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Will Zanu-PF reform under sanctions?
The US targeted sanctions on Zimbabwe are working in the sense that their effects have now reached a boiling point unlike the earlier days during the time they were imposed on the country the signs an...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 13:42hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Redwing: a tale of plunder, impunity, chaos and death
Redwing Gold Mine, once touted as a giant gold mining venture capable of transforming the quality of life in the Penhalonga area of Manicaland province and a cash cow for the national economy, has bec...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 12:12hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
PEOM: When one you thought was your kin and kith adds salt
Would we be talking of this drama if there was real devolution? Call it devolution, call it decentralization, it's a deadly drought In Zim because of centralization and control freaks in...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 09:09hrs | 2 | by Ndaba Sibanda
Cell-phones, fuel coupons, US$ cash and trinkets gifted on eve of key Zanu-PF polls
INTENSE political gamesmanship has characterised Zanu-PF Central Committee (CC) elections set for this weekend amid reports of massive vote buying involving top party officials vying for seats in the ...Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 06:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa visited Mutami at school?
A FORMER boyfriend of Susan Mutami and her school friends at Loreto High School in Silobela, Midlands, have validated claims that a man believed to be President Emmerson Mnangagwa she now accuses of r...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 08:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Even birds and trees indule in sex' - says Mutsvangwa as he wades into Mnangagwa-Mutami rape saga
Zanu-PF national spokesperson, Chris Mutsvangwa has sprang to the defence of top Zanu-PF officials accused of child sex abuse, rape and infidelity, saying the alleged sleaze was a ploy by the oppositi...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:48hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo linked to inflated Belarus fire tenders scandal
LOCAL government minister July Moyo was this Monday the subject of another corruption allegation storm over the procurement of fire-fighting vehicles from Belarus.Moyo is reportedly under inve...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:46hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa urges Mnangagwa to suspend July Moyo
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa has written to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) urging the immediate suspension of local government minister July Moyo to ...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:47hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa presides over corrupt government
REVELATIONS by Auditor-General Mildred Chiri that Treasury made foreign direct payments on behalf of 16 government ministries amounting to more than US$300 million without the required parliamentary a...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 19:30hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Hodzi suffers double stroke, mental health collapse
FORMER Prosecutor General (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi was hounded by the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) and senior officials from the Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs following the submissi...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:47hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Kuvimba musn't disappoint on ZiscoSteel
WHILE we applaud government efforts to revive the moribund ZiscoSteel, we are a bit pessimistic on its choice of Kuvimba Mining House, where the State has majority shareholding, as the leading investo...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's finest hour
THE 1990s were an interesting period in world politics. This was the period when the United States got its youngest President William Clinton at 43 and the United Kingdom (UK) also elected Tony Blair ...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:35hrs | | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
A political accident waiting to happen
Communities are glued and bound together by more than blood.They share a common past, history, heritage, values, norms and aspirations.The commonality bred by sharing similar languages...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 07:58hrs | 6 | by Bishop Laz
Cops join gold mine looting spree
THE GOVERNMENT is facing fresh headaches over the invasion of Jumbo Mine after police officers deployed to seal it off have started to fraternise with trespassers and have joined the gold looting spre...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 08:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Explosive dossier exposes Chiadzwa gems tax sleaze
A whistleblower has submitted an explosive dossier to the Zimbabwe revenue Authority (Zimra) providing insight into how diamond mining firms in the Chiadzwa diamond fields in Manicaland, evaded tax ob...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:17hrs | | 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 | 1 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
'Some South African judges still have apartheid mentality'
SOUTH AFRICA'S ex-president Jacob Zuma has lashed out at the judges who this week gave him a 15-month jail term for absconding from a corruption inquiry, comparing them to the white minority apartheid...Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 11:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cabinet meetings by Ndaba Sibanda: A review by Banqobile Virginia Dakamela
The book kicks off with a scene featuring a technology-crazy old man who is drinking with a girl young enough to be his granddaughter. The old man's table manners do not endear him to the girl either....Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 12:13hrs | 4 | by Banqobile Virginia Dakamela
Civics must drive the VP's office
In our new kind of normal, where restraint, moral integrity and sound values have been replaced by lumpen orgy, profanity and clown foolery, I meet the question: So what do you think of the latest VP ...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 08:15hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
Mohadi: Tale of a brave man knocked down by ruinous sex
LIKE many of his contemporaries, Kembo Dugishi Campbell Mohadi - who hails from Mtetengwe area 40 kilometres west of Beitbridge border town along the Bulawayo highway - belongs to a generation which w...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Geoff Nyarota revisits Willowgate scandal
I WAS at the time two months short of 38 years of age and a little-known editor of The Chronicle, the Bulawayo-based daily newspaper.In a building in our neighbourhood in central Bulawayo was ...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:49hrs | | by Geoff Nyarota
Obadiah Moyo's PA denied bail
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is also now going after the assets of deceased criminals whose source of wealth cannot be explained.This comes as the anti-graft body is intensif...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 19:14hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zacc is going after the dead
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission is also now going after the assets of the deceased criminals whose source of wealth cannot be explained. This comes as the anti-graft body is intensifyi...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
When a Nguni Kingship chases his own agenda to undo other Ndebele Kings
We have been saying it for a long time that the Nguni Kings are chasing their own agenda but will want to ride at the backs of the Ndebele populations so that they get recognition by Zanu Government. ...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 17:11hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa must be intolerant to corruption
WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa has, on several occasions, indicated that his "Second Republic" government will not tolerate corruption, Zimbabweans have been confronted by a different reality....Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth League to look into Chiri's reports
THE Zanu-PF Youth League which has been breathing fire and brimstone over corruption in government and the private sector said it will be looking into Auditor-General (AG) Mildred Chiri's reports whic...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 11:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Manager suspended over sex sleaze
A CHINHOYI-BASED Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution (ZETDC) senior human resources manager, Christopher Mundembe has been suspended from duty pending internal disciplinary hearing over...Published: 10 May 2019 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
A potent enemy always lives within
Hallelujah. . . But wait . . . why was he killed in the first place?You see, over time, societies evolve into hierarchical and stratified communities that pit the powerful against the powerles...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:50hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Mnangagwa's anti-corruption campaign insincere
THE failure by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to tackle high-level corruption-which has contributed immensely to economic decay-has raised serious questions about his sincerity to fight the...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 13:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
National Aids Council splurges fortune on executives' cars
The National Aids Council (Nac) sold cars to its executives for $1 each in October last year, and is now paying the executives $2 000 per month each, for using the same vehicles, since Nac has not yet...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 22:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sexual allegations rock Zimbabwe's National Aids Council
Government has launched an investigation into the operations of the National Aids Council (NAC) over allegations of sexual harassment, corporate sleaze and maladministration.The probe coincide...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 08:43hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Mnangagwa fumes over R5 million bribe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, blew his gasket on Wednesday and put his ministers on notice, after he received damaging reports that some of them were demanding bribes from investors to facilitate meet...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 14:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-graft fight unconvincing
FOR splurging £16 million (US$21 million) on pricey jewellery and vintage wines over a decade, a British woman became the first target of a law seeking to dissuade criminals from enjoying their ill-g...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 12:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joram Gumbo systematically obstructed Zinara investigations
UNDER-FIRE Energy and Power Development minister Joram Gumbo systematically obstructed investigations into the alleged looting of funds at the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) to protec...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 16:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joram Gumbo Zimbabwe's poster boy of sleaze
As ZANU-PF's long-serving chief whip, Joram Gumbo came across as a tidy, backroom operator, quietly but efficiently pulling the strings for his party in Parliament. But his scrapbook in government sin...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 08:45hrs | | by newZWire
Zimbabwe: Beware the long queues doth come
Our rations of overnight snacks packed, our cold-water bottles stashed away, perchance some juice or can of Miranda, warm clothing and a blanket each, here Bible, there a novel in hand and DJ Mjoks on...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 09:52hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
Mnangagwa silences critics with new Cabinet
A developmental Cabinet I would call it. Brilliant balance between old and trusted hands, technocrats and youthfulness. A well thought out Cabinet that balances the competing demands of the economy an...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 19:23hrs | 7 | by Lloyd Msipa
Zimra justifies board fees
THE 9 percent jump in fees and allowances for Zimbabwe Revenue Authority board members for the year to December 31 last year, has been attributed to the high number of meetings held to tackle pressing...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimra boss exposes govt rot
The newly-appointed commissioner-general of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has blew the whistle on civil servants from the other arms of government who are working in cahoots to deprive the fi...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 14:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu manifesto a botched attempt at party renewal
Under "normal" circumstances, one would have expected the programme line-up for Zanu-PF's manifesto launch to feature a cameo appearance by its long-serving former first secretary, Robert Mugabe....Published: 12 May 2018 at 13:42hrs | 1 | by Enocent Nemuramba
Deceit, greed devour Zimbabwe diamonds
The testimonies from bigwigs and stakeholders involved in exploiting diamonds in Chiadzwa given before Parliament last week painted a picture of intrigue and corporate sleaze that could have potential...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 08:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Haters not convinced by Obert Mpofu's defence
ANALYSTS yesterday ratcheted up pressure on Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu, saying he should give a detailed account of how he a...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 13:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Elections: A case for postponement
Zimbabwe is due to go for national elections this year 2018. The elections come fast in the heels of a power transfer within Zanu PF, with Emmerson Mnangagwa replacing Robert Mugabe as president of Zi...Published: 13 Jan 2018 at 15:13hrs | | by Lloyd Msipa
Ailing Tsvangirai to step down?
Colon cancer-stricken opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has given his strongest hint to date that he will soon step down as party leader and give a youthful politician the crucial task of leading th...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 14:03hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Tsvangirai's New Year Message
Monday, 08 January 2018 Fellow Zimbabweans, our schools are opening tomorrow and our industry or what is left of it is due to open starting end of this ...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 13:37hrs | 1 | by Morgan Tsvangirai
Govt tightens screws on anti-graft bodies
ANTI-corruption institutions will now be required to publish reports detailing the number of people arrested in order to combat rising cases of sleaze that have drained the national fiscus.Fin...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
The nation is watching!
The sensational expose Zimbabwe Journalists in their News Bulletin particularly about President Mugabe's Party sacking of the Deputy President Emmason Mnangagwa is a blistering indictment of our Democ...Published: 13 Nov 2017 at 18:31hrs | | by Prof Hon Richard M Simango
Chihuri must be charged with crimes against humanity at the ICC
Heaven knows whether Biggie Shanje believed in God and Zanu-PF, like Commissioner Augustine Chihuri does: apparently. Still, Shanje certainly believed in himself, and relished the financial earnings h...Published: 06 Oct 2017 at 09:15hrs | 1 | by Tafi Mhaka
With Zanu-PF Almighty in power: does God still remember Zimbabwe exists?
I prayed for my mother all night long after she had been involved in an accident but I never saw her alive ever again. She was on the way back from a funeral in Watsomba when the bus she had boarded v...Published: 05 Sep 2017 at 07:33hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
Prove them wrong: Fadzayi Mahere
In a nation baffled by the laughable actions of the former Teflon Don of Manicaland, Didymus Mutasa, who believes Zimbabwe owes him a few luxury vehicles, a multimillion dollar mansion, a blank cheque...Published: 19 Jul 2017 at 11:28hrs | 1 | by Tafi Mhaka
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