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WhatsApp's new feature might be a gift to con artists
There is a seductive appeal to the word "privacy." It conjures images of safety, control, and autonomy. It suggests a world in which one can participate without being exposed, speak without being watc...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 21:57hrs | 758 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
'Fake' bee attacks spark alarm in Zimbabwe
A growing number of Zimbabweans are falling victim to an alarming trend where self-proclaimed prophets, traditional healers (n'angas), and pastors claim to send bees to punish individuals accused of w...Published: 08 May 2025 at 12:19hrs | 1088 | by Staff reporter
Suspected female con artist faces judgment day
A 36-year-old woman, Brenda Dhaka, who is facing multiple charges of fraud and forgery, will learn her fate when she appears before Chiredzi Magistrate Tendai Mutamba on Tuesday for judgment.D...Published: 10 Mar 2025 at 11:23hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
Bogus ZNA recruitment agent jailed for conning aspiring recruit
A fake Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) recruitment agent has been sentenced to an effective two years and two months in prison after swindling a potential recruit of US$632.Whyson Magura was conv...Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 11:51hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Prisons warns trainee hopefuls over recruitment scammers
Aspiring job seekers have fallen victim to a new wave of scams involving fraudsters impersonating recruitment officers from the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS). The con artists have ...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 09:51hrs | 56 | by Staff reporter
Shingi Munyeza loses US$4,930 in chrome deal scam
Businessman Shingi Munyeza is counting his losses after falling victim to a con artist who posed as an agent for ZimAlloys in a fraudulent chrome deal. Munyeza lost a total of US$4,930 in the scam, wh...Published: 26 Nov 2024 at 09:09hrs | 1397 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army warns public against bogus recruitment agents
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has raised alarms over the increasing number of fraudulent recruitment schemes being run by bogus agents, who are preying on unsuspecting members of the public. These ...Published: 19 Sep 2024 at 13:54hrs | 668 | by Staff reporter
EXPOSED: Local media house implicated in name dropping scandal
A leading local newspaper is reportedly on the brink of publishing a contentious article that falsely claims that a suspect con artist, known as Maburuse, who claims to be an associate President Emmer...Published: 15 Apr 2024 at 16:44hrs | 31 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Scammed by Zimbabweans in the diaspora, job seekers lose fortunes
ARMED with a smartphone, a lone vigilante confronts an alleged scammer in Birmingham, United Kingdom clicks "record" on the device and demands that the woman pays back thousands of British pounds that...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 05:53hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Fraudsters exploit Zimbabweans seeking UK health and care jobs
When Zimbabwean mother-of-four Eunice Sinoya enrolled in a first aid course near the capital Harare, she was lured by the college's promise of a job in Britain's care sector. But more than a year on, ...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:57hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Zimboy hits back at Nadia Nakai
Music promoter and Changamire Festival Awards founder Jackson ‘Zimboy' Muchechetere has hit back at Nadia Nakai who ranted about being used without any payment when the South African-based Zimbabwea...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 08:07hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga duped
The Cold Storage Company in Bulawayo remains closed, despite a grand "official re-opening" by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga on August 22, ZimLive can reveal.Chiwenga, then the acting pre...Published: 09 Sep 2022 at 19:57hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Shamila Batohi afraid to hold Ramaphosa accountable for Phala Phala Farmgate
THE National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Shamila Batohi has a wonderful reputation but has been given a poisoned chalice. Batohi has had to withstand repeated requests from powerful politic...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 14:23hrs | 12 | by Ray Solomons
Zimbabwe criminals go hi-tech
ZIMBABWEAN criminals are not being left behind by technology. They are using technology to enhance their trade, just like everybody else.Technology is a useful tool as it can bend to the whims...Published: 29 Jan 2022 at 14:37hrs | 21 | by Miriam Tose Majome
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 fundr...Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 19:56hrs | 4 | by Sam Wezhira
State makes U-turn in Mnangagwa name-dropping con-artist
THE State yesterday made a U-turn and filed an application for the revocation of its consent after it allowed bail to a 33-year-old Harare con-artist who dropped President Emmerson Mnangagwa's name in...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Identity theft fraudsters arrested
Fraudsters responsible for the identity thefts that allowed them access to WhatsApp groups and EcoCash accounts of others to con people into foreign currency deals had not hacked into the phones of th...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 06:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance... a hallmark of political Ponzi schemes
MDC activist, Freeman Chari, launched an initiative to raise salaries for the so called "political detainees" in Zimbabwe and he indicated that the campaign has raised over US$400 already. The MDC All...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 19:20hrs | | by Uncle Shumba
Farmer loses 340 tonnes of maize to con artist
A HARARE man was yesterday arraigned before the courts after he allegedly duped a farmer of 340 tonnes of maize worth US$131 400.Hugh Tinashe Sibanda (37) appeared before magistrate Vongai Muc...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:18hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Farmers do not be a sitting duck to fraudsters
Harvest time is upon us, a time of plenty. Fraudsters are on the prowl looking for who to con, taking your agricultural produce without paying a dime for it. A colleague nearly lost a tonne of...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 13:11hrs | 1 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
VID 'inspectors' dupe job seekers
FAKE Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) officials have been on the prowl in the Midlands Province where they targeted and duped desperate jobseekers of money after promising them jobs. Severa...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
God doesn't carry a red political party card
God is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, which simply means He is all-powerful, all-knowing and everywhere in that order.His sheer preponderance as a Supreme Being means He cannot be app...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazi
Want a goblin? Ask these guys
MR Lameck Banda from Waterfalls, Harare is a shrewd and cunning businessman.Better known as Sekuru Chitsuwi, Banda understands the basic premise of capitalism: supply and demand.Each d...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 06:49hrs | 3 | by Staff writer
How bond notes remind me of street scams
Plot Mhako grew up on the mean streets of Glen-Norah and Glen-View and is familiar with a street scam or two. He makes a compelling analysis of bond notes - Zimbabwe's surrogate currency.This ...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 10:10hrs | 2 | by Plot Mhako
Woman celebrates ex's elections defeat
South Africa based businesswoman Vimbai Chakanyuka who claims to have used her fortunes on the electoral campaign for Mabvuku-Tafara Zimbabwe Partnership and Prosperity Party (ZIPP) House of Assembly ...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 16:02hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, yet another opportunity gone begging? Possibly?
November, 2018, another heart stopping moment for Zimbabwe. Could that be the long awaited moment? Many wondered. The long dreamed about dawn when the nation would rediscover its soul? Hadn't the nati...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Dr Ralph Mguni
Chamisa's dangerous post-fact politics
Has anyone ever stopped to ask themselves why Nelson Chamisa lies, is caught out and does not backtrack or apologise or retract but will repeat his lie or totally ignore the fact that he lied?...Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Nick Mangwana
Woman loses car to con artists
A 39-YEAR-OLD Harare woman was last week duped of her car - a Mazda Familiar - by a fellow congregant who masqueraded as a friend who wanted to offer her some spiritual assistance.The unsuspec...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Will Mugabe's ghost haunt Mnangagwa? Part 1
The saying same witch different broom seems to sum up perceptions concerning President Emmerson Mnangagwa among some of my colleagues. Conversations centring on Zimbabwe's trajectory in the post Mugab...Published: 14 Mar 2018 at 06:27hrs | | by Tafadzwa Masango
Ex-bank employee turns conman
WHAT is this that we hear about this other well known chap who was once in the banking industry?Blabber thought the boy had learnt to work for his money over the years he was employed but give...Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fake prophets use dwarf to con Bulawayo man of $7 000
THREE suspected fake prophets allegedly brought a midget to a family in Emakhandeni, Bulawayo and lied to the family that the dwarf was the goblin which was responsible for their son's mental illness....Published: 04 Feb 2018 at 09:03hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
The rise of the street preacher
STREET preaching -mostly done by men, is a form of evangelism that has taken Zimbabwe's urban business districts by storm.Oblivious of the moving public, apparently unconcerned whether or not ...Published: 12 Nov 2017 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Emmanuel Kafe
Mugabe refused to die on 17 October 2017
Today is 19 October 2017, and President Robert Mugabe, whom false prophet, Patrick Phillip Mugadza, 'prophesied' would die on 17 October 2017, is as fit as a fiddle and attending a World Health Organi...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 15:55hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Scores buy fake 2017 Maths exam paper after 'leak'
SCORES of pupils who were hoping to cheat in the Ordinary Level Mathematics November 2017 examination ended up being cheated themselves after they bought a fake "leaked" paper.The Zimbabwe Sch...Published: 03 Oct 2017 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Not prophets but psychiatric patients'
IT has been confirmed! They are maniacs. Hold on a second. Could there be a come back for Victory Church International leader Pastor Paul Sanyangore after that exposé by cousin brother Andy Zimunya o...Published: 11 Jun 2017 at 10:45hrs | | by Mtandazo Dube
Churches making captives of silly women
Have we ever seriously wondered why the vast majority of congregants in today's churches are women, and why they are the ones who appear most sold out and convinced by the fake doctrines spewed out by...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 09:58hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The Frightful Christian Values of Trumpism
Statistics provided in America after the presidential election show white Christian voters voting overwhelmingly for Donald Trump, 80-16%. According to The Washington Post, that's the most they h...Published: 30 Jan 2017 at 23:58hrs | | by Titshabona Malaba Ncube
Tsikamutanda demands a beautiful wife as payment for services
A tsikamutanda operating in Ziburawa village in Mberengwa demanded that a family pay him with their 22 year old daughter. The Ndawana family is at loggerheads with the witch-hunter only kn...Published: 27 Jan 2017 at 14:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bogus Malayitsha disappears with woman's property
A Zimbabwean woman living in South Africa, Celine Eunice Nyakutsikwa,has appealed through a Facebook post on Facebook, asking people who know or have seen Gideon Tseriwa to report him to police....Published: 30 Sep 2016 at 22:02hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Madlala Tours sued over bad loan
MADLALA Tours and Travel has been sued by the National Merchant Bank (NMB) Limited for more than $88,000 after the company allegedly failed to repay a loan. According to the summons issued at ...Published: 11 Jul 2016 at 07:07hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
Sandra Ndebele accuses promoter
POPULAR dance queen Sandra Ndebele-Sibindi has accused a little known promoter of using her name to promote the Bulawayo Music Awards, saying the whole thing was the work of con artistes.A mes...Published: 12 Jan 2016 at 05:31hrs | 2 | by Bongani Ndlovu
Bogus 'foreign doctors' on the prowl in Zimbabwe
A new band of "foreign" traditional healers and herbalists has emerged in Harare, promising to help residents find lost lovers, heal incurable diseases and turn economic fortunes of the poor.T...Published: 01 Nov 2015 at 09:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
The triumphant entry into the cities
The June 10 by-elections have come and gone, leaving different groups of people in different emotional dispositions. Some are pushing the boat out while others are weeping and singing dirges. ...Published: 25 Jun 2015 at 10:46hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
The full story of $45k 'conman'
A MAN facing prosecution for allegedly swindling a Mpilo Central Hospital executive of $45,000 is a serial fraudster who claims links with influential people to gain trust, the Chronicle reported....Published: 22 May 2015 at 14:29hrs | 6 | by Temba Dube
Bogus DStv agent on the prowl
The love for cheap alternatives saw a Harare man who does not want to be identified losing $20 at the beginning January just when he needed every cent that he could lay his hands on.He had see...Published: 07 Feb 2015 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo man dupes Switzerland based house owner
A suspected con artist from Bulawayo's Entumbane suburb has been dragged to court for allegedly defrauding a Switzerland based owner of two houses of over $1,700 after misrepresenting as an estate age...Published: 08 Jan 2015 at 16:49hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Why T.B. Joshua's church collapse actually convinced me he is a genuine man of God
I know many will be surprised at this opinion but it is an honest and frank progression of thoughts from an open-minded individual, not emboldened by any personal bigotry, political agenda or reli...Published: 22 Oct 2014 at 06:24hrs | | by Johnson Abayomi
What does GGVJ seek to achieve?
Following a shameful political knockout in the July 2013 plebiscites, some people such as MDC-N deputy secretary general, Moses Mzila Ndlovu are doing anything in a desperate attempt to resurrect ...Published: 09 Jul 2014 at 17:52hrs | 13 | by John Sigauke
Micro Loan financiers swindling desperate Zimbabweans
With the Zimbabwean economy getting more dire and the formal sector dying a slow natural death, Zimbabweans are resorting to informal sector trading and incidentally falling prey to several con ar...Published: 19 Jun 2014 at 16:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Emeralds deal goes wrong
A BID to make quick cash backfired for a Zvishavane man who was left counting his losses after being duped of his hard-earned money by two con artistes in a botched $11 000 emeralds deal.Hones...Published: 08 Jun 2014 at 09:09hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
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