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Who needs two VPs, anyway?
TODAY is six months and 11 days since former vice-president Kembo Mohadi resigned from his post following two weeks of juicy revelations of his bedroom commissions with two married women, one of who w...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:59hrs | 609 | by Tawanda Majon
Chadzamira drags Chiwenga in the mud
Chickens have come home to roost for ZANU PF Masvingo Provincial Chairperson, Ezra Ruvai Chadzamira as he drags Vice President Constantine Chiwenga into t...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 00:36hrs | 8521 | by Paul Ndou
Life without a visa in Diaspora a nightmare
STAYING in the UK without a visa or a right to stay is intolerable, the worst thing that can happen to a human being is to become an illegal immigrant in a 'hostile environment'. People wh...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:16hrs | 558 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The godfather of Matebeleland politics, Abednico Ncube
The creation of empires and dynasties through the Zanu-PF structures continue to gain thrust and traction within Zanu-PF in Matebeleland South as noted with the continuous personalization of the vast ...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:48hrs | 843 | by Jerry Zinodla
Hachilema's party claims to be under Zanu-PF attack
ZAMBIA'S ruling United Party for National Development (UPND) has accused Zanu-PF of launching cyber-attacks against its leadership, which it says could sour relations between the two neighbours....Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:21hrs | 5457 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new biography confirms political brinkmanship with Chiwenga
THE political war of attrition between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga has found expression in the President's controversial new biography as internecine unresolved le...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 06:52hrs | 4564 | by Staff reporter
Completion of Beitbridge-Harare road way behind schedule
Progress on rehabilitation work of Beitbridge-Harare highway is lagging behind schedule as the much-hyped project initially meant to be done by 2022 is still far from completion.Speaking to jo...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 20:30hrs | 1572 | by Staff reporter
Scandal as Ministry issues farm offer letter to a fugitive
A 99-year lease offer letter that was issued and signed by the minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement Anxious Masuka to a fugitive who skipped the country 14 yea...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 06:06hrs | 2886 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa spooked by spectre of youth revolution'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba last week accused award-winning journalist Hopewell Chin'ono (HC), who is also a stern critic of the government of sour grapes after his bid...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 21:32hrs | 2370 | by Staff reporter
Charamba sparks a diplomatic tiff labels Hichilema a 'sellout'
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba yesterday sparked a diplomatic tiff with the new government of Zambia after calling President Hakainde Hichilema, who was inaugurated yesterday, a "sellout" o...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 06:51hrs | 7606 | by Staff reporter
Bvute ordered to pay 3-year old US$129,500 debt in 48 hours
Zanu-PF legislator and top businessman Ozias Bvute has been ordered by the High Court to pay a US$129 500 debt he owes to an equipment dealer, Robvel Investments, within 48 hours for equipment supplie...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 07:27hrs | 1060 | by Staff reporter
Fury as South Africa exports J&J vaccines to Europe, starving Africa
Health activists in Africa have slammed Johnson & Johnson for exporting vaccines produced in South Africa to countries in Europe, which have already immunised large numbers of their people and hav...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 11:47hrs | 1329 | by AP
Zuma requests financial information for his trial, Ramaphosa's ANC seals documents?
Former South African President Jacob Zuma's legal team has requested the Africa National Congress (ANC) to produce its financial records. This is in relation with the Armsdeal payments.Lawyers...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 11:22hrs | 1646 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe awards passport production contract to Belgian firm
A Belgian company linked to bribes-for-tenders in over half-a-dozen countries has been awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to produce biometric passports for Zimbabwe, ZimLive reported.Zim...Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 12:06hrs | 4310 | by Staff reporter
Bad deals hold back Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE'S development trajectory remains under threat from nepotism and corruption, the Zimbabwe Coalition for Debt and Development (Zimcodd) said last week.Zimcodd said this concoction of go...Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 06:46hrs | 635 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe leaders incapable of successfully running even a 'kombi'!
I am sure we have all come across or traveled on, those ramshackle commuter minibuses (we call 'kombis') - whereby, seats are now all terribly worn out, their backs tilted backwards making it impossib...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:53hrs | 2021 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chiwenga moves to elbow out Auditor-General
VICE-PRESIDENT and Health minister Chiwenga has initiated moves to exclude Auditor-General (AG) Mildred Chiri from the Special Procurement Oversight Committee after she exposed gross misuse of COVID-1...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 07:28hrs | 2364 | by Staff reporter
Minister in fresh farm grab storm
MATABELELAND North Provincial Affairs minister Richard Moyo has been sucked into a fresh farm invasion storm as it emerged he allegedly seized another black-owned farm and parcelled it out to members ...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 06:54hrs | 1121 | by Staff reporter
'I remained with Zuma to end state capture' says Ramaphosa vs Mnangagwa colluded with Mugabe to loot
History will show just how close the late Nelson Mandela's "Rainbow democratic South Africa" came to collapse and become just another African Banana Republic like Zimbabwe during former President Jaco...Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 20:40hrs | 1487 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Cyril Ramaphosa appears to be using the ANC's step-aside rule to target, purge political opponents
President Cyril Ramaphosa increasingly appears to be using the ANC's "step-aside" rule to target and purge his political opponents, while affirming his untouchable supporters, before next year's elect...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 09:25hrs | 801 | by Clyde Ramalaine
House sale scandal rocks council
A Harare City Council junior employee in the housing department, who is on suspension over allegations of abuse of office and corrupt parcelling out of stands, has become the owner of an expensive low...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 07:33hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's grip on state security machinery targets 2022 re-election
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa's announcement of sweeping changes to the Cabinet last week may have appeared radical but did little to dispel the notion that he is paralysed by a commitment to protracted c...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 16:08hrs | 839 | by Cyril Madlala
Prominent cleric in sex scandal
A prominent Mutare church leader, who is in an eye of a storm after his alleged adulterous relationships with married congregants were exposed, has been described as a "manipulative and deceitful char...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:25hrs | 1873 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa appoints scandal-ridden Godongwana as finance minister
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa announced 10 changes to his cabinet, including the appointment of close political ally Enoch Godongwana as his new finance minister.Godongwana succ...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 10:15hrs | 1431 | by Staff reporter
US$109m tender scam rocks Zinwa
THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) is embroiled in a tender scandal after it controversially awarded a US$109 million tender to China Nanchang for the construction of Kunzvi Dam, despite th...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 07:49hrs | 443 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga hides potentially damming audit report on Health Ministry corruption
VICE President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga has been sitting on the Auditor-General's specially commissioned audit report for the ministry, which looks at potential abuses of Covid-19 fund...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 07:18hrs | 3782 | by Staff reporter
British football great condemns 'awful' decision to deport footballer to Zimbabwe
Gary Lineker has condemned an "awful" decision to deport a promising footballer who has lived in Britain his whole life.Christopher Arundell, who was accepted into Staines Town Football Club's...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 12:36hrs | 2419 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF female politicians not interested in VP's post
Zanu-PF's Women's League national political commissar, Maybe Mbowa says senior female politicians in the ruling party are not interested in being appointed to the powerful post of the country's vice p...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 08:08hrs | 3272 | by Staff reporter
BCC workers demand bribe to fix burst sewer pipe
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) employees have been implicated in a scandal where they allegedly demanded US$35 bribe from the Anglican Church in Luveve to repair a burst sewer line.The issue emer...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 07:20hrs | 552 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's underlying conditions exposes him to Covid-19
AT least three security details assigned to Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga tested Covid-19 positive ahead of his trip to Beijing, China, while another was later struck by the virus in the far-flu...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 08:39hrs | 8563 | by Staff reporter
Impala Car Rental faces collapse
STILL reeling from the Tawanda Muchehiwa abduction scandal by state security agents with its connivance, subsequent desertion by spooked clients, the death of its chief executive Thompson Dondo in Jan...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 08:38hrs | 4495 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa 'lacks will to fire Zweli Mkhize'
President Cyril Ramaphosa lacks the will to take action against the embattled Health Minister Zweli Mkhize because he needs the ANC NEC top member's support to be re-elected for the second term at the...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 18:21hrs | 1647 | by Staff reporter
Recovering drug addict Naomi Campbell lampooned over Jacob Zuma open letter
British supermodel, actress and businesswoman Naomi Campbell has received a blasting from die-hard Jacob Zuma supporters for her open letter criticising the former president for his defiance of the co...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 16:30hrs | 1877 | by Staff reporter
How committed is Mnangagwa to eradication of corruption?
PreSIdenT emmerson dambudzo Mnangagwa addressed the nation on the auspicious occasion of the fifth edition of the African Anti-Corruption day on July 12, 2021.I listened to the president with ...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 06:56hrs | 927 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Mohadi still enjoying lavish taxpayer-funded privileges
DESPITE resigning in March as state vice-president amid a string of sensational sex scandals, Kembo Mohadi - who remains Zanu-PF co-deputy leader with Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga - is still en...Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 17:54hrs | 2045 | by Staff reporter
Most surprising Olympic moments in Tokyo
The Tokyo Olympics are in full swing and they've been more exciting than ever before. There is a good chance that you've been watching the games. If so, you've likely been thrilled, disappointed, and ...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 21:28hrs | 396 | by Staff writer
Shona Ferguson dies from Covid-19 related complications
South African actor, producer and co-founder of Ferguson Films, Shona Ferguson, has died. He was 47.Conrad Mwanza, a representative from the Ferguson Foundation confirmed the news to News24 on...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 16:40hrs | 3415 | by Staff Reporter
Jacob Zuma leaves jail to attend brother's funeral
South Africa's jailed ex-president Jacob Zuma was granted compassionate leave from prison on Thursday so he can attend his brother's funeral, the government said.Zuma, 79, was sentenced to 15 ...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 08:43hrs | 2583 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in army boss appointment clash with Chiwenga
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga are on a new collision course over the appointment of the next Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) commander, with retired Lieutenant-Gene...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 11:17hrs | 10107 | by Staff reporter
Zimra executives in US$585m tax evasion corruption scam
CORRUPTION skeletons involving a series of multi-billion-dollar tax evasion scandals are tumbling out of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) cupboard amid a new corruption scam involving Chinese di...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 11:17hrs | 3122 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe says administrators rescued the insolvent airline
AIR Zimbabwe administrators Grant Thornton, whose term of office came to an end last week when government appointed a six-member board, saved the airline from litigious creditors and set the troubled ...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 15:26hrs | 785 | by Staff reporter
US$3,5m vehicle scandal rocks govt
INDUSTRY and Commerce ministry officials are allegedly corruptly issuing import licences for second-hand vehicles while import licence books valued at US$3,5 million have vanished over the past two mo...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:24hrs | 1758 | by Staff reporter
Who owns South Africa?
FORMER South African President Jacob Zuma did not bring the Guptas to South Africa. His folly was allowing the Guptas to be bigger than the Oppenheimers.Atul settled in Johannesburg and sold s...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:12hrs | 1776 | by New York Times
It's good introducing anti-corruption curricular at ECD, why don't we start by uprooting graft right from top echelons of power?
Have you ever come across an unrepentant serial rapist, and wife beater, who is in the strange habit of loudly proclaiming to be an ardent gender rights, and anti-sexual abuse, activist - whilst, also...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 20:18hrs | 488 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Exams cheating scandal rocks Zimbabwe army
AN examination cheating scandal has rocked the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) after more than 100 soldiers - including one with links to the Commander-in-Chief President Emmerson Mnangagwa - breached ru...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 20:42hrs | 1931 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa-Tagwirei links getting clearer
THE other day I was talking to a respected colleague who said something that got me thinking hard and long.The colleague — who, sure, has access to President Emmerson Mnangagwa now and then ...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:49hrs | 2277 | by Tawanda Majoni
Govt dithers over radar acquisition
THE scandal-riddled process to acquire a modern air traffic control system, commonly known as the radar, has taken yet another twist after it emerged this week the Office of the President and Cabinet ...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 12:05hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
Corruption in the Zimbabwe Republic Police a smoke without fire
In Zimbabwe, it is very rare for politicians holding ministerial positions or senior officers to resign on their own without a hint of scandal. So it has ...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 19:51hrs | 2854 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Harare lawyer deregistered over US$100 000 scandal
A HARARE lawyer, Lawman Chimuriwo has been deregistered after he was found guilty of misappropriating trust funds amounting to over US$100 000.Chimuriwo was found guilty of unethical conduct b...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 16:26hrs | 1882 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe resuscitation scandal explodes
EFFORTS to resuscitate the troubled national flag carrier, Air Zimbabwe (AirZim), are effectively dead in the water after the exposition by the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) of a systemati...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 10:55hrs | 1670 | by Staff reporter
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