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Chapungu bounces back, Herentals relegated
PREMIER Soccer League side Herentals have paid a huge price for alleged match fixing during their league match against army side Black Rhinos last year after they were relegated following a ruling by ...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:39hrs | 1070 | by Staff reporter
O-Level pass rate up
More than 6 000 extra students passed O-Level in November last year with more than 63 000 obtaining Grade C or better in at least five subjects, although the pass rate was just 0,4 percent higher with...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:23hrs | 1003 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's political demise beckons
It is a view expressed by astute political observers, this scribe included, that unless the MDC-Alliance denounces violence and joins President E.D. Mnangagwa and other political parties in the Politi...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:45hrs | 456 | by Cuthbert Mavheko
Liberation: Did somebody say Fanon?
DURING the African struggles against settler colonialism the name of Frantz Fanon used to scare settler colonialists that understandably banned his books and pamphlets. In the present era the name and...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:41hrs | 335 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Corruption: A national security threat
THE Willowgate Scandal, one of the major investigative stories in the history of the media in Zimbabwe, is pregnant with many important lessons.When the scandal was first exposed in the media,...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:29hrs | 127 | by Staff rpeorter
Harare City Council tender scandal deepens
THE massive tender scandal rocking Harare City Council (HCC) has taken a new twist after it emerged in an explosive email trail that a local company, Microlab Scientific (Microlab), offered to use its...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:25hrs | 391 | by Staff repoirter
Chiwenga/Marry divorce exposes Vice President capture
The legal battle between Vice President Constantino Chiwenga and his estranged wife Marry has opened a can of worms with the former army general revealing that he was given a Mercedes Benz vehicle by ...Published: 14 Jan 2020 at 08:27hrs | 13453 | by Staff Reporter
Jonathan Moyo's EXCELGATE is mastery of deception; focuses on vote computation but ignores illegal process
Jonathan Moyo knows Zanu PF has been rigging elections for donkey years, especially since his rejoining the party in 2000. He is just being very selective on what he says."I studied electoral ...Published: 02 Jan 2020 at 08:57hrs | 5726 | by Nomusa Garikai
GMB Corruption and mismanagement exposed
The GMB has been in chaos and turmoil since the days of the Kumbirai Kangai GMB scandal in 1997. GMB has been used as a tool for personal enrichment and has been weaponised as a tool for corruption in...Published: 25 Dec 2019 at 08:55hrs | 3832 | by Nicholas Ncube
ZACC - Who are you exactly?
The Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission at its formation was primarily supposed to be able to fight corruption,operate independently and as its core function take to the courts with evidence those all...Published: 22 Dec 2019 at 13:50hrs | 1885 | by A Kadada
UK Home Office application fees and NHS Surcharge obscene and inhuman
Home Office has always set up fees which are very high and obscene. Their fee levels are extremely high, unfair and unreasonable. The Home Office charging...Published: 21 Dec 2019 at 21:29hrs | 1756 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zacc probes Reigate suburb stands scandal
A Concerned citizen has written a letter to the Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission asking it to probe the Reigate suburb scandal in the servicing of the stands."I write to invite you to inves...Published: 20 Dec 2019 at 09:27hrs | 1278 | by Stephen Jakes
ZACC; please realize Marry Chiwenga from remand prison unconditionally: This is downright unfair!!
We read with dismay how Mrs Chiwenga laundered cash and externalized it to foreign banks. What Marry did; this crime she has committed is not new to Zimbabwe. How has it become a crime now for her to ...Published: 16 Dec 2019 at 14:44hrs | 12985 | by Nomazulu Thata
Pressure mounts on NSSA board
LABOUR minister Paul Mavhima has descended heavily on the Cuthbert Chidoori-led National Social Security Authority (NSSA) board and ordered it to restore order at the scandal-ridden pension scheme....Published: 15 Dec 2019 at 12:14hrs | 1649 | by Staff reporter
Catholic 'rebels' uncloaked, accused of sexual misconduct
TWO former Roman Catholic Church priests and seminarians in Zimbabwe who left the church over personal, theological and pastoral issues, leading to the formation of their own church a few weeks ago, h...Published: 14 Dec 2019 at 08:17hrs | 1371 | by Staff reporter
Massive tender scam sucks in top officials
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo and Harare Metropolitan Provincial Affairs minister Oliver Chidawu have been implicated in a massive tender scandal at Harare City Council (HCC) after they allegedl...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 07:58hrs | 813 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's inflation hypocrisy baffling
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube cannot sustain the argument that the reason for banning the publication of year-over-year inflation based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI).In the 2020 budget sta...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 07:56hrs | 218 | by Brett Chulu
Nepotism scandal at council
MDC Alliance-run Gweru City Council (GCC) has been rocked by a nepotism scandal with allegations that councillors are arm-twisting management to hire "their people" as contract workers at the local au...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 06:32hrs | 791 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in the UK compete in lifestyles - part 2
Zimbabweans in the UK were irked by a previous article on the zeal by most of them to compete le in life styles. The article concentrated on the nurses who are more blessed with the spirit of competit...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:34hrs | 14444 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
SWAPO wins Namibian election amid corruption scandal
President Hage Geingob and his ruling Namibian South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) party won Wednesday's election, the country's electoral commission announced.The SWAPO party rece...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:27hrs | 1547 | by Al Jazeera
Minister Matiza 'lied' to scuttle NRZ deal
Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza has been accused of deliberately misleading cabinet in a bid to scuttle the US$400 million National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) recapitalisation project.Th...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:11hrs | 546 | by Staff reporter
Why Obadiah Moyo must go
The appointment of Obadiah Moyo as Health and Child Care minister in September 2018 was received with mixed feelings.On one hand, there were some who wanted to see a change of leadership at th...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:08hrs | 416 | by Fortune Nyamande
Minister dodges questions on Zupco multimillion-dollar scandal
Transport Minister Biggie Joel Matiza dodged questions from opposition MPs over government's alleged monthly expenditure of $40 million in the provision of subsidised transport by Zupco buses. ...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 20:25hrs | 3648 | by Staff Reporter
What happens when the centre can no longer hold?
WHEN Somalia was a lawless gangland with no central government, many Africans often wondered how it must have felt to live in a failed state controlled by marauding warlords.How on earth did p...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:55hrs | 1716 | by Brezh Malaba
Root cause of economic meltdown is rigged elections - must deal with curse or die
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely! This is a common sense observation noted in every human society and goes back to the very beginning of human civilisation. Indeed, the me...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 10:48hrs | 1428 | by Wilbert Mukori
Is Zimbabwe's e-nurse recruiting scandalous?
Following an outcry over the selection process of student nurses at Mpilo and UBH Central hospitals that were published by this paper, the Ministry of Health and Child and Care (MOHCC) claimed tha...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 07:43hrs | 3563 | by Robert Ndlovu
Yellow cards scandal hits Southern Region
ZIFA Southern Region Division One side Talen Vision has approached Zifa seeking redress over what they claim is a yellow cards scandal in the region.This has thrown Bulawayo City's crowning as...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 07:27hrs | 346 | by Staff reporter
Has Mnangagwa failed?
This is not an apology for ED as president of Zimbabwe, but a careful examination of the facts. Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa popularly known as Ngwena has been president of Zimbabwe for more than a year...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 17:45hrs | 1504 | by Lovemore 'Briggs Ojugo' Sibanda Ph.D.
Firm faces blacklisting over Zimra scandal
The Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) has warned that a company that supplies government with vehicles risks being blacklisted if investigations establish that it was involved in smu...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:48hrs | 652 | by Staff reporter
JETGATE: 'Mnangagwa uses luxury jet to loot diamonds and foreign currency'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa seemingly sensing his imminent boot from power, is allegedly involved in grand looting of the country's scarce foreign currency coffers and resources using his chain of hi...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 07:37hrs | 13570 | by Mary-Kate Kahari
Parastatals embroiled in car smuggling scandal
STATE-OWNED entities, Zimbabwe Special Economic Zones Authority (Zimseza), Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR) are embroiled in a messy car import scam after details emerged that they took delivery o...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 08:00hrs | 3318 | by Staff reporter
Harare probes stands scandal
Harare City Council has ordered an investigation into allegations that it lost millions of dollars over the past two years in illegal residential stands deals involving its employees. This com...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 06:00hrs | 2848 | by Staff reporter
POLAD takes on NSSA corruption
Participants in the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) spearheaded by President Mnangagwa will discuss the corruption ravaging the National Social Security Authority (NSSA), MDC-T vice president Obert ...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 18:53hrs | 1765 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister caught in messy scandal
INDUSTRY and Commerce minister Sekai Nzenza has been accused of failing to pay back US$8 000 she allegedly took from the corruption-ridden National Social Security Authority (NSSA) under the guise of ...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:01hrs | 3798 | by Staff reporter
Prophet 'Bomber’ Ngwenya says he is not a witch
IN every decade rock and roll, things change with time and start to get very serious and every once in a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants in order to fully prosper.That is in simplic...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:23hrs | 692 | by Staff reporter
Council to unleash JOC on space barons
HARARE City Council has engaged the Joint Operations Command (JOC) to depoliticise Mupedzanhamo market in Mbare and deal with interference mainly from politicians.The local authority said it w...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:30hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
Ecobank, CBZ fingered in new notes, coins withdrawal scandal
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has said appropriate disciplinary measures will be taken against Ecobank Zimbabwe and CBZ Bank after two clients withdrew $15 000 and $44 180 respectively from the t...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:14hrs | 581 | by Staff reporter
Mass resignations hit Zinara
At least 12 top executives have resigned from the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) in protest over alleged interference, endemic corruption, harassment and threats from some board member...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:43hrs | 4629 | by Staff reporter
NSSA rot sucks in another minister
FORMER Public Service minister Sekai Nzenza allegedly ordered State pension manager, National Social Security Authority (NSSA) to pay $1,8 million to a group of local experts she handpicked to unpack ...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:27hrs | 5233 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to axe bigwigs
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is planning to make further changes to his Cabinet after last Friday's mini-reshuffle that saw some ministers being redeployed and new deputies appointed, it has emerged....Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 09:02hrs | 10626 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt accused of tribalism over nurses saga
The government has been accused of perpetuating tribalism through the recruitment of student nurses from outside Matabeleland for training at major hospitals in the region.Bulawayo residents h...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:48hrs | 511 | by Staff reporter
Zacc probes roads scandal
THE Harare City Council has suspended director of works, Engineer Isaiah Chawatama and finance manager, Mr Godfrey Kusangaya — at a time when the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is invest...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:29hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec exams scandal at exposed
FOUR senior teachers at a school in Chiredzi allegedly connived to write examinations for their partners.According to a whistleblower, the quartet (names withheld) would open the sealed envelo...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 10:08hrs | 1285 | by Staff reporter
Top cop in corruption storm
A TOP Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) official has been fingered in a well-orchestrated police corruption scam by a subordinate who has since been granted protection by the High Court after exposing th...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 05:59hrs | 1208 | by Staff reporter
Zim govt deliberately impoverishing citizens to attract investment by creating cheap labour?
To say that I was petrified listening to the Deputy Minister of Information Energy Mutodi speaking last night (5 November 2019) on the Voice of America's Studio 7, would be the understatement of the y...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 12:44hrs | 1681 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Joram Gumbo: Charges wont shed light into the ZimAirways scandal
Joram Gumbo, the former Transport minister, has been arrested for his actions around the Zimbabwe Airways controversy. But it tells a story of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's feeble anti-corruption dri...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 11:40hrs | 688 | by Staff reporter
The evil Unity Accord died with Nkomo & Mugabe
The death of Joshua Nkomo in 1999 and Robert Mugabe this year marked the death of the most evil and oppressive document ever signed by black leaders in post colonial Africa titled Unity Accord. ...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 07:04hrs | 2329 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa minister tweets that US embassy 'satanic', striking doctors are 'killers'
The government admitted on Sunday that the information ministry's official Twitter account had put out a tweet describing striking doctors as "killers" and the United States embassy as "satanic"....Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 06:48hrs | 2636 | by Mduduzi Mathuthu
Residents and council workers clash over farming land
Hundreds of families in Glenview South are furious at some City of Harare workers for allegedly invading their small urban farming plots near Feroworks Paddocks.Senior citizens, 70-year-ol...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 16:51hrs | 1170 | by Staff Reporter
Fresh jobs scandal rocks Mpilo
The Mpilo Hospital board is investigating the circumstances surrounding the alleged imposition of principal nursing officer (PNO) by the government while interviews were being held to fill the vacant ...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:57hrs | 3921 | by Staff reporter
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