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Zinara faces Parliament grilling over operations
PARLIAMENT will today question the Zimbabwe Nationals Road Administration (Zinara) over the state of affairs at the parastatal which has, of late, hogged news headlines because of corrupt practices....Published: 17 hrs ago | 351 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa's world up in flames
ZANU PF Secretary for Finance is a man in trouble after it has come to light that he was instrumental in the disbursement of USD$ 3 billion worth of Treasury bonds which disappeared in the Command Agr...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 13:16hrs | 14738 | by Mandla Ndlovu
3 Bulawayo councillors sucked in parking tender scam
Three Bulawayo councilors have been fingered in an elaborate plan to award a tender for parking space in the City. A leaked audio recording that is in possession of this publication reveals th...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 19:40hrs | 8190 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Case against pain linked to Lukau 'resurrection' provisionally withdrawn in court
A case against two people who allegedly participated in the hoax resurrection of a Zimbabwean national at Alleluia Ministries was provisionally withdrawn in the Johannesburg Magistrates' Court on Wedn...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 10:18hrs | 1730 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa survives Cosafa ouster
Council of Southern African Football Associations (Cosafa) has rejected Zifa's bid to recall Philip Chiyangwa from his position as the president of the regional football body.Chiyangwa is Cosa...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 08:09hrs | 979 | by Staff reporter
Inside Harare's online brothels
CIVILISATION'S oldest profession has taken a new twist.Once a shameful act in Zimbabwe, done under the cover of darkness, the trade has gone a notch higher as new technology is shaking up the ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:23hrs | 938 | by Staff reporter
Mangoma nailed over Zesa tender scam
PROCUREMENT and Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) chief executive Nyasha Chizu yesterday said former Energy minister Elton Mangoma violated the Procurement Act by giving a South Korean company a...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:06hrs | 1412 | by Staff reporter
Kambarami suspends Bulawayo Town Clerk, trying to capture City council
Acting Bulawayo mayor Tinashe Kambarami has reportedly suspended the city's Town Clerk Christopher Dube on allegations of misappropriating council funds.In a letter dated July 11, 2019, Cllr K...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 17:11hrs | 5043 | by Staff reporter
Greedy MDC councillors plan to oust top BCC management
THE Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) claims that a faction of corrupt MDC councillors in the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) who appear to have...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 23:12hrs | 2857 | by Ndou Paul
Tax scam costs Govt billions
Some players in the garment-making sector are allegedly skimming the Government of billions of dollars in potential tax revenue and suffocating downstream textile industries by abusing a special cloth...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 07:34hrs | 431 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo spills more beans on Mnangagwa
Exiled former Cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has written a Twitter thread exposing how President Emmerson Mnangagwa led his allies in stealing Treasury Bonds through various bogus projects i...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 13:18hrs | 21651 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa's councillors caught in illegal stands racket
Some MDC Alliance councillors in Marondera are reportedly illegally selling residential stands in Hunyani Timberlands to unsuspecting home-seekers, sources have said.This paper is reliably inf...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:18hrs | 657 | by Staff reporter
Former Umguza councillor on the run
A warrant of arrest has been issued against a former Umguza Rural District councillor - Moses Siphuma (67), who was arrested last week on allegations of illegally selling stands.The warrant wa...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 07:36hrs | 720 | by Staff Reporter
Chombo implicated in Midlands land scam
FORMER Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo has been implicated in the irregular allocation of State land to private developers in the Midlands province.Cecilia Chitiyo, the former Midlan...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:47hrs | 1144 | by Staff reporter
Chombo implicated in land scam
FORMER Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo has been implicated in the irregular allocation of State land to private developers in the Midlands province.Cecilia Chitiyo, the former Midlan...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 08:36hrs | 1801 | by Staff Reporter
23 toll-gate staffers dismissed for fraud in three months
A company managing part of the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara)'s toll-gate network has dismissed some 23 workers on charges of fraud in the last three months, Parliament has heard....Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 06:38hrs | 965 | by newzimbabwe
Zimsec exam ID scam unearthed
Police have busted a syndicate behind fake national identification cards (IDs) used by criminals who are hired to fraudulently sit for Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) exams on behalf of ...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 07:01hrs | 1347 | by Staff reporter
British Council sucked into Riverton Academy exam scam
MASVINGO-BASED Riverton Academy has been rocked by an "A" Level Cambridge examinations cheating scam that has sucked in the British Council Exam Board.Since Riverton became a Cambridge examina...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 09:37hrs | 1502 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is one giant crime scene!
Presently, a newspaper headline reports a ticketing scam by over a hundred Zupco conductors which prejudiced the company of thousands of dollars; fast-tracking the demise of a public transport project...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 22:29hrs | 4026 | by Washington Nyasha Gwarada
Heads to roll at VID
ACTION is going to be taken against Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) officials who are corruptly issuing learner driver's licences to underserving people and modalities are being worked out to comp...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:18hrs | 1188 | by Staff reporter
Drivers' licence scam unearthed
The Vehicle Inspection Department (VID), which conducts driver training among other duties, has been taken over by criminal gangs that are fleecing the public and Government through pocketing various ...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 07:38hrs | 2831 | by Staff reporter
Can cryptocurrency help Zimbabwe's economy?
Africa has been slow to respond to the cryptocurrency industry. Many of the local governments have shot down claims that it could harness their economy and its individuals. They have refuted digital c...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 17:33hrs | 1468 | by Staff Writer
Envoy's daughter duped in tender scam
A WOMAN believed to be the daughter of Zimbabwe ambassador to Belgium, Tadeous Tarirenyika Chifamba, was allegedly duped of US$2 000 after being promised a contract to supply uniforms to the Zimbabwe ...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 07:19hrs | 555 | by Staff reporter
Neither Mnangagwa nor Chamisa can change scope of Zimbabwe's economy as it stands
There have been calls from various groups calling on Munangagwa and Chamisa to get together on the table for the sake of the nation.This is only a minuscule solution needed for Zimbabwe's woes...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 08:04hrs | 3198 | by A T Kadada
Give Mthuli a chance!
The story is told that Moses undertook the dangerous assignment to relocate the children of Israel to the Promised Land. The Red Sea, that vast water body, presented an intractable obstacle. T...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 07:50hrs | 588 | by Staff reporter
Zifa in $700k scam
At least US$700 000 disbursed by the world's soccer governing body Fifa disappeared from a Zifa account and found its way into private bank accounts of some of the association's executive members, cou...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 07:11hrs | 594 | by Staff reporter
Vandals uproot power-lines, rail tracks, ship them to Harare for resale
VILLAGERS in Mabale ward 17, Hwange East constituency, have raised concern over the rampant looting of the defunct Old Gwayi Mine property with local authorities reportedly reluctant to stop the vice....Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:38hrs | 538 | by Staff reporter
Zupco fires over 100 conductors
Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) dismissed over 100 bus conductors, with several being prosecuted in the courts, in the first four months of this year in a ticket scam that was bleeding the t...Published: 28 May 2019 at 07:37hrs | 1762 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's maize stolen
POLICE have arrested three men - two drivers and a suspected buyer - who were in the habit of stealing part of President Mnangagwa's maize deliveries to the Grain Marketing Board depot in Chegutu. ...Published: 22 May 2019 at 10:39hrs | 2663 | by Staff reporter
Ecocash scam exposed...CEO blocks Lumumba's partner
Kuda Musasisa the business partner of William Mutumanje has exposed Ecocash agents for charging extra cash for Cash Out transactions. Musasiwa's rant on Twitter forced the CEO of Ecocash Natal...Published: 20 May 2019 at 11:54hrs | 6332 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mugabe's ally accused of grand corruption, swindle Israeli investors
A long-time ally of former president Robert Mugabe has been accused of grand corruption after he allegedly swindled Israeli investors in a lucrative gold mining venture in Midlands province.Hi...Published: 19 May 2019 at 19:39hrs | 3447 | by Staff reporter
Fake Canadian immigration scams targeting Zimbabweans
Beaver Immigration Consulting is warning Zimbabwean national to be aware of an online hoax that claims Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is "begging" African leaders, from Nigeria, Kenya and Zimb...Published: 19 May 2019 at 17:31hrs | 2834 | by Staff reporter
$1 million gold theft suspects fail to have case dismissed
THE High Court has dismissed an application for discharge by nine suspects allegedly involved in the theft of nearly $1 million worth of gold which was being kept as an exhibit at Plumtree Police Stat...Published: 14 May 2019 at 07:28hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's widow appeals sentence
A BULAWAYO woman Aquilinia Kayidza Pamberi, who at one time was among different women suspected to be in a relationship with the late MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai, has challenged a court's decisi...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:51hrs | 1632 | by Staff reporter
Violence rocks Harare CBD
A group of angry youths went berserk in parts of Harare's central business district on Thursday afternoon damaging cars while shouting obscenities leaving afternoon shoppers scampering for cover....Published: 10 May 2019 at 22:35hrs | 6038 | by Staff reporter
Econet warns of fraudulent investment schemes
TELECOMS group Econet Wireless has warned the public to be wary of fraudulent investment schemes being run on social media platforms. Some of these schemes use Econet's electronic money transfer syste...Published: 10 May 2019 at 14:13hrs | 2388 | by Staff reporter
Dembare legend in Canada jobs scam
Over 300 prospective students and professionals have allegedly been duped of thousands of dollars by a scholarship foundation which was promising them opportunities to study and work in Canada....Published: 10 May 2019 at 14:08hrs | 1778 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean refs fingered in bribery scam
TWO Zimbabwean referees have been accused of accepting bribes while officiating in an Under-23 Total Africa Cup of Nations qualifier between a Central and North African country in March this year. ...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:51hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
Heads to roll at Zinara, says Matiza
TRANSPORT minister Joel Biggie Matiza yesterday said heads would roll at the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) over cases of corruption involving millions of dollars.Matiza also a...Published: 07 May 2019 at 07:46hrs | 785 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai 'widow' faces jail
A Bulawayo woman Aquilinia Kayidza Pamberi, who at one time was among different women suspected to be in a relationship with the late MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai, is facing jail after a Bulawayo...Published: 05 May 2019 at 12:21hrs | 6667 | by Staff reporter
How long shall we suffer fools, loons?
Despite their supposed genius and intellectual heft, Western scientists are still grappling with establishing the causal link between lunar cycles and madness.While there is innumerable anecdo...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:26hrs | 167 | by Bishop Lazarus
Fraudsters target diasporan homeseekers
FRAUDSTERS are on the loose in Bulawayo mainly targeting Diasporan home seekers whom they dupe into buying incomplete houses and residential stands that do not belong to them. The fraudsters a...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 07:53hrs | 2466 | by Staff reporter
PHOTO: Greyhound bus burnt to a shell
A total of 34 people cheated death when a Greyhound cross-border bus travelling from South Africa to Zimbabwe was burnt to a shell about 35 km along the Beitbridge-Bulawayo road on Monday Morning....Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 09:10hrs | 14736 | by Methusi Ncube
Banks move to arrest card cloning incidents
AN increase in cases of bank card cloning fraud has resulted in some banks suspending balance inquiry on all merchant point of sale (POS) devices. Card-cloning is the production of counterfeit...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:04hrs | 1728 | by Staff reporter
Where is Mnangagwa taking us to?
I DROVE up the window of the tollgate and the man on duty asked me: "Eddie, where are we going?" He was not asking what my destination was, but where did I think the country was going.Last nig...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 08:40hrs | 8877 | by Eddie Cross
Fake projects scandal: MP Musikavanhu plots to steal CDF
Chiredzi West Member of Parliament (MP) Farai Musikavanhu is having a hard time explaining why he mentioned projects that have already been done in his application for the Constituency Development Fun...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:12hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
'I am not a CIO operative,' says Tundiya
SHEPHERD Tundiya, the man described as a con-artist by four legislators that appeared before the Parliamentary Privileges Committee last week facing allegations of soliciting for a $400 000 bribe from...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 18:38hrs | 2998 | by Staff reporter
2 women up for armed robbery
TWO women, who were part of a terror gang arrested in connection with a number of armed robbery cases in Marondera and Goromonzi, were on Friday arraigned before Marondera magistrate Arnold Maburo....Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:46hrs | 1691 | by Staff reporter
New twist to Hwange bribery saga
THE $400 000 Hwange Colliery bribery saga took a new twist during parliamentary inquiries yesterday after it emerged that Shepherd Tundiya, the linkman between the four MPs implicated in the alleged s...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 07:15hrs | 1239 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa named in Hwange scam
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, Vice-President Kembo Mohadi and Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi were yesterday named in the ongoing Hwange Colliery saga inquiry being conducted by the Parliamentary Pri...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 13:48hrs | 2666 | by Staff reporter
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