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192 Zimbabweans refused entry into South Africa
MORE than 107 000 people used Sadc's busiest port of entry and exit, Beitbridge Border Post between Sunday and Friday last week, a 1,6 percent increase from last year during the Easter holidays....Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 16:29hrs | 4199 | by Staff reporter
Criminals cash in on lost IDs, certificates
CUNNING criminals are earning a living out of lost identity particulars and certificates which they sell to undocumented foreign foreigners who are desperate to remain in the country.The crimi...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 16:28hrs | 1695 | by Staff reporter
Stationery shortage hits Registrar-General's office
The Registrar-General's Office (RG) has been hit with a serious shortage of stationery and consumables required to process national identification cards and passports, it has emerged.The offic...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:53hrs | 587 | by Staff reporter
Death stalks Mnangagwa family
President Emerson Mnangagwa, former president Robert Mugabe, and all the architects of Gukurahundi - the 1980s massacre of unarmed civilians in Matabeleland and the Midlands - carry a deadly curse tha...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 17:35hrs | 45406 | by Methusi Ncube
4 in court over forged drivers' licences, IDs
Four men, who are facing 60 counts of forgery after manufacturing fake identity documents, driver's licences and passports at an office in the Harare central business district were on Tuesday denied b...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:33hrs | 1470 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans flee Limpopo village after xenophobic attacks
A number of Zimbabweans who had been living and working in Tshino village, Thohoyandou, Vuwani, have moved to other areas of Limpopo or returned to Zimbabwe after xenophobic violence erupted last mont...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 11:25hrs | 3862 | by GroundUP
Tracing the failed assassination of Joshua Nkomo in Lusaka
Some four decades ago, Zimbabwe's veteran nationalist - former Vice President Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo - who was affectionately known as Father Zimbabwe, survived an assassination attempt on Apri...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 06:56hrs | 1362 | by Sifelani Tsiko
Call to decentralise Passport Office
Beitbridge residents have called on Government to decentralise the issuance of passports to district level to ease the challenges that people are encountering when applying for the travel documents. ...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:38hrs | 553 | by Staff reporter
Rights commission probes Passport Office
The Registrar-General's Office is co-operating with the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission in its inquiries into allegations of delays in the issuance of passports and national identification documents....Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:33hrs | 1067 | by Staff reporter
Biti's lawyer, aides plead not guilty in 'border jumping' trial
A LAWYER and some aides for senior MDC official and human rights lawyer Tendai Biti have pleaded not guilty to charges of violating the country's immigration laws when their trial commenced before Kar...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 15:45hrs | 521 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe in court
Former Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) board chairman Albert Mugabe has appeared in court on allegations of authorising and tendering false letters of undertaking to set off a mortgage ...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:09hrs | 516 | by Staff reporter
New laws for children under 18 years going to South Africa
The South African government has announced new laws for children under the age of 18 years travelling to South Africa either accompanied or unaccompanied.A summary of the new laws is as follow...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 08:42hrs | 9236 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ID, passport delays to persist as resource shortages bite
Registrar General Clemence Masango has said resources needed to print identity cards and passports were in short supply, leading to the issuance of paper identity documents and long delays in processi...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 08:33hrs | 3211 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa will be removed as president next year, replaced by Mabuza
South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa's wishy-washy stance on the ANC's resolutions, including expropriation of land without compensation, will be used as a basis to remove him at the party's nationa...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 19:36hrs | 19920 | by City Press
MDC Alliance MP, councillor denied bail
Bid by Zengeza East legislator Goodrich Chimbaira (MDC-ALLIANCE) and Ward 14 councillor Chengetai Nyagondo to get freedom hit a snag after Chitungwiza resident magistrate Mr Nyasha Vitorini denied the...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 18:42hrs | 481 | by Staff reporter
Motsepe's money trail, Botswana security company accounts frozen
The Botswana Financial Intelligence Agency (FIA) has frozen Avante Security Services bank accounts in Gaborone on suspicions that the company was used by South African businesswoman Bridgette Motsepe ...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 08:39hrs | 3230 | by Staff reporter
Mhofu opens door for Mushekwi, Costa
CHINA-based Warriors star striker Nyasha Mushekwi is set to bounce back into the senior national football team, and could be one of the team's major inclusions when coach Sunday "Mhofu" Chidzambga pic...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 07:31hrs | 1153 | by Staff repoirter
3 nabbed over fake passports
THREE Iraq nationals were last week arrested at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport for allegedly possessing fake passports. Derror Elim (29), Seerwan Khalid (29) and Deror Esav (4...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 06:30hrs | 579 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate blasts prosecutor for unprofessional behaviour
A HARARE magistrate yesterday blasted as unprofessional the conduct of the State anti-corruption special prosecutor in the case of Postal and Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (Potraz) director-g...Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 08:01hrs | 731 | by Staff reporter
Bonne submits papers for Zimbabwe passport, ready for Warriors
United Kingdom-born Warriors' striker Macauley Bonne is now expected to play for the national team in competitive matches after applying a passport at the Zimbabwean embassy in London today.Th...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 21:54hrs | 4780 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe passport office has backlog of 200 000 documents
CECILIA Majanyuke flips through the pages of her passport everytime it is stamped by immigration officials.She pays particular attention to the number of free pages in her travelling document ...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 16:38hrs | 3705 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers roll out free legal advice to cyclone victims
THE Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) has offered to give free legal advice to victims of Cyclone Idai seeking to replace documents lost during floods which wreaked havoc in Chipinge, Chimanimani district...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 06:14hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
No bail for cop 'killer' sangoma
AN inyanga from Gokwe who allegedly lured a police officer to a bush where he is alleged to have fatally stabbed him with a knife and dumped the body, has lost his application for bail pending trial. ...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 22:55hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
Aspiring Zimbabwe drivers to write licence test online
ASPIRING drivers will soon write provisional driver's licence tests online to reduce interface with officials and minimise cases of alleged corruption. In a telephone interview yesterday, the ...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 06:57hrs | 678 | by Staff reporter
Potraz boss temporarily gets passport back
Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) director-general Gift Machengete, who is facing charges of contravening the Procurement Act, on Monday successfully applied for ...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 06:44hrs | 67 | by Staff reporter
Review policies on access to IDs, Parliament told
Stakeholders in Gwanda have called for a review of laws and policies relating to the issuance of identity documents amid revelations that thousands of people have failed to access birth certificates a...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 14:14hrs | 1680 | by Staff reporter
Special prosecutor in no-show at Potraz boss trial
Anti-corruption special prosecutor Thabani Mpofu, who is handling the trial of Postal and Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) director-general Gift Machengete, failed to appear...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 06:25hrs | 472 | by Staff reporter
Immigration officials in trouble
TWO Victoria Falls immigration officials who allegedly issued instant visa documents to three Bangladeshi nationals are in trouble.The alleged move was in violation of the country's immigratio...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 11:00hrs | 1777 | by Staff reporter
Supa Mandiwanzira's passport return bid deferred
A HARARE magistrate deferred until next week a decision on whether to release a passport to ex-Cabinet minister Supa Mandiwanzira, facing charges of criminal abuse of office. Mandiwanzira, who...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 21:31hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
ED is not the only Mnangagwa: Jonasi
IDEAL Zimbabwe leader Tinashe Jonasi, who is accused undermining President Emmerson Mnangagwa's authority, has said the head of State was not the only person called Mnangagwa and challenged the State ...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 21:29hrs | 1110 | by Staff reporter
Darikwa persuading Bonne
WARRIORS defender Tendayi Darikwa says he is trying to convince other England-born Zimbabweans, in particular, Macauley Bonne to play for Zimbabwe.Darikwa is confident that the highly-rated st...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 05:52hrs | 4198 | by Staff reporter
'Mandiwanzira potential fugitive'
Special Unit prosecutor Michael Chakandida yesterday opposed former minister and Nyanga South legislator Supa Mandiwanzira's application for variation of bail conditions saying that he is a potential ...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 19:16hrs | 3613 | by Staff reporter
Supa offers $100,000 house to get passport back
Ex-Cabinet minister Supa Mandiwanzira, pictured, - who is facing two counts of criminal abuse of office - has offered to surrender an additional property worth $100 000 as surety in a bid to convince ...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 07:57hrs | 2500 | by Staff reporter
Guvamombe's bail conditions relaxed
A HARARE magistrate yesterday relaxed bail conditions for suspended Chief Magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe who is accused of criminal abuse of office.Guvamombe who appeared before magistrate Lucy ...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 07:31hrs | 316 | by Staff reporter
Jailed Zinara boss out on $5,000 bail
Former Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) acting chief executive Moses Julius Juma, who was last October slapped with a two-year jail term for criminal abuse of office, breathed a sigh of ...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 07:28hrs | 453 | by Staff reporter
Immigration officers arrested over tourists' visas
TWO immigration officials stationed in Victoria Falls have been arrested after they allegedly issued instant visas to three tourists from Bangladesh without following laid down procedures. Ban...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 07:27hrs | 677 | by Staff reporter
MDC MP seeks removal from remand
Harare West legislator Joana Mamombe (MDC Alliance) yesterday notified the court that she would demand her removal from remand if she is not given a trial date on her next remand date.Mamombe,...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:31hrs | 1989 | by Staff reporter
Mash Central MDC youth leader out on bail
Jailed MDC Mashonaland Central youth chairperson Tonderai Samhu, together with four accomplices, were finally granted $100 bail each to challenge their six-year jail sentence.High Court judge ...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:30hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
Man (21) kills brother (15) over food
Police in Murewa have launched a manhunt for a 21-year-old man who allegedly killed his younger brother after a misunderstanding over food.The suspect, Kudzanai Mandeya, of Mapfumo village und...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:29hrs | 869 | by Staff reporter
Joana Mamombe in the dock
Harare West legislator Joana Mamombe (MDC-Alliance), who is facing charges of subversion, yesterday appeared in court, with her lawyer indicating his intention to file an application for the temporary...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 23:03hrs | 1467 | by Staff rpeorter
RBZ boss' case deferred
Suspended Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Financial Intelligence Unit director Mirirai Chiremba's application for refusal of further remand was yesterday rolled over to Thursday after his lawyer, Mr Ad...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:29hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe embassies must issue IDs, passports'
A parliamentary panel has proposed that Zimbabwe's 39 embassies across the globe be empowered to issue national documentation such as IDs and passports to migrants to decongest the Registrar General's...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 13:50hrs | 2403 | by Staff reporter
Pricing madness hits Victoria Falls
NZALA Milimo was born in Victoria Falls in 1974 and did her primary and secondary education at public schools in the resort town's ghetto townships.But unlike the thousands of well-heeled fore...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 18:09hrs | 4019 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Kasukuwere loses $250,000 luxury home
HARARE Regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya has ordered the forfeiture of former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere's Nyanga holiday home worth $250 000.This follows the once influential politici...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 18:23hrs | 6584 | by newzimbabwe.com
State applies for Kasukuwere's property forfeiture
The State yesterday formally filed an application to have the property of former Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere forfeited to the State, arguing that he was now a fugitive from justice af...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:00hrs | 902 | by Staff reporter
State goes after Kasukuwere's leisure home
The prosecution is seeking to forfeit former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere's upmarket leisure home in Nyanga after he failed to appear in court for trial. He was issued with an arrest wa...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 05:51hrs | 1058 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Addis crash victims
President Mnangagwa yesterday joined the world in mourning the death of 157 passengers of an Ethiopian Airlines flight which crashed six minutes after take-off in Addis Ababa. Ethiopian Airlines' Flig...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 06:57hrs | 411 | by Staff reporter
Hwende granted $3 000 bail
MDC Alliance deputy treasurer general Chalton Hwende, who is being charged with treason has finally been released by High Court judge Justice Moses Foroma on ZWR$3 000 bail coupled with stringent cond...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 06:58hrs | 470 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally acquitted
Kuwadzana MP Charlton Hwende (MDC), charged with treason this week, was freed on $3,000 bail on Friday – but a High Court judge ordered that he should stay away from social media as part of his bail...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 06:46hrs | 1276 | by ZimLive
Heal Zimbabwe boss granted $1,000 bail
High Court judge Justice Moses Foroma yesterday released, on USD$1 000 bail, Heal Zimbabwe Trust director and chairperson of the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, Rashid Mahiya, who is facing charges of a...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 10:26hrs | 391 | by Staff reporter
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