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Police call for attitude change
POLICE have raised concern over the reckless behaviour of some members of the public who continue to violate the Covid-19 lockdown regulations. As at yesterday, 133 407 people had been arreste...Published: 18 hrs ago | 691 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF government's conduct is smuggling 'outrage porn' into the public sphere.
As the Covidgate scandal remain unresolved, can it be fair to attack journalists and the media for spreading "panic porn" as is being peddled by Emerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF?Are we in the...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:58hrs | 579 | by Taruberekera Masara in Pretoria
Border jumping escalates at Beitbridge
THE number of desperate Zimbabweans using illegal entry points along the Limpopo River to access medical treatment and cheap basic commodities and drugs from South Africa has shot up, a Beitbridge leg...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 08:01hrs | 1984 | by Staff reporter
Panic as Covid-19 suspect dies
Villagers in Makakhavhule in Beitbridge's Ward 6 are in panic mode after a 51-year-old man who illegally returned from South Africa reportedly died of suspected Covid-19. The local Covid-19 Ta...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:54hrs | 1512 | by Staff reporter
Fuel smuggling ring busted
Multiple fuel smuggling scams are being run in Zimbabwe with cheap fuel being smuggled from Mozambique, sometimes mislabelled to avoid customs duty, and sold or re-exported for hard currency while fue...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:47hrs | 816 | by Staff reporter
Border jumper's death triggers panic
Villagers in Makakhavhule area in Ward 6 here are panicking after a 51-year man who illegally returned from South Africa died and they suspect he was infected with Covid-19. The local Covid-19...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:53hrs | 5406 | by Staff reporter
Man uses hearse to smuggle explosives
A 30-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean man has been arrested by South African police at Beitbridge Border Post while trying to smuggle explosives worth more than R700 000 into the neighbouring country in a hearse. ...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:28hrs | 814 | by Staff reporter
Concern raised over corpses smuggling
GOVERNMENT has expressed concern over reports that bodies of Zimbabweans who could have died from Covid-19 in neighbouring countries are being smuggled into the country, saying that could be a source ...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:33hrs | 590 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Curfew regulations clarified
THE gazetted legal statutory instrument amending lockdown regulations by setting the 6PM to 6AM curfew, now requires church gatherings, jogging, walking and cycling to take place not earlier than 8AM ...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:20hrs | 5028 | by Staff Reporter
BCC warns against smuggling of corpses
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has warned residents against smuggling groceries into the country following reports that omalayitsha (cross-border transporters) were either sneaking in corpses with basic ...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:07hrs | 891 | by Staff reporter
Over 1 000 arrested for violating Covid-19 curfew
MORE than 1 000 people were arrested on Wednesday countrywide for flouting Covid-19 national lockdown regulations while in Bulawayo, police arrested 170 people and impounded 90 vehicles for lockdown d...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 07:42hrs | 642 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Drama as Coronavirus victim is buried with smuggled bags belonging to driver's clients
There was drama at the burial of a Coronavirus victim after family members of the deceased buried the body with four bags containing goods that were smuggled and destined to the funeral service compan...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 20:40hrs | 8289 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Cross border drivers (oMalayitsha) smuggle Coronavirus infected dead bodies to Zimbabwe
Cross border transporters (oMalayitsha) are reportedly smuggling bodies of Zimbabweans who died of Coronavirus in neighbouring South Africa into the country thereby spreading the deadly Coronavirus. ...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 12:27hrs | 9121 | by Mandla Ndlovu
2 Zimbabweans arrested over R7 million cigarettes haul
POLICE in South Africa on Monday arrested two Zimbabweans who craftly cut out special compartments in a fuel tanker to smuggle locally-made cigarettes worth R7 million across the border where demand h...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:45hrs | 1712 | by Staff reporter
Night curfew, restricted business hours imposed
A night curfew from 6pm to 6am for all but essential services and a retreat to 8am to 3pm working hours for exempted businesses have been imposed from today, along with criminalisation of deliberate o...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:42hrs | 608 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa will not entertain churches, opposition until 2023
POLITICAL parties that are trying to resurrect their sinking fortunes through the church disguised negotiation forums should wait for the 2023 elections as President Mnangagwa is presently focused on ...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:21hrs | 4428 | by Staff reporter
Opposition party requests Mnangagwa to ban sale of alcohol and tobacco
Opposition party Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) has written to the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Senator Monica Mutsvangwa requesting that the President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 12:39hrs | 4785 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Drama as Nyaradzo and Harare hospital fight over Coronavirus corpse
Senior journalist Brezhnev Malaba has reported that there was drama in Harare when officials from Nyaradzo Funeral Services had an altercation with Sally Mugabe hospital workers over a suspected Coron...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 18:38hrs | 4627 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe loses US$1 billion to smuggling annually
Smuggling, ineffective border controls and customs loopholes at Beitbridge Border Post might be costing Zimbabwe nearly a US$1 billion a year in unpaid customs duty, industry leaders and authorities c...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 08:20hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Crossing crocodile-infested Limpopo for survival
A bakkie waits on the Zimbabwean side of the Limpopo River.A number of people sit waiting for their relatives to return from shopping forays into South Africa, especially in the border town of...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:45hrs | 13315 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans smuggling dead bodies from SA
Zimbabweans are reportedly smuggling the dead bodies of their relatives from South Africa to bury them back home.Veteran broadcaster Ezra Tshisa Sibanda said the revelations were disturbing th...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 10:31hrs | 9902 | by Stephen Jakes
2 Zimbabweans killed in Botswana
POLICE in Plumtree have raised concern over the ill-treatment of Zimbabweans in Botswana with two people having been killed in the neighbouring country recently. There have been complaints in ...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:06hrs | 1621 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi and his company acquitted
Businessman Genius Kadungure and his gas company Piko Trading have been found not guilty of smuggling gas into the country and failing to declare returns to the Commission of Taxes.Piko Tradin...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 15:27hrs | 1223 | by Staff reporter
Mozambique becomes a hub of extremist islamic terrorists
The' “European” Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs says it fears that the nighbouring Mozambique is becoming a hub of extremist Islamist terrorism.According to reports, the EU Commi...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 10:48hrs | 4458 | by Mandla Ndlovu
319 border jumpers arrested
Police have since May arrested 319 people countrywide for border jumping and smuggling. Police have equally nabbed 87 827 people countrywide since March 30 for violating lockdown measures aime...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:06hrs | 881 | by Staff reporter
Pupil writes exams from quarantine centre
A 16-YEAR-OLD pupil from a high school on the outskirts of Bulawayo is writing his Ordinary Level June examinations under quarantine in Bulawayo after returning from Botswana recently. The tee...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:09hrs | 726 | by Staff reporter
Cross-border traders get streetwise on lockdown travel restrictions
ZIMBABWE Cross-Border Traders Association (ZCBTA) is opening "people's shops" in Beitbridge to enable its members to buy goods imported from South Africa in view of travel restrictions imposed due to ...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:52hrs | 799 | by Staff reporter
Trio up for smuggling R900 200 goods
A TRUCK driver with a Chitungwiza logistic company, a businessman and clearing agent have appeared in court charged with smuggling property worth R900 223,02 through the Beitbridge Border Post, prejud...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:45hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter
A new oppostion front stronger than MDC threatens ZANU PF
Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba has revealed that the government is aware of a new opposition front led by market manipulators which seeks to overthrow the government. In an intervie...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 11:02hrs | 22667 | by Mandla Ndlovu
485 irregularly imported vehicles unearthed
A special post-vehicle clearance audit last year into vehicle imports, unearthed 485 irregular import documents with a potential revenue inflow prejudice to Treasury valued at US$70 million, the Zimba...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:12hrs | 1397 | by Staff reporter
R4 million cigarette smuggling racket busted
Smuggling of cigarettes from Zimbabwe into South Africa through illegal crossing points along the Limpopo River, always a problem because of the tax differences, increased dramatically from the beginn...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:12hrs | 583 | by Staff reporter
Toe to Toe with Zanu PF?
I am writing this article in response to Wilbert Mukori's article to Bulawayo24 entitled 'Baffling, MDC leaders endorsed ED's coup and now in bed with G40'. Yes I know that every responsible Zim...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 13:32hrs | 1871 | by Clement Moyo
Plot to destabilise Zimbabwe economy exposed?
AS Government intensifies efforts to close channels that are fuelling the black market and other illicit financial activities, it has emerged that some foreign nations and individuals have been trying...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:52hrs | 2111 | by Staff reporter
4 escape from quarantine centres
FOUR more people have escaped from quarantine centres around the country, bringing the total number of quarantine escapees to 187. One person is reported to have escaped from the NSSA Hotel qu...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:27hrs | 468 | by Staff reporter
6 more returnees test Covid-19 positive
SIX more people, all returnees from South Africa tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday, bringing Zimbabwe's cumulative total to 567 cases since the outbreak of the global pandemic in March. ...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:25hrs | 653 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe environmental law association conduct research on formalisation of artisanal miners
A local Non-Governmental Law Association, Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association i s seeking to carry out a research on formalization of the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector....Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 09:44hrs | 302 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimra investigates over 600 corruption cases
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) investigated 600 corruption cases during 2019, with $154 million being identified for recovery as the institution goes after properties acquired through fraudule...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 19:40hrs | 2130 | by Staff reporter
Border authorities intercept 21 smuggling commercial trucks
AUTHORITIES at Beitbridge Border Post have increased surveillance and anti-smuggling activities during the ongoing lockdown and 21 trucks and 22 other vehicles smuggling an assortment of goods worth m...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 18:09hrs | 1174 | by Staff reporter
ZBC SAGA: Auxilia Mnangagwa steps in
Ministry of Health and Child Care Ambassador Auxilia Mnangagwa has reportedly intervened in a cooperate disciplinary case by the state broadcaster ZBC TV which had saw Cameraman Stan Marodza being sus...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 12:43hrs | 12810 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimra nets $23,1bn revenue in 2019
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) says it managed to collect a net revenue of $23, 19 billion in 2019 against a planned $18, 6 billion target for the year. The tax authority is employing ...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:57hrs | 140 | by Staff reporter
US$1 million gold theft: Judge revokes bail
HIGH Court judge Justice Thompson Mabhikwa has revoked bail for eight suspects allegedly involved in the theft of nearly US$1 million worth of gold at Plumtree Police Station after being infuriated by...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:09hrs | 649 | by Staff reporter
CBZ dismisses gold buying license reports
CBZ Bank has dismissed as false reports that the financial institution has been awarded a gold-buying licence by the Government.Some sections of the media had claimed that CBZ was now buying g...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 19:31hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
Landela and CBZ get green-light to buy gold
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's adviser and Zanu-PF benefactor Kudakwashe Tagwirei could soon become Zimbabwe's biggest gold buyer after getting a special permit from Fidelity Printers and Refiners....Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 14:58hrs | 1013 | by Staff reporter
Smuggled chicks intercepted, destroyed
POLICE here have intercepted two men smuggling a consignment of 19 600 day-old chicks across the Limpopo River from South Africa into Zimbabwe. The pair was arrested on Tuesday evening near Pa...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 07:40hrs | 1338 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi smuggling trial date set
HARARE regional magistrate Mr Crispen Mberewere yesterday set June 13 as the possible trial date for businessman Genius Kadungure and his company Piko Trading on tax evasion and smuggling charges they...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 07:02hrs | 3013 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi's Gas Company guilty of tax evasion
Businessman Genius Kadungure's company Piko Trading today admitted to charges of tax evasion when he appeared at the Harare magistrates court.Piko Trading, which was being represented by Kadun...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 16:51hrs | 1517 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Chamisa wins court case against Khupe
High Court judge Justice Mafusire has barred the MDC faction led by Thokozani Khupe from replacing MDC Alliance Members of Parliament who were recalled by Douglas Mwonzora from parliament.Comm...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 10:47hrs | 15669 | by Mandla Ndlovu
New War vets organisation throws ZANU PF Mash Central into turmoil
ZANU PF Provincial Chairperson Kazembe Kazembe has attracted the wrath of War Veterans after being accused of smuggling Richard Chirongwe into the War Veterans chairmanship for Mashonaland Central Pro...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 10:24hrs | 3825 | by Mandla Ndlovu
97 border jumpers arrested
NINETY-SEVEN people have been arrested for skipping borders and smuggling goods from neighbouring countries.In a statement, national police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 19:06hrs | 1218 | by Staff reporter
Zimra official jailed 14 years for US$500k fraud
A Plumtree-based Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officer linked to a car smuggling racket that defrauded the revenue collector of more than US$530 000 was yesterday sentenced to 14 years in jail fo...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 17:00hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter
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