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Does Brother Mthuli Ncube live in Zimbabwe?
Hope is the expectation, against all rational considerations, that desires will be fulfilled miraculously.When the "new dispensation" was introduced in Zimbabwe, we hoped against past experien...Published: 8 hrs ago | 515 | by Kennet Mufuka
Journalist arrested
Journalist Sydney Kawadza was yesterday arrested on allegations of extortion. Kawadza, who is Zimpapers Mashonaland West Bureau Chief, was arrested by Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission officers and ...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:02hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
Linda Masarira speaks on HIV scandal
CONTROVERSIAL politician Linda Masarira-Kaingidza says she will not lose sleep over pictures and chats being posted on social media about her husband Gilbert Kaingidza. Kaingidza is being accu...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 15:00hrs | 1684 | by Staff reporter
Commissioners to investigate Obert Mpofu named
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has constituted a Commission of Inquiry to investigate Zanu-PF secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu and other individuals fingered in corrupt dealings by the ZANU-PF Y...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 20:08hrs | 2815 | by Staff reporter
Kamushinda's Metbank sues NSSA for $100m
METBANK has filed a $100 million defamation claim against BDO Zimbabwe Chartered Accountants and the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) as damages over alleged false reports about the financial...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:17hrs | 536 | by Staff reporter
Events at Mthuli Ncube's ministry disturbing
ZIMBABWE is indeed not only going through painful times, but an extra-ordinary period as the southern African nation grapples with very difficult socio-economic and political circumstances.Las...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:51hrs | 4318 | by Editorial - Newsday
ZACC boss says 'no-one above law' as husband sucked into NSSA scandal
Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) boss Loice Matanda-Moyo said "no-one is above the law" after her husband Sibusiso Moyo was sucked into the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) corrupti...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 19:06hrs | 2529 | by ZimLive
Patrick Zhuwao talks tough
Zimbabwe sadly remembers its heroes and heroines whilst the World commemorates the United Nations International Youth Day. The liberation struggle that dismantled the yoke of colonialism was executed ...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 18:18hrs | 5908 | by Patrick Zhuwao
Zacc boss faces integrity test
NEW Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chair Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo faces her first big test over allegations of wrongdoing involving her husband, Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo....Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 08:08hrs | 1341 | by Staff reporter
Petition to deport Tytan from UK goes viral
A petition to deport singer Tytan from the UK has gone viral online.This follows after Tytan broke up with Olinda with both parties claiming domestic abuse against the other.In a live ...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 11:19hrs | 3695 | by Staff
Why elections cannot help liberate uMthwakazi- MIOR
It is not mind boggling that Elections cannot liberate UMthwakazi. What is mind boggling is that at this day and time, there are some people in UMthwakazi in particular who still believe that partakin...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 07:31hrs | 426 | by Mthwakazi Institute of Research
Probe nails top tourism official in US$500 000 scam
A GOVERNMENT-INSTITUTED investigation has nailed the National Employment Council for the Tourism Industry (Necti) general secretary Klodias Hove in an abuse-of-office scandal and financial misconduct ...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:04hrs | 629 | by Staff reporter
Sex scandal hits school
A massive sex scandal has hit Mahlothova Secondary School in Umguza District, Matabeleland North amid allegations that one Form Three girl dropped out of school after being continuously defiled by one...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 09:47hrs | 3507 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa forced Nssa to appoint his baby Mama
OUTSPOKEN Independent Norton legislature Temba Mliswa used his political position to influence the appointment of the mother of his two children to senior position in National Social Security Authorit...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 08:16hrs | 3675 | by newzimbabwe
'Arresting Mupfumira over NSSA not enough'
ANTI-CORRUPTION watchdog, Transparency International Zimbabwe (TI-Z) has warned that State-owned enterprises (SOE's) will continue to be bled by corrupt senior civil servants and ministers as long as ...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:33hrs | 957 | by Staff reporter
Simba Makoni in Padeswood farm plots scandal
Headlands Community turns to media for support in resolving Padeswood farm plots scandal (water and pasture crisis).We have a terrible situation in Headlands, Padeswood plots Makoni Rural Coun...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 22:44hrs | 3413 | by Big Ray
Tytan, Olinda in messy break-up
AWARD winning musician and 'Mukoko' hitmaker, Njabulo Nkomo popularly known as Tytan has ended his marriage to socialite, Olinda Chapel claiming abuse.Tytan and Olinda tied the knot in March l...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 17:24hrs | 7110 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa son, Job Sikhala in US$15 million CBZ loan default scam
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's son and former First Lady Grace Mugabe's names have featured prominently in a list of 26 high profile individuals who received millions of US dollars in CBZ loans which ...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 09:39hrs | 10535 | by newzimbabwe
Captured South Africa ConCourt fails the test: Who guards the judges?
The Constitutional Court may be the highest Court in the land. But it does not have a monopoly on what justice entails. The Court's pronouncement in the case involving the Public Protector raises conc...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 16:37hrs | 1716 | by Professor Sipho Seepe
'Proximity to Mnangagwa won't shield corrupt figures'
THE Zanu-PF Youth League has warned some elements who abuse their proximity to President Emmerson Mnangagwa to engage in corrupt activities that their days are numbered. The league's dep...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:34hrs | 667 | by Staff reporter
After that $3bn scandal, $2,8bn set aside for Command Agric
Government has earmarked $2,8 billion for Command Agriculture, which will extend the facility by another year and result in the planting of 210 000 hectares of maize and 30 000 hectares of soyabeans d...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:31hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's office caught in massive car scandal
A coterie of businessmen linked to Zanu-PF allegedly imported over 100 cars duty free under the pretext that they were meant for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office in a case that could prove to be ...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:25hrs | 3228 | by Staff reporter
Sparks fly over NSSA scandal
Former National Social Security Authority (NSSA) board chairman Robin Vela says he will challenge the damning forensic audit report in court claiming that it was part of a witch-hunt.The repor...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:24hrs | 1837 | by Staff reporter
Shocking details of NSSA emerge
THE National Social Security Authority (NSSA) forensic audit report released in Parliament this week exposes shocking corruption, fraud, criminal abuse of office and theft that saw the authority being...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:33hrs | 918 | by Staff reporter
NSSA forensic audit exposes shocking corruption
THE National Social Security Authority (NSSA) forensic audit report released in Parliament this week exposes shocking corruption, fraud, criminal abuse of office and theft that saw the authority being...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:11hrs | 627 | by Staff Reporter
NSSA corruption exposes Mnangagwa
Opposition MDC says the recently exposed NSSA scandal exposes the long standing allegation that Mnangagwa's government that it is rotten to the core and it cannot self-correct.Secretary for Pu...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 16:35hrs | 10277 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Biti thrown into ZACC's jaws …as Chamisa unleashes Varakashi on him
The bickering within the MDC Alliance presidium continues to crescendo with that party's leader, Nelson Chamisa hurling every weapon he bumps into, to his fiercest rival, Tendai Biti.The Harar...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 16:04hrs | 13152 | by John Sigauke
These fuel queues you see today will be no more
Austerity, who are your parents and why not relenting? You are invisible but effects, signs and symptoms. Fathers and mothers are moonlighting on vending sojourns to make ends come nearer, never mind ...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 15:12hrs | 6418 | by Thomas Murisa.
Mnangagwa breaking new ground, says Mliswa
CONTROVERSIAL Norton Independent legislator, Temba Mliswa has applauded President Emmerson Mnangagwa for treading on new ground as regards the fight against corruption following last week's arrest of ...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 07:46hrs | 2656 | by newzimbabwe
A 'one day' economy
At a time when there is a shortage of virtually everything except poverty and corruption, the tale of the one-day bush bakery in an open maize field seems to sum up what is wrong in Zimbabwe.N...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 19:26hrs | 2610 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Zanu-PF's new list of corrupt officials out
THE Zanu-PF Youth League will in the next few days release a long list of alleged corrupt Government and party officials to give the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zaac) leads to follow and arre...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 10:00hrs | 10144 | by Staff reporter
Missing US$3bn an indictment on Mnangagwa's government
REVELATIONS of possible abuse of funds under the controversial command agriculture scheme amid claims that there are no records and accountability of how close to US$3 billion was disbursed are an ind...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 09:30hrs | 2048 | by Staff reporter
Let's not mistake gifting votes for vote-rigging
IT'S easy and convenient to shift blame from yourself.After losing two by-elections recently, the main opposition MDC has been pointing fingers in the direction of the ruling Zanu-PF party, al...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:21hrs | 588 | by Conway Tutani
BREAKING: Minister Prisca Mupfumira arrested for corruption
Minister of Tourism Prisca Mupfumira has been arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) on allegations of corruption while at the helm of NSSA. Mupfumira is one of the high ra...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 08:48hrs | 10738 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's cabinet panics
Zimbabwe's thermal power stations may soon fail to feed onto the national electricity grid after coal suppliers warned their stockpile lasts for 12 days, plunging the country into colossal power crisi...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 08:22hrs | 6679 | by Staff reporter
ZACC contact details are a public secret
Now that devolution funds are being disbursed, it's not an opportunity for self-enrichment and scandals galore. That 'treasonous' me-only attitude must be done away with. There may be some sha...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 12:42hrs | 973 | by Thomas Murisa
MDC stupidity hands Bulawayo to Mnangagwa
AFFAIRS of the City of Bulawayo might soon be run by an administrative commission if a government probe rolled out last week finds councillors and officials guilty and complicit in corruption activiti...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 10:56hrs | 3280 | by Staff reporter
MDC launches investigations into stands scandal
THE MDC has set up a team to investigate allegations that some Marondera Town councillors are involved in a massive stands scandal.The team, led by a provincial member from Chihota — a Nyagu...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 08:29hrs | 756 | by Staff reporter
ZACC contact details are a public secret, use devolution funds wisely
Now that devolution funds are being disbursed, its not an opportunity for self-enrichment and scandals galore. That 'treasonous' me-only attitude must be done away with. There may be some shar...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 14:31hrs | 216 | by Thomas Murisa
MDC stupidity hands Bulawayo to Mnangagwa's govt, as Commission steps in
AFFAIRS of the City of Bulawayo might soon be run by an administrative commission if a government probe rolled out last week finds councillors and officials guilty and complicit in corruption activiti...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 08:28hrs | 2327 | by Staff reporter
Perennial failure continues as Warriors coach
CAPS midfielder Joel "Josta" Ngodzo was the surprise omission from the Warriors' 32-member squad announced by coach Sunday Chidzambga yesterday for the 2020 African Nations Championship (Chan) qualifi...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 08:17hrs | 561 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF vote-buying scandal raises alarm
A leading election monitoring group has condemned Zanu-PF's alleged attempts to use medical drugs to influence the outcome of the Lupane East constituency by-election, saying the move violates the pri...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:25hrs | 862 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally faces probe in $3bn scandal
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is investigating possible abuse of funds under the controversial command agriculture scheme amid claims that there are no records of how close to US$3 bi...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:23hrs | 5333 | by Staff reporter
Howzat! for corruption?
The endemic corruption in Zimbabwe has seen the country's cricket teams suspended by the International Cricket Council. ICC funding to Zimbabwe has been frozen and Zimbabwe is now unlikely to be able ...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 19:26hrs | 1851 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
MISSING USD$ 3 BILLION: Mnangagwa called to account
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the Chief Secretary to the Office of the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda have been called upon to account for the USD$3 billion that went missing after treasu...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 12:56hrs | 10286 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Token anti-corruption drive breeding apathy and despondency
Last week, I agonised on what to write about. I had travelled and had a bit of work to do, but still thought I could get my column in.In the end, I did not write anything because I failed to f...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 08:11hrs | 550 | by Nqaba Matshazi
'Kambarami has a string of legal battles'
1893MRM lodged a case against Tinashe Kambarami following the 31 July 2018 Zimbabwe harmonized national and municipal government elections. The movement had discovered that Mr Kambarami, the councilor...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 20:55hrs | 2544 | by 1893MRM
'Zimbabwe' will not last long - Mthwakazi Institute Of Research
Mthwakazi Institute Of Research has been putting together pieces of a question on the lips of many in the binary state of Zimbabwe and beyond borders. The question whether Zimbabwe will remain United ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 08:31hrs | 7690 | by 'Zimbabwe' will not last long - Mthwakazi Institute Of Research
'Govt to take 100% of Zupco ownership'
ZIMRE Holdings Limited has signalled a possibility of a disinvestment or a potential buy-out in Zupco by the Government. Government holds 51 percent of the transport company while Zimre has a ...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:46hrs | 789 | by Staff reporter
The calibre of councillors
THE Auditor-General's (AG) Local Authorities Report for 2018 makes for some serious, but disturbing reading.It reports the state of financial management of local authorities and shows the exte...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:18hrs | 462 | by Miriam Tose Majome
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