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Econet expands Kancane Kancane smartphone credit scheme

Econet Wireless Zimbabwe has expanded its popular Kancane Kancane smartphone credit scheme by extending the repayment period from just three months to up to 24 months, with no initial deposit required, in a move aimed at making smartphones…

Published: 17 Jul 2025 at 20:31hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter

Former soldier loses pension in fraud scheme by ex-colleague

A former Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) member, Forward Mapfunde of Warren Park D in Harare, is counting significant losses after his pension funds were fraudulently stolen by a former colleague who retired alongside him last year.Mapfunde h…

Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:48hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa scheme hit by scandal

A dispute involving one of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's advisors has escalated to the High Court after a Harare resident discovered his residential stand had been turned into a site for a presidential borehole scheme without his permissi…

Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 12:10hrs | 2514 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe to revitalise Community Share Ownership Trusts

The Zimbabwean Government has moved to revitalise Community Share Ownership Trusts (CSOTs), a flagship programme under the country's economic empowerment policy, following Cabinet's approval of new operational measures aimed at making the …

Published: 04 Jun 2025 at 13:29hrs | 123 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe launches Presidential Emergency Medical Scheme

The Government of Zimbabwe has launched the Presidential Emergency Medical Scheme in Mutasa District, Manicaland Province, in a major effort to improve healthcare delivery in rural communities. The official launch took place on May 17, 202…

Published: 17 May 2025 at 18:01hrs | 715 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe accelerates plans for National Health Insurance Scheme

Zimbabwe's push for a National Health Insurance (NHI) system has reached a decisive phase, with government officials and health experts reaffirming the need to implement the scheme this year. Despite past setbacks, stakeholders remain hope…

Published: 23 Mar 2025 at 08:10hrs | 480 | by Staff reporter

Truckload of Presidential Inputs vanishes in Tsholotsho

A truck carrying Presidential Input Scheme supplies intended for Ward Seven in Tsholotsho district, Matabeleland North, has gone missing, sparking suspicions of a diversion scam.An extension officer from the Agriculture and Rural Developme…

Published: 14 Jan 2025 at 14:07hrs | 319 | by Staff reporter

Parents feel financial strain as back-to-school costs soar

With the new school term set to begin next Tuesday, parents and guardians are grappling with rising costs for uniforms and stationery, turning the annual back-to-school preparations into a financial challenge.Harare's Central Business Dist…

Published: 11 Jan 2025 at 08:23hrs | 50 | by Staff reporter

RBZ unveils another 'looting scheme'

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has introduced the Targeted Finance Facility (TFF) with an aim to provide affordable credit to key productive sectors such as agriculture, manufacturing, and mining. The initiative, unveiled alongside its…

Published: 11 Jan 2025 at 08:20hrs | 1187 | by Staff reporter

'Zimbabweans should not over-rely on NSSA pension scheme'

Shepherd Muperi, Director of Social Security at the National Social Security Authority (NSSA), emphasized that individuals should not rely solely on the social security scheme for their retirement needs, as it only constitutes a small port…

Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 07:53hrs | 649 | by Staff reporter

Community share ownership trust CEO faces arrest

TRADITIONAL leaders, villagers and other stakeholders have called for the arrest Chiadzwa Community Share Ownership Trust (CCSOT) Chief executive officer Hardwork Mukwada over charges of abuse of funds belonging to the trust.They made the …

Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 13:42hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter

Government takes over third-party motor vehicle insurance

THE Government is finalising new regulations to set up a State-controlled third-party motor vehicle insurance scheme that will assume the responsibility of underwriting compulsory vehicle liability insurance, currently handled by private i…

Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 08:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's Presidential solar scheme on cards

GLEN VIEW residents will be the first beneficiaries of a Presidential solar scheme set to be rolled next month as Zimbabwe moves to alleviate a power crisis.The project is being spearheaded by a private power company, Prevail Group Interna…

Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 05:09hrs | 47 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa inputs abusers sentenced

Two men have been sentenced to five years imprisonment with hard labour after stealing Presidential inputs, which included 364 bags of Compound D fertiliser, from the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) Charandura depot.Mvuma magistrate Ms Constan…

Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 04:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Police officer forms bogus transport association

A police officer based in Harare has been brought to court on charges of establishing a fake commuter omnibus association that facilitated the operation of commuter omnibuses without the necessary documents and requirements.Shepherd Jarich…

Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 05:38hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Car dealer conned US$80k in another Ponzi scheme

A BORROWDALE-BASED car dealer reportedly lost US$80 000 to a con-artist operating a Ponzi scheme disguised as Homelife Furniture and Electrical Appliances Company.Emmanuel Chikweza, who is being charged together with his company, appeared …

Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 06:42hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Parliament petitioned to change car scheme

When political parties recall and replace parliamentarians, the old and new legislators should not both be able to benefit from the Parliamentary vehicle loan scheme, Progressive and Patriotic Citizens of Zimbabwe has petitioned Parliament…

Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 06:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

'US debt is a pyramid scheme used to defraud other nations'

Senior Russian lawmaker Vyacheslav Volodin has branded US federal government debt a global pyramid scheme that is heading for an inevitable collapse. The comments come as Washington struggles to agree on raising its debt ceiling to avoid a…

Published: 26 May 2023 at 16:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe strikes gold in US

President Mnangagwa returned home triumphantly from the United States (US) yesterday where he received the backing of dozens of African countries for the unconditional removal of illegal sanctions imposed by Washington and other Western na…

Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 05:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa goat scheme ready to take off

THE first 30 000 goats under the Presidential Goat Scheme, which seeks to boost breeding stock and increase numbers and quality, will be distributed to provinces over the next two months.The programme, which was launched in Chipinge earlie…

Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 05:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa launches rural poultry scheme

THE Presidential Rural Poultry Scheme which is expected to provide 30 million chicks to at least three million people across the country's rural areas was launched in Masvingo on Thursday in line with the Government's efforts of improving …

Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 08:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

SA's Zimbabwe exemption permit scheme is a money racket and a â€˜fraud'

The Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) scheme is the "largest case of fraud and theft ever committed by the government of one country over nationals of its neighbouring country in African history", according to court papers filed by the Zimba…

Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 07:02hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Govt warns politicians over community radio stations

Politicians must not meddle with community radio stations in their localities as the law prohibits such, the government's spokesperson, Nick Mangwana warned.His sentiments come as some politicians would want to ride on the community statio…

Published: 31 May 2022 at 12:38hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

MSU's skewed retrenchment scheme backfires

Midlands State University (MSU) faces a massive staff exodus after implementing a skewed and controversial employee voluntary retrenchment scheme, which was unexpectedly oversubscribed leaving the institution in a state of quandary, invest…

Published: 31 May 2022 at 12:38hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Econet partners Harare, Capitol for insurance scheme

Econet Insurance, a subsidiary of EcoCash Holdings Zimbabwe, has partnered with Capitol Insurance Brokers and City of Harare to launch CitySure, a one-stop-platform that allows residents to buy insurance cover and also pay their monthly co…

Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 08:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa launches borehole drilling scheme

THERE was joy and jubilation in St Mary's, Chitungwiza yesterday as President Mnangagwa launched the Presidential Borehole Scheme meant to provide clean water to the people in line with Vision 2030.The move is also in line with President M…

Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 05:16hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabweans lose US$5m in Ponzi scheme

ZIMBABWEANS who invested more than US$5 million in a pyramid scheme in a bid to get rich quickly have been left counting their losses after the owner of the scheme failed to give them back their investments, claiming his bitcoin account ha…

Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter

Gwanda identifies 5 new irrigation scheme sites

FIVE new irrigation schemes are set to be established in Gwanda district in Matabeleland South province as part of measures to enhance food production. Matabeleland South is under natural regions four and five and as such receives little r…

Published: 06 May 2021 at 05:28hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Government to repossess underutilised irrigation schemes

GOVERNMENT has come up with a Statutory Instrument that will see it repossessing underutilised land at irrigation schemes. The SI, which is expected to be gazetted soon, will result in members of irrigation schemes who fail to revive and t…

Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 07:14hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Mohadi to launch Presidential Teak Grease Programme in Gwanda

A TOTAL of one million households are set to benefit under the Presidential Tick Grease Programme aimed at capacitating 4 000 dip tanks across the country.Under the same programme, the Government would also give 40 bulls to traditional lea…

Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 21:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Ponzi scheme operator on the run

POLICE have launched a manhunt for a ponzi scheme fraudster, Bervern Dzinoenda who is said to have posed as an investor and made super profits, then later disappeared with his clients' deposits.National police spokesperson senior Assistant…

Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

ZCTU's money-spinning scheme exposed

The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU)s' continuous calls for protests in the country have been exposed as a way of trying to position the body for the UNI Global Union's Breaking Through Award, which comes with a US$200 000 prize mo…

Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 08:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Investigate the Pay-for-your-house Scheme of the 90s

Why is everyone quiet? Why the deafening silence? The Pay-for-your-house Scheme of the 90s was never transparent, contributors lost large amounts of money towards a government initiated housing scheme that ended chaotically with great prej…

Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 20:38hrs | 5 | by Thomas Murisa

Address the Pay-For-Your-House Scheme

Zimbabwe government to construct high rise flats - this is music to the ears of many who are still finding it hard to get a roof over their heads. We hope and wish such rhetoric turns into visible reality. However, first things first, how …

Published: 15 May 2019 at 08:18hrs | 7 | by Tondorindo

Government implements vehicle loan scheme

GOVERNMENT has started implementing a vehicle loan scheme for senior officials replacing personal issue vehicles as part of an expenditure management strategy meant to curtail wasteful spending. The loan will be extended to principal direc…

Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 07:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Matibiri in trouble over $190 000

Police Deputy Commissioner-General, Innocent Matibiri, has been taken to court by Tian Ze Tobacco Company over a $190 000 farm inputs debt.Through its lawyers Muvingi and Mugadza, the tobacco firm issued summons against the top cop at the …

Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Latest pyramid scheme to hit Bulawayo

On Saturday morning, a horde of well-dressed young men and women turned their backs on the glass doors of a three-star city hotel in disappointment.The man who they had dressed up for had not turned up. The man's disciples, dressed to the …

Published: 25 Jul 2017 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

2 000 Zimbabwe civil servants duped in Ponzi scheme

A Ponzi scheme has duped over 2 000 investors, mainly civil servants, of more than    $100 000, the Daily News can reveal.Lucky Butau, Nobuhle Butau, Angela Butau, Dumisani Butau and Jesca Maginya based in Gweru  are ac…

Published: 14 Jul 2017 at 14:41hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Mphoko commissions Tsholotsho new settlement scheme

Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko says the work of relocating Tsholotsho flood victims requires cooperation from all government ministries and development partners so that the process is completed before the beginning of the next rainy sea…

Published: 03 Jul 2017 at 19:06hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's $500 millions scheme raises eyebrows

Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa's much trumpeted $500 million command agriculture scheme is a monumental failure and could leave the government saddled with debts running into millions, data made available to this paper has revealed.The …

Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 07:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Civil servants reject the National Health Insurance Scheme

CIVIL servants yesterday rejected the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) saying the prevailing economic conditions are not conducive for such a scheme as the Government is struggling to meet its current obligations to its employees.Ci…

Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter

American pyramid scheme makes inroads into Zimbabwe

AMERICAN empowerment-based membership programme iRaisers International has entered the Zimbabwean market, the latest pyramid scheme in a slew of money-making initiatives that are finding more and more takers.The entry of these schemes is o…

Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 08:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Home seekers urged to join Umvutsha Housing Scheme

REGISTRATION for the Umvutsha Housing Scheme is progressing well in Bulawayo with home seekers urged to take advantage of the Government-driven initiative to secure affordable accommodation.The Urban Development Corporation (UDCorp) is spe…

Published: 25 Jul 2016 at 07:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

ZB, PG launches 'Build Now, Pay Later Plan'

ZIMBABWE Stock Exchange-listed concern, PG Industries Zimbabwe (PGIZ) has entered into a strategic partnership with ZB Building Society to offer a credit facility for building materials.Under the "Build Now, Pay Later Plan", customers appl…

Published: 27 Oct 2013 at 07:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

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Hichilema to make State Visit to Zimbabwe

Air Zim, NHS scoop tourism awards

Maimane calls on SA to hold Zanu-PF accountable

E.D. Mnangagwa road to close for sewer works

Armed forces and HIV infections

Vendor goes blind after stealing potatoes

Convict escapes prison, arrested in less than 12 hours

Pharmacist sues CID officers for malicious arrest

Manicaland councils in disarray

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Private parts rip-off attempt, condom wearing delay rescues rape victim

Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe: Speak out, get jailed

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RBZ's FIU goes after car dealerships

Mudenda blames opposition for sanctions

Zimbabwe's soccer nepotism falls to Mozambique

418 000 pupils to sit for grade 7 exams

Zanu-PF Bulawayo backs Mnangagwa beyond 2028

Spike in complaints over fake products

Erectile dysfunction man axes father to death

Warriors fans call for Nees' dismissal

Hichilema to make State visit to Zimbabwe

China man jailed for rhino horn dealings

Warriors fans call for Nees' dismissal

Man jailed for insulting Mnangagwa, Chiwenga and their mothers

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Zimbabwean academic joins Sacomm executive

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India dumps US Treasury bills

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South African men can now adopt wives' surnames

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Elvis Moyo stripped of EFC heavyweight title

Treasury cracks down on budget overruns

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