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Finance Minister stirs controversy
Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube has divided opinion after appointing his permanent secretary, George Guvamatanga, to the board of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra)....Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 16:34hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Where Is the Independence? - The Response.
Where is the independence? That is a profound question to ask Cde Farai Kuveya. In my own view though I don't think we really got our independence as a nation but it was a smoke screen halting of outr...Published: 15 Oct 2016 at 20:43hrs | 1 | by Mangosuthu MJ Mbele
Jonathan Moyo tells looters to carry their crosses
PEOPLE abusing public funds must be held accountable and should carry their crosses without hiding behind political party affiliation to avoid punishment, Information, Media and Broadcasting Servi...Published: 12 Oct 2016 at 09:05hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'People of Zimbabwe celebrated Independence day with heads bowed'
"If yesterday I fought as an enemy, today you have become a friend and ally with the same national interest, loyalty, rights and duties as myself," bemeamed eloquently the charismatic Prime Minister M...Published: 05 May 2016 at 17:14hrs | | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira, a Political Scientist
Manheru re-issuance of corruption as black empowerment will not end economic meltdown
There once was a man whose name I will not say because we all know him. For years he denied there was no corruption in high places and blamed all the nation's economic woes on Western imposed sanction...Published: 28 Jun 2015 at 10:27hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori.
Mujuru's plans to challenge Mugabe in 2018 rattles Zanu-PF
FORMER Vice President Dr Joice Mujuru's plans to launch a political party to challenge President Mugabe on the back of blaming him for the prevailing economic challenges is the height of hypocrisy...Published: 19 Jan 2015 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Today Words of Wisdom: First Lady
Recently she launched the campaign to bring together community leaders, politicians, party members, teachers, doctors, nurses, moms and dads in a nationwide effort to thank and tackle the challenge of...Published: 13 Oct 2014 at 15:45hrs | 2 | by Presidium Zupa
Salarygate audits plan at an advanced stage
Zimbabwe's Comptroller and Auditor General's Office is in the final stages of consultations to commence a series of special audits into the salaries scam that rocked the country at the beginning of th...Published: 19 Jul 2014 at 09:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe paying dearly for rushed polls
In a fortnight, it will be one year to the day Zanu-PF claimed a two-thirds majority in elections.This time last year, President Robert Mugabe and his party were in a definite hurry for electi...Published: 13 Jul 2014 at 15:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cuthbert Dube demands his $535,000 monthly salary
Disgraced former Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) chief executive officer Cuthbert Dube is taking his former employer to court for breach of contract, The Zimbabwe Mail reported....Published: 07 Jun 2014 at 18:56hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
ZACRAS condemn Police ban on Harare Press Freedom Day Celebrations
MEDIA FREEDOM UNDER SEIGEMAZ AND ZACRAS STATEMENT ON THE BAN OF WORLD PRESSFREEDOM DAY EVENTTheme: Media Freedom, Professionalism, and Constitutionalism are k...Published: 03 May 2014 at 13:30hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe lays down the law
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has ordered Cabinet to stop further dissolutions of boards of parastatals, in a move meant to protect the remaining directors of State enterprises from indiscriminate dismiss...Published: 25 Apr 2014 at 11:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe talks tough
President Robert Mugabe has warned parastatal and local authority bosses who have threatened to disregard a Cabinet directive to slash their obscene salaries, charging at them "not offend against re...Published: 22 Apr 2014 at 09:58hrs | | by Richard Chidza
$600m lost to salarygate fat cats
Executives in State-linked firms gobbled $600 million in salaries and allowances since 2009 and $133 million last year alone.The money was pocketed by 3 000 individuals who sat on boards or we...Published: 11 Apr 2014 at 06:12hrs | 2 | by Felex Share
Prof Jonathan Moyo a strong contender for VP post
Information minister, Jonathan Moyo, is emerging as a strong contender to become Zimbabwe's Vice President, under the mooted administration of Zanu-PF heavyweight Emmerson Mnangagwa, if his faction m...Published: 02 Apr 2014 at 08:17hrs | | by Itai Gwatidzo Mushekwe
'Govt sabotaged PSMAS,' says Charamba
Government had to use underhand tactics, including coercion, in dealing with the troubled Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) board because of a lack of clear policy framework to regulate the ...Published: 31 Mar 2014 at 10:38hrs | 1 | by Richard Chidza
Salarygate - Zimbabweans sold a dummy
The public outrage over the so-called Salarygate scandal is very much normal and expected.However, Zimbabweans have been sold a dummy regarding the REAL cause of this offending and outrage...Published: 28 Mar 2014 at 14:17hrs | | by Obert Gutu
Mujuru not giving up the fight to be the next Zimbabwean president
Vice President, Joice Mujuru, is not giving up the fight to be the next republic president of Zimbabwe, despite efforts by her foes to potray her as a "sell-out" who has been compromised by American ...Published: 26 Mar 2014 at 06:40hrs | | by Itai Gwatidzo Mushekwe
Chinamasa treading on dangerous ground
Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa should have sought political (or legal) input and support from the legislature in his decision to slash parastatals bosses' salaries an opposition lawmaker said ...Published: 24 Mar 2014 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Taxman cheated in Salarygate
State enterprises and municipal bosses, implicated in the on-going Salarygate scam might have prejudiced government of millions of dollars in possible tax revenue. Chinamasa told journali...Published: 20 Mar 2014 at 08:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe has no genuine interest in fighting corruption'
CIVIL society groups have dared President Robert Mugabe to name, shame and punish cabinet ministers and other top officials implicated in corruption, including those demanding bribes from potentia...Published: 16 Mar 2014 at 11:31hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Cabinet reshuffle targeting Chinamasa, a shameless propaganda says Jonathan Moyo
Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has castigated recent media reports that Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa is set to be dismiss...Published: 16 Mar 2014 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Joseph Chinotimba demystified
When news filtered through that Joseph Chinotimba had won the Buhera South National Assembly seat on July 31, 2013, I am sure most people exclaimed in shock, "Oh my word, we are in trouble. Ch...Published: 07 Mar 2014 at 12:55hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Mugabe's spokesperson must resign, says Maridadi
President Robert Mugabe's spokesperson, George Charamba, must resign over the Salarygate scandal ostensibly because he benefited through hefty payouts in the Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psma...Published: 06 Mar 2014 at 10:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cabinet Committee to oversee forensic audit of all parastatals - Chinamasa
Cabinet Tuesday announced a raft of measures to curb the rot in public entities, just coming short of firing all current boards and chief executive officers of parastatals and quasi government compani...Published: 05 Mar 2014 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Open Letter to Professor Jonathan Moyo
REF: 'BY CLOSING BOSTV WHOSE INTERESTS ARE YOU SERVING?" cc. Hon. Minister of Sports And CultureDear Sir, The TV loving ...Published: 28 Feb 2014 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Sydney Mataro
Mugabe celebrating sickness at expense of living
MDC-T Bulawayo Youth Assembly has come out guns blazing against President Robert Mugabe's alleged $1 million dollar birthday bash.Mugabe turns 90 today.Speaking at a Press conferen...Published: 21 Feb 2014 at 19:50hrs | 2 | by Mafu Sathabile
'SalaryGate diverting attention from pressing economic issues' - Mazibisa
In a Facebook status, Sindiso Mazibisa of the Welshman Ncube led MDC has dismissed the Salarygate probe as a way of diverting attention from the economic crisis that Zimbabwe is facing.The sta...Published: 19 Feb 2014 at 16:43hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Government worsens PSMAS woes
While the salarygate scandal has rocked Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) to the core, it has since emerged that government failure to remit membership subscriptions has compounded the healt...Published: 18 Feb 2014 at 12:32hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Salarygate claims first scalp in Matabeleland
SALARYGATE has claimed its first scalp in Matabeleland after councillors in the Zanu PF-controlled Gwanda Town Council turned down a request by incumbent town clerk Gilbert Mlilo to extend his stay in...Published: 18 Feb 2014 at 04:55hrs | 17 | by Staff Reporter
Jonathan Moyo attack those opposed to Salarygate exposés
Jonathan Moyo, the Media, Information and Broadcasting Services minister, has launched a blistering attack on politicians opposed to the ongoing Salarygate exposés, saying attempts to defend or hide ...Published: 17 Feb 2014 at 14:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZUNDE condemns MDC-T violence
Zimbabweans United for Democracy (ZUNDE) does not believe in the archaic, retrogressive and barbaric politics of fists and missiles. Rather, we are advocates for values and substance. We are...Published: 17 Feb 2014 at 12:50hrs | | by ZUNDE
'Salarygate widens Zanu-PF fissures'
Outrageous salaries of heads of parastatals unearthed by the media have touched off a storm which has intensified factional fighting within Zanu-PF.The fingering of high profile personalities ...Published: 14 Feb 2014 at 16:50hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU calls for peaceful demonstrations against SalaryGate
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has called for peaceful demonstrations against the SalaryGate Scandal that saw top executives and board members in state owned enterprises award themselves...Published: 14 Feb 2014 at 11:02hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF Extraordinary Politburo meeting today
ZANU-PF's First Secretary, President Mugabe, yesterday called for an Extraordinary Politburo at the party's headquarters today. The announcement was made by party national chairman Simon ...Published: 14 Feb 2014 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru speaks out
Under fire Vice President Joice Mujuru Tuesday moved swiftly to allay public anger that she is backing bosses fleecing parastatals through obscene salaries, saying anyone looting state resources shou...Published: 12 Feb 2014 at 08:29hrs | 1 | by Xolisani Ncube
Zapu blasts Mujuru over salarygate utterances
OF DECEPTIONS AND DIVERSIONS Zapu is disappointed by the wanton and i...Published: 11 Feb 2014 at 09:47hrs | 1 | by Mjobisa Noko
Mujuru scores own goal
Joice Mujuru must have religiously mastered the old adage "Those who live in glass houses must not throw stones".In view of her recent outburst following disclosure of what is now known as ob...Published: 11 Feb 2014 at 06:13hrs | 4 | by Moses Chamboko
Obscene salaries exposé takes another twist
Revelations that Presidential spokesman George Charamba may have benefited in the PSMAS salary scam puts another twist to the Zanu-PF factionalism which is seen as the main driver of the exposés on...Published: 10 Feb 2014 at 19:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
No official complaint yet over obscene salaries
Deputy minister of Home Affairs Ziyambi Ziyambi said government is not going to arrest anyone involved in the salary racket that has rocked many parastatals in the past month based on media report...Published: 10 Feb 2014 at 09:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cuthbert Dube behind ZBC rot
Sacked ZBC Holdings board chairperson Cuthbert Dube was behind the rot at the national broadcaster, approving obscene salaries to top management at a time when the media house was tottering on the bri...Published: 10 Feb 2014 at 08:08hrs | 18 | by Richard Chidza
Rent-A-Black political era
My instalment on fufuro last week drew a sardonic yet supremely directional comment from one of my diligent readers. Manheru, asserted the reader, builds layers and layers of spiderwe...Published: 08 Feb 2014 at 21:00hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zim to get more television stations by June 2015
The Ministry of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services has revealed that Zimbabwe will have more television stations by June 2015 after the change from analogue to digital systems.The t...Published: 07 Feb 2014 at 19:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Professor Jonathan Moyo statement: Full text
The full spectrum of the mainstream media, without any exception, should be commended for the excellent job it is doing in the coverage of the abuse public funds and assets by some boards and manageme...Published: 04 Feb 2014 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Hon Professor Jonathan Moyo
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