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Reprieve for ex-Zinara boss
Prosecutor-General Mr Kumbirai Hodzi's application for an order to forfeit identified properties owned by Frank Chitukutuku and his wife has been struck off the roll by the High Court because the appl...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 16:04hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
No, Mr Biti, you are not a jack of all trades
A week ago, the local mainstream and social media were abuzz with news of MDC Alliance (MDCA) faction co-vice president, Tendai Biti's rantings against the International Monetary Fund (IMF's) report o...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 07:47hrs | 934 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Families of apartheid victims call for FW de Klerk to face law for involvement
With the National Prosecuting Authority having recently committed a new specialist unit to probe apartheid-era atrocities dating from the 1960s to the 1980s, family members of apartheid victims have c...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 11:37hrs | 1354 | by Staff reporter
What does it take for the judiciary to hear a matter before them?
Marvo Stationary Manufacturing Company employees have not been paid their unpaid salaries since the United States Dollar and the use of the multi currency regime during the Government of Nationa...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 16:37hrs | 212 | by Mbonisi Gumbo
What does it take for the judiciary to hear a matter before them?
Marvo Stationary Manufacturing Company employees have not been paid their unpaid salaries since the United States Dollar and the use of the multi currency regime during the Government of Nationa...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 20:24hrs | 630 | by Mbonisi Gumbo
Bosso leadership in crisis meeting
THE cash crisis bedevilling Highlanders FC, which saw players embarking on industrial action twice in the past two months, led to a joint meeting by the club's executive committee and board on Saturda...Published: 12 Jul 2021 at 07:37hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
PAC wants De Klerk prosecuted for war crimes committed under his watch
The Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) expresses our understanding of the anger, and frustration which followed after the sentencing of the Former President Jacob Zuma. The protest is guaranteed,...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 22:53hrs | 1089 | by PAC
Biti IMF utterances under scrutiny
Political analysts have described the MDC Alliance Vice President, Tendai Biti's utterances on the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s growth projections, as a classical example of treachery and dislo...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 19:22hrs | 1018 | by Staff reporter
Free Jacob Zuma protests reach Gauteng
Videos shared on social media on Saturday morning show protesters in support of the 'KZN Shutdown' taking to the streets of the East Rand in Gauteng.A 'Free Zuma' address will be held at the K...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 11:21hrs | 4815 | by Staff reporter
Bosso negotiate with players' landlords
THE Highlanders executive committee says problems emanating from its failure to pay player salaries and outstanding signing-on fees are not peculiar to Bosso, as other sporting institutions also find ...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 12:12hrs | 258 | by Staff reporter
Harare lawyer deregistered over US$100 000 scandal
A HARARE lawyer, Lawman Chimuriwo has been deregistered after he was found guilty of misappropriating trust funds amounting to over US$100 000.Chimuriwo was found guilty of unethical conduct b...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 16:26hrs | 1861 | by Staff reporter
Council unleashes debt collectors
HARARE City Council has unleashed debt collectors on bad debtors owing in excess of $7,2 billion in unpaid rates.The city has been dogged by poor service delivery at a time when government dep...Published: 06 Jul 2021 at 10:29hrs | 394 | by Staff reporter
'Judiciary abuse liberator, Zuma; stark warning for Zanu PF' – indeed, for no one is above the law!
In the Movie "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" there is a scene where Jack Sparrow tells the young Will Turner "Stay here! And please don't do anything stupid!" Pretty damn good...Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 06:16hrs | 905 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Ask why Dumiso Dabengwa crushed ZimRights Gukurahundi investigations while Minister of Home Affairs!
While accusations are still hot on Obert Gutu, can we revisit our past and see where things went wrong for the victims of Gukurahundi in Matabeleland and Midlands. I maintain that what Gutu uttered wa...Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 06:13hrs | 2933 | by Nomazulu Thata
TelOne targets to recover US$8m
INFORMATION Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services minister Jenfan Muswere says state-run telecommunications firm, TelOne, must recover the ZW$720 million (US$8,42 million) owed by cust...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 19:34hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commissions new Zesa vehicles and transformers
ZIMBABWE'S power utility Zesa is owed more than $1 billion in unpaid bills, affecting electricity distribution in the country, President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday.Speaking at the commission...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 19:30hrs | 546 | by Staff reporter
Tyrants are generally cowards who flee when their bullying power is under threat
Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler hid in an underground bunker - where he eventually committed suicide - when Allied forces had surrounded Germany's capital Berlin in 1945.Iraq's iron-fisted tyrant, ...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 16:09hrs | 729 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Masiyiwa urges young entrepreneurs to pay taxes, support development in their nations
Strive Masiyiwa, one of Africa's top businessmen and successful entrepreneur, has urged young African entrepreneurs to register their businesses properly, and treat the payment of taxes as their highe...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 13:29hrs | 376 | by Agencies
Magistrate recuses himself from Sikhala trial set to commence July 14
Harare magistrate Lazini Ncube has recused himself from presiding over the incitement of public violence trial of MDC Alliance lawmaker Job Sikhala.Ncube stood down from the case following a m...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 15:10hrs | 905 | by Staff reporter
30 000 up for smuggling
OVER 30 000 people have been arrested in the past three weeks for smuggling goods into the country, as well as border jumping, police said yesterday.The smuggling of goods, including luxury ve...Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 17:06hrs | 508 | by Staff reporter
Ndebele Chiefs are the problem and Obert Gutu is the scapegoat
As far as I can remember, our Chiefs have been a problem since this country was colonized by "those without knees", the British colonial master. During the colonial times, the Chiefs were the better h...Published: 28 Jun 2021 at 18:33hrs | 3991 | by Nomazulu Thata
China is irreplaceable to Zim, Parly told
CHINA has proven to be an irreplaceable partner to Zimbabwe amid difficult challenges, including the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic and poverty, Sadc parliamentarians heard yesterday.Speaking at a...Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 07:50hrs | 490 | by Staff reporter
3 crucial factors to consider in cryptocurrency day trading for you
Are you aware that the emergence of internet trading platforms has spurred the rise of day trading as a profession? This may appear to be a fantastical scenario. However, as with any successful busine...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 17:33hrs | 639 | by Staff Reporter
The Mauritius example on economic development
Mauritius is ranked by the World Economic Forum as the most competitive economy in Sub-Saharan Africa and high income country with a Gross National Income (GNI) per capita of US$12,740 (Sub-Saharan Af...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 08:48hrs | 490 | by Port Louis Riverfront, Mauritius
ZAPU learns with sadness the passing of founding President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia
. .Affectionately known to us as Dr KK, President Kaunda is the doyen of Africa's liberation and search for freedom. At the time Zambia's freedom was at its infancy, President Kaunda s...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 14:43hrs | 1000 | by Iphithule Maphosa
'Zimbabwe going in wrong direction'
THE majority of Zimbabweans are not happy with the direction the country is taking, a recent survey has revealed.According to findings by Afrobarometer, a pan-African, nonpartisan, non-profit ...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 07:27hrs | 2539 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo city fathers pounce on underdeveloped stands
BULAWAYO City Council has embarked on a programme to repossess underdeveloped housing and business stands in various parts of the city in its latest bid to reclaim derelict land.The repossessi...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 07:25hrs | 1397 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa chucked out of Parly for calling Ziyambi 'murderer'
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa was Wednesday chucked out of the NationalAssembly after alleging Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi had visited traditional and faith healers with the aim of killing....Published: 17 Jun 2021 at 06:07hrs | 1976 | by Staff reporter
Banjani abantwana ngekhaya? Ndebele women included: Celebrating the International Day of the African Child
To be fair to other cultures in Zimbabwe, it is only in Ndebele culture where a woman is considered and addressed as a child regardless of her age. Ndebele women are called abesintwana by their male c...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 21:56hrs | 663 | by Nomazulu Thata
Brotherly advice to Hon Joanna Mamombe
In our families, communities, religious and political groupings and even at workplaces, people tend to be hesitant to tell each other the truth especially that which is deemed the unpalatable truth. H...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 21:51hrs | 2304 | by Harare West Constituency Voter
Smelly Dube's trial stopped
GWERU regional magistrate Mr Christopher Maturure has stopped the criminal trial of River Valley Properties chief executive officer Smelly Dube, who was facing US$9 million fraud allegations, pending ...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 17:17hrs | 1688 | by Staff reporter
We have stopped prosecution of Smelly Dube - Gweru magistrate's court
Gweru Magistrate Christopher Maturure has accented to the High Court ruling granting Smelly Dube a stay of prosecution in a case in which the businesswoman is facing corruption involving $9 million....Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 22:44hrs | 1597 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Households must Arm up and protect themselves
Zimbabweans must take matters into their hands as the rate of thieving, prostitution, drug use, and homosexuality by our country's youth reaches unprecedented levels. Our leaders have decided to look ...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 15:42hrs | 2233 | by Sam Wezhira
MDC factions have bungled in running Harare
The MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction leader, Nelson Chamisa, uses every opportunity he gets to pontificate about smart cities each time he has to talk of Zimbabwe's urban areas.Given the fact that...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:17hrs | 415 | by Nobleman Runyanga
COVID-19 public complacency spurred by ruling elite's scandalous disregard for preventative regulations, and inconsistent polici
So, when the ruling ZANU PF party was busy gathering hordes of youth for a campaign sports tournament yesterday, Saturday 12 June 2021, in the small town of Mazowe - with clearly almost none of them d...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 18:51hrs | 233 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa's MDC-A are 'terrorists' smacks of 'Ndebeles are cockroaches'
First, they came for the Ndebele people of Matabeleland and Midlands, I did not speak out because I was not Ndebele. Then they came for white Zimbabwean farmers, I did not speak out because I was not ...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 18:26hrs | 1732 | by Nomazulu Thata
Sanctions: The unfair comparison between Zimbabwe and Rhodesia
MANY Zimbabweans often bring up the comparison between Rhodesian and Zimbabwean sanctions to drive the narrative that Rhodesia had more stringent sanctions that they managed better than Zimbabwe is ma...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:35hrs | 622 | by Rutendo Bereza Matinyarare
High Court stops Smelly Dube trial
THE High Court has stopped the criminal trial of River Valley Properties chief executive officer Smelly Dube, who is facing US$9 million fraud, pending a determination by the same court of her applica...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:22hrs | 837 | by Staff reporter
Mkoba student teachers locked out over unpaid fees
Emmanuel Masuku (not his real name), a student at Mkoba Teachers' College (MTC) in Gweru, was supposed to start his final year of training as a primary school teacher this month.He underwent w...Published: 07 Jun 2021 at 06:04hrs | 453 | by Staff reporter
Business has learned nothing and forgot nothing
SO there was this prominent businessman-cum-pastor who was obsessed with religiously lampooning politicians as occultic during his daily sermons.Preaching from his moral high horse, the raboni...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 09:50hrs | 84 | by Bishop Lazarus
Man arrested for illegal water connection
A HWANGE man, who claims to be a philanthropist taking care of "many people," has been arrested for making an illegal water connection after being disconnected by the Zimbabwe National Water Authority...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 18:44hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Prosecutor quits as Zacc probe starts
BULAWAYO prosecutor Thobekani Nyathi, who was implicated in an alleged corrupt activity involving principal public prosecutor Chris Mutangadura, reportedly resigned after the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption ...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 07:23hrs | 1597 | by Staff report
Gwanda water supply cut off
GWANDA Town has been without water supply since Thursday over unpaid dues.Gwanda Mayor Councillor Njabulo Siziba said the Matabeleland South provincial capital was affected after Zesa cut off ...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:34hrs | 61 | by Staff reporter
POLAD discusses electoral reforms
MEMBERS of the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) platform yesterday met in Nyanga to unpack the draft Electoral Amendment Bill submitted to Parliament by civic society groups.They also interro...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:30hrs | 128 | by Staff reporter
Heroism can never be shoved down Zimbabweans' throats
The past week, after the official unveiling of Charwe Nyakasikana's (the spirit medium of Mbuya Nehanda) statue in the capital Harare, has reignited highly emotive, and long-standing divisions amongst...Published: 29 May 2021 at 17:22hrs | 663 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
US$137m loss sinks run-down Air Zimbabwe
NATIONAL flag carrier, Air Zimbabwe (AirZim), chalked over a US$137 million loss in four successive years which helped sink the airline deep into the abyss under the yoke of corporate malfeasance, inc...Published: 28 May 2021 at 08:00hrs | 646 | by Staff reporter
Coltart demands $12,5m for unlawful arrest
HUMAN rights lawyer Douglas Coltart has sued Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga for $12,5 million over his unlawful arrest.Coltart was arreste...Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:52hrs | 596 | by Staff reporter
Cops, prosecutors in acquittals storm
Corruption syndicates comprising police officers, prosecutors and magistrates are reportedly soliciting bribes from suspects before organising acquittals through sloppy investigations and prosecution....Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:37hrs | 266 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T polling agents still unpaid for 2018 election
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora is agonising over outstanding allowances owed to thousands of polling agents hired by the party across the country for the disputed 2018 general election.Mwonzora...Published: 26 May 2021 at 16:20hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
Zuma says 'Not guilty' - nails CIA linked prosecutor
More than a decade after former president Jacob Zuma was served with an indictment accusing him of fraud and corruption, he was finally able to enter a plea at the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Wedne...Published: 26 May 2021 at 15:41hrs | 856 | by Des Erasmus
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