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Desperate Zimbabweans fleeced of US$47 000 on promise of UK jobs
The high unemployment rate in Zimbabwe has left many desperate for opportunities, and fraudsters are taking advantage of this vulnerability by offering fake job placements abroad. In the latest scam t...Published: 10 Nov 2024 at 11:03hrs | 579 | by Staff reporter
Barak Obama is out of touch about Kamala!
Brother Obama, president (2008-2016) is himself the cause for the decline of support among blacks for the Democratic Party.The entry of former president Barak Obama into the fray on behalf of ...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 14:03hrs | 171 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Smuggling racket busted at Plumtree border
Police at the Plumtree Border Post successfully foiled a smuggling operation, intercepting three South African-registered vehicles carrying contraband worth over R600,000. The goods, which included gr...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 08:26hrs | 393 | by Staff reporter
Judge dismisses 2 more charges against Donald Trump
A court in Georgia has dismissed two of the 10 criminal charges against Donald Trump and one other charge against his allies for alleged attempts to interfere in the 2020 presidential election....Published: 13 Sep 2024 at 17:30hrs | 703 | by Staff reporter
Truck impounded in cement smuggling racket
A duo employed by Mamvura Investments in Chipinge, working as a driver and assistant, have been charged with smuggling cement.The National Prosecuting Authority of Zimbabwe (NPAZ) reported tha...Published: 20 Jul 2024 at 11:46hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
VBS looter released on parole
Former VBS Mutual Bank's chief financial officer Phillip Truter was released on parole after he was sentenced to 10 years in jail in 2020. Speaking to broadcaster Newzroom Afrika on Monday, De...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 11:57hrs | 459 | by Staff reporter
Drawing parallels between Kenya and Zimbabwe's social, economic, and political disturbances
We want to believe that the demonstrations in Kenya just happened overnight. The Gene Zs went on a rampage assisted by criminals. To framing them so thin, is to trivialize a genuine revolution that wa...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 23:08hrs | 35 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe's civil servants long for GNU days
ZIMBABWE Prison and Correctional Service (ZPCS) officer Mbekezeli Dube* sits hunched over his desk in his discoloured uniform.The once-vibrant green shade is now a pale shadow of its former se...Published: 06 Jul 2024 at 11:48hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
President William Ruto's poor and misguided politics! He lied to the voters
We still have voices in Africa that spell it out: That one voice comes from Ghana: Kwesi Prett Jr. does not mince words: His politics is eloquent, he understands African politics. Without fear or favo...Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 21:11hrs | 20 | by Nomazulu Thata
Why is an 81-year-old so preoccupied with extending the presidential term limit?
Hardly a day passes in Zimbabwe without news on President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa's machinations to extend his tenure one way or another.Ever since securing his second and final term, in t...Published: 26 May 2024 at 13:43hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Cigarettes worth R100 000 seized in border operation
SOUTH African border security officials on Monday destroyed a wooden raft used by criminals to smuggle goods between Zimbabwe and the neighbouring country. The team also recovered smuggled cig...Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police bust mbanje smuggling racket
THE police intercepted a contraband of mbanje (dagga) and illegal cough syrups that was being smuggled into the country via the Beitbridge Border Post.The value of the illicit drugs which were...Published: 05 Apr 2024 at 05:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zacc taken to court over impounded truck
A LOCAL haulage transport operator, Onpat Rams Private Limited, has approached the High Court seeking the release of its truck impounded in 2021 by Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) officials...Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 04:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa exempts 21 entities from scrutiny
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has exempted 21 public entities from scrutiny in procurement and disposal of assets.The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, AFC Commercial Bank, Infrastructure Develop...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Goods portering, a way of life in Beitbridge
RIVULTS of sweat run down her face, falling onto her dress as Mai Muku trudges the 472-metre length of the Beitbridge steel girder carrying an awkward-looking and heavy load.Apart from the bri...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:49hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Henrietta Rushwaya judge gets US$400,000 house on eve of sentencing
A judge set to deliver judgment in Henrietta Rushwaya's gold smuggling trial was given a house by the government last Friday, ZimLive can reveal.The transaction was approved by chief cabinet s...Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 05:21hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council proposes US$263 million budget
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) yesterday proposed a standstill US$263 million gender-responsive budget for next year while prioritising service delivery and predicting a stable economic environment in 20...Published: 31 Oct 2023 at 05:37hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
CIO car smuggling racket mastermind arrested
The controversy involving certain Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) members in vehicle smuggling escalated last week when an alleged mastermind in the underground network was apprehended....Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tobacco smuggling between Zimbabwe - SA now security threat
SOUTH Africa is drowning in illicit cigarette smuggling which has seen the neighbouring country losing at least R50 million (US$2.6 million) daily in potential revenue from well-coordinated syndicates...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 13:49hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Cross-border vehicle smuggling mastermind arrested
SOUTH Africa's specialised police investigations unit, the Hawks, have re-arrested a 28-year-old man who is believed to be the mastermind of a series of cross-border motor vehicle and smuggling racket...Published: 11 Sep 2023 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe workers scoff at reviewed tax threshold
WORKERS have scoffed at government's latest review of the tax-free threshold to $500 000 effective this month, saying there is nothing to celebrate when the majority are earning below that figure....Published: 11 Aug 2023 at 06:45hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt increases tax-free threshold
GOVERNMENT has increased the tax-free threshold to $500 000 from $91 000 with effect from August 1 to boost Zimbabweans' disposable incomes who earn in local currency in the face of a rising cost of l...Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 06:43hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's fuel cartels under fire
Fuel is then offloaded in Zimbabwe before trucks are filled with water and dispatched to cross the borders again.Treasury has launched a series of investigations aimed at fishing out fuel indu...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 18:40hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police officer hangs himself over pay shame
A police officer hanged himself at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare after telling doctors of his shame that his salary was too little to support his family, ZimLive has heard.Francis Patama, 34...Published: 24 Jun 2023 at 17:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Fuel smuggling hampers growth
FUEL smuggling into Zimbabwe is hampering the Government's revenue collection, and has become a threat to economic growth, despite tax and law enforcement authorities' efforts to curb the scourge....Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe consumers in a fix
As Zimbabweans continue to battle with a failing economy, increases in prices of basic commodities has pushed many into abject poverty.A recent survey conducted by Standardbusiness indic...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ferret Force busts car smuggling racket
A COMBINED team of Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), military intelligence and the Zimbabwe Republic Police, known as Ferret Force, last week busted a car smuggling syndicate operating between ...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA reporters fear arrest after exposé links businessman to Zimbabwean president
Journalists Sam Sole, Micah Reddy and Dewald van Rensburg, of the amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism believe they are under threat of arrest because of an exposé they wrote implicating b...Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Uebert Angel telling lies'
UNDERCOVER journalists who were posing as Chinese gangsters seeking to smuggle US$1.2 billion in Al Jazeera's four-episode investigative documentary have denied ever desiring to meet President Emmerso...Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Ambassador-at-large on a property-buying spree
PRESIDENTIAL Envoy and Ambassador-at-Large Uebert Angel, who is holed up in Dubai after being exposed as a player in gold smuggling and money laundering activities, has been on a property-buying spree...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 17:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Crisis Coalition hits back at Mnangagwa
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has hit back at President Emmerson Mnangagwa following his unsolicited comments some local NGOs critical to his government were "rogue" and "surrogate entities"....Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean politicians abusing religion
RENOWNED cleric, Reverend Kenneth Mutata has bemoaned growing conflation and abuse of religion to legitimise political decisions, saying this has left Zimbabwe's Christian community vulnerable to poli...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Uebert Angel will neither be prosecuted nor charged!
Dear Bulawayo 24 News Staff Writer: Upon reading, your article entitled: 'Mnangagwa throws Prophet Uebert Angel under the bus,' I went to my dictionary to verify the meaning of the idiomat...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 03:41hrs | | by Tawandah Mudzingwah
Mnangagwa has failed the youths, through Mutoriro and Kambwa
As far as Zimbabwe is concerned things are not appealing ranging from economic, social to political discourse. The government of Zimbabwe is supposed to start now to lay out robust and effective mecha...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 09:11hrs | | by General Franco
Smuggler, police in 250km high speed chase
A truck driver fleeing Beitbridge Border Post with a load of smuggled groceries in his 30-tonne rig was cornered after a 250km high-speed chase and although he managed to run off into the fields, his ...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
R Kelly gets new 20-year jail term for child porn crimes
A US judge on Thursday handed disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly a 20-year prison term for child pornography and other charges - but he will serve most of it simultaneously with a previous sentence....Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 07:35hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
US$100,000 alcohol contraband seized
POLICE yesterday smashed a well-orchestrated smuggling racket and seized an assortment of alcohol worth over US$100 000 suspected to have been illegally brought into the country following the intercep...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
VID senior management reshuffled as corruption soars
THE Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development has reshuffled senior management at the Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) and the Central Vehicle Registry (CVR) in a bid to curb corruption...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 05:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pharmacists behind drug smuggling
A NEW report has revealed that some government-employed pharmacists are running smuggling rackets and use their influence to evade border controls.In a report titled: Infamous by Design: Illic...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa gives prisons boss 24-hour ultimatum
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has given prisons boss Moses Chihobvu a 24-hour ultimatum to provide an explanation for denial of permission to visit detained party activists...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has 2,3 million youths loafing on the streets
SOME 2,3 million youths are loafing on the streets, hinting at the need for policies which will see the economy benefiting from this demographic dividend, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency's (ZI...Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Home Affairs nails only 500 fake South African passports
The Department of Home Affairs has identified 500 fraudulent passports in the last three financial years - with 185 documents blocked in 2022 alone.Responding to a written parliamentary Q&...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 19:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military commanders investigate Beitbridge arms saga
WHAT started as an arms smuggling racket by seasoned gun-runners who bungled their mission like amateurs has now deteriorated into a major political scandal maddening President Emmerson Mnangagwa and ...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 17:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt mulls national minerals reserve
Mining companies exploiting precious and high-value minerals in the country will now be required to cede a portion of their refined mineral produce to the Government as part payment of royalties under...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:51hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Drawsolona!
THERE are two things that have let down Highlanders in the 2021/ 2022 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League campaign — poor conversion rate and drawing matches that they should have won.A poor ...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 05:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa poll poser as survey reveals 2023 stronghold voter apathy
Zimbabwe's main opposition will have to dig deeper to pull victory in the 2023 elections after results of a recent Afrobarometer survey have shown less enthusiasm to vote among youths and voters...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 20:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chaos as Mbudzi roundabout closes for construction
As motorists adjust to the closure of Mbudzi roundabout while the huge and complex Mbudzi Interchange is built over the next 18 months, the diversion of traffic into roads in Hopely and Waterfalls was...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's many challenges and problems are microcosm of our failure to reason
Man is a creature of reason; all humans are born with inert potential to think and reason.Some people have lost the ability to reason out of drunken stupor, laziness or some such reas...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 18:47hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
MDC-Alliance MP taken to task over CDF
Mpopoma residents, Saturday, took to task their parliamentary representative, Charles Moyo, demanding proof of the amounts spent on development projects under the Constituency Development Fund (CDF)....Published: 15 Aug 2022 at 18:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dangers of Arab Spring in South Africa
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki recently launched a sharp critique of the governing African National Congress (ANC) for failure to address what it has labelled the triple challenge of pover...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 08:15hrs | | by Sandy Africa
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