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Zuma arms deal persecution is weird, says Thuli Madonsela
Former public protector Prof Thuli Madonsela has dropped a bombshell that former president Jacob Zuma's prosecution regarding the controversial arms deal is a mystery. Her remarks came during ...Published: 05 Nov 2024 at 09:30hrs | 1194 | by Staff reporter
Captured judiciary delivers for DA
MK Party (MKP) deputy president John Hlophe has been interdicted from taking part in any Judicial Service Commission (JSC) activities, pending a review of the National Assembly's decision to designate...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 10:59hrs | 542 | by Staff reporter
Lithuania seizes shipment of fire trucks to Zimbabwe
Lithuania is holding onto 17 fire engines seized in 2021 while being shipped to Zimbabwe from neighbouring Belarus which is under European Union sanctions, officials said on Wednesday.Zimbabwe...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 19:03hrs | 2307 | by Staff reporter
Cold Monday morning for DA, FF+, ACDP, BOSA as Dr John Hlophe elected to JSC
Several parties in the new governing coalition firmly supported Hlophe's nomination, while the Inkatha Freedom Party stayed on the fence.The National Assembly on Tuesday designated John Hlophe...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 12:53hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe loses more than US$23b through IFFs
Zimbabwe lost more than US$23 billion through illicit financial flows (IFFs) between 1980 and 2018, a new report compiled by the African Development Bank (AfDB) shows.Other sources, however, s...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:25hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Zuma to represent Belarus at carbon credits indaba in Zimbabwe
Former president Jacob Zuma will represent Belarus at a Zimbabwe conference on the trade in African carbon credits, according to the organisers of the event.Zuma, who was seen entering the eve...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 10:41hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Russia's Wagner has 'footprints in Zimbabwe'?
RUSSIAN mercenary group Wagner Group has been implicated in illicit gold mining dealings in Zimbabwe, according to a latest report by data analysts and an African research organisation.The Wag...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:46hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa associate biggest winner in Zimbabwe-Belarus deals
ZIMBABWE'S honorary consul to Belarus Alexander Zingman, a close associate to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his counterpart Alexander Lukashenko, was the biggest winner in trade agreements signed t...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lukashenko's eagerness for Mnangagwa to win elections casts serious doubts over credibility of deals signed!
Normally, when a national leader visits another country, he is expected - on account of common decency, respect and statesmanship - to keep clear of his hosts' domestic politics. It would have...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 12:13hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
President Lukashenko, be warned, Zimbabwe will never be a colony again!
Amongst all the hullabaloo, with the pomp and fanfare, surrounding the so-called 'historic' state visit by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to Zimbabwe - some of us are more wary of a leader ...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 08:51hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Ramaphosa gives Zuma ultimatum
President Cyril Ramaphosa gave his predecessor Jacob Zuma until Monday to withdraw his "abusive" private prosecution against him, failing which the unprecedented and politically explosive situation co...Published: 18 Dec 2022 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Untrustworthy Biden aims to narrow trust gap with US-Africa leaders summit
United States President Joe Biden is set to play host to dozens of African leaders in Washington this week as the White House looks to narrow a gaping trust gap with Africa - one that has grown wider ...Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 18:40hrs | 1 | by Associated Press
Another probe into AK-47 arms saga
GOVERNMENT has launched yet another investigation — the third one so far in as many weeks — into the controversial AK-47s arms import saga through Beitbridge Border Post which is now entangled in ...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 15:00hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
November 2017 military coup promises shattered
PROMISES of a break with the past and a new beginning, economic recovery, freedom, democratic re-alignment and prosperity by military commanders at the onset of Zimbabwe's 2017 coup as well as b...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 18:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Belarus spreads Zimbabwe footprint
BELARUS has increased its footprint in Zimbabwe after cabinet this week announced that it was concluding a framework to award the Eastern European country a tender to construct a 100-megawatt photovol...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge arms smuggling saga: Fears Mnangagwa was main target
FEARS are mounting within President Emmerson Mnangagwa's inner security circle that the arms which were smuggled into the country through Beitbridge by a seasoned gun-runner without a consignee were m...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military commanders investigate Beitbridge arms saga
WHAT started as an arms smuggling racket by seasoned gun-runners who bungled their mission like amateurs has now deteriorated into a major political scandal maddening President Emmerson Mnangagwa and ...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 17:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe arms smuggling saga deepens as new details on the deal emerge
THE recent saga involving the botched smuggling of AK-47 assault rifles and scores of ammunition magazines is deepening as it takes a new political twist amid fresh details.Those close to Pres...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:18hrs | 61 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's scapegoat for governance failure
AHEAD of the 2023 polls, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government - after largely failing to fulfill its 2018 election promises - has found a scapegoat to justify its dismal bad governance record by ...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:04hrs | 14 | by Brenna Matendere
Mysterious AK-47 assault rifles were smuggled for Zimbabwe Presidential Guard?
THE deepening mystery behind the recent botched smuggling of AK-47 assault rifles and scores of ammunition magazines through Beitbridge border post - now playing out in the courts - has been unravelle...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 15:20hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa-run councils will 'reject' July Moyo's fire trucks
The Citizens Coalition for Change which is the majority party in most urban councils says it is prepared to go to court to stop local government minister July Moyo forcing local authorities to buy fir...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 07:48hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Top of the range vehicle smuggling in region rises
Some criminals in the region are targeting and stealing top-of-the-range vehicles before smuggling them into neighbouring countries, including Zimbabwe, where forged documents are manufactured before ...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:15hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga-Indonesia arms deal jolts UK
THE United Kingdom has expressed concern over reports that Zimbabwe's Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga was shopping for ammunition in Indonesia, amid growing fears of a plan to perpetuate human rig...Published: 28 May 2022 at 19:25hrs | 11 | by Staff Reporter
Chiwenga's Indonesia visit sends shivers
REVELATIONS Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, currently in Indonesia, will hold talks with an arms manufacturing company to buy military hardware for Zimbabwe have sent shivers down the spine of th...Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zambia acting as a strategic hub for US military operation in the region
Investigations have revealed how President Hakainde Hichilema was forced to agree to set up the controversial AFRICOM office in Lusaka by the Brenthurst Foundation.Highly placed diplomatic sou...Published: 10 May 2022 at 08:45hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe flies British fighter jets again despite sanctions
Zimbabwe's Air Force has mysteriously found parts for its grounded Hawk fighter jets - 21 years after Britain imposed a crippling arms embargo.Four BAE Hawk jets took part in a fly-past during...Published: 01 May 2022 at 19:36hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Birthday wishes pour in for Zuma, who remains hospitalised
Birthday wishes have been pouring in on social media for former President Jacob Zuma who celebrates his 80th birthday today.Zuma, who is currently out of jail on medical parole following his r...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 16:06hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Biden's hatred of Russia a liability to US taxpayers, democracy
United States President Joe Biden's obsession with anti-Russian sentiment is underpinned by his greed, his desire to cover up for his brazen corruption in Ukraine and the madness to dominate the world...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:33hrs | 2 | by WETT
Police raid Prophet Magaya's home
POLICE yesterday raided Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walter Magaya's Mt Pleasant home while conducting an investigation, but later cleared him of wrongdoing.It lat...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Jacob Zuma loses arms deal court case
Pietermaritzburg judge Judge Piet Koen has dismissed former South African President Jacob Zuma application to have Prosecutor Billy Downer removed from his arms deal case alleging he and other Nationa...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 08:24hrs | 29 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's oligarchs: The heirs of Cecil Rhodes
As Zimbabwe's economy has spiralled down, with one million economic refugees in South Africa alone and ordinary people facing shortages of food, fuel, medicine and shelter, there is a class of people ...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:29hrs | 20 | by Phillip van Niekerk and a Zim-based Research Team
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
Belarus elites' golden deals with Mnangagwa
IN MARCH 2018, Belarus' autocratic President Alexander Lukashenko dispatched his right-hand man Viktor Sheiman to Zimbabwe to negotiate trade and business deals on the government's behalf.Shei...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:25hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zuma requests financial information for his trial, Ramaphosa's ANC seals documents?
Former South African President Jacob Zuma's legal team has requested the Africa National Congress (ANC) to produce its financial records. This is in relation with the Armsdeal payments.Lawyers...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 11:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unpatriotic, corrupt Zimbabwe govt sells country to China in exchange of 'tang'
"We have turned east, where the sun rises and given our back to the West, where the sun sets," Mugabe told a crowd at National Sports Stadium in 2005. This was a swift shift from one coloniser to anot...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:59hrs | 21 | by Israel Dube
Poisoned Jacob Zuma undergoes surgery
Jailed former South African president Jacob Zuma has undergone unspecified surgery and remains in hospital with more operations planned, prison authorities said on Sunday.Zuma, serving a 15-mo...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 21:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zuma to spend 6 months under medical care...arms deal case postponed
Former South African President Jacob Zuma's arms deal trial has been postponed to 9 September 2021 after the doctors treating said they will provide a report on his health by 20 August. ...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 10:12hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
South Africa's political prisoner admitted to hospital
South Africa's jailed former president, Jacob Zuma, was admitted to hospital for medical observation on Friday, the government's Correctional Services department said.Zuma has been held at Est...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 12:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Some South African judges still have apartheid mentality'
SOUTH AFRICA'S ex-president Jacob Zuma has lashed out at the judges who this week gave him a 15-month jail term for absconding from a corruption inquiry, comparing them to the white minority apartheid...Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 11:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zuma sentenced to 15 months imprisonment
South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has been sentenced to 15 months by the highest court in the country. This came after the Constitutional Court found him guilty of contempt after defy...Published: 29 Jun 2021 at 11:09hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zuma says 'Not guilty' - nails CIA linked prosecutor
More than a decade after former president Jacob Zuma was served with an indictment accusing him of fraud and corruption, he was finally able to enter a plea at the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Wedne...Published: 26 May 2021 at 15:41hrs | 2 | by Des Erasmus
Zuma exposes prosecutor linked to CIA spies
Former president Jacob Zuma has accused prosecutor Billy Downer of turning his criminal case into "a personal legacy project of his own".Inside the Pietermaritzburg High Court, while Advocate ...Published: 26 May 2021 at 14:58hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa splashes US$18 million on helicopter
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken delivery of an US$18 million helicopter in the middle of a major economic slump and growing poverty, ZimLive reported.A Russian Antonov AN-124 - the worl...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 11:09hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally in coup plot storm
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Belarusian business broker Alexander Zingman has said his arrest in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) last month was triggered by "false security reports" that he h...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:20hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's' top ally arrested in DRC
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's top ally, Alexander Zingman, an alleged arms dealer whom the Zanu-PF leader appointed Zimbabwe's honorary consul to Belarus in 2019, was arrested in the Democratic Repub...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 06:01hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga-linked cartels take over public firms, mines, fuel sector - report
HIGHLY secretive cartels linked to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga are reported to have taken over the operations of key state-owned companies, including private f...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 07:33hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Farms deal 'complicates' Zimbabwe crisis
A LANDMARK deal recently inked between white former commercial farmers and the government of Zimbabwe will make it difficult for the country to repay debts, negotiate fresh lines of credit and ask for...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 08:13hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Zuma accuses Ramaphosa of seeking 'white validation'
Former president Jacob Zuma has written to his successor President Cyril Ramaphosa, taking him to task for the latter's letter to party members condemning corruption. In a letter seen by News2...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 20:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africa'second revolution whose time has come: Breaking-away from oppressive partisan poverty politics
The high-sounding and inspirational liberation of the entire of Africa by political parties and liberation movements that lost its cause! The law-abiding citizens that have been reduced to the level o...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 21:20hrs | 7 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
China to impose sanctions on US firms
US companies involved in a potential arms sale worth US$2,2 billion to self-ruled Taiwan will face sanctions, China said, warning Washington "not to play with fire".Taiwan on Saturday defended...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:32hrs | 3 | by News Agencies
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