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'Detective Kedha' in the eye of a storm
The highly publicised rape trial of social media influencer Mai Jeremaya has come to a controversial end, with Harare magistrate Letwin Rwodzi dismissing the charges against the two accused men, Thabo...Published: 07 Jul 2025 at 09:09hrs | 455 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition rift widens as Mamombe-Nyandoro feud escalates
The widening split within Zimbabwe's opposition ranks has taken a personal and public turn, as the rift between former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) allies Joana Mamombe and Bridget Nyandoro con...Published: 14 Apr 2025 at 14:16hrs | 1225 | by Staff reporter
'Stop demonising ZANU-PF faithfuls, we'll expose real criminals,' Musindo
HARARE - Founding leader for Destiny of Afrika Network and clergyman, Reverend Obadiah Musindo has threatened to expose real criminals behind ZANU-PF's tainted repute, with his address declaring that ...Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 21:48hrs | 1120 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Tagwirei can join politics, SDA leaders give their blessings
Some leaders within the Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) church have come out in strong support of business tycoon and philanthropist Kudakwashe Tagwirei's foray into active politics, dismissing objections...Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 13:04hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
Voters raise middle fingers, amid ZANU-PF vote-buying storm
Defiant and disgruntled Glenview South voters signalled displeasure yesterday over corrupt party vultures whom they are accusing of looting donation...Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 07:30hrs | 774 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
'Porn-obsessed karate kid,' Mahere chides Charamba
Lawyer and politician, Fadzai Mahere yesterday described Zimbabwe's Deputy Chief Secretary (Presidential Communications) in the Office of the President and Cabinet, Mr George Charamba as a phenomenal ...Published: 04 Apr 2025 at 15:19hrs | 3219 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Chamisa receives support after public vilification
Zimbabwe's main opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa, has received an outpouring of support from his political allies and analysts following a scathing attack on his character by public commentator Reaso...Published: 07 Mar 2025 at 07:30hrs | 987 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF leader in fuel tender scam
A Zanu-PF District Coordinating Committee (DCC) member in Zaka is under fire for allegedly failing to deliver 9,000 liters of fuel paid for by the Zaka Rural District Council (RDC) over the past three...Published: 12 Oct 2024 at 16:41hrs | 3299 | by Staff reporter
'I didn't flirt with Chivayo'
Businessman Wicknell Chivayo recently made headlines for controversial reasons when his Instagram chats with socialites and married women were leaked, showing him allegedly flirting and soliciting sex...Published: 22 Jul 2024 at 15:15hrs | 2456 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo says 'leaked' social media screenshots are fake
Social media personality Wicknell Chivayo, known for his opulent lifestyle and donations to individuals linked to the ruling Zanu-PF party, has addressed allegations about leaked screenshots of his pr...Published: 20 Jul 2024 at 16:24hrs | 1999 | by Staff reporter
'Gappah needs mental help,' says Judge
Zimbabwean High Court Justice Joseph Mafusire says local lawyer Petina Gappah needs "psychological intervention" - mental assistance - amid her unrestrained scandalous attacks on the judge and the jud...Published: 22 Mar 2024 at 11:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF activist drags co-tenant to court
A Zanu-PF activist has approached the Harare magistrates' court seeking a peace order against his co-tenant that he accuses of hurting his feelings with her anti-ruling party statements.Willar...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 11:51hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
I was a victim of circumstances, says visas 'scam' woman
A woman from Harare who recently gained notoriety on social media for allegedly deceiving Zimbabwean individuals seeking sponsorship certificates and visas to travel abroad has stepped forward to decl...Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 07:49hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Charumbira not fired from PAP, it's fake news
The Pan African Parliament speaks on the fake story of the firing of Chief Charumbira.Team Pachedu on Friday said in a statement:"Chief Fortune Charumbira (ZANU-PF) has been fired from...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 21:17hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa re-appoints Mohadi vice president
Two years after being forced to quit in ignominy following a sex scandal, Kembo Mohadi was on Friday re-appointed Zimbabwe's vice president as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's final five-year term got o...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 18:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate accused of lying
Harare regional magistrate Vongai Guriro Muchuchuti is on Thursday expected to hear submissions by prosecutors following an application by land developer Georgios Katsimberis seeking her recusal from ...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
A critical review of Al Jazeera's Gold Mafia documentary
APRIL, famously characterised as "the cruellest month" by distinguished poet and literary critic TS Eliot in his critically acclaimed essay "The Wasteland" - not because its first day celebrates fools...Published: 28 May 2023 at 17:07hrs | 6 | by Jonathan Moyo
ZimEye slapped with lawsuit over Qoki ZiNdlovukazi stories
Qoki ZiNdlovukazi Investments has instituted legal action against online publication ZimEye for allegedly writing falsehoods against the organization and claiming that the organization had one Directo...Published: 21 May 2023 at 17:51hrs | 27 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Kazembe, Matanga taken to court
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe have been sued over their arbitrary ban on a demonstration against the looting of diamonds in Marange and failure b...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
End of the road for Tsvangirai's MDC
D-DAY has arrived for the MDC brand, with the electorate expected to decide its fate, as analysts say the iconic party associated with the firebrand Morgan Tsvangirai may disappear into oblivion if it...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:38hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
The rise and fall of the MDC: Winners, losers and neutrals
AS Zimbabwe approaches crucial by-elections in March, which will test the strength of main contestants while determining the authentic opposition, there is no denying that the MDC, which has posed the...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:21hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Bushiri's brother-in-law dumps church
Prominent Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) leader Apostle Tannah Israel (real name Tanatswa Makore) has formally announced that he has left the Prophet Shepherd Bushiri led ministry. ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 12:07hrs | 128 | by Mandla Ndlovu
A plot to dethrone Matanga from police exposed
Once again social media was abuzz with Twitter messages spread by Temba Mliswa attacking the Police Commissioner-General Godwin Tandabantu Matanga. Themba is a big mouth and an attention seeker who ha...Published: 27 Jun 2021 at 23:12hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Varakashi: New agents of terrorism
THERE'S a big, big omen of nasty things to come. The Zanu-PF government wants to revive the Green Bombers.You will remember the youth training programme at the turn of the new millennium....Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:25hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni
Bosso legends speak out on 1976 player defection
THE strength of Highlanders FC has always been its members and sympathisers in the last 95 years. True to what today's fans say: "Ubuhle lamandla eBosso kukubalandeli bayo" the club weathered a fierce...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 09:08hrs | 1 | by Lovemore Dube
Energy Mutodi files police report
Former Information Deputy Minister Energy Mutodi has filed a police report against an impostor accused of identity theft.This report follows a Facebook post purported to be from Energy Mutodi ...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 10:03hrs | 12 | by Claris Magwenzi
Do morals require a code of conduct for politicians?
Tongues were sent into overdrive in the recent past weeks amid revelations of a multitude of trysts of Zimbabwe's the third in command, Vice President Kembo Mohadi with numerous married. What started ...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 21:40hrs | 7 | by Sibusisiwe Tshuma
Sexgate claims VP Mohadi
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi (71), who has been battling a series of sex scandals allegedly involving married women, his aides and students, yesterday resigned to "save government's image".In a...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:51hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi resigns to save image of the country
Vice President Kembo Mohadi yesterday resigned to save the image of the Government and allow him space to pursue legal remedies in the wake of allegations on social media that suggested immoral behavi...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vice President Mohadi resigns
Vice President Kembo Mohadi has tendered his resignation to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and issued a statement to that effect.In his address the Vice President said he was stepping down to sa...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 17:00hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Govt stifling NGOs democratic space: Lawyers
HUMAN rights lawyers have criticised government for closing democratic space in the county to stifle the free operation of non-governmental organisations (NGOs).In a statement to mark the Inte...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
I am a victim of voice cloning, claims Mohadi
VICE President Kembo Mohadi has distanced himself from what he described as imagined immoral unions by detractors angling to tarnish his political career as well as his standing as a national leader....Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 17:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Walking the corridors of the engagement and re-engagement policy
The most difficult people to convince that the situation in Zimbabwe is mutually hurting are neither the politicians nor the ordinary person in the streets, but the intellectuals. They are the ones wh...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 20:33hrs | 7 | by Emmanuel Murema
False and malicious article concerning the RBZ
The Business Times edition of 29 August - 4 September 2019 carried an article headlined "Bosses implicated in gold smuggling", with the subtitle "RBZ, two Harare businessmen 'behind intricate underhan...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 21:38hrs | | by John P Mangudya
Whistle-blower claims US$300k from Zimra for character assassination
A WHISTLE-BLOWER, who allegedly assisted the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) to recover over US$600 million from tax defaulters, has petitioned the High Court seeking US$300 000 compensation, accus...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 08:05hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko took US$3 million payout for 7% stake to quit Choppies
Former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko and his son Siqokoqela have sold their shares in Choppies Supermarkets Zimbabwe for US$2.9 million, the company has announced.In a notice to shareholde...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 11:52hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
Choppies suspended CEO denies allegations made against him
Suspended Choppies CEO, Mr Ramachandran (Ram) Ottapathu has hit out at the company for criticising him in Stock Exchange News Services (Sens) announcements in Botswana and South Africa.He was ...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 10:19hrs | 1 | by Agencies
ZANU PF's Harare infighting turns messy
The battle for the heart and soul of ZANU PF Harare Province has turned nasty after rival factions fighting for positions in the Provincial Executive have resorted to mudslinging and character assassi...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 09:50hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mudzuri not on MDC agenda
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC is heading into a potentially explosive standing committee meeting today following the embarrassing and hostile reception deputy president Elias Mudzuri received at last wee...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jim kunaka's testimony: an epiphany of society's rupture
Zimbabwe is struggling to establish common ground on conflict resolution where even the formations of conflict-resolution institutions have turned to be spaces of ideological contest and score settlin...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 08:33hrs | 3 | by Micheal Mhlanga
Mliswa mocks Gender Commission
FIREBRAND Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa, on Wednesday tore into the Zimbabwe Gender Commission, accusing it of being hypocritical after it failed to come to the defence of former Vice-President Joic...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 11:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa must open flood gates for contestation without prejudice
Dear MDC Members,It is most gratifying to note that we still have freedom of expression in this party of ours. With vast literacy skills, I, therefore, wonder how that venom could be directed ...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 21:40hrs | | by MDC member
Zapu Presidency has not deviated
During the past 2 weeks there has been a deliberate but vehement psychological attack on Zapu. First it was its President who was reported to have endorsed Emmerson Mnangagwa. Some misguided journalis...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 08:42hrs | 2 | by Mkhululi Zulu
Character assassination
Zanu pf is a character Assassinator. It is so bad to be associated with them that a person with a conscience would feel like he is in a satanic church. I just wonder how it feels like to be a member o...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 16:06hrs | | by Clement Moyo
The truth about these elections
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Thomas Paine, 1777. Political or public office is not the platform for pilfering...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 23:11hrs | 1 | by Erick Matotoba
Will Justice Priscilla Chigumba deliver a credible election?
Zimbabwe will be going to the polls soon and Chairperson of Zimbabwe Electoral Commission is expected to deliver a free, fair and credible election.As election date draws closer, there are mor...Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 14:20hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Candidates must shun hate speech
WITH the general elections due in 20 days and political temperatures at their peak, we call on the political actors to exercise extreme restraint and stick to the dictates of the peace pledge which th...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Aspiring Zanu-PF MPs get nod to campaign
Zanu-PF candidates contesting in Sunday's primary elections have been given the green light to start their campaigns after their respective provincial coordinating committee (PCC) meetings held yester...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Remove Mujuru from that fake list of externalisers'
Revolutionary greetings dear comrades. I have always warned you of Zanu PF politics of lies. Lies are in its DNA. If you remove lies from Zanu PF, then that will be its demise. It will be driven into ...Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 09:41hrs | 1 | by Khulani David Ndhlovu
Damning report on Zimbabwe coup
Zimbabwe's military neutralised former police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri and former Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Happyton Bonyongwe after they became a political threa...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 15:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
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