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Armed robbers pounce on combine harvester, steal diesel
POLICE in Marondera have launched a manhunt for six armed men who allegedly pounced on a broken down combine harvester, destroyed its fuel tanks and siphoned about 450 litres of diesel at the 76km peg...Published: 4 hrs ago | 358 | by Staff reporter
Interbank rate throws HCC off rails
HARARE town clerk Hosiah Chisango yesterday said the interbank rate has drastically affected council operations because this year's budget was based on a 1:1 ratio to the United States dollar....Published: 4 hrs ago | 593 | by Staff reporter
Duty waiver on solar equipment
Government has approved a duty waiver on solar equipment and allowed mining firms to procure energy directly from the Southern African Power Pool. Further, selected hotels in resort areas will soon st...Published: 4 hrs ago | 410 | by Staff reporter
500 Zanu-PF supporters fight eviction
THERE was pandemonium at Lot H, Whiteside Farm in Bromley on Friday after 500 illegal settlers attacked the High Court Sheriff who was evicting them to pave way for a new owner.The settlers, m...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:58hrs | 984 | by Staff reporter
Order must be restored at Bulawayo City Hall
Bulawayo City Council has dominated the headlines for all the wrong reasons over the past fortnight. They have grossly mishandled the ongoing rehabilitation of the city's water wor...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 07:59hrs | 238 | by Editorial comment
Unexplained wealth orders here to stay
THE proposed introduction of a free-standing procedure which compels an individual to explain the source of his wealth is a radical development in English law. For instance, the human rights and polit...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:03hrs | 355 | by Prosper Simbarashe Maguchu
Zanu-PF starts campaign for Lupane East by-election
ZANU-PF has officially launched its campaign to drum up support for its Lupane East by-election candidate, Mbongeni Dube, ahead of the election set for August 3. The launch was done at a rally...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:40hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
Wheel clamping fees up 1 000%
Harare City Council has increased charges for clamping and towing of vehicles by over 1 000 percent in its $829,86 million supplementary budget that was approved yesterday. The budget that slightly in...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:31hrs | 485 | by Staff reporter
VID graft probe complete
INVESTIGATIONS into the Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) corruption scandal are now complete and findings will be handed over to the Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development Joel Big...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:29hrs | 689 | by Staff reporter
Thomsons Towing built on the back of Tata Trucks
Thomson's Towing and Panelbeaters, based in White River, Mpumalanga, owes much of its success to the hardworking Tata trucks in its growing fleet. An Automobile Association partner, the company curren...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 14:14hrs | 1420 | by Agencies
MDC activist loses bid to bar payment of salaries for MPs
MDC activist, Justice Dzingirayi, together with his lawyers, John Mugogo Attorneys have been slapped with costs on a high scale after their application seeking to bar Finance minister and Clerk of Par...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:32hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
Five suspected armed robbers arrested
Police have arrested five suspected armed robbers said to have been terrorising tobacco farmers.National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said the five were arrested duri...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:27hrs | 966 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe trade deficit narrows by 71%
ZIMBABWE'S trade deficit narrowed by 71% to $325 million between February and May this year, with analysts attributing the decline to foreign currency shortages as well as a drop in the budget deficit...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:24hrs | 302 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala to appear before Bikita magistrate
The MDC-Alliance deputy national chairperson, Job Sikhala, who was arrested on Monday for allegedly subverting a constitutionally elected Government is expected to appear before a Bikita magistrate to...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:23hrs | 536 | 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 | 569 | by Staff reporter
MDC leaders told to resign
Bulawayo lawyer Sindiso Mazibisa has urged the MDC leadership to resign if they are failing to provide the necessary leadership that the people of Zimbabwe need to solve the problems bedevilling the c...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 14:14hrs | 9247 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli Ncube to buy cars for Ministers and raise price of fuel
Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube has announced that he will be sanctioning the purchasing of vehicles for Ministers and Members of parliament this week after a long period of aus...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 09:14hrs | 11361 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Coup plotter' Sikhala to appear in court today
MDC-Alliance deputy national chairperson Job Sikhala was yesterday arrested on allegations of subverting a constitutionally-elected Government and is expected to appear in court today. He was by last ...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 07:37hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
Govt mulls scrapping forex duty for vehicles
TREASURY is considering scrapping the payment of duty for vehicles in foreign currency when it presents the mid-year fiscal policy at the end of this month, it has been revealed.On June 24, th...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:30hrs | 1534 | by Staff reporter
Chiri bemoans poor funding
Auditor General Mildred Chiri is back in the spotlight after producing yet another report detailing abuse of funds and inefficiencies in government departments and parastatals.Some of the reve...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:29hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC MPs to receive vehicles
In the next two weeks, legislators are expected to take delivery of new vehicles under the Parliamentary vehicle loan scheme amid reports that some of the lawmakers have been using public transport to...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:01hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter
Zacc breathes fire
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chair has lambasted the current docket keeping system, which may result in loss of key information in criminal cases, and the institution is moving to mo...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 20:58hrs | 121 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe - SA should re-introduce day passes'
BEITBRIDGE East legislator Albert Nguluvhe has appealed to the Zimbabwean and South African governments to re-introduce passes for villagers to visit relatives across either sides of the border....Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:12hrs | 1478 | by Staff reporter
Linda Masarira to write book on Chiwenga's coup
Former MDC-T Spokesperson Linda Masarira has revealed that she is writing a tell-all book about how she started an organic anti-Mugabe protest that was hijacked by some MDC activists. She anno...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:07hrs | 4906 | by Mandla Ndlovu
11 000 touts, forex dealers arrested
Nearly 11 000 foreign currency dealers, touts and pirate taxi operators have been arrested since January this year during an ongoing operation being conducted countrywide. Most notable arrests...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:02hrs | 592 | by Staff reporter
Revisiting the Beitbridge-Harare highway
The state of the Beitbridge-Harare (A4) Highway is now a cause for concern as the number of human fatalities grows by each day due to deadly accidents in the narrow strip that links Zimbabwe and South...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 08:06hrs | 2092 | by Victor Bhoroma
Harare to splash US$23 000 on iPads
CASH-strapped Harare City Council, which is struggling to buy chemicals to treat drinking water, is set to splash US$23 000 on councillors' iPads. Each of Harare's 46 councillors plus some sel...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 07:49hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge businessman dies in 3-car pile-up
Renowned Beitbridge businessman, Mr Emmanuel Tawanda Chiwa (35) was on Wednesday night killed in an accident when his car was involved in a three vehicles pile up along the Beitbridge-Bulawayo road....Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 18:22hrs | 2971 | by Staff reporter
Protests: MDC caught between the devil and the deep blue sea
Conversations with insiders suggest that the MDC has been agonising over whether or not to call for protests since the beginning of the year. That no decision has been reached on the matter speaks to ...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 12:29hrs | 3435 | by Tendai Chimunda
Zesa complicit in cable thefts: Residents
Zesa spokesperson Fullard Gwasira said vandalism of Zesa property was becoming more rampant, particularly in Bulawayo and blamed this on the economy and unemployed technicians."Zesa property i...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 08:33hrs | 601 | by Staff reporter
SA cops gun down armed Zimbabweans
TWO suspected armed robbers from St Joseph, Matabeleland South and another robber yet to be identified, were shot dead by South African Police who intercepted a cash-in-transit heist on Tuesday mornin...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | 1679 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest 6 000 people in Harare and Bulawayo
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has reported that more than six thousand people have been arrested in Bulawayo and Harare for various crimes including obstructing gfree passage of traffic and touting. ...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 12:20hrs | 17005 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tajamuka shut down flops
ZIMBABWEANS yesterday ignored desperate calls by a shadowy, pro-MDC Alliance group, Tajamuka and its affiliates to shut down the country on an anti-Government move to demonstrate against President Mna...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:11hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe return to normalcy'
'Nation embraces Zim dollar . . . Country has returned to normalcy, President says'. This was a headline in the Chronicle. Sadly there is an element of truth in this. What we face is indeed 'normalcy'...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 09:17hrs | 2885 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Chikwinya, a life full of drama
Hailing from humble beginnings and rising to fame as a politician of note, Mbizo MP Settlement Chikwinya (MDC Alliance) is a man of iron will.His life story is full of theatrics.Chikwi...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 08:07hrs | 1187 | by Staff reporter
'Return to normalcy'
'Nation embraces Zim dollar . . . Country has returned to normalcy, President says'. This was a headline in the Chronicle. Sadly there is an element of truth in this. What we face is indeed 'normalcy'...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:34hrs | 981 | by ZimVigil
Zimra collects $230m in Q1 at Beitbridge
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) has recorded a relative increase in revenue levied on commercial cargo which passes through Beitbridge Border Post in the first quarter of the year in comparison...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:32hrs | 697 | by Staff reporter
ZEC wins all 73 poll petitions
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has won all 73 petitions concluded in court following the July 2018 harmonised elections, while the remaining seven cases are still pending. The electio...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:28hrs | 423 | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume says ban on forex will further destroy the economy
The ban on forex by the ED regime is an ill advised move, a sugar cotted plot to swindle all the forex in the nation and land it in the hands of cartels who seem desperate to destroy the country. The ...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:27hrs | 599 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe regime' grand looting exposed
A government agency was used to siphon thousands of dollars to finance weddings and political rallies during former president Robert Mugabe's reign, an audit has revealed.Auditor-General Mildr...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:11hrs | 2419 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar return: Financial engineering not the answer
If the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) was a ship it would be the Titanic, sailing with the patronage of a well-heeled elite with privileged access to the life boats towards a deadly iceberg.Th...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:04hrs | 323 | by Sipho Malunga
Car thief crashes into 3 vehicles
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested a 24-year-old man who allegedly stole a Honda Fit and crashed it into three other vehicles as its owner precariously hung onto it. Wilbaw Gundane of Iminyela s...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 06:18hrs | 908 | by Staff reporter
Police fire live bullets in Chinhoyi...kill 1 suspect
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has confirmed the arrest of three suspects and the death of another in a shooting incident which occurred while detectives from Vehicle Theft Squad(VTS) were in the proces...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 17:57hrs | 7167 | by Mandla Ndlovu
23 toll-gate staffers dismissed for fraud in three months
A company managing part of the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara)'s toll-gate network has dismissed some 23 workers on charges of fraud in the last three months, Parliament has heard....Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 06:38hrs | 956 | by newzimbabwe
Probe teams for all VID depots
Government has deployed investigative teams to the country's 21 Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) depots that are still to be computerised as it intensifies the fight against corruption in the iss...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 06:25hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
Smuggling: the new corruption frontier in Zimbabwe
As the Zimbabwean economy rapidly slides into hyperinflation induced recession, the levels of smuggling at the country's border posts has reached alarming levels. Cross border traders, foreign nationa...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 20:27hrs | 3696 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zimbabwe, SA transporters in route wars
There is a looming route war between Beitbridge-based Zimbabwean Cross-border Transport Association (ZCTA) and South Africa's Beitbridge Taxi Association (BTA) after the groups clashed over passengers...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:20hrs | 3981 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe discovers rare minerals
Zimbabwe sits on bountiful and lucrative deposits of minerals known as rare-earth elements (REE), some of which sell for more than US$1 000 for a single kilogram and where investors are seeking altern...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:03hrs | 1476 | by Staff reporter
VID officers suspended
Government has - with immediate effect - suspended Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) officials from Marondera and Beitbridge depots on allegations of corruptly issuing provisional driver's licence...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 20:27hrs | 2366 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri named in vehicle service scandal
FORMER Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri allegedly used a Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) account with Mercedes-Benz dealer, Zimoco, to have his fleet of private motor vehicles serviced, a ...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 15:43hrs | 587 | by Staff reporter
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