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Why NetEnt stands out as a top-tier game developer
When asked about the best game developers, which software provider would everyone think of? We bet that many will recall NetEnt with its highest-quality slot machines and exceptional features. The com...Published: 13 Aug 2024 at 21:45hrs | 155 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Chivayo has Mnangagwa in his pocket?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's association with controversial figures continues to raise concerns, with recent revelations highlighting his ties to convicted tenderpreneur Wicknell Chivayo. This devel...Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 10:12hrs | 77 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Judge's sudden resignation opens a Pandora's box
FORMER High Court judge Webster Chinamora allegedly left a huge backlog of reserved judgments, with Delta Corporation continuing to haunt him despite his recent resignation, the Zimbabwe Independent r...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 07:46hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa protects judge facing a series of corruption scandals
SOMETIME in February The NewsHawks reported that the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) had recommended that President Emmerson Mnangagwa must set up tribunals to investigate High Court Justices Webste...Published: 13 Nov 2023 at 21:25hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Belarus army general's visits Zimbabwe
The visit of Belarusian army general Viktor Sheiman has sparked concerns and controversy. Sheiman, who is under sanctions from the European Union and the United States for alleged human rights abuses ...Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 05:54hrs | 32 | by Staff reporter
Bosso executives survive vote of no confidence
HIGHLANDERS Football Club's executive survived a vote of no confidence after the auditors issued an adverse opinion on the club's financials which paints a bad picture of the institution.An ad...Published: 22 May 2023 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Only PhD holders should lecture at university
WHEN I completed my Master of Philosophy in Linguistics degree, I was a teaching assistant at the University of Zimbabwe. My two colleagues and I celebrated because we had spent four hard years resear...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Jairos Kangira
Shady characters around Mnangagwa
SPOTLIGHT seems to bring out the best and worst of people, and sometimes their true colours. Self-proclaimed prophet Uebert Angel is among people caught off-guard by the four-episode Al Jazeera docume...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 07:36hrs | 73 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa associate biggest winner in Zimbabwe-Belarus deals
ZIMBABWE'S honorary consul to Belarus Alexander Zingman, a close associate to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his counterpart Alexander Lukashenko, was the biggest winner in trade agreements signed t...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lukashenko's eagerness for Mnangagwa to win elections casts serious doubts over credibility of deals signed!
Normally, when a national leader visits another country, he is expected - on account of common decency, respect and statesmanship - to keep clear of his hosts' domestic politics. It would have...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 12:13hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
President Lukashenko, be warned, Zimbabwe will never be a colony again!
Amongst all the hullabaloo, with the pomp and fanfare, surrounding the so-called 'historic' state visit by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to Zimbabwe - some of us are more wary of a leader ...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 08:51hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Belarus spreads Zimbabwe footprint
BELARUS has increased its footprint in Zimbabwe after cabinet this week announced that it was concluding a framework to award the Eastern European country a tender to construct a 100-megawatt photovol...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Chilling prophetic warning to SA singer Makhadzi
Imperial City Church leader Prophet Isaiah Brian Sovi has sent a chilling prophetic warning to South African top singer Makhadzi (real nameNdivhudzannyi Ralivhona) warning of a harmful plot agai...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 10:56hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's oligarchs: The heirs of Cecil Rhodes
As Zimbabwe's economy has spiralled down, with one million economic refugees in South Africa alone and ordinary people facing shortages of food, fuel, medicine and shelter, there is a class of people ...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:29hrs | 4 | by Phillip van Niekerk and a Zim-based Research Team
There's more evidence of rampant corruption in Zimbabwe than imagined economic sanctions!
As the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan winds up her much talked about visit, I wonder what real incontrovertible evidence she has managed to garner, on how exactly the so-called 'e...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 15:28hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Show us criminals that surrounded Gushungo
My People,Ignatius Chombo, the man who was branded the biggest criminal around Gushungo, is now a free man.Chombo was seized by soldiers on the night of the infamous coup while sleepin...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:55hrs | | by Dr Stop It
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 | 9 | by Staff reporter
Belarus elites' golden deals with Mnangagwa
IN MARCH 2018, Belarus' autocratic President Alexander Lukashenko dispatched his right-hand man Viktor Sheiman to Zimbabwe to negotiate trade and business deals on the government's behalf.Shei...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:25hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya emerges in the thick of shady Zimbabwe military dealings
FOR long, Martin Rushwaya was the military's point man in its multi-million-dollar commercial ventures, as the permanent secretary in the Defence ministry from 2009 until 2019.In April 2019, P...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:24hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Viktor Sheiman's son secretly mines gold in Zimbabwe
IN March 2018, Viktor Sheiman, the then head of the Property Management Directorate of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, paid an official visit to Zimbabwe where he and Mines minister Winston...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:23hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Isaiah Brian Sovi strikes again...foretells Pandora Papers leak
Prominent Televangelist and Prophet Isaiah Brian Sovi prophesied the leaking of the Pandora Papers which have caused brouhaha all over the world. A Facebook post from his official page reveal ...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 15:50hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | | by Daily Maverick
Child marriages are evil
The story of the fourteen-year-old Marange 'girl wife' who passed on at a shrine whilst birthing made very sad reading. Adding salt to the wound and rubbing it in was the attempt to conc...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 07:06hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Publisher wants to open a Pandora's Box on Zupco's opaque deal
A local media publishing company, Zimind Publishers (Pvt) Limited, owned by Trevor Ncube, together with Transparency International Zimbabwe Trust, has cornered government to release information on pro...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 19:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Child brides: Machaya saga opens Pandora's box
THE story of a 14-year-old girl, who died while giving birth at an apostolic sect shrine in Marange has sparked outrage across the globe.Anna Machaya was allegedly forced out of school and int...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF - ZNA bond in unbreakable' said Chinamasa - rubbish, 2017 broke it and since feared another
Zimbabwe is not the first and only country to gain her independence and sovereignty after a bitter armed struggle; many other nations have in Africa, Asia, North and South America, etc. have had a sim...Published: 26 Jun 2021 at 07:32hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'Excelgate: How Zimbabwe's 2018 Presidential Election Was Stolen' - so will 2023, 41 years and penny hasn't dropped
Zimbabwe's next elections are due in July 2023, just over two years from now. The nation is being reminded of how the 2018 elections were rigged."The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) was on...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 13:19hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
US$780k gold smuggler linked to Rushwaya?
ZIMBABWE'S lax security at ports of entry and airports has come under spotlight again after Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya's ex-aide was arrested at the OR Tambo Interna...Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Controversial secret agreement haunts Mnangagwa
WHILE cabinet this week set up a taskforce to investigate dodgy land deals in local authorities and deal with land barons, President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Local Government minister July Moyo are part...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's softball pleads for sponsorship
COVID-19 has crippled many sporting realms and opened a pandora's box on how sporting disciplines are ferrying.One of the latest casualty of COVID-19 is softball. Although not really known the...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 15:52hrs | 5 | by Daniel Itai
Bushiri's extradition: A humbling experience for Mzansi
The extradition request for Shepherd Bushiri by South African authorities to the Malawian government early last week seems to be a sobering reminder for the greater good of cooperation within the regi...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 14:24hrs | | by Daphine Zulu
Zimbabwe police criminal syndicate busted
THE Special Anti-Corruption Unit (SACU) and the Drugs and Narcotics outfit that falls under the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have busted an alleged underground syndicate comprising top poli...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu, Jacob Mudenda emerge as Mnangagwa's new targets for purging
AFTER weeding out his new rivals - who brought him to power - in the security sector, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has now shifted the purges to Zanu-PF, targeting the ruling party's heavyweights seen...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Govt persecuting me: Gudyanga
FORMER Mines and Mining Development secretary Francis Gudyanga, who is on remand on fraud allegations involving payment of US$1,6 million from the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) cof...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Gukurahundi exhumation opens pandora's box
The exhumation of a Gukurahundi victim has opened a pandora's box after a pathologist managed to examine the body and narrate what happened to the victim before they died. The pathologist said...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 13:29hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa, Mugabe carefully planned Gukurahundi genocide
THE Gukurahundi genocide, in which an estimated 20 000 Zimbabwean citizens were killed by a crack parallel army unit, the Fifth Brigade, in the early 1980s, was carefully planned, well before dissiden...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 11:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Be wary of political gladiators' moans Mnangagwa - what is to fear in another 'legal' coup
"If any members or structures of the party have any grievances, the laid-out rules, regulations and procedures must be followed," Mnangagwa told his Zanu-PF Youth League members. "As you carry...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 19:24hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'We want unity!' says desperate VP Mohadi - new GNU will NOT end economic meltdown
Zimbabwe's economic situation is getting worse and worse by the day; as much as President Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF friends would want to ignore it, it is now clear that they cannot do so. The regime ...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 07:21hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Why we need to be open to each other on the currency Mr Finance Minister
Zimbabwe in January 2009 adopted a basket of currencies as the official medium of exchange. Government business and transactions where done in United States dollars. Eventually the United States dolla...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 07:43hrs | | by Henry Madiro
Queen Bee a fictitious character created to defuse tension in the country
Prior to the stage managed appointment and termination of Gerald Matumanje aka Acie Lumumba I wrote a piece titled 'President ED Mnangagwa is Finished'. I demonstrated that Zimbabwe was ripe for...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 12:24hrs | | by Don Chigumba
Mthuli Ncube & John Pakanetsa Mangudya have opened a pandora box
Zimbabweans, I greet you cordially. I want to start by apologizing to you (those at home and in diaspora) for misleading you with a wrong information in my previous piece titled 'The Latest Monetary S...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 10:19hrs | 1 | by Don Chigumba
Open letter to E.D. Mnangagwa the Incoming president of Zimbabwe
Mr. President, I congratulate you with 'heavyheart' for being sworn in as the next president of the republic of Zimbabwe for the next five years. I am sure that that you are aware that millions of Zim...Published: 26 Aug 2018 at 23:10hrs | | by Don Chigumba
Political violence, deplorable and red flags ignored
Wednesday's awful shooting gave us lot to discuss as this day dawns, so let's get straight to it.. If the government and local police authorities unwilling to address violent protesters, it will fuel ...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 13:22hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa's troubled and dumbfounded by Mnangagwa's soft dictatorship
I am afraid the MDC Alliance appears oblivious to the mammoth political fraud in the electoral making. As things stand, the opposition grouping not only runs the horrifying risk of losing a massive ch...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 07:17hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
Open letter to Ezra Tshisa Sibanda and All
Hello My Dear brother this is Mqondisi Moyo. Ngifisa ukukubonga ngenkulumo zakho ezinhle oziyenze ngami lebandla leMRP. Ngidlulisa ukubonga kwami okukhulu kuwe ngisithi eSibanda baba.Ngamadoda...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 18:17hrs | 1 | by Mqondisi Moyo
MDC-T run Harare threatens imminent demolitions
Harare City Council (HCC) has opened a Pandora's Box on the eve of elections set for July 30 after the municipality declared war on illegal settlers residing in Crowborough, Churu and Eyestone Farms....Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 12:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe could spill diamond beans
ZIMBABWE'S intelligence services bosses fear parliament's bid to summon former president Robert Mugabe to provide oral evidence on the supposed missing US$15 billion diamond revenues could open a Pand...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 16:38hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Army won't allow Nelson Chamisa to lead Zimbabwe (Shape-Up or Pull Out)
Galileo is said to be the man who first observed that the earth was round (though controversial) and his claim landed him in great trouble. He suffered abuse from the society and was almost hanged. Th...Published: 27 May 2018 at 09:31hrs | | by Don Chigumba
'I have found the father of my baby'
WHOSE baby is this?An injiva got the shock of his life when his wife opened a Pandora box telling him that he was not the one responsible for her pregnancy and she dumped him before moving to ...Published: 25 May 2018 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Border control officer acquitted
A member of the Zimbabwe Republic Police Border Control section, Clayton Chipembere who appeared with his co-accused Clopas Nhamburo before Chiredzi magistrate, Geraldine Mutsoto, two months ago facin...Published: 10 May 2018 at 14:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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