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Dirty pieces of money ensnare civil servants
When President Mnangagwa embarked on the austerity path that is about to come to an end since the economy is showing positive signs of recovery, he did not seek to sugar-coat the pain that Zimbabweans...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:08hrs | 353 | by Pupurai Togarepi
Woman arrested with US$176 800 worth of ivory
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has arrested a 42-year-old woman in Murehwa for illegal possession of ivory.In a statement the police said on 06 November 2019, they received information that the ...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 16:39hrs | 4231 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Illegal Malawians languish in Zimbabwe prison
TWENTY-FIVE Malawian illegal immigrants are languishing at Chipinge Prison awaiting a Chewa interpreter after they were arrested on Thursday night when a bus which was smuggling them to South Africa w...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 06:50hrs | 1370 | by Staff reporter
China still committed to financing Zimbabwe projects
THE African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (Afrodad), together with the Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd), this week held a multi-stakeholder public debt conference to di...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 06:45hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer loses appeal in 14kg gold theft case
PROMINENT Harare lawyer Admire Rubaya's bid to evade being put to his defence in the 14kg gold theft trial suffered a major blow after the Supreme Court upheld the High Court's decision to dismiss his...Published: 31 Oct 2019 at 07:14hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
Botswana arrests 4 000 Zimbabweans border jumpers
POLICE in Botswana have since January this year arrested more than 4 000 Zimbabweans for attempting to illegally cross into the neighbouring country. The border jumpers, 2 479 men, 1 521 women and chi...Published: 31 Oct 2019 at 07:14hrs | 444 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean sex slaves freed in SA
MORE than 30 Zimbabwean women suspected to be victims of human trafficking were rescued by South African police from brothels in eMalahleni, formerly Witbank, in Mpumalanga province where their captor...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 06:37hrs | 1422 | by Staff reporter
MaShurugwi menace poses danger to Zimbabwe
OUTSPOKEN Member of Parliament for Norton Temba Mliswa once called for decisive action against marauding criminals going by the moniker MaShurugwi who are unleashing untold violence in mining communit...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 11:34hrs | 1726 | by By Toby Sithole
Zimra cracks whip on staff
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is cracking the whip on officers suspected of prejudicing the taxman millions of dollars in potential revenue, in the wake of reports of an elaborate illegal veh...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 11:04hrs | 1690 | by Staff reporter
Economy facing new de-industrialization wave
Zimbabwe's hyperinflation and the general economic decline are now posing serious viability challenges for the local industry. This will be a second phase of de-industrialization in a space of 2 decad...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 21:34hrs | 2214 | by Victor Bhoroma
Cartels killing the Zimbabwe economy
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has promised to take out the whip on business for the current price madness. That, predictably, is a good idea.If things go according to his plan - most of the tim...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:50hrs | 1550 | by Tawanda Majoni
Zimbabweans in the UK top the cruelty bar against their own
You might think that slavery is something you only read about in history books. Unfortunately, the sad and shocking truth is that slavery exists today both in our country and around the world. It is k...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 23:07hrs | 27296 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
14 nabbed over Tenda bus owner smuggling case
DETECTIVES in Mutare have arrested 14 touts who were allegedly hired by prominent businessman, Ernest Mungwari, to block cops and Zimbabwe Revenue Authority officials from confiscating an assortment o...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 06:54hrs | 3754 | by Staff reporter
Tenda bus owner in court over smuggled goods
Prominent Mutare businessman, Ernest Mungwari, owner of Tenda Buses, has been arrested on allegations of obstructing the police and Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials from confiscating goods...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Companies, parastatals default paying tax
Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) Commissioner-General Faith Mazani on Tuesday told Parliament that companies and parastatals were not paying taxes resulting in a huge tax debt.Mazani appeare...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 06:56hrs | 665 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt targets Zanu-PF crooks
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has launched a fresh blitz against Zanu-PF bigwigs and other crooks who have stashed billions of United States dollars abroad. This comes after Zimbab...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:55hrs | 1209 | by Staff reporter
Zimra official forges Customs papers
A ZIMBABWE Revenue Authority (Zimra) official stationed at Plumtree Border Post has been arrested for allegedly forging customs documents to facilitate the smuggling of 50 cars into the country, preju...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 07:30hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Can an undervalued currency boost Zim Exports
The Zimbabwean Dollar was re-introduced on the 24th of June 2019 through the gazetting of Statutory Instrument (SI) 142 of 2019. The law outlawed the use and indexing of multiple currencies for local ...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 11:16hrs | 1116 | by Victor Bhoroma
Taxmen, police, and army take bribes from smugglers
The Victoria Falls, on the mighty Zambezi River between Zimbabwe and Zambia, is one of the world's seven wonders and arguably the largest waterfall by width and depth.It is alternatively known...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 12:34hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter
Zambian arrested for smuggling emeralds
A 33-year-old man from Lusaka, Zambia, has appeared at the Zvishavane Magistrates' Court for smuggling emeralds from Mberengwa.Harrison Kazhoka of Kaunda Square, Lusaka, is facing charges of i...Published: 26 Sep 2019 at 07:32hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter
Cop arrested for obstructing course of justice
A member of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has appeared in court facing charges of obstructing the course of justice by facilitating the escape of Chinese nationals who were found in possession of...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 11:54hrs | 1435 | by Staff reporter
NRZ says happy with DIDG deal
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has expressed satisfaction with progress made towards concluding the US$400 million recapitalisation deal with the Diaspora Infrastructure Development Group (DI...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 07:54hrs | 216 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi rallies Sadc to curb child smuggling
Beitbridge Senator Tambudzani Mohadi has challenged Sadc Governments to increase cooperation in combating illegal migration, mainly child smuggling. She said it was sad to note that between Zi...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 07:48hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Police intercept omalayitsha vehicles, recover R1m contraband
POLICE in Matabeleland South have arrested 16 suspects and recovered contraband worth nearly R1 million after intercepting 14 vehicles during an ongoing anti-smuggling operation. Police in the...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 06:58hrs | 2159 | by Staff reporter
Police intensify anti-smuggling blitz
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) on Tuesday said it will continue intensifying anti-smuggling operations along the borders targeting smuggled goods and vehicles until there is sanity. This c...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 06:37hrs | 446 | by Staff reporter
In Zimbabwe, surviving means improvising, and some luck
In crisis-stricken Zimbabwe, where prices are soaring, the local dollar is plummeting and time is always short, even a trip to the gas station can be an adventure in the struggle to survive.Fi...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:40hrs | 686 | by AFP
Chiwenga to kick out Mnangagwa?
Recuperating Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, is reportedly going to use the country's dreaded Joint Operations Command (JOC), to forcefully kick out President Emmerson Mnangagwa from...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 00:16hrs | 26844 | by Mary-Kate Kahari/Malvin Motsi
Robert and Grace Mugabe's US$1 billion fortune
Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace built up a huge personal fortune and property empire while their countrymen suffered in the starvation and grinding poverty that his brutal regime brought about....Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 07:26hrs | 2966 | by Mail Online
Street grocery sales take Bulawayo by storm
BUSINESS hours and shop location no longer matter when doing grocery shopping in Bulawayo as basic commodities are now easily accessible from the streets and pavements. A survey in the c...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 07:51hrs | 2465 | by Staff reporter
False and malicious article concerning the RBZ
The Business Times edition of 29 August - 4 September 2019 carried an article headlined "Bosses implicated in gold smuggling", with the subtitle "RBZ, two Harare businessmen 'behind intricate underhan...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 21:38hrs | 3767 | by John P Mangudya
A history of abductions, assassinations in Zimbabwe
October 15, 1975: Edson Sithole and his secretary Miriam Mhlanga were grabbed by unknown assailants, bundled into a car and were never seen again. A few weeks earlier, Sithole had fallen out with othe...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 15:04hrs | 1542 | by Staff reporter
Deadly xenophobic attacks set for 2 September in South Africa
Foreigners in South Africa must gear up for a fresh wave of xenophobic attacks beginning the on the 2nd of September 2019. In an interview with Studio 7 an unidentified Zulu man said, "We are ...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 09:40hrs | 35951 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimra recovers $77m under whistleblower facility
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has recovered about $77 million under the whistleblower facility since 2009 to June this year, an official has said.In a bid to recover lost revenue thro...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:49hrs | 1488 | by Staff reporter
Dirty things happen at Mnangagwa's State House
An unsaid but angry war is raging in the State Residences department as you fret over the prices of essential commodities, government's cluelessness to fix the economy and, of course, the swarm of cor...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 19:00hrs | 15767 | by Tawanda Majoni
Gudyanga trial commences
THE trial of former Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) board chairperson, Francis Gudyanga on charges of causing the parastatal to lose over $1,6 million to an Israeli-linked agricultur...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:45hrs | 912 | by Staff reporter
Robbery suspects placed off remand
A SOLDIER based at the One Indeep Barracks, Beitbridge, who together with his alleged accomplice - a neighbourhood watch committee (NWC) officer, who are facing robbery charges, were last week removed...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:37hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Zambian traders flock to Victoria Falls
Zambians are taking advantage of Zimbabwe's collapsing economy to buy basic commodities from Victoria Falls for resale in the resort town of Livingstone.Products that are popular with the Zambian ...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:53hrs | 1244 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police issue prohibition order on Chamisa led ShutDownZimbabwe protest
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has issued a prohibition order against demonstrations planned by MDC-Alliance today, saying anyone taking part in such action will face the full wrath of the law....Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:07hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Commissioners to investigate Obert Mpofu named
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has constituted a Commission of Inquiry to investigate Zanu-PF secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu and other individuals fingered in corrupt dealings by the ZANU-PF Y...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 20:08hrs | 2901 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge accident death toll rises
The death toll from the Beitbridge accident which occurred early Monday morning has gone up to eight, hospital sources have revealed.One of the four seriously injured passengers succumbed to i...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:47hrs | 1917 | by Staff reporter
7 die in Beitbridge road accident
SEVEN people were killed, while nine others were seriously injured yesterday morning when a Toyota vehicle veered off the road and overturned at the 10km peg along Lutumba-Chitulipasi Road in Beitbrid...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:10hrs | 634 | by Staff reporter
No joy for Zimbabwe drug dealer in SA
The 38-year-old Zimbabwean woman, who arrested by South African authorities recently in connection with the smuggling of drugs worth R2 million into that country via Beitbridge Border Post, has been d...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 14:50hrs | 2615 | by Staff reporter
Does Bona Mugabe's censorship board still exist?
The last time the nation heard of a Censorship board was when Ignatius Chombo was the Minister of Home Affairs. Then Home Affairs Minister Ignatius Chombo announced a new Board of Censors that...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 11:58hrs | 8271 | by Nicholas Ncube
Starving police officers exposed to corruption
HOME Affairs secretary Melusi Matshiya on Monday warned that security forces, who are deployed to man the country's border posts without receiving allowances, are prone to corruption and underhand dea...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 13:57hrs | 1332 | by Staff reporter
Zinara faces Parliament grilling over operations
PARLIAMENT will today question the Zimbabwe Nationals Road Administration (Zinara) over the state of affairs at the parastatal which has, of late, hogged news headlines because of corrupt practices....Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:20hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
Govt moves to tackle gold leakages
The government will meet gold producers at various buying centres so as to ascertain why a significant number of small-scale producers continue to sidestep Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR) and smu...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:15hrs | 264 | by Staff reporter
Immigration tightens screws at Beitbridge border post
The Department of Immigration Services has tightened screws on wheeler dealers, human traffickers and border jumpers at Beitbridge border post in line with Government's thrust on the ease of doing bus...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 18:40hrs | 7596 | by Staff reporter
Zimra on course to surpass $4,8 billion target
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is well on course to surpass its half year revenue collection target with the final report for the period set for release at the end of this month, board chairpe...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 18:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo spills more beans on Mnangagwa
Exiled former Cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has written a Twitter thread exposing how President Emmerson Mnangagwa led his allies in stealing Treasury Bonds through various bogus projects i...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 13:18hrs | 22004 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Soldier steals car
A soldier and member of a neighbourhood watch committee in Beitbridge have been charged with armed robbery after they forced a motorist to surrender his car.The soldier Nobert Muringo (36) and...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:32hrs | 1225 | by Staff reporter
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