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Divisions rock Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF
The Zanu-PF party has openly acknowledged severe internal divisions that are undermining its stability and effectiveness. During a recent address to party members in Manicaland, Zanu-PF National Polit...Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 07:30hrs | 2644 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zimra staffer falsified import of over 400 cars
Yvonne Tambudzai Musoni, a former employee at the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra), allegedly hacked her supervisor's electronic signature to fraudulently approve the importation of over 400 vehicle...Published: 03 Jul 2024 at 10:23hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Farewell Chairman VK: Reflections of a dear friend
The late Vimbai Kamoyo (VK) was quite a character.They buried him last week in Chiunye village, Mt Darwin, Mashonaland Central. Between him and I, the title of "Chairman" took tu...Published: 18 Jun 2024 at 14:54hrs | 40 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Beer-drinking binge turns fatal
A 27-year-old man from Epworth has been convicted of causing the death of another man following a quarrel during a drinking session at a local shebeen.Simbarashe Maukazuva (27) was found guilt...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 14:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
President Mohadi mourns hero Mabuya
ACTING President Kembo Mohadi has joined President Mnangagwa and the nation at large in mourning Colonel (Retired) Kenny Ridzai Mabuya, who will be buried at the National Heroes Acre on Wednesday....Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe students shine in Cambridge exams
Zimbabwean students who sat the internationally acclaimed Cambridge Examinations recorded a very high pass rate in 2023, Advanced Level results released this week have shown, with parents excited abou...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:45hrs | 31 | by Staff reporter
Burial impasse drags on for 4 months
IT is now four months since the murder of a Gokwe artisanal miner at Zhombe Business Centre, popularly known as Kwa-Juwero under Chief Gwesela, with affected families failing to agree on terms and con...Published: 29 Dec 2023 at 06:58hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Murdered artisanal miner's body 'demanding' its missing body parts at mortuary
FROM spending nine days dumped outside a house at the Muchechetere homestead in Zhombe East, the remains of Munyaradzi Dube (31) who was allegedly murdered for ritual purposes, are now reportedly "mak...Published: 21 Sep 2023 at 06:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimboy hits back at Nadia Nakai
Music promoter and Changamire Festival Awards founder Jackson ‘Zimboy' Muchechetere has hit back at Nadia Nakai who ranted about being used without any payment when the South African-based Zimbabwea...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 08:07hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Harare man arrested for issuing fake driving licence at VID
A-34-YEAR old Harare man was today arraigned before the courts facing fraud allegations and charges of possessing articles for criminal use after he facilitated release of a driver's licence at the Ve...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mary Mliswa targets rivals in purging spree
THE infighting within Zanu-PF Mashonaland West is raging on, with an elaborate plot to suspend, and consequently remove, Zvimba district coordinating committee (DCC) chairman Bywell Mbiri sparking ren...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Violence Rocks New Zanu-PF Mashonaland West PCC
VIOLENCE dominated the new Zanu-PF provincial joint council of the main wing, women's and youth leagues' inaugural meeting held in Chinhoyi Saturday.The meeting was meant to officially hand ov...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 06:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa endorses 'rigged' Zanu-PF elections
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday endorsed the disputed results of his Zanu-PF party's provincial elections and urged members to accept the outcome.He also rallied all party members to wo...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 19:09hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Politburo endorses poll results
THE Politburo yesterday endorsed provincial chairpersons who emerged victorious following polls held last week.Those endorsed are now substantive provincial chairpersons in their respective pr...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 19:00hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa mocks Zanu-PF 'bigwigs'
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa (Independent) has mocked former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation chief executive Happison Muchechetere, who lost the Mashonaland West ZANU PF provincial chairmanship el...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 08:12hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF meets over controversial provincial polls
Zanu-PF's Politburo will meet this week to confirm winners and address any complaints from the party's provincial elections held last week.The ruling party's national political commissar, Mike...Published: 02 Jan 2022 at 09:09hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to disqualify the violent and the cheats
THE rampant rigging and violence that characterised Zanu-PF's provincial elections held on Tuesday has been admitted to at the party's highest level, with national political commissar Mike Bimha sayin...Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 13:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jabulani Sibanda bounces back as Zanu-PF provincial leaders announced
Zanu-PF yesterday announced 10 provincial chairpersons who emerged victorious following successful polls held this week with new office bearers being elected in seven provinces.Minister of Sta...Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 13:53hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF withholds election results
Zanu-PF has failed to release official results for the provincial elections held on Tuesday amid fears the announcement would further destabilise the already fractured party ahead of the 2023 harmonis...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 00:09hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF awaits party poll results
Zanu-PF provincial election results started trickling into the party's National Command Centre in Harare yesterday afternoon with more results expected this morning.There were expectations of ...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 07:51hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Fireworks expected as Zanu-PF slides into provincial elections
THE ruling Zanu-PF party is preparing for provincial party elections with candidates backed by politburo members seeking to solidify their control of grassroots structures clashing in the internal pol...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 16:42hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Ex-ZBC boss in race for top Zanu-PF post
MASHONALAND West Provincial Affairs minister Mary Mliswa-Chikoka and Deputy Information minister Kindness Paradza are among the five candidates that submitted their curriculum vitaes (CVs) to contest ...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:08hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Muchechetere still a ZBC employee, says Supreme Court
FORMER Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) chief executive Happison Muchechetere remains an employee after the Supreme Court overturned his expulsion from the State broadcaster six years ago....Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:58hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF elections mayhem exposes deadly infighting
POLITICAL temperature is boiling up in Zanu-PF's Mashonaland West province after acting chair Abiel Mujeri at the weekend barred provincial members from Zvimba, Chegutu, Makonde and Kadoma from presid...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vingirai's bid to evict farmers flops
VETERAN banker Nicholas Vingirai's bid to evict farmers settled at a farm in Banket has hit a snag after the High Court ordered him to vacate the farm and stop interfering with the farmers' activities...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:29hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanla deploys in Matabeleland South
DURING the armed struggle some parts of Matabeleland South Province and its neighbour, the Midlands were shared operational areas by Zanla and Zipra guerrillas. Some of the shared areas were Mberengwa...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:38hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Muchechetere wades into Zanu-PF DCC violence saga
NEWLY-CONSTITUTED Zanu-PF Veterans of the Liberation Struggle League (ZVLSL) Mashonaland West provincial chairperson, Happison Muchechetere has waded into the factional fights that have engulfed the p...Published: 18 May 2021 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matonga in new Zanu-PF war vets wing
FORMER Information deputy minister, Bright Matonga, who was 11 years old at independence 1980, has been appointed into the Mashonaland West chapter of the newly constituted Zanu-PF Veterans of the Lib...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 Bulawayo lawyers shortlisted for NPRC
TWO BULAWAYO lawyers are among 30 candidates shortlisted for the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) interviews to be conducted on 16 April in Harare. In terms of Sections 237 ...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 06:48hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Parliament nominates candidates for Peace Commission posts
The Parliamentary Committee on Standing Rules and Orders (CSRO) has nominated 30 candidates who include former MDC-T vice president and lawyer Obert Gutu for interviews on those aspiring to become Nat...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obert Gutu shortlisted for National Peace, Reconciliation Commission
FORMER MDC-T Vice President Obert Gutu, who early this month joined Zanu-PF, has been shortlisted for interviews as a commissioner in the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC).Th...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 07:46hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Reuben Barwe wins Zanu-PF election
Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) chief correspondent Reuben Barwe has been elected unopposed as secretary for information and publicity in the Zanu-PF District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elec...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare residents claim Zanu-PF betrayal after homes destroyed
RAIN-SOAKED, angry residents whose houses were demolished Tuesday by authorities, believe that the Harare City Council did not have any powers to act like that without government approval.Some...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF emerges biggest winner in major scandal
THE ruling Zanu-PF, which thrives on a chokehold grip on airwaves to win elections by hook or crook, has emerged as the biggest winner in the controversial awarding of six new free-to-air licences to ...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 19:28hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'The path had to be set for Mugabe'
Last week, Farai Tafirenyika claimed there were Zipra cadres eliminated by Zanla combatants at the front during the ZIPA era. Levi Mukarati continues to seek answers on events surrounding the ...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Rugare Gumbo snubs Mnangagwa & Zanu-PF
FORMER Cabinet minister and liberation struggle icon, Rugare Gumbo, has flatly refused to accept President Emmerson Mnangagwa's invitation to re-join Zanu-PF - insisting that it was beneath him to re-...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 16:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda clarifies Matanda-Moyo appointment
THE Speaker of the National Assembly Advocate Jacob Mudenda has defended the proposed appointment of Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo as chairperson of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission saying the Hig...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZACC objections window closed
Parliament yesterday closed the window for members of the public to raise objections against candidates nominated for the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) commissioners posts. At lea...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 06:48hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Candidates nominated for ZACC - full-list
ANNOUNCEMENT OF NAMES OF CANDIDATES NOMINATED FOR THE ZIMBABWE ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION (ZACC) The Standing Rules and Orders Committee of the Parliament of Zimbabwe is mandated in terms of Secti...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 08:33hrs | 8 | by Parliement
Heavyweights vie for ZACC posts
High-profile figures are among the list of 133 people who have been nominated for interviews to become commissioners of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC). Following the resignatio...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Hordes apply for Zacc posts
Parliament has been inundated by applications from potential corruption busters willing to join the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), with 130 aspirants having thrown their hats into the rin...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 09:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZBC takes 5 ex-bosses to court over $6m prejudice
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has dragged its four ex-senior executives and former board chairperson Cuthbert Dube to court for allegedly illegally benefitting themselves from $6 million...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SRC grilled over $1,2m Potraz loan to Zifa
SPORT and Recreation Council (SRC) director of sport Joseph Muchechetere was yesterday grilled in Parliament over a $1,2 million loan which the SRC sourced from Potraz to fund the Zimbabwe senior nati...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dissolves Zacc
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday disbanded the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) amid claims that it had become a white elephant, with some of the members allegedly involved in corrupt ...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 09:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-corruption fight set to get fresh impetus
President Mnangagwa's anti-corruption fight is set to get fresh impetus following the resignation of Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) chairman Dr Job Whabira and his entire commission yester...Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 23:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fired ZBC bosses appeal to High Court
Two former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) executives, who were fired in 2015, have petitioned the High Court seeking an order to compel the State broadcaster to provide them with critical doc...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry fires SRC board
EDWARD SIWELA'S 13-year-tenure in the Sport and Recreation Commission came to an end yesterday when Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation Minister Coventry dissolved his board. The Minister wielde...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 06:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Another bleak future for Zimbabweans
The current shape of the economic situation in the country is not looming good. I thought there was going to be calm after the storm but the challenges are insurmountable.The recently announce...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 18:29hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Muchechetere in court for criminal abuse of duty
Sport and Recreation Committee (SRC) acting director-general Joseph Muchechetere yesterday appeared in court facing charges of misusing more than $2 million he received from sponsors.Muchechet...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZACC sets up special unit
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission has established a special Economy and Trade unit to investigate on fraud, tax violations and economic sabotage in the public and private sectors.The tea...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 08:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
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