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Zimbabwe secures US$1,5bn for dams, irrigation and power projects
Zimbabwe has successfully raised over US$1.5 billion in funding to advance major dam projects across the country, including Musami Dam, which will supply water to the developing capital city in Mt Ham...Published: 10 Nov 2024 at 10:45hrs | 207 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa caps 1,708 at Lupane State University
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday awarded degrees to 1,708 students at Lupane State University (LSU)'s 15th graduation ceremony, celebrating the institution's first cohort of students under the S...Published: 10 Nov 2024 at 10:43hrs | 86 | by Staff reporter
FULL LIST: President Mnangagwa honours best performing public official
In a prestigious ceremony held at the State House in Harare, President Mnangagwa honored the outstanding performance of several key public officials across various sectors. The event, which mark...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 11:16hrs | 23 | by George Tshuma
Zimbabwe ministries fight over key institutions
A SIMMERING dispute between the Higher and Tertiary Education and the newly-established Skills Audit and Development ministries has escalated into a full-blown turf war, raising concerns about the pot...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 04:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The Nutty Professor
Looking at most political analysts in Zimbabwean political perspective Jonathan Moyo confounds me with a professor who does not stand on his words and behaves like a pendulum, a flip flopper in the ma...Published: 02 Sep 2023 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Chamisa ally's law firm placed under curatorship for conning client
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Kucaca Phulu's law firm has been placed under curatorship on the orders of the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) for allegedly conning a client of US$26,000 ...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 07:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cabinet approves TVET policy
Cabinet has approved the Zimbabwe National Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Policy, an all-encompassing framework that seeks to harmonise and standardise the coordination of lear...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:50hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Kenyan hacker syphons $20M from Zimdef bank account
A KENYAN national yesterday appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court charged with hacking the Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef) systems and syphoning $20 million from its bank account....Published: 06 Jan 2023 at 16:49hrs | 10 | by Staff Reporter
Exposing Mudenda and Chokuda double standards
Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda and the Clerk of Parliament Kennedy Mugove Chokuda have been exposed as being corrupt and dishonest in executing their duties and functions at Parliament.Th...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 11:22hrs | | by Maxwell Chaunoita
Zimbabwe on alert for measles outbreak
Cabinet received an update on the Country‘s Response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and a report on the procurement and roll-out of vaccines, as presented by the Chairman of the National Covid-19 Inter-M...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
77 goats die at LSU due to procurement malpractices
Seventy-seven (77) goats died at Lupane State University due to procurement malpractices in a clear abuse of state funds.The $52 000 000 for Innovation and Industrialisation from ZIMDEF has co...Published: 22 May 2022 at 13:37hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimdef in huge High Court setback over tender
PAN-AFRICAN technology and software firm, Twenty Third Century Systems (TTCS) has won its High Court case against Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef), over a tender where the quasi-government ...Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 10:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tightens firm chokehold on Jonathan Moyo
FORMER cabinet minister, MP and Zanu-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo, who escaped by death by a whisker when the army stormed his home and that of a friend guns blazing during the 2017 military coup...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
LSU rocked by unscrupulous procurement deals
LUPANE State University (LSU) is reportedly rocked by unscrupulous procurement deals after it received 52 000 000.00 for Innovation and Industrialisation from ZIMDEF.Indications are that...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 10:51hrs | 6 | by Stephen Jakes
Air Zimbabwe loses US$127 000 to property fraudster
A 44-YEAR-OLD Harare resident yesterday appeared before magistrate Yeukai Dzuda charged with defrauding Air Zimbabwe of US$127 000.Dzuda remanded Washington Hamunakwadi to today for trial date...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 08:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Brother rapes sister
A 19-year-old man from Mufakose in Harare appeared in court yesterday on allegations of raping his five-year-old sister on Christmas eve after she was left in his custody while their mother was attend...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:03hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
3 in Japan to develop Zimbabwean satellite
THREE local scientists have been sent to Japan to produce a Zimbabwean satellite so that the country has presence in space amid reports that the Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef) has used mo...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:50hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
UZ student says government cancelled scholarship over vote campaign
A youth activist who has been campaigning for the registration of new voters has had his government scholarship cancelled over alleged links with the opposition.University of Zimbabwe student ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:58hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
US court exonerates Zimbabwean 'fugitive' businessman
A ZIMBABWE Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef ) contractor, who was alleged to be a fugitive from justice in the United States, was never convicted of any crime in that country, it has emerged....Published: 21 May 2021 at 06:10hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Zimdef no longer a vehicle for looting'
More employers are now beginning to trust the Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef) because it is no longer a vehicle for self-enrichment but for skills creation, the Minister of Higher and Tert...Published: 11 May 2021 at 09:02hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zesa disconnects Kariba council offices
KARIBA Town Council headquarters has been without power for over two months after being switched off by the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), a subsidiary of Zesa Hol...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa thrashes fake Twitter account, fingers Jonathan Moyo
WAR veterans' national chairperson Chris Mutsvangwa has dismissed a Twitter account bearing his name saying it is the work of the fallen G40 minions who are seeking relevance by cloning his name on so...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 20:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police follow up on Jonathan Moyo rape claims
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has directed police in Bulawayo to look for veteran modelling instructor Ms Sipho Ncube-Mazibuko as part of investigations following her rape allegations aga...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Open letter over illegal immigrant Indians in Zimbabwe
The borehole drilling industry is a lucrative industry that has the capacity to transform Zimbabwe's agricultural sector.It is unfortunate that illegal Indians are running this industry and ta...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 16:44hrs | 1 | by John Mbizvo
Illegal Indian immigrants takes over Zimbabwe's borehole drilling industry
A group of illegal indian borehole drillers met in Harare today to strategise on how they can take over the entire country and share it among themselves.The illegal immigrants are drilling bor...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 20:32hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli Ncube in USD$ 500 million scam
Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube has been sucked into a U SD$ 500 million scam involving Treasury Bills Professor Jonathan Moyo, a fugitive from justice, has alleged.Post...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 13:18hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo hiding in Kenya
Details on the self-exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo continue to emerge and the Harare Post reported that...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 19:49hrs | | by Dakarai Tembo
Chaos, corruption in councils
THIS continues from last week as we look at actual examples of some of the rot happening in councils reported in the Auditor-General's Report for Local Authorities 2018.The report shows the ex...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 14:28hrs | | by Miriam Tose Majome
How CIOs benefited from Jonathan Moyo's ZIMDEF funds
Professor Jonathan Moyo has published documents that reveal that the Central Intelligence Organisation and the Zimbabwe Republic Police benefited from the ZMDEF money that he is alleged to have abused...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 16:29hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe has an artisan shortage, here is how to fix it
ACCORDING to Zimstat, Zimbabwe had 93 714 university students as at August 2017, but only 25 952 polytechnic students. Harare, Zimbabwe's capital city, has six universities, but only one polytechnic....Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Jonathan Moyo denies recieving $400 000 from Gono
Professor Jonathan Moyo has denied allegations that he was paid $400 000 by former Reserve Bank Govenor Dr Gideon Gono to draft a ZANU PF manifesto in 2008 bloody run off elections that claimed lives ...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 13:53hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo not yet on Interpol radar
EXILED former Zanu PF politburo member and Cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo is not yet on the International Criminal Police Organisation's (Interpol) surveillance radar, with the organisation's visiting...Published: 27 May 2019 at 12:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Mugabe, Chamisa fell for Jonathan Moyo's scheming
The fall of the old dispensation in November 2017 also claimed the scalps of the G40 kingpin, Professor Jonathan Moyo and his acolytes Saviour Kasukuwere and Patrick Zhuwao, among others. Some people ...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 14:30hrs | | by Elijah Chihota
Professor Murwira scraps ZIMDEF protocol budget
Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Minister, Professor Amon Murwira has ordered the scrapping of a $250 000 annual "protocol" budget provided for the minister by the Zimbabwe Manpow...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 18:44hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo claims he has evidence Mnangagwa lost 2018 election
EXILED former Zanu-PF spin-doctor and ex-Cabinet Minister Jonathan Moyo has sensationally claimed he has "incontrovertible evidence" that President Emmerson Mnangagwa lost last year's presidential ele...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:10hrs | 2 | by newzimbabwe
Hordes apply for Zacc posts
Parliament has been inundated by applications from potential corruption busters willing to join the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), with 130 aspirants having thrown their hats into the rin...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 09:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ndebele Chiefs to issue statement on Jonathan Moyo
The Secretary for Matabeleland North Chiefs, Mr Nothiwani Dlodlo has announced that Matabeleland Chiefs will soon issue a statement regarding exiled former cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo who...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 21:02hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo lawsuit crumbles
Former Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo's $9 million defamation lawsuit against Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) and its journalists crumble...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsholotsho RDC CEO resigns
TSHOLOTSHO Rural District Council (RDC) Chief Executive Officer Mr Themba Moyo, who is facing allegations of fraud and misconduct, has resigned with immediate effect. His problems started when an audi...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 22:35hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Gandawa in hiding
Former Higher Education deputy minister Godfrey Gandawa has for the first time spoken out on why he is on the run, claiming he had received credible information to the effect that state security agent...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 09:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt resumes apprenticeship training
About 1 000 young people will this year enrol for apprenticeship training at various State institutions as Government resumes the programme abandoned in 2015 to pave way for (Science, Technology, Engi...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 07:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
It's cold out there Jonathan Moyo
Those living in glass houses should not throw stones! This should have been a guiding adage to Prof Jonathan Moyo before he tried to expose the so called skeletons in Strive Masiyiwa's closet....Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Brightface Mutema
Linda Masarira attacks Jonathan Moyo
MDC-T National Spokesperson Linda Masarira has attacked exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo calling him a thief who failed to use his brains to improve the livelihoods of Zimbabweans."It's obnoxiou...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 12:48hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa endorsements dangerous for Zimbabwe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has repeatedly told us that his post-Robert Mugabe administration won't bother about politics, but the economy. That's a measured lie that was never going to make sense an...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:51hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
The ED administration has made significant strides
Last week the opposition and other anti-Government detractors were excited by the United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of States for Africa, Matthew Harrington's submission on Zimbabwe to the US S...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 10:46hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Bootlicking politics is our major problem
Zimbabwe has for the 37 years bedeviled by politics for the stomach, especially in the ruling party. Political jobs that comes by appointment leaves the appointees and those who have a potenti...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 18:14hrs | 1 | by Isaac Nkomah
Jonathan Moyo up in arms about STEM lies
Former Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Professor Jonathan Moyo has blasted his successor Professor Amos Murirwa accussing him of lying to parliament...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 10:25hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa has created 800,000 jobs, claims govt
It is a year since President Emmerson Mnangagwa came into power after the army dislodged long-time ruler Robert Mugabe in dramatic fashion.Mnangagwa, who bounced back a few days after being fi...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 08:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe ignored coup warnings,' says Jonathan Moyo
FORMER President Robert Mugabe was forewarned about the coup that would topple him from power, but distrusted those who warned him and believed his then deputy Emmerson Mnangagwa and former Defence Fo...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo clears air on ZIMDEF
Exiled Former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo has come out in the open for the first time to clear air on the allegations that he stole $3 million from the Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (Zimd...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:49hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
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