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Chamisa announces impending 'god-ordained' political comeback
Former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa has announced plans for a significant political comeback, asserting that his return to the political arena is divinely inspired and ...Published: 27 Oct 2024 at 12:31hrs | 1505 | by Staff reporter
Mafia Tactics? Chinese family hounded by convicted Italian mafia boss as deportation mystery deepens
In a chilling escalation of legal and criminal misconduct, convicted Italian mafia boss Francesco Marconati has become the focal point of an international...Published: 19 Sep 2024 at 18:37hrs | 1438 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa has made a lot of mistakes because he is trying
IN the aftermath of local political activist Sengezo Tshabangu's recalls tsunami and by-elections that have shaken the main opposition CCC to the core and disrupted it badly, party leader Nelson Chami...Published: 16 Dec 2023 at 18:58hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
Mnangagwa tightens his grip on levers of Zimbabwe's Treasury
WITH his close business ally John Muyashavanhu now confirmed as the incoming Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, George Guvamatanga as Finance permanent secretary — chief accounting officer of ...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 17:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The Godfather experiment, politics of attrition in Zimbabwe
GODFATHER experiments are made in instances of confrontation and attrition, mostly, if not always. Godfathers consider themselves to be powerful figures who wield significant influence, especially und...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 07:47hrs | 10 | by Sharon Hofisi
Uebert Angel not off the hook
Anti-corruption watchdogs have petitioned the Southern African Development Community (Sadc), the African Union (AU) and the United Nations (UN) to sanction President Emmerson Mnangagwa's special envoy...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 21:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
A critical review of Al Jazeera's Gold Mafia documentary
APRIL, famously characterised as "the cruellest month" by distinguished poet and literary critic TS Eliot in his critically acclaimed essay "The Wasteland" - not because its first day celebrates fools...Published: 28 May 2023 at 17:07hrs | 3 | by Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwean gold dealer claims to be well-protected
ZIMBABWEAN gold dealer Ewan Macmillan has made a sensational claim that President Emmerson Mnangagwa, whom he pays an undisclosed amount of money every month, jumps to his protection whenever he gets ...Published: 18 Apr 2023 at 20:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
GOLD MAFIA | Episode 4 – Have The King With You
Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit infiltrates the rival gangs that control Africa's gold. Undercover reporters witness how criminal networks turn dirty cash into gold, which is sold around the world. Th...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 20:26hrs | | by Al Jazeera'
Another Gold Mafia exposé airs
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's ambassador-at-large, Uebert Madzanire, alias Uebert Angel has told his followers to attack individuals who accuse him of gold smuggling and money laundering, following a...Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa exposed
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been left exposed and politically vulnerable following ground-breaking revelations by Qatar-based international television network Al Jazeera's of gold...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 18:23hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Al Jazeera exposé: Mnangagwa should step down for enabling corruption
A CROSS-SECTION of Zimbabweans say they feel gutted after watching the first of a four-part Al Jazeera exposé on money-laundering and gold smuggling activities implicating President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's name mired in underworld gold activities
FROM the Macmillan family and their gold-smuggling activities to the Kwekwe underworld mining adventures and Henrietta Rushwaya's sensational arrest three years ago, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's nam...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 14:00hrs | 49 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's spokesman refuses to comment on the Al Jazeera gold scandal snippets
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman George Charamba has refused to comment on the Al Jazeera gold scandal documentary, saying he doesn't respond to snippets."What do you want f...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 18:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's underworld of teen sex, drugs
TEENAGERS of schoolgoing age take turns to go into a secret hide-out located in Hatfield, Harare, on a Saturday.The girls are dressed in all sorts of skimpy tight fitting clothes, while their ...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 08:09hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans must stay away from occult wealth seeking
IMAGINE being instructed by an inyanga or sangoma to take soil from a stranger's grave that will be used to perform a ritual to invoke the spirit of a dead person to help you get instant wealth and po...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Al Jazeera puts Zimbabwe corruption documentary on hold
Al Jazeera on Thursday said it had put a pause on a broadcast of a four-part investigation into official corruption in Zimbabwe without giving reasons.The first episode of Gold Mafia, a two-ye...Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 19:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Plot to kill Phala Phala whistleblower Arthur Fraser exposed
A plot to kill former State Security Agency (SSA) director-general (DG) Arthur Fraser was hatched after he allegedly refused a R50 million offer from a Cape Town underworld boss to make the Phala Phal...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 08:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Drug cartels turn Zimbabwe into a hub
Zimbabwe is fast becoming a destination of choice for smugglers of dangerous drugs such as heroin, with police saying syndicates involving locals and foreigners were on the loose.The country h...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We'll get him dead or alive': Reid's Mpiranya trail to Zimbabwe
A BESPECTACLED white man of medium height probably in his early 60s walks into the hotel restaurant where I am seated outside on patio couches basking in the sunshine while surfing social media platfo...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:20hrs | 11 | by Dumisani Muleya
Is a coffin for the dead or for the mourners?
WE are all going to die. That is the sad fact and fate that awaits us all.But our journey to the other side differs. Some are turned into ashes in a crematorium. The majority are buried six fe...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 07:25hrs | 7 | by Trisa Ray Sibanda
Crack team set up for mobile money crime
A crack team of 15 experienced prosecutors has been set up to work with seasoned investigators to come up with watertight dockets and so effectively prosecute economic saboteurs abusing mobile money p...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Illegal forex dealers move $1,5 billion in six months
EIGHT companies allegedly handled transactions valued over $1,5 billion in illegal foreign currency deals that involved transferring huge amounts of money from corporate bank accounts into mobile mone...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:10hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Impala Car Rental faces collapse
STILL reeling from the Tawanda Muchehiwa abduction scandal by state security agents with its connivance, subsequent desertion by spooked clients, the death of its chief executive Thompson Dondo in Jan...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 08:38hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Business has learned nothing and forgot nothing
SO there was this prominent businessman-cum-pastor who was obsessed with religiously lampooning politicians as occultic during his daily sermons.Preaching from his moral high horse, the raboni...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 09:50hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
ZRP joins Interpol in drug trafficking operation
The Zimbabwe Republic Police was among countries in Africa and the Middle East that recently participated in an International Police Organisations (Interpol)'s operation code-named "Lionfish" which wa...Published: 22 May 2021 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
G40 resorts to voodoo conspiracies
When the weekly Standard newspaper published a story on 2 May 2021 to the effect that a Zvimba villager, Tinos Manovengere, was not happy with the burial of former President Robert Mugabe, G40 members...Published: 18 May 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Rhodesian Model worked and it will work even better NOW
Zimbabwe needs to look at the model that worked and make it even better under sanctions. From the 1940 when the Rhodesian economy was booming the country had only one university and the focus of the t...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 20:32hrs | 1 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Army-linked Anjin grabs richest diamond claim
AN army-linked miner, Anjin Investments (Pvt) Ltd, grabbed the most lucrative diamond claim in Marange from a firm owned by the government after being relicensed under unclear circumstances, it has em...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | | by Kenneth Matimaire
Zimbabwe and its billionaires from the underworld
WHILE other nations are exploring such faraway places as the asteroid Bennu, Zimbabweans are exploring dark underworld caves for serpents and tokoloshes. These creatures later kill their host,...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
The mystery of the Mnangagwa gold mill
NOTHING is wrong when a president deals in gold, ordinarily. But, when you hear that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his family run a gold mill, you struggle to convince yourself that everything is r...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Rushwaya gold case opens can of worms
THE dramatic arrest and subsequent prosecution of suspended Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya has lifted the lid on the cutthroat gold trafficking underworld dominated by t...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:56hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya arrest: A case of rampant elite corruption?
THE ongoing trial of Henrietta Rushwaya over charges of attempting to smuggle gold bars weighing 6kg to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, in a high-profile case that has sucked in President Emmerson Mn...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Vampire' terror in Gwanda
DO vampires exist? According to legend, they are evil mythological beings which feed on blood and can morph into a bat or wolf. Most people associate vampires with movies or Count Dracula, the legenda...Published: 03 Oct 2020 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
British-born Zimbabweans at the helm of the 'Gauteng mafia'
Sources close to Kinnear have revealed that the detective, who was investigating a nationwide gun-licensing racket involving SAPS officials and gangsters, was closing in on the 'Gauteng mafia' and its...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 12:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is not a banana republic
Blessed Sunday good people.How was Friday?Has the Government changed yet?Is Nelson Chamisa now president of our teapot-shaped republic? Kikikiki.Yes, exactly as Bishop ...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:30hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Former SA footballer gunned down
The family of former Bafana Bafana, Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs striker, Marc Batchelor has reacted with shock to the news of his death, News24 reported.Batchelor was gunned down in Bryansto...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 21:24hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Goblins wreak havoc in family
A SEEMINGLY unremorseful Mutasa man who let his family live in abject poverty and incessant torment from several goblins he allegedly possessed has been ordered by Chief Mutasa to take the lead in cle...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff repoirter
Air Zimbabwe stashes US$5m in UK
INSOLVENT flag carrier Air Zimbabwe Private Limited (AirZim) is still active in the United Kingdom (UK) under the same name, with financial records showing that the moribund airline has £4 million (U...Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man eats stray cats
WHETHER it's a reaction to runaway from beef prices or just the love for meat, a Sakubva man has pulled a shocker by eating stray cats, which he grills with passion.As word spread about the em...Published: 18 May 2019 at 10:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa target crooks surrounding Mnangagwa
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has called for a complete overhaul of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government departments to curb the scourge of corruption, which has permeated almost all publi...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 15:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Crooks surround Mnangagwa must go,' says Chamisa
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has called for a complete overhaul of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government departments to curb the scourge of corruption, which has permeated almost all publi...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Botswana Defence Forces foiled coup attempt against Masisi?
The Commander of Botswana Defence Force Lt. General Placid Segokgo last week deployed military assets including armoured tanks and personnel in key strategic in anticipation of a coup against Presiden...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 08:51hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
The acquittal of chivayo puts the justice system on the spot
JEROME FRANK, a mid-20th-century legal thinker, is said to have claimed that justice is a function of what the judge had for breakfast. Don't let their black robes, serious miens and pledges of fealty...Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 06:24hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa expels North Koreans under UN pressure
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has reportedly expelled from the country an unknown number of North Korean nationals of "questionable character", who were in partnership with a local tobacco...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
What leaders? No more than tortoises sitting atop lamp posts
I decided in the new year to return Kuumba, my beautiful pet tortoise, to his wild, natural habitat of Matojeni.Besides my amazing wife, few sights and few life experiences have left a greater...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 10:54hrs | 1 | by Zifiso Masiye
Dodgy North Korean envoy still holed up in Harare
LOCAL wildlife conservationists are still watching the movements of North Korea's representative in Harare, Kim Chung Su, amid growing worries about his alleged involvement in poaching syndicates in t...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pupils force headmaster off school premises
THERE was pandemonium at Chakohwa High School last Wednesday after the headmaster's attempt to administer corporal punishment on a pupil backfired when the pupil, with the help of aggrieved teachers, ...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Where is Zimbabwe's cash going?
Zimbabwe is currently going through serious shortages of literally everything from bottled water to bread.Queues have become a common feature across the country as Zimbabweans struggle to purc...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 09:15hrs | | by Crecey Kuyedzwa - Fin24
Killer 'jacket' claims 20 lives
A FAMILY from Manzununu has rushed to Chief Zimunya's court to resolve a mysterious case in which more than 20 relatives have been killed by an ''evil jacket'' that is threatening to take more lives....Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:08hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
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