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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 | 693 | 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 | 548 | 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 | 4388 | 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 | 5099 | 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 | 10450 | 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 | 501 | 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 | 193 | 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 | 1218 | 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 | 1189 | 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 | 1658 | 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 | 677 | 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 | 2297 | 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 | 2593 | 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 | 1158 | 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 | 3901 | by Staff reporter
Is match-fixing taking root in Zimbabwe?
THE 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) finals in Egypt brought together the best teams from the continent in what was undoubtedly a feast of great soccer, camaraderie, and a showcase of the best footb...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:48hrs | 336 | by Michael Kariati
Gold is purified by fire
Eish!!! It seems the past couple of weeks have been swelteringly hot, both figuratively and literally, for everyone.The maddeningly galloping prices have been making most people hot under the ...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:31hrs | 153 | by Bishop Lazi
'Mnangagwa holds keys to removal of sanctions'
The United States envoy to Zimbabwe Ambassador Brian Nichols has said that only President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration holds the keys to the removal of sanctions if they implement the political...Published: 02 Nov 2019 at 13:35hrs | 4891 | by Staff reporter
Choppies plans to exit SA, Kenya as regional expansion drive collapses
TROUBLED Botswana-based retail group, Choppies, is set to pull out of South Africa and Kenya, two of the region's largest markets. Its ambitions to become one of the biggest food retailers in sub-Saha...Published: 30 Oct 2019 at 06:00hrs | 1692 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sanctions lunacy
The anti-sanctions public holiday on Friday was a new dimension in Zimbabwean lunacy, buoyed by mistaken African solidarity. They accept Zanu PF propaganda without looking into what these sanctions ar...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 20:26hrs | 2077 | by Zimbabwe Vigil
Ramaphosa's ministers in love triangle
A front-page tabloid exposé features sordid details of the alleged sexual activities of the two ministers.Sordid details of the alleged private lives of Finance Minister Tito Mboweni and Mine...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 13:54hrs | 5652 | by Staff reporter
Gold Baron turns to God
There is common wisdom that "change" is the only constant in life and nothing else. This view is borrowed from an ancient Greek philosopher and means that there is nothing in life which is stationary ...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 09:37hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-sanctions march flopped
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was yesterday left red-faced after only 7 000 people turned up for his much-hyped anti-sanctions march.Zimbabweans, battling skyrocketing prices, rising inflation ...Published: 26 Oct 2019 at 21:52hrs | 5423 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Khupe fight: Judgment reserved
THE muddled fight between MDC leader Nelson Chamisa and his arch-rival MDC-T president Thokozani Khupe was yesterday put on ice after the Supreme Court reserved judgment in a case where the two are ba...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 09:42hrs | 1004 | by Staff reporter
Khupe to elbow out Chamisa from MDC
MDC-T president Thokozani Khupe has intensified efforts to elbow out MDC president Nelson Chamisa after urging the Supreme Court to recognise the party structures that existed in 2014 when the opposit...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 09:36hrs | 1943 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa squealing as Excelgate expose of rigged 2018 goes viral - guilt of high treason
There is no denying the fact that Zimbabwe is facing a serious economic meltdown the much hoped for economic recovery of the post Mugabe era has not materialised. When Emmerson Mnangagwa took ...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 07:43hrs | 13916 | by Wilbert Mukori
Western sanctions a lame excuse: US envoy
UNITED States (US) ambassador to Zimbabwe, Brian Nichols, has dismissed government claims that Western sanctions were behind the country's economic meltdown, saying the haemorrhage was being fuelled b...Published: 24 Oct 2019 at 15:12hrs | 2125 | by Staff Reporter
Zimra cracks whip on staff
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is cracking the whip on officers suspected of prejudicing the taxman millions of dollars in potential revenue, in the wake of reports of an elaborate illegal veh...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 11:04hrs | 1692 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu sues Matutu for $10 million
ZANU-PF secretary for administration Dr Obert Mpofu is suing the party's Youth Affairs deputy secretary Lewis Matutu for $10 million after the latter accused him of being corrupt.The claim ema...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 15:48hrs | 3880 | by Staff reporter
Judiciary is compromised: An insider's view of the justice system
Celebrated human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa says interference by the executive in the operations of the country's judiciary has compromised the justice system.Mtetwa (BM) told Alpha Media H...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:48hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Logan Paul's struggles with YouTube stardom
Logan Paul might not be a name you're familiar with, but his face certainly will be. The YouTube star has gone viral multiple times for his hilarious videos, but in recent years has gone somewhat off ...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 12:49hrs | 713 | by Staff Writer
A peek into Chamisa's urban nightmare
The opposition party, the MDC, cut its teeth in elections in 2000. Since then, it has been winning almost the same local authority and National Assembly seats, mainly in urban areas. Despite b...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 03:52hrs | 76 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa's spokesman back on Twitter after Pornography storm
Presidential spokesperson George Charamba has reactivated his Twitter account after shutting it down following an embarrassing pornography scandal.On Tuesday night, Charamba posted a link on h...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 11:18hrs | 227 | by Ndou Paul
Mnangagwa's spokesman exits Twitter after porn video shame
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman George Charamba deleted his Twitter account late Tuesday after inadvertently posting a link to a pornographic website.Possession and sharing of pornogr...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 09:11hrs | 99 | by ZimLive
Curb corruption in the police force now
The recent case involving 11 police constables from different police stations who were arrested in Borrowdale while trying to extort money from a businessman they accused of illegally dealing in forei...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 08:48hrs | 7 | by Beaven Dhliwayo
The MDC's chequered stewardship of our urban areas
The MDC's chequered stewardship of our urban areasNobleman RunyangaThe opposition party, the MDC cut its teeth into elections in 2000. Since then it has been winning almost the same lo...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 11:55hrs | 1025 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mimosa suspends 70 over salary scandal
TWO of the 70 employees suspended by Mimosa Mining Company over a salary scandal have appeared at the Zvishavane Magistrates Court facing fraud charges. Two months ago, the platinum miner suspended 70...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 07:24hrs | 1104 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans bused to vote for Frelimo in Mozambique?
Calls for calm and warnings against voter intimidation marked a closely watched election day in Mozambique on Tuesday that is crucial in consolidating a wary peace in the southern African nation of ne...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 18:41hrs | 1047 | by AP
Zimra officials arrested in vehicle importation scandal
Two Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials stationed at the Beitbridge border post have been arrested for importing luxury vehicles into Zimbabwe and declaring them as grapes to evade paying the...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 17:57hrs | 6208 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa name dragged into extortion scandal
ZANU-PF'S Matebeleland South youth league chairperson Washington Nkomo has been fingered in a US$12 000 extortion scam involving a Shangani miner using President Emmerson Mnangagwa's name. The scam ha...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 07:17hrs | 1803 | by Staff reporter
Zimnat resorts to lies and deceit in pursuit of the Diaspora dollar
ZIMNAT LIFE is risking a possible lawsuit in pursuit of the diaspora dollar over data protection breaches and gross misrepresentations to Diaspora Funeral Cash Plan (DFCP) clients of their role in the...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 14:32hrs | 914 | by Alois Vinga
Matabeleland Collective speaks on tribal recruitment of student nurses in Matabeleland.
Matabeleland Collective strongly condemns the unfair, tribal motivated recruitment of student nurses at Brunapeg, Mangwe, Gwanda, only one student at St Lukes, over 95 % of student nurses at Mpilo Sch...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 12:52hrs | 1374 | by Matabeleland Collective
Media house raided to get information it has on Gordhan and Ramaphosa
The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) raided Dr Iqbal Survé's offices in Cape Town this morning, in what the businessman described as a "fishing expedition" and "an intimidation tactic"....Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 18:44hrs | 1557 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe pleaded guilty to fix last AFCON game against DR Congo
A sensational report from a Madagascar newspaper claimed that Zimbabwe threw their last Africa Cup of Nations (A Fcon) pool match to make way for DR Congo in the final 16 of the competition, but with ...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 14:26hrs | 10842 | by Staff Writer
Zimra officer on the run
POLICE have launched a manhunt for a Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officer Sekelwe Maphosa who is part of a gang that defrauded the authority of millions of dollars in a fraudulent vehicle cleara...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 06:30hrs | 1356 | by Staff reporter
MDC MPs give Mudenda 48-hr ultimatum
MDC legislators who walked out of Parliament during President Emmerson Mnangagwa's State of the Nation Address last week have given the Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda 48 hours to with...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 07:02hrs | 1043 | by Staff reporter
Roadworks scandal hits Harare
Harare City Council (HCC) is reeling from yet another controversy after an internal audit unearthed a major scandal through which some road contractors engaged to rehabilitate 43 selected roads in the...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 15:01hrs | 83 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths demand 40% command agriculture machinery
ZANU-PF youths have demanded access to atleast 40 percent of farm mechanisation equipment set to be distributed to local farmers under government's controversial command agriculture programme....Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:08hrs | 37 | by newzimbabwe
New Zesa board will have its work cut out
The tough talk by Energy and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi to appoint a new Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) board is a noble idea because the country has been battling acute el...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:00hrs | 19 | by Beaven Dhliwayo
An ethnic Genocide is brewing in Matebeleland as Ndebeles get tutsified by Mnangagwa's government
The Zanu PF's Rozvi mambo fraud in which the system is fronting Mike Moyo as their answer to King Bulelani Lobhengula, is the official government response to Matabele efforts to free themselves from S...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 07:53hrs | 2631 | by George M Mkhwanazi
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