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Mthuli back track on wealth tax ...amid concerns govt is not applying mind on serious issues
MInister of Finance Mthuli Ncube has reportedly backtracked on the 1% Wealth Tax on property amid concerns by former MDC Matabeleland North senator Chief ...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Mliswa-Chikoka accused of forging Zanu-PF aspiring councillors' signatures
MASHONALAND West Provincial Affairs Minister, Mary Mliswa-Chikoka has been fingered in a fraud storm amid accusations she forged the signatures of three aspiring councillors prompting the Zimbabwe Ele...Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 06:53hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
BCC bows to residents' pressure on security guards
The Bulawayo City Council has backtracked on its plans to disband the Municipal Police and replace it with a private security company, following a backlash from residents.According to a Confid...Published: 05 Jul 2023 at 18:50hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate fired in sex affair scandal
A GWANDA magistrate who reported his female boss for alleged sexual harassment was recently fired, in a toxic matter that has raised controversy.The magistrate claims the female boss has two c...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 20:06hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Man knifes neighbour to death
A 23-YEAR-OLD man from Langwood Farm in Kwekwe in Midlands Province is on the run after he allegedly knifed his neighbour to death.A source close to investigations said Tinashe Siziba (27) wen...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 15:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF commissions borehole twice
IN a surprise development, Zanu-PF has re-commissioned a borehole in Epworth that was first commissioned eight months ago.On Sunday, Zanu-PF commissioned a borehole in ward 1, Epworth, the sam...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
New Zimbabwe Parliament land owners seek US$900 000 compensation
OWNERS of the land on which the new Parliament building has been constructed in Mt Hampden, Harare have filed a US$900 000 lawsuit after government failed to compensate them.The land belongs t...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nurse caught pants down on-duty, married lover runs away
GETTING it on with your lover at work can feel naughty, steamy, and hot but, it can also be a risky "affair" since there can be consequences if you are caught in the act.In a rather strange in...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt backtracks on title deeds
GOVERNMENT has backtracked on its earlier promise to dish out title deeds to thousands of informal settlers in areas around Harare and other parts of the country, and is now saying correct procedures ...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF threatens 'renegade' group 'with tragic consequences'
Zanu-PF has threatened 'with tragic consequences' a dissident group claiming to be part of them which recently claimed President Emmerson Mnangagwa no longer served interests of the party.The ...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:15hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Businessman busted in car sex with married lover
ADULTERY is thrilling until the moment you are busted having sex in a car with someone's wife.Ask Bulawayo businessman Ramutsikabotlalo Mokoena, he will tell you that as much as stolen waters ...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:21hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
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CHIN'ONO GOAT SAGA: ZANU PF youths develop cold feet
ZANU PF Youth Leader Taurai Kandishaya has backtracked on his vow to lead a team of youths to go and collect Boer goats that belong to opposition aligned journalist Hopewell Chin'ono on Sunday....Published: 01 May 2022 at 08:25hrs | 6 | by Mandla Ndlovu
NetOne backtracks on data price hike
CELLULAR network operator, NetOne has reverted to its old One Fi bundle prices as it backtracked on its decision to increase prices by more than 100 percent.10GB of data now costs $6 500, with...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 18:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF internal poll meddling a harbinger to election crisis
THE chaos surrounding Zanu-PF provincial elections following which the ruling party banned its members from celebrating presumed victories in internal polls has once again exposed that democratic proc...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:58hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga rivalry widens
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has banned its members from celebrating presumed victories in its internal polls for provincial executive members in a move seen as an attempt to quash factional fights betwee...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 06:01hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira trial: Witness backtracks
A State witness yesterday backtracked during cross-examination in the trial of former Cabinet Minister Prisca Mupfumira on charges that she improperly pressed for a quick deal without going through te...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 06:19hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Political elites' vacuous populism not serving Zimbabwean people's interest
IN a recent eloquent but rather dense article titled "Dynamics of the Zimbabwe crisis in the 21st century" adopted from a 2003 academic paper of a similar title, Professor Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni ma...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:45hrs | 10 | by Dr Mike Chipere
Trust gets US$5million, collapses in 3 years
THE Marange-Zimunya Community Share Ownership Trust (MZCSOT) has collapsed only three years after the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamonds Corporation (ZCDC) injected US$5 million to prop it, a Zimbabwe Ind...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 18:58hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions won't hold us back, says Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said the alleged economic sanctions imposed on the country by Western countries should no longer continue to hinder government's economic turnaround plans.Spea...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:48hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
MDC mayor moves into mansion
GWERU residents this week came out guns blazing against mayor Josiah Makombe who moved into the mayoral mansion (pictured top) despite his suggestion in past years that the white elephant built in the...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 21:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso chairman in passionate plea for financial assistance
HIGHLANDERS chairman, Johnfat Sibanda has endorsed the appeal to members, supporters as well as well-wishers to assist the club so as to meet its financial obligations.Bosso are racing against...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru ratepayers given 2 weeks to clear debts
GWERU City Council has backtracked on its decision to attach defaulting ratepayers' property and gave them two weeks to clear the arrears, Southern Eye has established.Defaulters owe council o...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Council spurns Mnangagwa wife project
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has backtracked on its pledge to support First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa in the conversion of Chambuta Refugee Camp into a rehabilitation facility for street kids.Gov...Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance lies have short legs, indeed
In 2019, just a year after the harmonised elections, a 'dead protestor' appeared in the dock.Yes, a 'dead' one.The MDC Alliance and some non-governmental organisations played God and c...Published: 27 May 2021 at 07:02hrs | | by Blessings Chidakwa
Stalingrad antics frustrate course of justice
A YEAR after being arrested on charges of faking abductions, the MDC-Alliance trio of Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri, and Netsai Marova have used all tricks available to avoid going to trial in what ...Published: 10 May 2021 at 05:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa fingered in Kamambo trial
The second witness in the trial of ZIFA president, Felton Kamambo, who stands accused of bribing councillors to enable his ascension to the top post, has backtracked on the two statements that he wrot...Published: 03 May 2021 at 17:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Natpharm reverses tender nullification
THE National Pharmaceutical Company (Natpharm) has been forced to reverse a decision to disqualify a Chinese firm from a Covid-19 test kits tender after it had been denied on the basis of excluding tr...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
CNRG calls for Dendairy to publicly renounce its interest in Chilonga
THE Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG) says the threat of evictions remains for Chilonga villagers despite government repealing Statutory Instrument (SI) 50/2021 which had legalised their d...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga distances govt from vaccine controversy
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has backtracked on its intention to file a lawsuit against the government after Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga distanced himself from a recent stateme...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 19:02hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Geoff Nyarota revisits Willowgate scandal
I WAS at the time two months short of 38 years of age and a little-known editor of The Chronicle, the Bulawayo-based daily newspaper.In a building in our neighbourhood in central Bulawayo was ...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:49hrs | | by Geoff Nyarota
Mnangagwa administration: Comedy of errors
GENESIS 3 v 9-11 (NIV), "But the Lord God called the man, where are you? He answered: I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid."This is the first time in the B...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zimbabwe to buy Covid-19 virus shots for two-thirds of population
THE government has backtracked on its earlier position to purchase Covid-19 vaccines for top officials only and now plans to buy drugs to inoculate two-thirds of the population, amid a surge in infect...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Moana burial on Thursday
LATE fitness trainer, Michelle ‘Moana' Amuli's family has backtracked on its decision to bury her remains after at least two to three weeks after finally managing to identify her body.This w...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe attempts to 'steal' Chamisa's money
The MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe, in connivance with government, allegedly attempted to claim the money entitled to Nelson Chamisa's MDC Alliance through the Political Finances Act.Party secre...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZACC boss says 'no-one above law' as husband sucked into NSSA scandal
Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) boss Loice Matanda-Moyo said "no-one is above the law" after her husband Sibusiso Moyo was sucked into the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) corrupti...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 19:06hrs | | by ZimLive
Prophet Magaya saga takes yet another twist
Hardly 72 hours after appearing in an interview in which she accused Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walter Magaya of indecent behaviour, actress Charity Dlodlo has backtrack...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 15:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
We are all thieves, Zivhu admits
Chivi South Member of Parliament (MP) Killer Zivhu has all but admitted that he and other well-connected ruling party politicians as well as government officials are corrupt and would not miss a good ...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 10:51hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi victims snub repatriation offer
THE Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army Veterans Association on Sunday held a meeting to lobby government to facilitate the return of their exiled colleagues who fled the country in the 1980s at the ...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa admits corruption-accused Bosasa paid him R2m
President Cyril Ramaphosa's son Andile has admitted that corruption-accused company Bosasa paid him R2m in a business deal he "sincerely regrets".In an exclusive interview on Monday, Ramaphosa...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 09:33hrs | | by news24
Zimbabwe's muscle-conomics: The Case of Delta and Civil Servants
In a joint press release on January 3 by the central bank and Delta Corporation, whose arm is the country's biggest beverages maker, backtracked on its decision to sell its products in hard currency. ...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 13:40hrs | | by Robert Sigauke, Political Commentator, Cape Town
'Tsvangirai was weak' says MDC leader
MDC Deputy Treasurer General Charlton Hwende has sensationally claimed that the late veteran politician Morgan Tsvangirai was a weak negotiator who failed to negotiate a better deal for the then MDC-T...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 19:56hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC leader recognises Mnangagwa as President
MDC Deputy Treasurer General Charlton on Thursday shocked social media users when he referred to President Emmerson Mnangagwa as 'President' for the first since elections.MDC leadership is on ...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 13:40hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli Ncube’s back and forth bad for economic recovery
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube turns out to be the biggest flip flopper, he is an ingredient to the administration's failure to build confidence domestically and internationally.The hallmark of...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 14:18hrs | | by Jacob Mapfume
Mnangagwa snubs Korean cult leader?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa snubbed the much publicised peace festival organised for the Korean cult leader Hak Ja Han Moon at the National Sports Stadium on Wednesday.His speech was re...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 18:36hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Trevor Ncube attempted to burn his wife?
National Patriotic Front Spokesman Jealousy Mawarire has sensationally alleged that Alpha Media Holdings Boss Trevor Ncube attempted to burn his wife at a date not revealed. The firebrand pol...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 03:56hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa regrets insulting his supporters
MDC leader, Mr Nelson Chamisa, has backtracked on the remarks he made about his supporters who demonstrated on August 1 demanding the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to release results for the president...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cops acquitted for killing a prison officer
TWO Gwanda-based police officers, who were accused of fatally assaulting a drunken prison officer for refusing to be taken to a police holding cell for detention have been acquitted by the High Court....Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man in court for 'strangling' woman
A MAN from Gwanda who allegedly confessed to killing a 50-year-old woman by strangulation in November 2013, has appeared in court. Kelboy Moyo (39) of Mutandawenhema village appeared before Bu...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa chickens out on vows to defy rally ban
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and his party weekend went back on their vows to proceed with their banned ‘thank you' rally which was set for Mbizo in Kwekwe on Sunday.Police last week b...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 13:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Knives out for POSB bosses
A major labour grouping in the financial services sector, has lined up a series of demonstrations against POSB's board and management over an array of allegations, chief among them incompetence. ...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
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