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Chiyangwa locked up over US$583 660 cryptocurrency fraud

A Harare woman, Melissa Messe Samantha Chiyangwa, appeared in court this week charged with swindling a prominent eye specialist of nearly US$600,000 in a complex cryptocurrency scam spanning over two years. She has been remanded in custody…

Published: 27 Jun 2025 at 15:19hrs | 861 | by Staff reporter

Harare Council risks land loss over Chiyangwa compensation directive

The Harare City Council faces potential financial losses running into thousands of dollars if it complies with a government directive to compensate Pinnacle Holdings with several tracts of land - a move that has triggered outrage among cou…

Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 14:25hrs | 53 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's govt directs parcelling of Harare land to Chiyangwa

Residents and civil society groups have condemned the government's recent directive instructing Harare City Council (HCC) to allocate land to Pinnacle Holdings, a company owned by ZANU PF member and businessman Philip Chiyangwa, as compens…

Published: 10 Jun 2025 at 08:53hrs | 1662 | by Staff reporter

Outrage over multi-million-dollar land transfer deal to Chiyangwa

A controversial land compensation deal between the Government of Zimbabwe and businessman-cum-politician Philip Chiyangwa has sparked public outrage and renewed scrutiny over how state land is being allocated, amid mounting concerns over t…

Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 20:34hrs | | by Staff reporter

Chiyangwa in court for defrauding Guramatunhu of over US$500k in cryptocurrency

A 31-year-old man from Harare, Lloyd Chiyangwa, appeared before regional magistrate Mr. Donald Ndirowei on Friday, facing fresh money laundering charges after allegedly defrauding prominent eye surgeon Dr. Solomon Guramatunhu of over half …

Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:17hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter

Chiyangwa defrauds Dr Solomon Guramatunhu of US$500,000

Renowned ophthalmologist Dr Solomon Guramatunhu has reportedly fallen victim to a massive fraud scheme after his employee, Lloyd Chiyangwa, allegedly siphoned US$500,000 from him and used the funds to amass a collection of assets.According…

Published: 27 Apr 2025 at 22:08hrs | 2136 | by Staff reporter

Chiyangwa's 250,000 stands projects raises alarm

A Harare-based liberal think tank, the Coalition for Market and Liberal Solutions (Comaliso), has raised concerns over the feasibility of businessman Phillip Chiyangwa's ambitious 250,000 housing stands project under Pinnacle Property Hold…

Published: 12 Nov 2024 at 10:59hrs | 1033 | by Staff reporter

Chiyangwa farm battle turns nasty

More than 150 families at Old Citrus Farm, located on the outskirts of Chinhoyi, find themselves homeless after their homes and belongings were destroyed amid a contentious land ownership dispute. The residents, primarily settlers who move…

Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 12:20hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter

Chiyangwa denies grabbing land, cites four court rulings

Dr. Phillip Chiyangwa, a prominent Harare businessman, has refuted allegations that he illegally seized land from JC Delonics, a Chinese-owned firm. The dispute centers around a property in Helensvale, Harare, which JC Delonics developed i…

Published: 29 Aug 2024 at 16:07hrs | 208 | 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 designated for a road.The land is now a…

Published: 25 Aug 2024 at 11:21hrs | 10389 | by Staff reporter

Chiyangwa at Euro 2024 final in Berlin

Former Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) and Cosafa president Phillip Chiyangwa is in Germany to watch the Euro 2024 final between Spain and England at the Olympiastadion in Berlin. Invited by Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin, Chiyangw…

Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 16:41hrs | 4449 | by Staff reporter

Phillip Chiyangwa at it again

Phillip Chiyangwa, known as Captain Fiasco, and his long-time fiancÃ©e Sarah Frankis, held a lavish wedding planned in just nine days. The event, orchestrated by Sarahâ€™s sister Elaine Frankis, was attended by 50 guests and took place on …

Published: 06 Jul 2024 at 11:40hrs | 110 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's political prostitutes

The man who was behind Grace Mugabe's youth interface rallies where she was spewing vitriolic attacks against Mnangagwa has once again by hook or crook managed to get himself appointed to lead a fundraising committee for Mnangagwa's 2023 r…

Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 19:56hrs | 9 | by Sam Wezhira

Chiyangwa defiant despite court defeat

THE leader of an Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) faction, Cossam Chiyangwa who lost to church rival Amon Madawo in a protracted power wrangle within the religious institution 2019, has again lost his Supreme Court appeal against an earlier H…

Published: 29 May 2021 at 08:24hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

Chiyangwa appoints Delish Nguwaya

Affirmative Action Group (AAG) founding president Dr Phillip Chiyangwa has appointed Mr Delish Nguwaya as a consulting advisor responsible for security to the organisation's presidium. The appointment is with immediate effect. In a stateme…

Published: 13 May 2021 at 18:07hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Chiyangwa follows the money, ditches Ahmad Ahmad?

PICTURES of Zimbabwean businessman and Cosafa head Philip Chiyangwa endorsing the candidature of Patrice Motsepe for the Confederation of African Football (Caf) presidency seem to suggest he has officially joined the South African's campai…

Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:28hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Chiyangwa laughs last?

NO ONE can fault former Zifa president and now Cosafa boss Phillip Chiyangwa for boasting that Zimbabwean football made a huge mistake in rejecting him in favour of Felton Kamambo.Events at Council of Southern African Football Associations…

Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:12hrs | 6 | by Michael Kariati

Zifa challenges Cosafa to furnish them with Fifa correspondence on Chiyangwa

ZIFA have asked COSAFA to furnish them with correspondence from FIFA on which they based their communication saying the ban on the region's football boss, Philip Chiyangwa, was null and void. The ZIFA position shows the domestic national g…

Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 07:46hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Fifa wants unloved Chiyangwa back at Zifa

FIFA believe a solution could still be found to the crisis engulfing Zimbabwe football and have opened an avenue for dialogue between ZIFA president Felton Kamambo and COSAFA boss Philip Chiyangwa. The world governing body last week reject…

Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:17hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Chiyangwa mocks Zifa ban

FORMER ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa says the life ban imposed on him by the new association's leadership "is a joke," which will be dismissed by those who make pronouncements that matter in this game, including FIFA and CAF. He claims t…

Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:37hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Zifa bombshell

ALLEGED ring leaders of a player revolt that rocked the Warriors camp before and during the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) finals in Egypt will not be selected for future national team assignments as the inquest into the failed Afcon campai…

Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:31hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

Chiyangwa's blow hits many

The blow that hit disqualified Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) aspiring presidential candidate Felton Kamambo has also struck many of those who have been fighting for the removal of Zifa president Phillip Chiyangwa from power.Since De…

Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 12:57hrs | 8 | by Michael Kariati

Time up for Chiyangwa, Sibanda

THE election of Zifa president Phillip Chiyangwa and his deputy Omega Sibanda into the Parliament of Zimbabwe for the next five years is a turning point for Zimbabwean football.Not that Chiyangwa and Sibanda will raise the issue of footbal…

Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:57hrs | 28 | by Michael Kariati

Zifa leadership ascends to political office

ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa and his deputy Omega Sibanda have been duly elected members of parliament on a Zanu-PF ticket for Zvimba South in Mashonaland West and Vungu in the Midlands respectively.Another sport administrator Tavengwa …

Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 07:32hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

ZIFA received close to R1 million from national teams

ZIFA have received close to R1 million as reward for two senior national teams' performances in the COSAFA tournaments last year. The tournaments were held in South Africa and Zimbabwe. After coming tops in the men's version in South Afric…

Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 07:01hrs | 334 | by Staff reporter

Chiyangwa in album collabo with Mteki

Zimbabwe African Roots musician and sculptor Bryn Mteki, popularly known as Sekurutau, is putting final touches on his forthcoming album, which features local business tycoon Phillip Chiyangwa.Mteki, who last released an album â€” a compil…

Published: 01 Apr 2018 at 20:28hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Chiyangwa feels the heat as pressure mounts

Football stakeholders are circling around troubled Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) vowing to challenge the legitimacy of the Philip Chiyangwa-led administration in court if elections fail to take place by March 29, 2018.This comes as …

Published: 03 Feb 2018 at 20:05hrs | 3937 | by Staff reporter

Chiyangwa finally spills the beans on Tsholotsho Declaration

Flamboyant businessman and Zanu PF Central Committee member, Phillip Chiyangwa has made sensational claims that he was the brains behind the 2004 so called 'Tsholotsho Declaration'.13 years after its failed execution, the first truth on th…

Published: 03 Jan 2018 at 16:26hrs | 16545 | by Staff Reporter

Chiyangwa's son in court for fraud

THE son of the late businessman James Chiyangwa aka Jimmy Jimalo landed in the dock after he defrauded a number of people of over $15 000 in botched bank transfer deals through cloning bank cards.NewZimbabwe.com reported that Mike Harris D…

Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 11:05hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

It's a Bob potato: The tale of the nephews

A hot potato is a sensitive situation or controversial issue that is difficult to handle and thus gets passed from one person to the next (like a potato that is too hot to hold). When the hot potato is a person, in this case a former Presi…

Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 11:34hrs | 8 | by Hubert Sithole

WATCH: Chiyangwa not arrested

Man of the moment and ZIFA President Phillip Chiyangwa (Phidza) has come out in the open to debunk rumors that he was arrested as he was trying to flee the country.Chiyangwa spoke via a video call coordinated by his friend and fellow busin…

Published: 27 Nov 2017 at 06:54hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Chiyangwa threatens to buy The Standard and close it down

ZIMBABWE Football Association (Zifa) president Philip Chiyangwa has threatened to buy The Standard and close it down after the weekly publication exposed the rot and lack of good governance at the local football governing body.The flamboya…

Published: 12 Nov 2017 at 17:07hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Mugabe lays into clueless Chiyangwa

FORMER Zifa president Leo Mugabe has called on the current boss at the local football governing body Philip Chiyangwa to step down as the chairman of the Zifa Referees Committee in the wake of his embarrassing gaffe, which his critics argu…

Published: 21 Sep 2017 at 10:46hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Chiyangwa's Dynamos links exposed

ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa is a Dynamos supporter and used to privately give the players financial incentives to boost their morale ahead of big matches, former Dembare skipper Memory Mucherahowa revealed in his autobiography, Soul of…

Published: 21 Sep 2017 at 10:43hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Chiyangwa's Dembare stopped by Caps United

Dynamos blew a chance to go on top of the table when they stumbled in 1-0 defeat to CAPS United in a rescheduled Castle Lager Premier Soccer League fixture played at Rufaro Stadium on Sunday afternoon.Makepekepe are now on the seventh posi…

Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 16:46hrs | 3537 | by Staff reporter

Modern Ngwenya justifies his meeting with Chiyangwa

HIGHLANDERS acting chairman Modern Ngwenya says there is nothing amiss about his meeting with Zimbabwe Football Association president Philip Chiyangwa whom he met in Harare last Tuesday after the much talked about Bosso and Dynamos league …

Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 09:51hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Bosso boss wines, dines with Chiyangwa

HIGHLANDERS' card carrying members have taken aim at the club's acting chairman Modern Ngwenya calling him a 'disaster' waiting to happen and called on other fans to think carefully about a possible candidature when elections for the chair…

Published: 16 Sep 2017 at 08:39hrs | 1027 | by Staff reporter

'Epoupa owes me an apology'

NOT guilty!Highlanders FC defender Peter Muduhwa says he did nothing wrong to Dynamos striker Christian Epoupa Ntouba. In fact, Ntouba should apologise to him."He owes me an apology," said Muduhwa.It was not the first time the two players …

Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 06:54hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Chiyangwa, let fair play prevail

I know Philip Chiyangwa as a respectable businessman-cum-politician. His decision to become the next Zifa president about three years ago not only shocked me but also those who passionately follow Zimbabwean football.I wrote an article in …

Published: 13 Sep 2017 at 15:15hrs | 8 | by Fainos Mangena

Chiyangwa launches fashion label

ZIFA have never had a leader like him before - flashy, hugely ambitious and outrageously confident - he arrived on the scene with a bang, promising he would rise beyond the leadership of domestic football into the corridors of power on the…

Published: 24 Aug 2017 at 06:37hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

#Asifunibumbulu - lest we forget

ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa, riled by the mayhem that marred the Premiership showdown between Highlanders and Dynamos at Barbourfields, has vowed to crack down on hooliganism and revealed he will be thorough in dealing with the scourge…

Published: 20 May 2017 at 13:46hrs | 2031 | by Staff reporter

Chiyangwa owes Zimbabwe

The appointment of Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa as the vice-chairperson of the influential CAF Afcon Games Committee has brought with it different opinions, with others arguing that the flashy Harare businessman is on a journey for pers…

Published: 15 May 2017 at 09:47hrs | 7 | by Michael Kariati

Can Kasukuwere and Chiyangwa write a Bible for mankind?

Phidza is accusing Tyson of asking for a $5 million bribe and he thinks he has a case. The real story and the real bribe is how did Phidza get 587 hectares of land in prime Stoneridge Farm? How?Tsvangirai has been very busy over the past f…

Published: 23 Apr 2017 at 14:12hrs | 8 | by Bishop Lazarus

Chiyangwa got it, and you can as well get it

Yes it was football on the whole continent but the man hats off to him he has proved to be one of the business tycoons who has the guts to challenge anything in his life. What Chiyangwa wants he will always get it. When Chiyangwa said he w…

Published: 17 Mar 2017 at 09:57hrs | 13 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo

FIFA boss comes to Zimbabwe

FIFA president Gianni Infantino is set to travel to Zimbabwe next week for a high-profile visit that has sent long-serving CAF boss Issa Hayatou into panic mode as the Cameroonian is cognisant of the blustery winds of change sweeping throu…

Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 05:26hrs | 1385 | by Staff reporter

Sibanda, Chiyangwa against lifting of Peter Dube sanctions

VICE President Phelekezela Mphoko and the Minister of Sport and Recreation, Makhosini Hlongwane, yesterday held a meeting with the Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa and his deputy Omega Sibanda  to discuss, according to sources, the sus…

Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 09:21hrs | 727 | by Staff reporter

Match fixing scandal, sanctions lifted

HIGHLANDERS chairman Peter Dube and Bulawayo City assistant coach Farai Mujokoro were the odd ones out when ZIFA announced the lifting of suspensions to six individuals who were sanctioned by the association over allegations ranging from m…

Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 09:18hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Chiyangwa lift suspensions, Peter Dube not included

The Zimbabwe Football Association has lifted suspensions of some football administrators and coaches that had been charged with various offences following meetings held by the ZIFA president and Southern Region ZIFA councillors in Bulawayo…

Published: 10 Feb 2017 at 15:50hrs | 1046 | by Staff reporter

WATCH:Hilarious tribute to Mawarire

Check out the hilarious video below of a citizen sharing his thoughts on Mawarire's incarceration.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDViFjdo4gM

Published: 08 Feb 2017 at 16:51hrs | 890 | by Staff reporter

Chiyangwa will be guided by Pasuwa

ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa has lifted the lid on the uncertainty that had appeared to surround the status of Callisto Pasuwa and says he stands guided by the Warriors coach's decision to quit shortly after the team crashed out of the …

Published: 06 Feb 2017 at 05:41hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

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