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Touts 'hassle' back at passport offices
TOUTS operating outside the Bulawayo Passport Offices are allegedly cashing in on desperate travel document seekers as they claim to be working with registry officials to facilitate processing of pass...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 14:50hrs | 2582 | by Staff Reporter
Top cop took residential stand as bribe to drop probe
A senior police officer faced bribery allegations on Wednesday as he was released on Z$10,000 bail by a Harare magistrate.Chief Superintendent Joseph Josphat Mutipforo allegedly received a bri...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:41hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono wants passport back
Political activist, Hopewell Chin'ono's lawyers yesterday apologised to Harare regional magistrate, Mr Ngoni Nduna, for their conduct, which the court felt undermined his integrity.This came a...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:42hrs | 677 | by Staff reporter
Ngadziore freed on $5,000 bail
The High Court on Friday ordered the release on bail of Takudzwa Ngadziore, the president of the Zimbabwe National Students Union held since September 18 for allegedly participating in an illegal gath...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 20:28hrs | 975 | by Staff reporter
Ponzi scheme operator on the run
POLICE have launched a manhunt for a ponzi scheme fraudster, Bervern Dzinoenda who is said to have posed as an investor and made super profits, then later disappeared with his clients' deposits....Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:40hrs | 1414 | by Staff reporter
Doctor examines Mamombe's fitness
MDC-Alliance member Joana Mamombe has so far been mentally examined by one medical doctor to ascertain if she is capable of comprehending trial proceedings. The court ordered her mental examin...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 06:28hrs | 1476 | by Staff reorter
Nkomo 1983 Prophetic Letter to Mugabe
DR. JOSHUA M. NKOMO2 Stevenage RoadEast Ham E6 2WLLondon United Kingdom7th June 1983 Dear Robert,1. I write to you as a citizen of Zimbabwe and one of the leade...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 13:58hrs | 19730 | by Dr Joshua M Nkomo
Chamisa's recalled MP dies after suffering stroke
An MDC Alliance MP who was recalled from Parliament in June by the Thokozani Khupe MDC Alliance has died, her party said.Annah Muyambo, who was an MP for Harare province after entering parliam...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 19:23hrs | 6789 | by Staff reporter
Joana Mamombe mental exam stalls trial
THE trial of MDC-Alliance youth members, who are facing charges of staging an unsanctioned demonstration in Warren Park, has been postponed to October 13 pending the mental examination of one of them,...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 20:16hrs | 1103 | by Staff reporter
Passport is a human right, says Mudenda
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda has said a passport is a human right and not a privilege because it affords people the right to movement as enshrined in the Constitution.Mudenda...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:28hrs | 2229 | by Staff reporter
SA-based Zimbabweans welcome border reopening
ZIMBABWEANS in South Africa have welcomed the imminent reopening of the border by their host country.South Africa president Cyril Ramaphosa recently announced foreigners can travel into and ou...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 17:19hrs | 7701 | by Staff reporter
Marked decline in SA returnees
THE South African government's relaxation of Covid19 restrictions to Level 1 has seen a reduction in Zimbabwean nationals seeking to be repatriated home, Zimbabwe's chief envoy to South Africa, Ambass...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:14hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala walks out of the tall walls of Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance vice-chair Job Sikhala yesterday walked out of the tall walls of Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison after he was granted $50 000 bail by High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere, ...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 06:07hrs | 3784 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo registry office reopens
THE Government has okayed the re-opening of the Registrar-General's Office which will see more than 6 199 children born during the Covid-19 lockdown access birth certificates in Bulawayo.Despi...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:28hrs | 5366 | by Staff reporter
Zambia travel borders officially open
Zambia travel is open to foreign nationals, however, according to the US Embassy in Zambia, the Government of Zambia has suspended all tourist visas until further notice. Travelers arriving with a vis...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:03hrs | 9967 | by Linda Hohnholz, eTN editor
Inter-city bus services resume
Inter-city public transport will now resume under strict health guidelines following the reopening of examination classes in schools and the resumption of domestic tourism, but operators of long-dista...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:16hrs | 2436 | by Staff reporter
Cross-border donkey rustlers on the prowl
To new arrivals, "Dip 27" is no different from any other rural service centre in Madabe communal lands south of Plumtree in Zimbabwe.Yet locals know that the daytime semblance of law-abiding p...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:21hrs | 668 | by Oscar Nkala
SA-based Zimbabweans cry foul over high passport fees
SOUTH AFRICA-BASED Zimbabweans have appealed to government to reduce the passport processing fees saying they could not afford the current costs since their income was eroded by the prolonged COVID-19...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:32hrs | 4300 | by Staff reporter
War veterans demand honorary degrees and tax exemptions
Veterans of Zimbabwe's 1970s independence war have made fresh demands including honorary degrees, diplomatic passports and automatic promotions in state institutions.Douglas Mahiya, the secret...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 11:16hrs | 2526 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army loses $2,7m in botched travel service deal
A 30-YEAR-OLD Harare woman appeared in court yesterday charged with swindling the Defence ministry out of $2 700 546 after she allegedly misrepresented that she bought 79 air tickets for members of th...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:27hrs | 1181 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge Border Post, the epicentre of graft
Beitbridge border post ranks first as the busiest inland port of entry in the rest of Southern Africa, between South Africa and Zimbabwe, and Second busiest inland post of entry after Egypt's Taba. ...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:16hrs | 1332 | by Stephen Jakes
US$100 million gold smuggled out of Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE is losing at least US$100 million worth of gold every month, which is being smuggled out of the country through porous borders with Government now in the process of rolling out measures to pl...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:28hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
White farmers compensation gets murkier
Zimbabwe's ministers of Land and Finance issued a joint statement on the farm compensation issue on September 3, 2020, a month after the controversial signing of the Global Compensation Deed between t...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 09:01hrs | 2206 | by Ben Freeth
Chamisa ex-MPs lose diplomatic passports
THE government has withdrawn diplomatic passports issued to 21 MDC MPs recalled from Parliament as acting leader Thokozani Khupe continues to score victory after victory against Nelson Chamisa in the ...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 15:36hrs | 494 | by Staff reporter
Parly hits Chamisa MPs again
PARLIAMENT has revoked diplomatic passports issued to 22 recalled MDC Alliance legislators.In a letter yesterday, Clerk of Parliament Kenneth Chokuda said the MDC Alliance MPs had ceased to be...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 14:26hrs | 3681 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's recalled MPs ordered to surrender diplomatic passports
Parliament has withdrawn diplomatic passports for all Members of Parliament who were recalled recently from Parliament after they ceased to represent their political parties in the August House....Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 19:11hrs | 2070 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 creates birth certificate backlog
No children born after March 30 this year have birth certificates, one of the biggest groups missing critical documents since the Registrar General's office decided only burial orders would be issued ...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 05:58hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in the diasporans want passport fees slashed
Zimbabweans based in South Africa have appealed to the Government to review passport application fees downward as most people's incomes had been affected by Covid-19. They also want embassies ...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 07:24hrs | 1100 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Consulate reopens in South Africa
THE Zimbabwe Consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa will from tomorrow reopen in a phased manner allowing locals staying in the neighbouring country access to documents for their convenience....Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 11:16hrs | 630 | by Staff reporter
Are men still legally relevant to women?
ARE Zimbabwean men falling into legal obscurity or perhaps they already have? There was a time when en were indispensible in the legal lives of women, but many things have changed and continue to. ...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 08:32hrs | 1571 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Lawyer sucked into US$40 000 bribe scandal
The Zimbabwe Republic Police is investigating a case in which a Harare lawyer, Mr Meluleke Lunga, is alleged to have filed papers in the High Court purportedly from the Civil Division of the Attorney ...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 19:32hrs | 879 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Consulate in South Africa to open on Monday
Reference is made to the Consulate's Public Notice issued on 3 June 2020 and to earlier Public Notices relating to the suspension of regular consular services since the beginning of the lockdown in So...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 14:38hrs | 1591 | by Zimbabwe Consulate
Chinese immigrant up for forging Zimbabwe particulars
A SUSPECTED illegal Chinese immigrant is alleged to have fraudulently acquired Zimbabwean identification particulars and used them to attain 51 percent share ownership in investment deals.This...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 17:14hrs | 1059 | by Staff reporter
The four best performing Zimbabwean football players in Europe
Soccer (popularly known as football) has emerged as one of the most popular sports in the world. It is played in many countries with other nations planning to participate amid its surging popularity. ...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 18:40hrs | 3017 | by Staff writer
South Africans after Peter Ndoro's job?
South Africans want their unemployed Journalism graduates must go replace Zimbabweans at the South African Broadcast Corporation (SABC) because reading news is not a critical skill. A shadowy ...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 20:20hrs | 12128 | by Staff reporter
South Africans want Ramaphosa to cancel special visas for Zimbabweans
A shadowy organization called #PutSouthAfricansFirst is organising a nationwide mass demonstration on the 29th of August to call for the mass deportation of illegal immigrants in South African and the...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:10hrs | 3507 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zacc busts illegal diamond syndicate
A FIVE-MEMBER illegal diamond buying syndicate was recently busted and brought before a Mutare magistrate on Saturday.The alleged syndicate involved two Zimbabweans Isaac Nhamo and Shadreck Pu...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 11:54hrs | 1148 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean state capture
In my weekly political review show on the Gambakwe media platform two Sunday ago, we discussed about the planned demonstration on the 31st of July 2020. During the interview I invok...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 22:59hrs | 4235 | by Terence. T. Simbi
11 protesters challenge arrest
MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzai Mahere, playwright and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga and nine other political activists arrested in Harare over July 31 illegal demonstrations, are contesting their arr...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:49hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
ZLHR secures release of protest detainees on bail
HARARE Magistrate Ngoni Nduna on Saturday granted bail to 13 residents of the capital city, who appeared before him facing various charges after they were arrested by some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZR...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:16hrs | 616 | by Stephen Jakes
A passport is a privilege in Zimbabwe
I goT my current passport in 2016, three years after the election that ended the government of National Unity. This was also the year the government introduced bond coins and bond notes, and foreign c...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:29hrs | 808 | by Kudzai Mubaiwa
Mahere and other political activists granted bail
ELEVEN political activists, including MDC-Alliance spokesperson Fadzai Mahere, filmmaker and novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga and others from different pressure groups, yesterday appeared in court facing a...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:08hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
Master Ndo unmasked
UNTIL now his whereabouts had been unknown despite his fame in the early 1990s going far and wide, with even some of his peers literally worshipping him. In late 1995 at the age of 22, he, tog...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:54hrs | 5745 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans stuck in SA just got a last-second reprieve – and 3 more months to leave
On Saturday, 1 August, Zimbabweans and a range of foreign visitors in South Africa would have faced being declared undesirable after having overstayed their visas.But just hours before that, o...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:18hrs | 2683 | by Staff reporter
Chinese national attempted murder trial in false start
THE trial of a Chinese national, Wang Ziliang (41), who is charged with attempted murder, on Monday failed to kick off due to the absence of an interpreter.Ziliang will be back in court on Aug...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 09:21hrs | 685 | by Staff reporter
UZ investigates fake documents ring
If you have "qualified" employees that are proving to be incompetent, you have every reason to cross-check the authenticity of their qualifications.It is possible for a person who has never se...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:54hrs | 1260 | by Staff reporter
How to get a loan abroad?
Any unplanned spending abroad? Is it possible to take a loan in another country? Yes! Operational financial assistance is provided on the website "PaydayMe.com"...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 23:14hrs | 1402 | by Staff Writer
Fake driving licence syndicate bust in Bulawayo
The police have busted a syndicate specialising in creating fake drivers licences after arresting a 21-year-old Pumula East woman.Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson Inspector, Abednico Nc...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 14:31hrs | 8915 | by Staff reporter
LIST: 14 COVID-19 positive returnees escape from Beitbridge quarantine centre
14 Covid-19 positive returnees escaped from Beitbridge Covid-19 quarantine centre, bringing the total to 223 of those who have escaped so far from compulsory quarantine for returning residents, with p...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 18:49hrs | 2994 | by Staff reporter
Chinese man who shot 2 black workers released on $10 000 bail
A Chinese mine manager Zhang Xuelin who is accused of shooting two black employees in Gweru has been freed on a ZWL$10 000 bail by a High Court Judge in Masvingo.Justice Garainesu ordered Xuel...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 12:46hrs | 1735 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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