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Mahere slams gifted cars to artists
Former Mt Pleasant Member of Parliament and outspoken political figure, Fadzayi Mahere, has sharply criticized the recent trend of gifting cars to Zimbabwean music artists, calling it a form of disres...Published: 30 Nov 2024 at 13:52hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to splash cash on 174 cars
ZANU-PF, Zimbabwe's ruling party, is set to make a significant investment in its transportation fleet, planning to purchase 174 new twin and single cab vehicles. This move, revealed in the party's 202...Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 10:22hrs | 4695 | by Staff reporter
Mozambique rocked by killings of opposition figures
Gunmen in two vehicles chased down the lawyer for Mozambique's leading opposition politician and a senior opposition official and fatally shot them in their SUV late at night on a main avenue in the c...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 12:12hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter
Mashayamombe nominated for global award
Women's rights defender Nyaradzo Mashayamombe has been named one of three finalists for the prestigious 2024 UN SDG Action Awards.Mashayamombe will travel to Rome, Italy, for the awards ceremo...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 09:01hrs | 120 | by Staff reporter
Wadyajena gets luxury vehicles, trucks back
Former Gokwe legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena has received his impounded luxurious vehicles and haulage trucks after the High Court ordered the Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission (Zacc) and the Pro...Published: 29 Aug 2024 at 09:47hrs | 1280 | by Paul Ndou
GWM Tanks invade Zimbabwe
AS Zimbabwe's automotive landscape continues to evolve, the vehicle that has captured my attention, as well as that of driving enthusiasts, is the GWM Tank 500. It has invaded Zimbabwe, courtesy of Zi...Published: 16 Aug 2024 at 13:31hrs | 10452 | by Andrew Muzamhindo
Zanu-PF congratulates Venezuela's Maduro
ZANU-PF has sent a congratulatory message to the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) following President Nicolas Maduro's re-election in the general elections held last Sunday. President Maduro...Published: 04 Aug 2024 at 13:56hrs | 65 | by Staff reporter
Businessman acquitted, arrested again outside court
Matthew Musengezi, a Harare car dealer and socialite, has returned to remand custody amid new fraud charges related to vehicle importation. Musengezi, who was previously acquitted of culpable homicide...Published: 20 Jul 2024 at 12:11hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
FBI Investigates Trump Rally Shooting as Assassination Attempt
BUTLER, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Donald Trump was shot in the ear during a campaign rally on Saturday, resulting in a bloodied face and quick action from ...Published: 14 Jul 2024 at 07:00hrs | 80 | by Staff Writer
Wadyajena gets green light to recover fleet
The Supreme Court has authorized businessman Mayor Wadyajena to retrieve a fleet of haulage trucks and a Lamborghini that were seized from his company by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC)...Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 07:20hrs | 11 | by Staff reportyer
Harare councillors distanced themselves from vehicle scandal
Harare City Council (HCC) councillors have distanced themselves from the purchase of luxury vehicles for city managers, amounting to over US$500,000. The decision has sparked controversy amidst widesp...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 05:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Vehicle scandal rocks Harare Town House
Harare City Council (HCC) is embroiled in a scandal involving the purchase of luxury vehicles worth over half a million dollars. According to NewsDay sources, 10 Grade Four officials acquired ...Published: 08 Jul 2024 at 11:05hrs | 31 | by Staff reporter
Fancy cars for Zimbabwe's recently appointed Judges
The new High Court judges President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed two weeks ago have just received new Land Rover Discovery cars.On 12 June, President Mnangagwa appointed former magistrates Fai...Published: 25 Jun 2024 at 13:17hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter
Farewell Chairman VK: Reflections of a dear friend
The late Vimbai Kamoyo (VK) was quite a character.They buried him last week in Chiunye village, Mt Darwin, Mashonaland Central. Between him and I, the title of "Chairman" took tu...Published: 18 Jun 2024 at 14:54hrs | 40 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Thomas Mapfumo tells Wicknell Chivayo to 'stop soiling my name'
Exiled legendary Zimbabwean musician Thomas Mapfumo has rubbished claims that he is considering returning to Zimbabwe after being offered a US$700,000 package that includes a house, car and cash by co...Published: 20 May 2024 at 08:45hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Is this another catch-and-release?
The arrest of Neville Mutsvangwa has just ruffled feathers and opened a can of worms in Zanu PF's political factional fights. Is this government really serious about fighting corruption in the...Published: 18 May 2024 at 20:50hrs | 7 | by Leonard Koni
'Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula's case is political'
Embattled former Speaker of Parliament has been released on R50,000 bail after she appeared before Magistrate Anna Oosthuizen in a packed Pretoria Magistrate's Court on Thursday morning.The St...Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 13:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare pledges to finally fix (some of) its pothole-ridden roads
IN Zimbabwe's capital of Harare, potholed roads have become a symbol of more than 20 years of national decline and neglect of public services.Motorists must weave down roads and often encroach...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 11:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
New taxes on luxury vehicles take effect
The new surcharge increasing the duty on luxury cars, double cabs and SUVs valued at more than US$120 000 is now law and comes into effect on January 1.Commercial and industrial vehicles and v...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Hijacking scare for Zimbabwe striker in SA
ZIMBABWEAN striker Evans Rusike is reported to have been hijacked and kidnapped in Midrand, South Africa on Tuesday evening.Rusike is presently attached with Sekhukhune United in the neighbour...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean cigarette smuggler, SA police in shootout
A 28-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean was nabbed in Musina, South Africa, following a shootout with police on Sunday after attempting to smuggle local cigarettes worth ZAR348 000 to the neighbouring country....Published: 31 Aug 2023 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Scott Sakupwanya's flamboyant campaign under the spotlight
A convoy of high-end vehicles led by police escorts snakes its way into Number One Grounds in Harare's Mabvuku high density suburb on a late Thursday afternoon.Brown dust rises as three ...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 08:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Half of BCC's vehicle fleet needs replacing
More than half of the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) vehicle and plant fleet is obsolete and needs replacing.The local authority has a fleet of 336 vehicles and plant of which 51% has outlived it...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 18:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso manager involved in accident
Highlanders' welfare manager Vezigama Dlodlo was on Wednesday evening involved in an accident on his way to the club's new camping venue in Matopos ahead of the Bulawayo giants' epic Castle Lager Prem...Published: 25 May 2023 at 18:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zacc pounces on IDCZ bosses
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) on Friday last week arrested two officials from the Industrial Development Corporation of Zimbabwe (IDDZ) on allegations of criminal abuse of office invo...Published: 01 May 2023 at 08:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Drug lord in Zanu-PF primary election contest
VIOLENCE mongers, drug lords, and shoddy characters were disqualified from standing for the ruling party in the forthcoming elections as Zanu-PF maintains high ethical standards with rerun polls set t...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:30hrs | 12 | by Mbuso Ndlovu
Forgery lands legal manager in court
A legal manager at the Industrial Development Corporation of Zimbabwe has appeared in court on allegations of forging documents needed by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission to see if a vehicle bo...Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimstat boss grabs agency vehicles, awards self undue allowances
Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) director general Taguta Mahonde has stirred controversy after allegedly thanking himself with some hefty benefits sources say are outside his conditions o...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Open Letter: Mine loses millions worthy of diamonds as workers engage in illicit diamond panning
Dear, Some "lucky" Murowa Diamonds Mine workers have become rich overnight after a well-orchestrated and carefully executed diamond stealing process went on undetected for months leaving some ...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 11:04hrs | 13 | by Concerned Murowa Resident
Man cuts grandfather's throat in callous murder
A 29-year-old Chikombedzi man slit his 70-year-old grandfather's throat in a callous murder incident police linked to a misunderstanding between the two.This shock incident was confirmed by po...Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 07:08hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mnangagwa, Tagwirei donate expensive cars to Solusi University
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ally businessman Kuda Tagwirei have donated expensive SUV cars and farming equipment to the Seventh-day Adventist-run Solusi University.The handover ...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 09:51hrs | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa coronation day
NONE gave the Chevrons a chance against Pakistan in a Super 12 stage at the T20 Cricket World Cup currently underway in Australia. It is a biblical David v Goliath story and the Chevrons passed the te...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 19:40hrs | | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zanu-PF Congress starts today
THE 7th Zanu-PF Congress roars to life in Harare today and will begin in earnest with a meeting of the Politburo followed by a Central Committee indaba tomorrow before the official opening on Friday....Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vehicle smugglers shoot Zimbabwean soldier
A MEMBER of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) considers himself lucky to be alive after cheeky vehicle smugglers pumped eight rounds of ammunition into his body after being cornered at an undesignated ...Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa tells NGOs to 'Go to hell'
Zanu-PF national spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa has hit out at NGOs operating in the country saying they have no role in the development of the nation because they depend on handouts.This...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 18:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe Jnr narrowly escape death
LATE former president, Robert Gabriel Mugabe's son, Robert Tinotenda Junior, narrowly escaped death after reportedly crashing his luxury Range Rover Vogue SUV in the Nyanga area, weekend....Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe junior in accident
The late former president Robert Gabriel Mugabe’s son, Robert Tinotenda Junior, was reportedly involved in a horror accident after his luxury SUV flipped over.According to a local online pub...Published: 03 Sep 2022 at 19:41hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's urban poor turn to "Car Supermarkets" to survive inflation
Sheila Gava forages the trunk of a stranger's Nissan car for dried tuna, Kellogg's biscuits and a bottle of canola oil."I've not stepped foot inside a high-street supermarket in three years," ...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri passing the buck on state of roads in Muzarabani
DEFENCE and War Veterans Affairs minister Oppah Muchinguri was in Muzarabani last week to officiate at the handover ceremony of a classroom block, a mothers' waiting shelter and a solar-powered water ...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top of the range vehicle smuggling in region rises
Some criminals in the region are targeting and stealing top-of-the-range vehicles before smuggling them into neighbouring countries, including Zimbabwe, where forged documents are manufactured before ...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Anti-smuggling blitz nets 200 luxury vehicles
So far 200 top-of-the-range vehicles, all probably stolen and smuggled into Zimbabwe, have been impounded under a joint operation between the Zimbabwe Republic Police and Interpol targeting vehicles s...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Blitz targets top-of-the-range cars
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is conducting a joint operation with the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) targeting top-of-the-range vehicles believed to have been stolen in ne...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA business group unhappy with rise of Zimbabwean expats
THE appointment of Sitholizwe Mdlalose as chief executive of South Africa's telecoms giant Vodacom has triggered xenophobic reactions after the country's Black Business Council (BBC) demanded that loc...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:13hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean smugglers abandon R1.7m worth of illicit cigarettes in Limpopo
Members of a cigarette-smuggling syndicate transporting illicit cigarettes worth almost R2 million in a four-car convoy abandoned their vehicles and ran away from members of the SAPS in Limpopo....Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 09:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Top management milk LSU in economic rental scam
IN yet another scandal the top management at Lupane State University is reportedly milking the higher learning institution through paying sick money in rentals for the properties they are using ...Published: 14 Mar 2022 at 07:51hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Bosso coach crashes Sakunda issued car
ALREADY under pressure because of the team's poor performance in the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League, Highlanders coach, Mandla "Lulu" Mpofu could lose his job for something that has nothing to do ...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga threatens to 'crush' Chamisa's CCC
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday issued chilling threats against the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) saying the ruling party was ready to "crush the party like lice" to pre...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's estranged wife's R14m house seized in SA
SOUTH African authorities have seized property belonging to Zimbabwean vice-president Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife Marry Mubaiwa.The property includes Mubaiwa's R14m upmarket house in...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 15:31hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Uproar as recalled Gweru mayor clings to luxury car
GWERU residents this week came out guns blazing, amid reports that former mayor Josiah Makombe, who was recalled by the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC, is refusing to hand over to council a high-powered Toy...Published: 29 Jan 2022 at 14:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Marry Chiwenga and Sipho Malunga bring bad omens to Zanu-PF!
There are some behaviours, which the wisest among the Bantu call bad omens. These are signs, real or imagined, of ill fortune or catastrophe in the future.When we were children, and my f...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 18:58hrs | 12 | by Ken Mufuka
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