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MDC Alliance declare war on Mthwakazi
There are licked audios and messages from the MDC Bulawayo group which are in bad taste. In one of the audios, a woman is heard calling upon all MDC members to meet at Bulawayo high court tomorrow at ...Published: 20 hrs ago | 5249 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Zanu-PF in Lupane East vote buying storm
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF party has been sucked into a vote buying storm, after a letter in which Health Minister Obadiah Moyo agreed to restock clinics in Lupane East constituency ahead ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:42hrs | 709 | by newzimbabwe
Rhinos denied clear penalty against Dembare
Black Rhinos 1 - 1 DynamosAfter watching another horror show from a very poor Dynamos that huffed and puffed at the Nationals Sports Stadium yesterday, Tonderai Ndiraya says if rules permitted, he...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:26hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
Middleton Nyoni turning in his grave: His office of excellence is reduced to despicable genital-mother insults and death treats
We are watching on the sidelines seeing the gross mismanagement of Bulawayo residents' rates payments squandered to the extent that Bulawayo City council cannot resuscitate the water works for weeks a...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 17:50hrs | 3946 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mangoma nailed over Zesa tender scam
PROCUREMENT and Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) chief executive Nyasha Chizu yesterday said former Energy minister Elton Mangoma violated the Procurement Act by giving a South Korean company a...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:06hrs | 1395 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe, South Jet fight over planes
TROUBLED Air Zimbabwe is involved in a tug of war with Isle of Man company South Jet One Ltd over the ownership of two Airbus A320 aircrafts which the state entity claims it was given as a donation in...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 2211 | by Staff reporter
B-Metro news editor quits to join Sunday Times
B-Metro news editor Lenin Ndebele has left the Bulawayo-based tabloid to join The Sunday Times of South Africa.Ndebele, who joined B-Metro at its inception in 2009, has joined the Sunday Times...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 22:09hrs | 1775 | by ZimLive
High Court throws out Gweru residents' case on State land
THE High Court has dismissed an application by 11 residents who sought a court order blocking the Land Commission from re-convening in Harare for an inquiry into the sale and acquisition of State land...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | 346 | by Staff reporter
Govt mulls scrapping forex duty for vehicles
TREASURY is considering scrapping the payment of duty for vehicles in foreign currency when it presents the mid-year fiscal policy at the end of this month, it has been revealed.On June 24, th...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:30hrs | 1534 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya unscathed after 6 months of legal trouble
WHEN pictures and videos of Prophet Walter Magaya's burning Yadah Hotel surfaced on Thursday night and early Friday morning, the raging ball of flame sitting on top of the exclusive piece of property ...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:10hrs | 743 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya's world crumbling?
The world around Prophet Walter Magaya is crumbling as more allegations of sexual abuse and harassment continue to surface.A week after the Maenzanise family went on social media alleging that...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:00hrs | 592 | by Garikai Mazara
Gaddafi's 'son' set for Zimbabwe prison release
A LIBYAN man claiming to be slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son is set for release and deportation after languishing at Harare Remand Prison since 2014.This was after his case was struck...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:23hrs | 1374 | by newzimbabwe.com
Zinara finance director sued over US$169k rentals
SUSPENDED Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) finance director Simon Taranhike, who is facing criminal charges of abuse of office, has again been dragged to the High Court by a local proper...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:06hrs | 232 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi ordered to pay RTGS$100 for maintenance
VICE President Kembo Mohadi's son, Campbell Junior, was yesterday ordered to pay his ex-girlfriend RTGS$100 for the maintenance of "his" 11-month-old daughter pending a DNA test to ascertain the pater...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:05hrs | 597 | by Staff reporter
Tigermania Returns During 2019
We've all gone crazy again over Tiger Woods, especially when it comes to betting on golf. According to the Golf Channel, ahead of last month's US Open at Pebble Beach, Tiger was certainly not the favo...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 12:07hrs | 581 | by Staff Writer
Evidence-swallowing cop loses appeal
THE High Court has dismissed an appeal against conviction by a traffic policeman who under-receipted a fine paid by a tourist and later swallowed the doctored traffic ticket to conceal the evidence af...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 07:59hrs | 704 | by Staff reporter
AG report puts ZACC to test
The efficiency of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) will be put to test by its response to the scathing Auditor- General's report that exposed serious rot in government and parastatals....Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 18:48hrs | 872 | by Mona Lisa Dube
Chikwinya faces civil imprisonment
OLD Mutual Property Co-operation (Private) Ltd has petitioned the High Court seeking an order to have former Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development minister Nyasha Chikwinya incarcerated for ...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 08:21hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
Frank Buyanga risks imprisonment
CONTROVERSIAL businessman Frank Buyanga risks imprisonment over a 2014 US$172 000 debt owed to Patison Sithole which has remained unserviced since four years ago.Sithole has petitioned the Hig...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 18:22hrs | 1433 | by Staff reporter
Chrome smelters sued over US$7 million ore
Chrome mining and smelting company, Afrochine Smelting, has been taken to the High Court by NR Barber (Private) Ltd, for allegedly unlawfully removing its chrome ore worth US$7 million.Afrochi...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 08:48hrs | 642 | by Staff reporter
Man challenges SI 142
A Harare man Godfrey Mupanga has filed an application at the High Court seeking to set aside Statutory Instrument 142 of 2019 which scrapped the multi-currency system. Through Statutory Instru...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 08:20hrs | 485 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa forced to return Zim Dollar
Zimbabwe People First spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government was forced to reintroduce the Zimbabwean dollar whose success depends on him having a political ...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 18:49hrs | 17168 | by Staff Reporter
You can now track anyone in the United States: ZabaSearch search review
Keeping track of someone who you can only trace by their name is far more effortless in the United States thanks to people search services like ZabaSearch. Although these platforms work by compil...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 18:34hrs | 2356 | by Staff Writer
CIO officer up for kidnap & robbery
A CENTRAL Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operative and four accomplices allegedly kidnapped two suspected illegal forex dealers and hired people to attack them before robbing one of the victims of hi...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:15hrs | 809 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe stops issuing passports?
Zimbabwe's passport-issuing service has ground to a halt, officials said Monday, leaving many citizens trapped in the country as its economic crisis worsens.Applicants for new or renewed passp...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 19:04hrs | 12274 | by AFP
Peter Moyo vs Trevor Manuel: Explosive court papers reveal how 'all hell broke loose'
Former Old Mutual CEO Peter Moyo has detailed the breakdown of his relationship with Old Mutual chairperson Trevor Manuel in court papers before the South Gauteng High Court, where he alleges that Man...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 08:35hrs | 1622 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is not bothered of Z$ disaster consequences no more than fable cat is of the bell
"Belling the Cat is a fable concerns a group of mice who debate plans to nullify the threat of a marauding cat," explained Wikipedia."One of them proposes placing a bell around its neck, so th...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:37hrs | 7263 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
ZEC wins all 73 poll petitions
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has won all 73 petitions concluded in court following the July 2018 harmonised elections, while the remaining seven cases are still pending. The electio...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:28hrs | 423 | by Staff reporter
Deaths on black women on the rise in Germany; how many deaths will it take until we know that too many women have died?
The cold-blood murders of black women in Germany are not German men as such but African men. Bremen-North is plunged into a shock, the newspapers are filled with a recent event of a mother murdered by...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:09hrs | 2121 | by Nomazulu Thata
More heads to roll at parastatals
PUBLIC officials in State-owned enterprises (SOEs) and Government departments might soon face the music after the Auditor-General, Mrs Mildred Chiri, uncovered continued dereliction of duty and deep-s...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:02hrs | 538 | by Staff reporter
CSC revival shifts gear up
Government's planned revival of giant meat processor - Cold Storage Company (CSC) - through Bousted Beef Zimbabwe, has reached an advanced stage following revelations that CSC recently received 2 000 ...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 08:59hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
Audit exposes shocking govt rot
GOVERNMENT last year overspent by more than $2 billion without seeking parliamentary approval, while various departments and local authorities flagrantly flouted accounting procedures, Auditor-General...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:45hrs | 1323 | by Staff reporter
Ex-MDC MP sued for failing to fulfill campaign promise
FORMER MDC-T Member of Parliament for Hwange Central Mr Brian Tshuma has been taken to court by his erstwhile campaign manager for failing to pay him for services rendered during the 2008 and 2013 ele...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:44hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter
The day Cyclone Mthuli came to town
Well, this Mthuli Ncube guy is bad news.Witty and cunning are his attributes! He had an afternoon outing with journalists, last weekend, shared jokes and ideas, while he kept his joker to his ches...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:39hrs | 1686 | by Staff reporter
Biti wins case against Bhasikiti
MDC vice-president Tendai Biti has won a ZWL$15 180 claim against former Mwenezi East MP Kudakwashe Bhasikiti, who had reneged to fulfil a legal fee agreement signed between the parties over four year...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 06:28hrs | 4148 | by Staff reporter
Parliament demands Zimpapers overhaul
CHAIRPERSON of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Media, Prince Dubeko Sibanda (MDC Alliance) yesterday called for the revival of the Zimbabwe Mass Media Trust (ZMMT) to stop government interfer...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 06:26hrs | 1013 | by Staff reporter
High Court jails 21 black farmers for contempt of court
At least 21 former Stanely Farms (Pvt) Ltd residents in Chegutu, have been slapped with an effective one year jail term each for contempt of court after refusing to vacate the farm in defiance of a co...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 07:03hrs | 1825 | by Staff reporter
Chaos in Zvinavashe estate
The High Court has lamented the absence of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms in the estate of the late former Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, Vitalis Musungwa Zvinavashe, whose widow...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 07:01hrs | 1956 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's law firm fails to pay rent
OPPOSITION leader Douglas Mwonzora's law firm faces eviction over alleged non-payment of rent at premises in Eastlea.According to papers filed at Harare Civil Court, Mwonzora is being sued for...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 22:32hrs | 2034 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: RBZ boss sues Zanu-PF
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor John Mangudya has slapped Zanu-PF with a $1 million lawsuit over allegations by the youth league that he was engaged in corrupt activities.Mangudya was mentio...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 13:05hrs | 13497 | by Staff Reporter
Chiwenga haunts Jonathan Moyo
Former Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development minister Jonathan Moyo, who is battling to defend a $5 million defamation claim filed by Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga tw...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 07:36hrs | 12232 | by Staff reporter
NPA in Mawarire treason trial mistake
The National Prosecution Authority (NPA) was embarrassed after it erroneously assigned the case of cleric Evan Mawarire and Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union president Peter Mutasa - who are being char...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 07:48hrs | 3598 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe slapped with US$4m lawsuit
Lebanese businessman Jamal Hamed has approached the High Court demanding US$4 million from former First Lady Grace Mugabe in defamation compensation and damages to his three houses that she seized....Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 06:47hrs | 7888 | by Staff Reporter
British Council sucked into Riverton Academy exam scam
MASVINGO-BASED Riverton Academy has been rocked by an "A" Level Cambridge examinations cheating scam that has sucked in the British Council Exam Board.Since Riverton became a Cambridge examina...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 09:37hrs | 1498 | by Staff reporter
Cop molests boss
A BULAWAYO-based traffic cop indecently assaulted his uniformed female boss when he grabbed her by the waist before squeezing up against her body in a sexually suggestive manner in full view of other ...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 09:36hrs | 2492 | by Staff reporter
Australian based Zimbabwean sued $300 000 for adultery
A BULAWAYO man is suing a local businessman for RTGS$300 000 in damages for allegedly engaging in an adulterous relationship with his wife. The aggrieved man, Mr Dick Sakala, is accusing Mr Go...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:21hrs | 1467 | by Staff reporter
Youths are growing horns due to using cellphones
Research in biomechanics suggests that young people are developing hornlike spikes at the back of their skulls bone spurs caused by the forward tilt of the head, which shifts weight from the spine to ...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 15:09hrs | 3179 | by Online
Students resist Hexco exam rewrite
Scores of disgruntled former Kwekwe Polytechnic students yesterday refused to resit for an examination in which some of the candidates were caught cheating, leading to the nullification of the results...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 08:02hrs | 1113 | by Staff reporter
US$1,4m debt haunts Msipa's son
THE late former Midlands governor Cephas Msipa's son, Cephas Mandlenkosi Msipa, has been hauled before the High Court by a local coal mining company, NR Barber (Pvt) Ltd, over a US$1,4 million debt ac...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 08:01hrs | 1026 | by Staff reporter
Sunshine journalism: What happens on cloudy days?
I RECENTLY read on the ZBC website that Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa had "urged the media to write positive developmental stories about Zimbabwe in the new dispensation", and this reminded m...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 07:58hrs | 172 | by Nqaba Matshazi
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