently not doing to put an immediate stop to ra...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:24hrs | 448 | by Agencies
Zimbabwe declares war on cybercrime
The threat of cyber crime to national critical infrastructure calls for tough response mechanisms to the danger that is on the rise globally, a Cabinet minister has said. Cyber criminals seek ...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 08:47hrs | 8 | by Staff rpeorter
Rape-accused teacher goes into hiding
A HARARE school teacher has gone into hiding after allegedly raping one of his pupils. The matter came to light after authorities heard about the incident and made a report to the police. Nati...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 08:46hrs | 17 | by Staff rpeorter
Grace Mugabe faces eviction
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe's business empire is headed for the cliff, as a Mazowe gold miner she displaced during her late husband, Robert Mugabe's reign, is now seeking to evict her and repossess...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 16:21hrs | 638 | 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 | 21611 | by Staff reporter
MaShurugwi are mere peace loving hardworking mortals!
In recent months our public media has been awash with stories of a group of artisanal miners by the name MaShurugwi, who for unfair reasons have come to be associated with a streak of cases of violenc...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 15:23hrs | 1985 | by Sizalobuhle Khumalo
Minister fingered in machete wars
STATE Security minister Owen Ncube has been implicated in the often violent Mazowe illegal mining activities that have seen youth gangs popularly known as MaShurugwi, engaged in machete wars over gold...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 06:53hrs | 1227 | by Staff reporter
Minister, Zanu PF MP nearly trade blows
Zanu PF's Mashonaland Central provincial chairman Kazembe Kazembe and Bindura North lawmaker Kenneth Shupikai Musanhi nearly came to blows on Saturday after trading sabotage accusations during an inqu...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 21:53hrs | 4514 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe's Mazowe Orphanage 'fraud' exposed - REPORT
Former First Lady Grace Mugabe's empire is teetering on the brink of collapse following reports that she will be stripped off powers to the US$7 million Mazowe Orphanage project that she had usurped, ...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 21:12hrs | 11365 | by Staff reporter
Grace battles to keep Mugabe empire
Former first lady Grace Mugabe (pictured right) fears that the government will go after her husband's sprawling empire that consists of commercial farms and a mansion in Harare, it has been revealed....Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 15:39hrs | 744 | by Staff reporter
China buys Zimbabwe's new capital city of Mt Hampden
Diplomatic and high level government sources at the ministry of lands, agriculture, and rural resettlement this week said Beijing had also struck a deal to provide the more than US$20 billion needed b...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:29hrs | 2533 | by Itai Mushekwe
'Zanu-PF behind machete-wielding panners'
The opposition MDC has alleged that warring machete-wielding artisanal miners in Mashonaland Central province are under Zanu-PF control.MDC's provincial chairperson George Gwarada challenged a...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:26hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa unleashes gold panners on Mugabe dairy farm, orphanage
A dairy farm and a children's orphanage owned by the family of former president Robert Mugabe could soon be overrun by gold panners after President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government gave a greenlight fo...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 12:41hrs | 1428 | by ZimLive
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 | 12693 | by Staff reporter
G40's hatchet job on Mugabe's legacy
Former president Robert Mugabe was buried at his Zvimba rural home last Saturday, three weeks after his passing on September 6 in Singapore. The Generation 40 group of self-exiled former ZANU-...Published: 02 Oct 2019 at 06:33hrs | 417 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Chronicling the G40's hatchet job on Mugabe's legacy
Former President Robert Mugabe was buried at his Zvimba rural home last Saturday, three weeks since his passing on 6 September in Singapore. The former liberation icon and Zimbabwe's founding fa...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 14:58hrs | 1167 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zanu-PF alleges infiltration in Mashonaland Central
ZANU-PF Mashonaland Central provincial chairperson Kazembe Kazembe has alleged infiltration in party structures by opposition and the fallen G40 members to fan divisions and disrupt development initia...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 07:24hrs | 874 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's estate: The skeletons are also hiding
Years ago, the late former president Robert Mugabe furiously denied that he owned properties or bank accounts outside Zimbabwe. He challenged sceptics to bring back even a pin belonging to him, if the...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 12:33hrs | 1286 | by Tawanda Majoni
Zanu-PF orders ceasefire among warring gold panners
Zanu-PF has ordered its supporters to stop attacking artisanal miners from the Midlands province, popularly known as Mashurugwi, following a recent incident in which two kombis, houses and other infra...Published: 25 Sep 2019 at 20:23hrs | 560 | by Staff reporter
Pay fees, MP urges parents
MAZOWE West legislator Kazembe Kazembe (Zanu-PF) who is also Information Communication Technology minister, has urged parents and guardians at Kundai High School, Concession, to settle their tuition f...Published: 23 Sep 2019 at 08:36hrs | 640 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to protect Grace Mugabe's business empire
FORMER First Lady Mrs Grace Mugabe is receiving Government assistance to protect part of her business empire - Gushungo Farm and Dairy - she founded with former President Robert Mugabe, which in recen...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 09:30hrs | 974 | by Staff reporter
Doctors demonstrations continue
Health professionals have been boycotting work since Monday claiming they wanted Government to furnish them with the whereabouts of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) acting president Dr Pet...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 13:27hrs | 1704 | by Staff reporter
Two die in mine blast
TWO Kadoma illegal gold miners died last week while four others were injured one of them is in critical condition at Concession hospital after an explosive went off while they were in a disused shaft ...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 20:39hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Is grieving Grace behind Mugabe funeral plans drama?
The controversy swirling around the burial of Zimbabwe's founding leader, Robert Mugabe, centers on his widow, Grace, who has remained dramatically cloaked behind a heavy black veil as she succeeded i...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 21:56hrs | 5732 | by AP
Robert and Grace Mugabe's US$1 billion fortune
Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace built up a huge personal fortune and property empire while their countrymen suffered in the starvation and grinding poverty that his brutal regime brought about....Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 07:26hrs | 2969 | by Mail Online
Minor dies after rape attempt
A BABY died when a Mvurwi woman jumped off a moving vehicle as she tried to escape from two men who were allegedly trying to rape her.The woman had boarded a lift on an unregistered white Hond...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:20hrs | 750 | by Staff reporter
'Artisanal miners should stop being nomadic'
ZIMBABWE Christian Alliance (ZCA) executive director Useni Sibanda said artisanal miners should desist from being nomadic and work within their confines to avoid clashes with rival gangs.Speak...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:41hrs | 112 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe eyes US$4m Japanese avocado market
Zimbabwe has the potential to earn over US$4 million annually from exporting avocados to Japan if the Asian country removes its restrictions on the importation of fresh fruits and vegetables from Afri...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 15:00hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
Bid to bribe police backfires
A Mazowe man who was caught smoking marijuana allegedly tried to bribe police officers with $32.Stanley Fundisi (36) was fined $500 by Concession resident magistrate Ruth Moyo and if he fails ...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:58hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
Bribery lands Ganja smoker in hot soup
The bid by a weed smoker to bribe police officers who had arrested him last week at Mazowe Agro chemicals complex backfired after the cops refused his bribery and took him to Concession magistrates' c...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 21:09hrs | 1437 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mugabe, Grace in soup for grabbing delivery truck
FORMER President Robert Mugabe and his wife, Grace are being sued for chasing a delivery truck driver out of their Alpha Omega Dairy Farm and further confiscating the vehicle.This, according t...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 18:32hrs | 2073 | by newzimbabwe
ZESA shuts down Robert Mugabe's farm
The Zimbabwe Independent has reported that former President Robert Mugabe's Gushungo Dairies Farm had electricity disconnected recently over a huge debt it owes to ZESA.The farm is located in ...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 10:52hrs | 7586 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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