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Mnangagwa ally creams off US$60m from broke Zimbabwe municipalities
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Belarus ally is set to pocket over US$62 million if the murky deal that will see over 63 rural district councils, 32 urban local authorities and metropolitan provinces p...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 19:04hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's lightning rod
God's emissariesI have nothing against clerics or pastors; in fact my reverence for them is a euphemism for the abject fear I hold of being denied the side and place of comfort in the world yo...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:33hrs | 198 | by Jamwanda
Storm over govt fire tender deal
THE decision by government to acquire fire tenders from Belarus on behalf of local authorities at questionable prices has torched a storm, with observers pointing to possible corruption.In a c...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 213 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF caucus plots Mudenda replacement
ZANU PF MPs are reportedly caucusing and canvassing for support and votes to remove Speaker of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda. Mudenda fell out of favour with ZANU PF bigwigs after reports ...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 13:23hrs | 4125 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mphoko spills beans on murky US$6bn deal
Former vice-president Phelekezela Mphoko has revealed how the army seized Zimbabwe's biggest platinum reserves, saying he was threatened with dismissal by unnamed generals for questioning the deal whi...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:10hrs | 8051 | by Staff reporter
Violence should not be condoned
IT is so saddening and unfortunate that the grisly demise of an innocent Chitungwiza woman has divided the nation to the point of driving citizens into a deadly vortex of murky politics.Morebl...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:29hrs | 54 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs blast Zanu-PF govt for lack of infrastructure development in Kariba
TRADITIONAL leaders from Kariba's Nyaminyami Rural District have berated President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration for failing to push infrastructural development in the area.After 42 year...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:40hrs | 459 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe COVID-19 funds disbursement murky'
PARLIAMENT'S Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has demanded that government should account for the missing millions of dollars meant for COVID-19 beneficiaries.Last year, Auditor-General Mildred...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:37hrs | 120 | by Staff reporter
Gift Banda gloats over Kamambo's ouster
Acting ZIFA boss Gift Banda Friday appeared gloating over his former boss, Felton Kamambo's ouster as the football mother body's president while pledging to ensure a speedy Warriors' return to interna...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 11:12hrs | 2071 | by Staff reporter
Massive looting exposed at CIO
CENTRAL Intelligence Organisation (CIO) financial records are in a shambles amid fears that senior officers in the state spy agency are presiding over massive looting and hounding out two senior emplo...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 20:00hrs | 4096 | by Staff reporter
US$20m externalised in Zimbabwe diamond sales
MORE than US$20 million was illegally moved out of the country's borders in murky deals involving blacklisted diamond dealer Jamal Ahmed in an opaque sale of one million carats of diamonds from the Mi...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 19:14hrs | 513 | by Staff reporter
Multi-million-dollar road rehabilitation storm erupts in Zimbabwe
KWEKWE City Council in the Midlands has failed to account for millions of dollars poured into the local authority for the rehabilitation of roads amid revelations that politically connected comp...Published: 23 May 2022 at 13:18hrs | 3659 | by Staff reporter
Zupco deal: The cost of corruption
THE Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco)'s monopoly on the public transport system has opened a can of worms amid reports that Parliament was blocked from making inquiries on the procurement, own...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:06hrs | 949 | by Staff reporter
Murky Zupco deal backfires
GOVERNMENT'S army-backed populist decision to re-establish Zupco's public transport monopoly, while banning commuter omnibuses has spectacularly backfired, leading to a severe crisis that has seen tho...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:05hrs | 681 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-corruption crusade fizzles out deplorably
HIGH-PROFILE corruption cases from as far back as 2017 are yet to be finalised, almost five years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised to decisively tackle graft.The development also de...Published: 03 May 2022 at 16:08hrs | 1081 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa blasts compromised minister
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo's interference in the governance of local authorities has infuriated Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa who has called the Zanu-PF politburo...Published: 03 May 2022 at 16:04hrs | 3150 | by Staff reporter
Red flag over murky govt vehicle deals
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) says it will not investigate various cases in which the government, local authorities and parastatals have been prejudiced through the non-delivery of mo...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:25hrs | 805 | by Staff reporter
Moyo shields MDC-T councillors to protect controversial deals?
AS consistently reported by The NewsHawks prior to the March 26 by-elections, Local Government minister July Moyo (pictured) has stepped in to protect his multi-million-dollar corrupt deals at Town Ho...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:37hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter
IMF raises red flag on murky Command Agric
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has expressed concern over the limited levels of transparency and accountability on the country's agriculture import substitution programme, widely known as Comma...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 20:41hrs | 712 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa presides over corrupt government
REVELATIONS by Auditor-General Mildred Chiri that Treasury made foreign direct payments on behalf of 16 government ministries amounting to more than US$300 million without the required parliamentary a...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 19:30hrs | 1168 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, July Moyo murky deals under threat
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) councillors say they will immediately swing into action and stop all dubious deals linked to First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa and some scandalous agreements involving...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 19:30hrs | 1487 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa defrauds client US$6 000 in murky car deal
A KADOMA-based car dealer, Aleck Chamisa (34), was Thursday dragged to court by his estranged lover for defrauding her of over US$6 000 in inflated vehicle price and customs fees.Kadoma Magist...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 19:12hrs | 1761 | by Staff reporter
Parly queries Chinamasa's role in TBs
FORMER finance and economic development minister Patrick Chinamasa approved a Treasury Bill (TB) worth over US$737, 9 million while his term had expired, a damning parliamentary report on the Command ...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 18:13hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
Musona's team facing relegation danger
WARRIORS captain Knowledge Musona 's Saudi Arabia club Al Tai could bid farewell to the country's Pro league by the end of the campaign after its1-0 defeat to Abha last weekend left it closer to the m...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 06:12hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
US$1,6bn Command Agriculture bombshell
A DAMNING parliamentary report on Command Agriculture has exposed how former Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa (pictured) and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe superintended over a murky and illegal proce...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 17:11hrs | 1141 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo in fresh land scandal
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo has been implicated in a massive land scandal in Masvingo after it emerged he is piling pressure on the ancient city's local authority to cede vast tracts of land t...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:25hrs | 3740 | by Staff reporter
Electoral reforms must dominate political discourse in 2022
AS we bask on the cusp of a new year, Zimbabweans appear to have gone agog about the pending by-elections and what many deem to be the watershed plebiscite of 2023.And yet for some of us, high...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:32hrs | 171 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
ED's penchant for dodgy deals ruins economy
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's penchant for dodgy deals from businesspersons and shady companies was once again brought into the spotlight this week after the government awarded Lithunian printing com...Published: 18 Dec 2021 at 11:23hrs | 3143 | by Staff Reporter
Murky passport deal raises eyebrows
IN April 2016, the late former president Robert Mugabe commissioned an electronic passport centre at the then King George VI now Josiah Magama Tongogara Barracks. Five years later, his successor Emmer...Published: 18 Dec 2021 at 11:16hrs | 1737 | by Staff Reporter
Dodgy company behind shady passports deal
LITHUANIAN company Garsu Pasaulis which was controversially awarded a contract to produce e-passports by the Zimbabwean government under a murky deal is a dodgy entity previously implicated in bribery...Published: 18 Dec 2021 at 10:55hrs | 2083 | by Staff Reporter
US$28m in taxpayers' funds misappropriated in corrupt deal
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands has recommended that the police and Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission investigate the Grain Millers' Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) and its president T...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:16hrs | 38 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa acquiring more public debt to fund second term bid
WINNING or losing an election is a referendum on the economy by citizens. More often than not politicians are aware of this fact and, therefore, go out of their way, sometimes, contracting huge debts ...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 06:29hrs | 3 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Only credible, free and fair elections no banditry will lead to lifting of sanctions
Basotho bare "nama kapeletjwa ithuba lepetja", this sums all in northern sotho, Sepedi about the behaviour of the army installed government of Zimbabwe. Many supporters, appendages, bootlicker...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 17:26hrs | 1 | by Phosiwe Ncube
Mnangagwa surrounded by dodgy characters
ALMOST four years after getting into power, riding on the narrative of removing criminals that had surrounded the then president Robert Mugabe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's circle of associates and ...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:36hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Inside Zimbabwean tycoon Billy Rautenbach's offshore family trust
Records from a massive offshore data leak have provided the most detailed account yet of buccaneering mining and fuel magnate Billy Rautenbach's family empire.It started with a marriage settle...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:40hrs | 26 | by Daily Maverick
Parliament investigates US$109m dam tender scandal
THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) executive is under investigation for awarding a dodgy US$109 million Kunzvi Dam construction tender to China Nanchang Engineering, which has a shady past,...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:19hrs | 46 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's new Ponzi scheme
FOLLOWING the MDC's dizzying electoral defeats at the hands of Zanu-PF in March 2013 and July 2018, the opposition outfit lost most of its traditional Western funding as donors turned off the funding ...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mushrooming parties a diversionary tactic
ZIMBABWE'S political scene is fast changing, several parties have been launched in the past couple of weeks. However, the political discourse has not moved an inch.The Constitution has a secti...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 06:07hrs | | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Govt blunder leaves commuters stranded
GOVERNMENT was yesterday forced to concede failure and apologise after thousands of commuters were left stranded in Harare on Friday due to transport challenges following a government decision to grou...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe is sinking in Chinese debt
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa admitted on Wednesday that Zimbabwe is choking under Chinese debt, but said the southern African country would continue looking up to the Asian giant for bailout because o...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Trevor Ncube's newspaper corners Mnangagwa's govt over Zupco 'shady deal'
THE Zimbabwe Independent newspaper is suing the government for refusing to release information regarding the procurement of the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) buses.According ...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 06:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's penchant for dodgy companies astonishing
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's appetite for opaque deals from shady shelf companies and dodgy businesspersons was once again brought into the spotlight this week after British-registered Coven Energy ...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 18:26hrs | 49 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo reveals Kuda Tagwirei's real name
EXILED former Cabinet Minister, Jonathan Moyo has revealed Zimbabwe's controversial businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei's real name.Writing on Twitter, Moyo said, "REGIMOND MATHAMBO (or "Matambo")...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 18:58hrs | 558 | by Staff Reporter
Air Zimbabwe says administrators rescued the insolvent airline
AIR Zimbabwe administrators Grant Thornton, whose term of office came to an end last week when government appointed a six-member board, saved the airline from litigious creditors and set the troubled ...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 15:26hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Mystery over Zimbabwe army deal?
MYSTERY over President Emmerson Mnangagwa's adviser and shadowy businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei's murky purchase of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) partly-owned Pen East Mining's stake in platinum m...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 20:43hrs | 83 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe debt assumption promotes corruption
ZIMBABWEAN taxpayers continue to be burdened by debt from parastatals which are riddled with mismanagement and corruption, with the latest being the assumption of Air Zimbabwe's huge debt, as governme...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 15:04hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 procurement scandal revealed
ZIMBABWE was prejudiced of millions of united States dollars as a result of irregular procurement transactions around Covid-19 materials, with sharp scrutiny centred on tenders awarded to Young Health...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 13:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chief Jahana confronts Mnangagwa
Chief Jahana of Insiza has written a letter to President Emmerson Mnangagwa 'strongly' objecting to the mining exploration of lithium in Fort Rixon without following due processes.The Governme...Published: 20 May 2021 at 18:20hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
The Emergence of 5th Columnists in Matebeleland
Matebeleland has come a long way and still has a long way to go before any realistic arrival at the station of real freedom for its own people. It is a long winding mountainous road to freedom that is...Published: 14 May 2021 at 13:24hrs | 6 | by Thembani Dube
We're coming for you: Mnangagwa warns financial sector sharks
GOVERNMENT is going to decisively deal with sharks in the financial sector who are profiteering at the expense of the public, President Mnangagwa has said. In an interview ahead of the country...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
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