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Mugabe's son in-law lists 21 farms in divorce case
The legal proceedings over the divorce of Bona Nyepudzai Ouma Mugabe, daughter of former President Robert Mugabe, and Simbarashe Mutsahuni Chikore are likely to involve complex disputes over how asset...Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:14hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mugabes in farm equipment scam
LATE president Robert Mugabe's family has been rocked by a fresh scandal after allegedly selling an assortment of farm equipment belonging to government departments and pocketing the money, it has eme...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:32hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe's son granted bail
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe's son, Russell Goreraza, has been granted bail today at Concession Magistrates Courts on charges of stealing gold processing equipment at Tian Bao Mineral Industry in Ma...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 11:50hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Grace Mugabe's son detained for theft
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe's son, Russell Goreraza, was yesterday remanded in custody at the Concession Magistrates Courts on charges of stealing gold processing equipment at Tian Bao Mineral Indu...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Wife basher escapes jail
A CHIPINGE man, who assaulted his wife with a burning log, yesterday heaved a sigh of relief after she withdrew charges against him.Reuben Mhlanga (46) assaulted his wife, Vimbai Mubonisi for ...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man assaults wife with burning log
A CHIPINGE woman is battling for her life after she sustained serious burns after being assaulted by her husband with a burning log.She was assaulted after delaying giving him a cellphone torc...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's business dragged to court
Former President Robert Mugabe's family business, Gushungo Holdings (Pvt) Ltd, has been dragged to court by two Mazowe miners, who are seeking an order to reinstate their dismissed land dispute with t...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe wins defamation case
MAZOWE small-scale gold miners Shephard Nyazvigo and Phillip Makanya have lost a court case in which they were demanding $100 000 compensation from former First Lady Grace Mugabe, claiming she alleged...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 10:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe stews in legal bills
FOR over 37 years, former president Robert Mugabe had remained untouchable as many citizens suffered in silence at the hands of the autocratic leader. But when his rule came to a dramatic end nearly t...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 13:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe daughter in gold mine wrangle
FORMER President Robert Mugabe's daughter Bona Chikore is battling Chinese investor TianBao Minerals Industries over ownership of a Mazowe-based gold claim.Bona, who owns Confidence Mining (Pv...Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 05:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man attempts to rape 5-year-old
A Mazowe man who allegedly attempted to rape a five-year-old girl was bashed by angry villagers after he was caught in the bush with the minor.Siza Tinomuda (28) of Smithfield farm in Mazowe w...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Grace Mugabe challenges defamation lawsuit
Former First Lady Grace Mugabe has entered an appearance to defend the $100 000 defamation lawsuit filed against her early this month by four small-scale gold miners whom she has clashed with over own...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 20:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe fights on
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe has formed a trust company, Trustees of the Grace Mugabe Foundation, as she scales up her fight to take over gold claims at Smithfield Farm in Mazowe.On Friday, ...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 07:15hrs | | by Staffr eporter
Mugabe takes law into his own hands
FORMER President Robert Mugabe has allegedly taken the law into his own hands and unleashed Gushungo Holdings employees and security personnel to violently eject small-scale gold miners at the dispute...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's war with small-scale miners rages on
TWO Mazowe small-scale gold miners have once again taken former President Robert Mugabe's family business, Gushungo Holdings (Pvt) Ltd, to court seeking to be declared the rightful owners of blocks of...Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 07:35hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Reprieve for Mugabe family
The former First Family got a reprieve this week when a mining syndicate that took them to court seeking an order to collect its mining equipment and gold ore from the family's Smithfield Farm in Mazo...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe gets farm reprieve
Deposed president Robert Mugabe's family has heaved a sigh of relief after small scale miners that had dragged them to the High Court demanding access to their Mazowe farm - to collect mining equipmen...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 12:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe farm: Chaos reigns in 'Grace lands'
A few metres from former first lady Grace Mugabe's sprawling soya bean crop in Mazowe, about 40km north of Harare, a group of men are opening up mother earth using pickaxes, hoes and shovels scouting ...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe battle for the control of Smithfield Farm
Grace Mugabe, previously enormously powerful until her husband Robert resigned under pressure from the military last November, called on the police to evict hordes of informal gold miners from Smithfi...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:17hrs | | by IOL
Mugabe loses more computers to thieves
FORMER President Robert Mugabe reportedly lost 119 laptops and seven desktop computers from locked containers at the Polo Grounds adjacent to Zimbabwe House.It is understood the theft was disc...Published: 07 Apr 2018 at 09:34hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Grace Mugabe sued for $100,000 over defamation
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe, who is embroiled in a land dispute with small-scale gold miners in Mazowe, has been taken to court by the miners who are demanding $100 000 for defamation of character ...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe refuses to vacate State House
Sulking former president Robert Mugabe and his unsettled wife Grace are refusing to remove their property, including furniture and other valuables, from State House - meaning that his successor Emmers...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gold miners sue Grace Mugabe for $100,000
FORMER First Lady Mrs Grace Mugabe has been slapped with a $100 000 lawsuit for allegedly labelling two gold miners in Mazowe as illegal miners and thieves.Mr Shepherd Nyazvigo and Mr Phillip ...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe accused of invading mine
Former First Lady Mrs Grace Mugabe invaded a mining claim owned by Mr Shepherd Nyazvigo and his partners at Smithfield Farm in Mazowe four years ago and threatened them not to take the issue to the me...Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fighting fire with fire makes a bigger fire
Last week, illegal artisanal miners invaded Grace Mugabe's Smithfield Farm in Mazowe in what appeared to be a politically-motivated occupation.Grace is thought to be the real force behind her ...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 16:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Makorokoza hits back at Grace Mugabe
Former first lady Grace Mugabe may have made millions of dollars through gold mining at 16 gold claims she seized at Smithfield Farm in Mazowe, it has been alleged.The claim was made at ...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 12:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe farm miners threaten to sue Grace Mugabe
THE three artisanal gold miners at Smithfield Farm in Mazowe, which is at the centre of an ownership wrangle betwen themselves and the former First Lady Grace Mugabe , have threatened to sue her for l...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 10:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Reminder to Grace Mugabe on Mazowe farm invasion
This article was first published on Eddie Cross official website I HAVE just heard the news on BBC that you are a victim of a farm invasion. I am devas...Published: 02 Apr 2018 at 07:13hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Mugabe's gold farm wrangle urgent, court
HIGH Court judge, Justice Davison Foroma has ordered that the impasse between former President Robert Mugabe's family business, Gushungo Holdings (Pvt) Ltd, and three smallscale gold miners over contr...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 10:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe fights farm eviction
Former president Robert Mugabe, who was kicked-out of a mineral rich farm in Mazowe early this year, is not letting go and is fighting to regain the farm after the High Court granted him an order for ...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe fights for mineral-rich farm
Former president Robert Mugabe has filed an urgent chamber application in the High Court in a bid to reclaim Smithfield Farm situated in Mazowe. Mugabe claims ownership of the sprawling farmla...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe fights to retain Mazowe farm
FORMER President Robert Mugabe's family business, Gushungo Holdings (Pvt) Ltd, which was in January this year provisionally ordered off Smithfield Farm in Mazowe, to pave way for three small-scale gol...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe refuses to leave Mazowe farm
FORMER President Robert Mugabe's family business, Gushungo Holdings, which was last month, through its security officer Mkhululi Nyoni, ordered off Smithfield Farm in Mazowe, has vowed to stay put arg...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe ordered off farm
FORMER President Robert Mugabe's security aides based at Gushungo Holdings (Pvt) Ltd and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Support Unit have been ordered to vacate Smithfield Farm in Mazowe, which th...Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
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