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Pathisa Nyathi's final journey: Exploring African science and witchcraft
In a chilly July mid-morning last year, Pathisa Nyathi, a renowned African cultural historian and prolific author, walked into the Sunday News newsroom, carrying with him three new books. These works ...Published: 10 Nov 2024 at 10:49hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe health authorities monitoring Mpox contacts after 2 cases
Health authorities in Zimbabwe are closely monitoring the contacts of two individuals who recently tested positive for Mpox, a viral infection that has spread globally from equatorial forests in Afric...Published: 21 Oct 2024 at 07:39hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
3 elephants gunned down in Beitbridge
THE Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Parks Authority) has shot dead three elephants in the border town of Beitbridge in yet unexplained circumstances although it is believed ...Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 07:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Regional anti-graft body pushes for probe into Chivayo's murky US$40m ZEC deal
The Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-SA) is calling for urgent investigations into allegations of corruption involving businessman Wicknell Chivayo and a US$40 million deal with the Zimba...Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 18:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt shields ZEC, Chivayo in US$40 million scandal
Government officials, including the Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, Lovemore Matuke, have dismissed persistent corruption allegations against the executive, despite reports linking unexpla...Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 18:36hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Questions arise over SADC Observer Mission's delayed report on SA elections
Questions are mounting regarding the delayed preliminary report from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) observer mission on the recent South African elections.South African gene...Published: 13 Jun 2024 at 11:31hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
King Lobengula fate mystery deepens
The mystery surrounding the fate of 19th century Ndebele King Lobengula - son of the nation's founder King Mzilikazi - is still a moot historical event to Ndebele people, some Zimbabweans and scholars...Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 10:30hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
Children terrorised by invisible creatures
THE way your skin crawled after watching goosefleshers like The Conjuring , Gothika and The Ring, will pale into insignificance when you read through this living nightmare for three children from Magw...Published: 02 Mar 2024 at 20:04hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Pan-Africanism is dead!
Twice, in as many weeks, I have heard Zimbabwe President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa speak on the need to preserve Pan-Africanism.Yesterday was the latest, as he attended a memorial service he...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 22:11hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Dembare outcast resurfaces at Caps United
Dynamos outcast Tendai Matindife has resurfaced at Caps United where he is training with hopes of earning himself a contract.The winger was an integral part of the Dynamos team at the start of...Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 04:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo frets over Zacc probe
SOCIALITE and businessman Wicknell Chivayo has mocked the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) for allegedly trying to investigate the source of his unexplained wealth.Chivayo has spent ...Published: 11 Feb 2024 at 21:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chivayo being investigated by ZACC
A leaked memo has confirmed that the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has launched investigations into the source of funds of controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo, following his lavish...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 07:04hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Fraudsters exploit Zimbabweans seeking UK health and care jobs
When Zimbabwean mother-of-four Eunice Sinoya enrolled in a first aid course near the capital Harare, she was lured by the college's promise of a job in Britain's care sector. But more than a year on, ...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:57hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean employee resurfaces after 3 months with traditional healer's 'sick' note
IN a curious turn of events, a security guard from the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) stationed in Hwange vanished without a trace, only to reappear after an astonishing 88 days. His return was a...Published: 06 Jan 2024 at 08:42hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Is China good for Zimbabwe?
IMAGINE your father having an "all-weather friend" who appears to stand by him in every situation.This seemingly "all-weather friend", however, looks away as your father brutally batters your ...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 09:10hrs | 11 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Is China really helping suffering Zimbabweans?
Imagine your father has an 'all-weather friend', who appears to stand by him in every situation.He looks away as your father brutally batters your mother and does not appear to give a hoot whe...Published: 14 Dec 2023 at 12:39hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZACC officials recover US$29m assets offshore
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has recovered externalised assets by corrupt citizens worth US$29 million, a new report submitted to Parliament has revealed.Experts say the sout...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 17:32hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi quizzed over abductions
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) parliamentarians have taken government to task over police's seemingly lackadaisical approach towards investigating politically-motivated abductions, enf...Published: 17 Nov 2023 at 05:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Brain drain hits Lupane University
Lupane State University (LSU) has faced significant staff turnover in the past two years due to the challenging economic environment, leading to a departure of professionals from the institution. This...Published: 29 Oct 2023 at 12:38hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
100 Zimbabweans probed over US$70m ill-gotten wealth
Over 100 individuals suspected of acquiring assets worth US$70 million through money laundering and illicit financial activities are currently under investigation. The National Prosecuting Authority (...Published: 22 Oct 2023 at 09:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 'regime change' NGOs under siege
Regional civil society organization, Action for Southern Africa (ActSA), has raised concerns about the shrinking space for civil society in Zimbabwe and called for solidarity movements worldwide to su...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Two Botswana journalists arrested in unexplained circumstances
Two Botswana journalists were on 20 July 2023 detained by the country's security services in as yet unexplained circumstances.The two, Mmegi newspaper editor Editor Ryder Gabathuse and senior ...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 18:56hrs | 9 | by Stephen Jakes
African infertility is due to infectious causes(STIs, etc)
Sad reality. The success of marriage, in many African societies, overlies on the ability of a woman to bear children.According to a study, majority of African women infertility is due to infec...Published: 23 May 2023 at 14:31hrs | 1 | by Erick Matotoba
Chiwenga, Mnangagwa entangled in massive chrome scandal
COMPANIES linked to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga received US$3 million from South African chrome miner Zunaid Moti following a US$120 million deal signed betwee...Published: 28 Apr 2023 at 20:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZACC hunts for US$1 billion loot
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) believes it will this year recover cash and assets valued at over US$1 billion that were acquired through proceeds of crime, it has been learnt.T...Published: 09 Apr 2023 at 12:10hrs | 1 | 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
Chihuri properties seizure - PG wants graft law amended
PROSECUTOR-GENERAL Nelson Mutsonziwa has called for the amendment of corruption laws to plug loopholes being used by "criminals" to keep hold of ill-gotten property as the state pushes for the seizure...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 18:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Underfunding cripples NPRC'
HEAL Zimbabwe has decried lack of political will and under-funding that has grounded the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) national healing and reconciliation programmes.In i...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 05:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court rules in favour of Chihuri
Former Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri has won the Supreme Court appeal by the State contesting an order for forfeiture of his properties acquired over his 25 year tenure at the helm of ...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 19:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chihuri property fight rages on
The Supreme Court will this week hear the National Prosecuting Authority's appeal against the removal of some of former police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri's properties from the unexplained ...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 05:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top govt official in trouble over ‘questionable' wealth
THE Ministry of Finance and Economic Development has suspended senior official Marcos Nyaruwanga to pave way for investigations to ascertain his source of wealth as a public official, the Zimbabwe Ind...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 18:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt moves to seize Chihuri farm
GOVERNMENT is intensifying its vindictive approach to seizing farms belonging to its critics, most of whom were the late former president Robert Mugabe's loyalists in the twilight years of life and ru...Published: 16 Oct 2022 at 19:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zacc fails to account for expenses
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), has failed to produce supporting documents to validate its expenditure in the previous year to auditor-general, Mildred Chiri, a situation that may have...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-defence official asked to explain wealth
THE National Prosecuting Authority continues to press those suspected of acquiring wealth through corruption and other criminal activity to explain how they have bought their houses and cars, with the...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa defends Mnangagwa, says Susan Mutami not raped
NORTON independent Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has leaped to defend President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other government officials named dropped by Susan Mutami when she poured out her rape saga, c...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 20:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
As long as Zimbabweans are such unmitigated cowards - Chamisa will grow old, and go into the grave without ever tasting power!
I have written extensively on how our appalling cowardice as Zimbabweans is the greatest single most outstanding factor holding us back as a nation - preventing us from pushing for the change we despe...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 21:39hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mai TT, A full blown ZANU PF sideshow political project
Despite intense infighting that characterizes Zanu PF, the fact remains that ZANU PF is determined to win the next election at any cost. For them, there is just too much at stake and they cannot affor...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:27hrs | | by Knowledge Hakata
'West abetting corruption in Zimbabwe'
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi on Tuesday accused Western countries of supporting organisations that have been breeding corruption in Zimbabwe in a bid to propagate a negative narrative that Preside...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:34hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ZACC moves to recover US$22m ill-gotten wealth
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has filed eight applications with the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) seeking orders to seize assets valued over US$22 million suspected to have bee...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Leave Mnangagwa out of this, Judge tells Chihuri
HIGH Court Judge Justice Pisirayi Kwenda has told former Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri to stop dragging President Mnangagwa's name into his dispute with the Prosecutor-General, who is ...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chihuri gets US$7m mansion back
FORMER ZRP boss Augustine Chihuri secured some relief Tuesday after the High Court gave him back a luxury Harare mansion valued at US$7 million.Chihuri, reportedly now based in South Africa, i...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
High Court clears Chihuri assets
The High Court has returned the properties former police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri acquired during his 25 years at the helm of the police force that were targeted for forfeiture, in what ...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 16:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zacc probes 22 cases of unexplained wealth
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is investigating 22 cases of unexplained wealth involving externalisation of more than US$22 million. In a statement, ZACC said it was closely wo...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife causes a rumpus at the Forbes border post
Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) staff were left "shaken" after first lady Auxillia Mnangagwa caused a rumpus at the Forbes border post, including having her aides grab a manager by his belt, ZimLiv...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 11:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa’s unexplained millions stashed under mattresses
President Cyril Ramaphosa allegedly kept large sums of money in foreign currency, estimated to be $80 million (R1.24 billion), “concealed” under mattress and couches at his farm in Bela-Bela, Limp...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vumbachikwe Gold Mine hit by mass exodus of workers
A TOTAL of 23 senior and junior managers plus 140 general workers have quit Vumbachikwe Gold Mine in Gwanda, Matabeleland South, within the past two months.According to an internal memo seen b...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:36hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri abused power, court told
FORMER Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri abused his public power as head of the police to prejudice the State of large sums in public funds channelled to five companies linked to his family and r...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chihuri wealth inquiry opens
The inquiry seeking explanation from former police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri on the sale of five properties that were part of the family's large property portfolio opened at the High Cour...Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chihuri savages Hodzi
FORMER Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Augustine Chihuri has vehemently opposed a High Court order for his properties to be forfeited arguing it is unconstitutional.He argued that he acquired h...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chihuri says he is too rich to steal
EXILED former police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri yesterday told the High Court that he was too rich to steal from the State and the police force.Chihuri is accused of corruption inv...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
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