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Mnangagwa 'puts Dr Chiwenga in a trap?'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has bizarrely appointed his Vice President Constantino Chiwenga as the Minister of Health and Childcare with immediate effect.Last month Obadiah Moyo was sacked as...Published: 16 hrs ago | 5743 | by Staff reporter
Govt tightens screws on urban councils
GOVERNMENT has tightened screws on all urban councils, demanding information on all residential stands acquired by councillors as it moves to unearth land scandals.In a letter dated July 27 an...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:20hrs | 977 | by Staff reporter
Ministry cracks whip on council land deals
The Ministry of Local Government and Public Works has directed all local authorities to submit information relating to land deals conducted under the current crop of Councillors whose tenure expires i...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:07hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
In Zimbabwe, no one can breathe
On July 20, police in Zimbabwe arrested and detained journalist Hopewell Chin'ono. The prominent investigative reporter had blown the whistle on a $60 million corruption scandal in June.They a...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:01hrs | 136 | by Panashe Chigumadze
Noic, Sakunda sucked in US$17m loan scandal
EXPLOSIVE details show that the state-owned National Oil and Infrastructure Company (Noic) was advanced by Sakunda Holdings US$17,5 million of a US$22,75 million loan agreement to buy out Lonmin's 50%...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 08:00hrs | 3818 | by Staff reporter
Armed police officers storm ZimLive Editor Mduduzi Mathuthu's house
Armed members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police stormed the house of Mduduzi Mathuthu the Editor of online publication ZimLive. Mathuthu posted on Twitter that: Police at my house....Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 17:17hrs | 2765 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Security forces ready to deal with demos'
President Mnangagwa yesterday warned that security forces "will be vigilant and on high alert" to deal with any attempts to destabilise the constitutionally-elected Government or create a public healt...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:50hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
In defence of the July 31, 2020 protests
IN life there is only one constant; that is change. But for Zimbabweans of different generations from that of Father Zimbabwe, through to the born "frees" and the millenniums the common constant is th...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:06hrs | 507 | by Danmore Sithole
Wanted Tsenengamu shames Chinamasa's family
Former Zanu PF youth leader Godfrey Tsenengamu has accused Zanu PF spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa and his family as being corrupt.Tsenengamu said Chinamasa is a failed man who summons journali...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 11:55hrs | 4688 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mugabe coup announcer speaks on activists' arrest
Those wishing Zimbabwe ill are twisting the recent arrest by police and subsequent remand of Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume for their own ends, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:25hrs | 1662 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC sucked in land scam
MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has been sucked into the latest swirl of residential stands allocation scam in the capital city, amid revelations that the opposition has been stripping the counc...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:25hrs | 1424 | by Staff reporter
Saved from the bad boys by bad boys
On Thursday 23 July prominent lawyer Alex Magaisa had an expose on the farm mechanisation scandal of 2007 of farm equipment that was meant to benefit the then newly resettled farmers in the government...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:04hrs | 1412 | by Sandra Bvungidzire
'Gono must be arrested'
ZAPU has called for the arrest of former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono and the simultaneous setting up of a commission of inquiry into the extravagant Farm Mechanisation Programm...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 19:44hrs | 2803 | by newzimbabwe
Why I am standing with Hopewell Chin'ono
THE harsh treatment of journalist hopewell Chin'ono has shown the extent to which President Emmerson Mnangagwa can go to protect those robbing future generations of their wealth through unbridled corr...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:13hrs | 1349 | by Obey Manayiti
Farm mechanisation scandal must be investigated: ZAPU
Whereas ZAPU is the pioneer advocate for good governance and rule of law;Whereas the mother party abhors a government with no ethics, transparency and accountability;Whereas ...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:56hrs | 155 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Mnangagwa's govt warns US against interference?
THE arrest of political activists Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume last week, was a pre-emptive move by authorities to quell a potentially violent foreign-funded insurrection meant to destabilis...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:56hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
Full list of Army and CIO bosses who benefitted from the Farm Mechanization scandal
Political Analyst Alex Magaisa has published a list of Army, police and dreaded Central intelligence officers who benefited from the controversial RBZ Farm Mechanisation Scheme.Magaisa said hi...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 17:12hrs | 8495 | by Mandla Ndlovu
FULL TEXT: Mutsvangwa statement on the arrest of Hopewell Chin'ono and Ngarivhume
Government would like to set the record straight on the arrest of Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume and their subsequent appearance in court. We have noted with dismay, a well-coordinated local a...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 14:00hrs | 4261 | by Monica Mutsvangwa
Concern raised over corpses smuggling
GOVERNMENT has expressed concern over reports that bodies of Zimbabweans who could have died from Covid-19 in neighbouring countries are being smuggled into the country, saying that could be a source ...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:33hrs | 586 | by Staff reporter
America should stop lecturing Zimbabwe
United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols is behaving like a demigod. He is indeed way out of order and lost because he has removed his diplomatic robes and stepped into the local political a...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:33hrs | 1615 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Corruption is Zanu PF's life blood, Chin'ono was arrested for threatening corruption
The arrest of Hopewell Chin'ono comes as no surprise to me because I know Zimbabwe is a Banana Republic. Chin'ono exposed corruption in the regime and so the regime had him marked!Zimbabwe is ...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 08:52hrs | 1066 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Exposure of corruption by Dr Alex Magaisa justifies Mthwakazi restoration
Mthwakazi Republic Party MRP which happens to be my party of choice has once again been vindicated by Dr Alex T Magaisa's list of corrupt elites and the Political Exposed Persons "PEPs" as he calls th...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 18:23hrs | 3331 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
'State did not demand repay US$ b RBZ loans, all above board' said Gono - essence of institutionalised corruption
After decades of denying that corruption was rampant is Zimbabwe, Mugabe shocked the nation in his 2016 birthday interview with ZBC TV when he admitted the country was "been swindled out of US$15 bill...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 11:45hrs | 1493 | by Wilbert Mukori
Welshman Ncube, Khupe also benefitted from RBZ looting programme
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: THE 2007/8 Farm Mechanisation Programme was above board: Taxpayers not saddled with the Bill.First of all, I must express my prima-facie disappointment with my bro...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:24hrs | 7384 | by Dr Gideon Gono
Gono confronts Tsvangirai's ex-advisor
FORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor, Gideon Gono was Saturday forced to defend his controversial Farm Mechanisation Programme, insisting the dishing out of millions of public funds to senior Zanu...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:27hrs | 6139 | by Staff reporter
Gono clarifies farm mechanisation
GOVERNMENT'S Farm Mechanisation Programme undertaken between 2007 and 2008 was not a loan scheme and beneficiaries were not required to pay for the equipment they received, former Reserve Bank of Zimb...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:17hrs | 671 | by Staff reporter
Open Letter to Mnangagwa, MPs, Army...
Dear, PRESIDENT, Speaker of Parliament, Chief Justice, Ministers, Members of Pa...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:17hrs | 14209 | by Leonard Koni
Chinotimba roasts Chipinge Town Secretary
Buhera South MP, Joseph Chinotimba who suspects that Chipinge Town Engineer resigned in a huff last month to escape prosecution over scandals involving devolution funds went ballistic during a Parliam...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 21:27hrs | 3571 | by Staff reporter
Drax challenges termination of controversial contract
LAWYERS representing Drax Consult SAGL, a company involved in a $60 million tender scam, fronted by Delish Nguwaya have threatened to sue National Pharmaceuticals (NatPharm) for unprocedurally termina...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:46hrs | 736 | by Staff reporter
NatPharm top bosses sacked in tender controversy
SEVEN National Pharmaceutical Company (NatPharm) bosses have been fired as the company reels from allegations of multi-million dollar corruption involving the acquisition of medicines and equipment me...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:50hrs | 3088 | by Staff reporter
Top cop arrested
The Zimbabwe Republic Police's deputy director for Criminal Investigation Department's Commercial Crimes Unit Assistant Commissioner Obeylaw Moyo and a chief public prosecutor have been arrested over ...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 18:24hrs | 5802 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to intensify lifestyle audits
THE government has been urged to intensify lifestyle audits for political elites and public office holders to deal with rampant corruption, a local pressure group has said.This comes a day aft...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 20:24hrs | 3163 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'bans' 31 July protest
The authorities in Zimbabwe have banned a planned anti-corruption march organised by the main opposition party MDC-Alliance, the state-owned Herald newspaper reports.It quotes information mini...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 17:53hrs | 11871 | by Staff reporter
Panicky Mnangagwa spoils security forces
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is pampering security forces to forestall an uprising amid growing discontent over the deteriorating economic situation in the country, analysts have said.Mnangagw...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:12hrs | 11331 | by Staff reporter
Khupe gets Chamisa's millions from govt purse
The government on Friday gave MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe $7,4 million, insisting that she is the legitimate leader of the main opposition in Parliament despite ongoing court disputes about her statu...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:11hrs | 5899 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya in stands scam
HUNDREDS of Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries followers recently besieged their leader Prophet Walter Magaya's offices in Cape Town, South Africa, demanding refunds following a botche...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:20hrs | 1127 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's associate Nguwaya out on $50,000 bail
DRAX International representative Delish Nguwaya, who recently landed in the dock over a US$60 million drugs procurement scandal, has been freed on $50 000 bail by High Court judge, Pisirayi Kwenda....Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 20:23hrs | 1050 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wants to kill Jonathan Moyo?
EXILED former Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo claims President Emmerson Mnangagwa tried to assassinate him and he has evidence to prove it.Moyo made the claims as he reacted to reports...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:04hrs | 7125 | by Staff reporter
The rise and fall of Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa
Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa is now a public figure and celebrated name in Zimbabwean media. While Ruvheneko has scored high profile jobs with high profile responsibilities in the Zimbabwean media circles, ...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 20:02hrs | 9398 | by Alexio Muzuva
From Mnangagwa's oil and soup dripping hands, to Chamisa's naivety
BESIDES pulling down an outdated calendar and hanging up another on the wall each year in Zimbabwe, has anybody ever asked themselves if really we are going anywhere as a country? I say this with ever...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:26hrs | 1595 | by Robert Sigauke
Zanu PF blames 'illicit market' plus usual suspects minus MDC for growing instability - 'It is the economy, stupid'
"The politics are being shaped from the market, it is as if we are being told, if you won't have MDC-Alliance for an opposition then we will create an opposition for you through illicit market activit...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 22:06hrs | 2269 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe needs a fresh start and a people's government!
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has said Zimbabwe needs a fresh start and a people's government after the Zanu PF government has successively failed to ruin the country for 40 years now."Zi...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 10:03hrs | 1759 | by Stephen Jakes
The three pendulums of Zimbabwean politics
The names Mugabe, Mujuru and Mnangagwa have hogged the headlines of Zimbabwean politics for over a century collectively. The three have nothing to show for the hectares of space that their names have ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 09:58hrs | 2775 | by Joseph 'Slovo' Mupokosera
Businessmen's fight drags in NPA boss
A TOP National Prosecuting Agency (NPA) official has been implicated in a scandal involving a Bulawayo couple embroiled in an alleged US$75 million loan fraud.Chris Mutangadura, the NPA's chie...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:02hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
Sticky-fingered conductors strike Zupco, again
PILFERING staffers have been the proverbial monkey on Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco)'s case ever since it was brought back to life.Last year, the mass public transport operator jett...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:15hrs | 994 | by Staff reporter
Bread does not grow in supermarkets
IF there is an immutable truism that has stubbornly stood the test of time, it is the fact that common sense is not at all common.It is fair to say while common sense is rare, nonsense is ubiq...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:14hrs | 177 | by Bishop Lazarus
From Zanu's Oil and Soup Dripping Hands, to the Opposition's Naivety
Besides pulling down an outdated calendar and hanging up another on the wall each year in Zimbabwe, has anybody ever asked themselves if really we are going anywhere as a country? I say this with ever...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:54hrs | 4877 | by Robert Sigauke
Open letter to Auxilia Mnangagwa
Dear First LadyEver since you became the Health Ambassador the health care system of this country collapsed and corruption in the health sector reached...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 13:28hrs | 7843 | by Chapter 2 Movement
ZBC SAGA: Auxilia Mnangagwa steps in
Ministry of Health and Child Care Ambassador Auxilia Mnangagwa has reportedly intervened in a cooperate disciplinary case by the state broadcaster ZBC TV which had saw Cameraman Stan Marodza being sus...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 12:43hrs | 12809 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Covid-19 scandal: Procurement committee denies involvement
THE Special Procurement Oversight Committee (Spoc) has distanced itself from the ongoing Covid-19 scandal, saying all procurement was done through the Ministry of Health and Child Care in line with a ...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:48hrs | 1175 | by Staff reporter
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