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Law firm disqualified over conflict of interest in mining dispute
The High Court has disqualified Mudimu Law Chambers from representing Huzodi Investments Private Limited in a mining dispute, citing a conflict of interest involving the firm's senior partner, Mr. Mud...Published: 09 Dec 2024 at 06:42hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
CIOs get bail in Chinese national extortion case
THREE State security agents attached to the Presidential Guard were yesterday granted US$100 bail in a case they stand accused of extorting and robbing a Chinese national of US$2 800.The suspe...Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 07:09hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
CIO trio in court on robbery, extortion charges
Three state security agents attached to the Presidential Guard appeared in court yesterday, facing serious allegations of extorting and robbing a Chinese national of US$2,800.The accused, Cham...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 07:43hrs | 1345 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean jailed for trying to bribe cops with only R50
A Zimbabwean man who tried to bribe two policemen with R50 has been sentenced to a R50,000 fine or five years in prison for corruption. The Giyani specialised commercial crimes court also orde...Published: 24 Oct 2024 at 17:34hrs | 1213 | by Staff reporter
White South African men linked to R2 billion clandestine drug laboratory
THE bail application for two of the five arrested men linked to the R2 billion clandestine drug laboratory in Limpopo, has been denied in the Groblersdal Magistrate’s Court.IOL has previousl...Published: 10 Sep 2024 at 13:35hrs | 1321 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean scientists discover of Alzheimer's, melanoma cancer cure
Zimbabwean scientists on Thursday said they have discovered a cure for Alzheimer's disease, and also announced that they have developed a groundbreaking treatment for melanoma, a skin cancer.P...Published: 06 Sep 2024 at 13:09hrs | 620 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man survives deadly shooting in South Africa
The man who survived the deadly Limpopo shooting, where two women lost their lives at a farm, has recounted the harrowing experience when he escaped and left his wife gasping for life."The fir...Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 12:51hrs | 1790 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa allocated land meant for road, nothing will done to him
A commission investigating issues at the Harare City Council has been informed that controversial businessman Phillip Chiyangwa was allocated land in a prime suburb of the capital that was originally ...Published: 25 Aug 2024 at 11:21hrs | 10359 | by Staff reporter
China supports total sanctions removal on Zimbabwe
China stands ready to support Zimbabwe for the total removal of Western sanctions, the defence of its sovereignty and the pursuit of strategic security interests, visiting Chinese Communist Party (CCP...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 06:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
3 students in court for selling leaked exam paper
Three students from TelOne Centre of Learning who allegedly sold a leaked HEXCO Engineering and Mathematics paper that was written last week to some first year counterparts have appeared in court toda...Published: 14 Dec 2023 at 15:14hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe students shine at ICT competition in China
The three Zimbabwean students who represented the country at the Huawei Global ICT Competition held in Shenzhen, China, recently, scooped the third prize in a competition participated by over 2 000 un...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 06:07hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
'Fired' Zimura board member defiant
Chipfumbu was responding to a story published early this week in which ZIMURA spokesperson Alexio Gwenzi said the organisation had fired him as the leader of the team which reported fraud allegations ...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
China new variant of COVID 19 could infect 65 million per week.
Zhong Nanshan, a top Chinese epidemiologist, said Monday that two new vaccines for the XBB omicron subvariants (including XBB. 1.9.1, XBB. 1.5, and XBB. 1.16) had received initial approval, accord...Published: 26 May 2023 at 10:27hrs | 1 | by Erick Matotoba
Zimbabwean jailed 16 years for bringing unauthorised explosives into SA
The Musina Regional Court in Limpopo sentenced a man to 16 years in prison for bringing unauthorised explosives into the country as well as missing a court appearance.Prosper Takunda Henry Mum...Published: 24 May 2023 at 17:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man killed at Limpopo Bridge
BEITBRIDGE border security officials are investigating another case of murder after a Zimbabwean man known only as Welly, was killed at the Old Limpopo Bridge on Thursday morning on the South African ...Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gweru set to duplicate traffic lights
GWERU City Council environment committee chairperson, councillor Trust Chineni (ward 15) says the local authority has approved plans to install traffic lights next to the ones installed earlier by one...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA Border guard kills Zimbabwean man
THE trial of a member of South Africa's Border Management Authority (BMA) who recently shot and killed a Zimbabwean man on the New Limpopo Bridge has been postponed to May 26 when he appeared at Musin...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man gets 15 years in jail for copper cable theft in SA
A Zimbabwean man was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment for theft of copper cables from a farm in Limpopo.The Musina Regional Court convicted and sentenced a Zimbabwean national, Shepard Muno...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA courts get tougher with Zimbabwean cigarettes smugglers
TWO people, one of them a Zimbabwean, were last week jailed in South Africa as the neighbouring country gets tough on cigarette smugglers.Prosecutors in that country are calling for stiffer pe...Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 05:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Oscar Pambuka jailed 12 months
FORMER Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation television (ZBC-TV) presenter Oscar Pambuka was yesterday slapped with a one year jail term for attempting to defraud Croco Motors of R36 000.Pambuka w...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Oscar Pambuka convicted of fraud
FORMER television presenter Oscar Pambuka was today convicted on charges of attempting to defraud a Harare-based transporter of R36 000 after misrepresenting to him that he was Mr Chingwena, Cro...Published: 18 Jan 2023 at 20:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Minister lashes out at investors abusing workers
MINES and Mining Development minister Winston Chitando has criticised investors in the extractive industry who are flagrantly violating human and labour rights.Chitando encouraged underpaid an...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:18hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
36 ex-Zupco staff sue for terminal benefits
Fired Zupco employees have sued the company for terminating their contracts before they expired and for unpaid salaries and terminal benefits.The 36 employees have since approached the Nationa...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 05:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Headman bullies villagers over Zanu-PF meetings
A HEADMAN in Mtawatawa, Uzumba-Maramba-Pfungwe, has threatened to banish villagers from the area if they fail to attend Zanu-PF indoctrination meetings.Simbarashe Chingoma, Moses Jaji, Progres...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 07:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zambia arrests 436 illegal immigrants
Zambian Immigration department has arrested 436 foreign nationals from different African countries for being in Zambia without papers.Ruling UPND Spokesperson Joseph Kalimbwe has condemn...Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 10:46hrs | 8 | by Mandla Ndlovu
China opposes sanctions for good reasons
One month after the Ukraine crisis broke out, China and an increasing number of like-minded nations, particularly developing countries, have voiced objection to unilateral sanctions by United States-l...Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Zhang Yunbi
Zimbabwean man gets R20 000 bail for smuggling
The trial of a 52 year-old Zimbabwean man who was recently arrested with R30 million worth of smuggled cigarettes in South Africa has been set for January 17 next year at the Polokwane Magistrate Cour...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:32hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe the new Cold War front
ON February 5, 2018 United States President Donald Trump wrote to the US Congress that he was extending sanctions on Zimbabwe by another year. This year President Joe Biden did the same.The gi...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:28hrs | 13 | by Nevanji Madanhire
China vs USA: In the battles over lowly Zimbabwe, it is what Zimbabweans want that is important
There are a number of new stories that are emerging about the role of China in Zimbabwe. In the past, the Chinese Embassy would have been less robust in defense of its bilateral aid to Zimbabw...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 07:23hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
South African soldiers denied bail in car smuggling case
Seven SA National Defence Force (SANDF) members who allegedly helped to ferry suspected stolen vehicles across the Zimbabwean border were denied bail, following reports that they were planning to esca...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinese project fans Zanu-PF factionalism
Chinese coal mining upstart Beifa Investments Private Limited has stepped up coal exploration around Dinde in Hwange despite sustained community objections as the acrimonious relationship between the ...Published: 23 May 2021 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fraudster implicates Oppah Muchinguri
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Mvurwi allegedly fired shots and arrested four fraudsters who were fleecing Tobacco farmers in Mvurwi on Thur...Published: 15 May 2021 at 20:01hrs | 12 | by Paul Ndou
Mutsvangwa fights to open Zimbabwe airwaves more
THE government said yesterday that it planned to open up the country's airwaves further by issuing more television and radio licences to independent players.Speaking during a well-supported Da...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 23:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Suspected armed robber freed
HIGH Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi has released on bail a suspected armed robber, Brian Mubaiwa, accused of robbing a Chinese national of gold worth US$50 000. Justice Chitapi granted Mu...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 18:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinese mine managers held hostage
OVER 80 workers at the Chinese-owned Fools Investment Mine outside Bulawayo yesterday held the mine management hostage demanding better wages after the company offered to pay them US$50 each for the m...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner in fresh labour storm
CHINESE-OWNED Fools Investment Mine in Hope Fountain near Bulawayo has reportedly dismissed all its underground workers without notice, prompting the trade union which represents workers to threaten t...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
West's Zimbabwean political project crumbling
There is an interesting quotation from the Old Man in Charles Mungoshi's "Waiting for the Rain" (1975). It is a quotation that epitomises his lament about the alienation that has afflicted Lucifer, hi...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:13hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
Why Chinese model has not benefited Africa
Diverse views have been expressed about the Chinese socio-political and economic model.These range from the Chinese themselves, who, of course, uncritically praise their system as a faultless ...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:44hrs | 8 | by Arthur G O Mutambara
Air Zimbabwe's proud moment in Namibia
ZIMBABWE on Tuesday delivered for free a consignment of 100 000 Covid-19 Sinopharm vaccine donated by the Chinese Government to Namibia aboard an Air Zimbabwe flight as the country scales up its globa...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Violent Chinese miner deported from Zimbabwe
A CHINESE man, who was recorded while assaulting his employees was last week, was ordered to leave the country by Bulawayo magistrate Mr Stephen Ndhlovu, for unlawfully and intentionally remaining in ...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 18:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinese firm embroiled in COVID-19 testing storm
A CHINESE mining company, Afrochine Smelting has been embroiled in a COVID-19 testing scandal after it allegedly assigned unqualified personnel to carry out tests for the respiratory virus on its 600 ...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner attacks employees for demanding last year's dues
TWO mine workers at the Fools Investment Mine in Hope Fountain, which is just outside Bulawayo, were last Saturday assaulted by their Chinese employer after theydemanded payment of their outstandi...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man sought over SA double murder
Two people appeared this week in the Polokwane Magistrate's Court in connection with the murder of Ocean Basket seafood restaurant owner Lizette Deacon and her mother Hettie, the NPA said on Tuesday....Published: 24 Sep 2020 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa implicates police officers in gold rush
Kwekwe based Sakile Mnangagwa (31) who is a business partner to Gostaff Gomo at Trump -Tower Minerals private has implicated three police officers who were involved in a gold rush at Zhangazha plot, V...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 10:33hrs | | by Tarisai Mudahondo / Simbarashe Sithole
Economy as the superstructure in Zimbabwe
There were a number of by-elections in Zimbabwe over the last month.One was for the local government in my rural home district of Bikita East in Masvingo province. The others were for the parl...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha
Electricity cuts, lifestyles and modified behaviour in Zimbabwe
Electricity and access to it is a big issue in Zimbabwe at the moment. Not least by admission of our own government, but more importantly by the lived realities of many urban-based Zimbabweans, civil ...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 08:03hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Considerations on Zimbabwe's future
ZIMBABWE'S future is rarely discussed in holistic terms in everyday conversations. This is because the future is always in the immediate.This may appear contradictory or even complex, but it i...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
ZCTU can do better than demonstrate for redollarisation
No good deed goes unpunished.Normally, the doer of a good deed expects just a "thank you", but usually someone is adversely affected by the good deed. For example, saving someone's life from a...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 08:10hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Africa in global cold war: A return to consciousness struggle
THE British daily, the Guardian recently published a story on how Russia has new plans to exert its influence across the African content. All in return for the usual imperial desires such as natural r...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha
Zupco jokes, economic class and hedonistic individualism in Zimbabwe
There can be a bit of a laugh, if you are on social media, concerning the political-economic goings-on in Zimbabwe.There should not (strictly speaking) be. But on social media, there is and hu...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 06:56hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
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