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'MDC 2020 Agenda will not lift sanction' - more significantly, will not end rigged elections
There is a mountain of evidence proving that the root causes of Zimbabwe's economic meltdown are 40 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. The reason why the nation has been stuck with t...Published: 13 hrs ago | 413 | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa's agenda 2020: All froth but no beer
When MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa last week announced that he intended to present a "State of the Nation Address" (SONA) dubbed Agenda 2020, some people swallowed that hook, line and sinker thinking he ...Published: 21 hrs ago | 1230 | by Elijah Chihota,
Locals to pay forex for quick passports
GOVERNMENT is working on regulations to allow locals with foreign currency the option to pay for passports in forex in a bid to speed up the process and clear the huge backlog. Home Affairs and Cultur...Published: 21 hrs ago | 2295 | by Staff reporter
There is a special place in hell for women!!!!
This is a special quote from the former Secretary of State Madeline Albright. There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women." This quote comes to my mind because the ZACC boss ...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 21:58hrs | 1790 | by Nomazulu Thata
Kazembe warns corrupt home affairs officials
A SCAM has been unearthed at the Midlands registry department amid revelations that there is a pile of uncollected passports issued as far back as 2005 with some of the officers being accused of askin...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 18:28hrs | 1117 | by Staff reporter
Women victimisation through corruption intensifies
Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) launched its perceptions and indexes on corruption at Avondale centre Harare this morning (Thursday).According to the findings by TIZ and Zimbabwe Ant...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 11:34hrs | 750 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Zimbabwe losing US$1,8 billion every year due to corruption
Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) chairperson Loice Matanda Moyo has said the country is losing US$1,8 billion dollars every year.Speaking at the Transparency International Zimbabwe (...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 11:24hrs | 779 | by Paul Ndou
Chamisa says Zimbabwe situation ripe for action
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa is looking to take advantage of the collapsed economy, to mobilise for action across professional, political and religious lines against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's govern...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:41hrs | 2937 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe left with 30 days' supply of grain
ZIMBABWE has less than 100 000 tonnes (t) of grain in its strategic grain reserve — enough to feed the nation for only one month, Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement minister Perrance S...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:39hrs | 948 | by Staff reporter
Marry Chiwenga has shown the way, can Zimbabweans emulate her?
Vice-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga's wife, Marry, is a nasty piece of work, who does not deserve much sympathy in her ongoing legal problems.When she first took over the running of the Miss Z...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:38hrs | 13696 | by Nqaba Matshazi
All that glitters is not gold
I AM not sure of the details but around the year 2000, a geological exploration team found alluvial diamonds at Marange in Zimbabwe. They cut trenches and did further exploration for a number of years...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:34hrs | 960 | by Eddie Cross
Corruption in Zimbabwe's transport sector shocking
TRANSPORT minister Joel Biggie Matiza yesterday said government was alarmed with the level of corruption perpetrated by officials in State entities in the transport sector.Officially opening a...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:31hrs | 1131 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt sets up commission to probe MDC councillors
GOVERNMENT has set up a commission of inquiry to investigate reports of alleged corruption and abuse of funds by MDC councillors in Marondera town.The investigations come after residents prepa...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:31hrs | 460 | by Staff reporter
Zifa defy Chiyangwa's Cosafa ban
Zifa have said they will attend the Cosafa annual general meeting set for South Africa at the weekend, despite the regional football governing body earlier this week barring the association from atten...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:27hrs | 599 | by Staff reporter
Big wigs face arrest in land barons dragnet
At least 132 people in Harare, including political heavyweights, face arrest for allegedly selling State land, corruptly allocating themselves stands, fraud, abuse of cooperative funds and criminal ab...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:20hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter
Passport output to top 8 000 a day
Government is working out strategies to clear the passport backlog and increase daily production from the current 2 500 to 8 000, Home Affairs and Cultural Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe has said. ...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:15hrs | 538 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe, Chombo, Chiyangwa face arrest
At least 132 people, including political heavyweights, face arrest for allegedly selling State land, corruptly allocating themselves stands, fraud, abuse of cooperative funds and criminal abuse of off...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:14hrs | 586 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa’s Agenda 2020 address to the nation
(Transcript of MDC leader Nelson Chamisa’s ‘Agenda 2020’ address as prepared for delivery at Stodart Hall in Mbare on January 21, 2020)Fellow Zim...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 19:47hrs | 1176 | by Nelson Chamisa
Gutu rubbishes links to mysterious High Court job
FORMER MDC-T vice president Obert Gutu has been linked to the mysterious post of High Court prosecutor, days after ditching the Thokozani Khupe led opposition party citing "personal and private reason...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 13:03hrs | 3146 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's 'Nation's Agenda: 2020' - a fuzzy and confused plan, blundering from pillar to post
Nelson Chamisa's Harare 21st January 2020 address was dubbed "Nation's Agenda 2020" or "Nation's Plan of Action: 2020" As much as the nation is desperate for change it is as day this so called MDC's p...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 09:33hrs | 2166 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Our international partners are making Zimbabweans suffer'
MDC Alliance (MDCA) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday addressing an MDCA rally dubbed agenda 2020 in Harare at Mbare Stodart Complex said their international partners were making Zimbabweans suffer and ...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 07:16hrs | 1217 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe plane in second coming
Government business briefly ground to a halt yesterday after several top officials and Cabinet ministers escorted Acting President Constantino Chiwenga to receive for the second time the Boeing 777-20...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:50hrs | 507 | by Staff rpeorter
State withdraws charges against Guvamombe
THE State yesterday withdrew corruption charges against suspended Chief Magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe who was accused of criminal abuse of office after he offered former Cabinet ministers Saviour Kasuk...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:47hrs | 358 | by Staff rpeorter
ZACC seeks more storage facilities for recovered ill-gotten wealth
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC), which recently seized 12 vehicles, three mansions and froze bank accounts in a bid to recover ill-gotten wealth, is now seeking more space for storage. ...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:41hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
ZACC arrests another top army officer
AN army camp commandant, who was responsible for the maintenance of the Defence House, is expected to appear in court on allegations of manufacturing fake payment invoices for cleaning services that w...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:40hrs | 446 | by Staff reporter
ZACC probes drug thefts at hospitals
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is now monitoring public hospitals and clinics to curb thefts and ensure drugs are not diverted to the black market. This follows checks that wer...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 05:14hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe to get delivery of Boeing 777 tomorrow
Air Zimbabwe will take delivery of one of the Boeing 777-200 aircraft acquired from Malaysia on Monday, almost four years after the deal was negotiated.Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza is...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 14:13hrs | 8130 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga divorce case exposes him
The divorce case of Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga has gone a long way to expose the depth of moral decay that has pervaded our national leaders.It is, however, the level of impunity and beli...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:16hrs | 1949 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's complex situation requires political will
People continue to die from curable disease in Zimbabwe as the health sector remains paralysed while the country is going through what has been described by the United Nations as a man-made drought. S...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:10hrs | 169 | by Tapiwa Ziviri
'Mnangagwa in no hurry to fix economy'
As the world marks the 61st anniversary of the International Human Rights Day, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (The Forum) has lamented the deterioration in living standards, claiming that the Pre...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:44hrs | 7784 | by Staff reporter
Liberation: Did somebody say Fanon?
DURING the African struggles against settler colonialism the name of Frantz Fanon used to scare settler colonialists that understandably banned his books and pamphlets. In the present era the name and...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:41hrs | 335 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
We have a full-blown crisis
Phew!What a frenzied week it was as those brats, who are used to hogging TV remote controls or causing unending trouble during holidays, were finally banished to school, where they rightfully ...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:33hrs | 244 | by Bishop Lazarus
Shocking corruption at Passport Office
FORGET the low-level graft often reported at some Government departments, something far more sinister - which is a threat to the country's security - is taking place at the Department of the Registrar...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:31hrs | 1861 | by Staff rpeorter
Corruption: A national security threat
THE Willowgate Scandal, one of the major investigative stories in the history of the media in Zimbabwe, is pregnant with many important lessons.When the scandal was first exposed in the media,...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:29hrs | 127 | by Staff rpeorter
Zimbabwe governance system beyond fixing
Of late, I have been quite irritated by my smartphone's maddeningly frequent demands for me to upgrade its system at times, as little as only two days after my last upgrade. What I, however, found ver...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:24hrs | 175 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The name Mashurugwi irks the Shurugwi residents
The land of many heroes Shurugwi. The welcoming area and it does not deserve to be labelled as the mother land of these cold blooded criminals.Comrade Matemadanda the National Political Commis...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 08:20hrs | 1195 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu PF surges closer to its 5 million recruitment target as Chamisa fights to deliver SONA
Never in our lifetime has the choice between the two major parties been so stark. Never has so much been at stake. And never has history seemed so radically open-ended, the opportunity to make a diffe...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 08:17hrs | 10180 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
ZACC closes in on fuel smugglers
Investigations and Special Reports Editor FORTY-TWO local fuel companies have been asked to explain their dealings as the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC), in conjunction with foreign law en...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 05:35hrs | 446 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zesa bosses, Mangoma seek discharge
A HARARE magistrate yesterday said he would, on January 30, make a ruling on an application for discharge filed by two former Zesa bosses who together with ex-Energy minister Elton Mangoma, face corru...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 05:33hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe magistrate remanded to February
KWEKWE magistrate Story Rushambwa and clerk of court Bright Mpiyabo, yesterday had their case of illegally facilitating the release of a stolen vehicle to controversial businessman Shepherd Tundiya re...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 05:31hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
China snubs Mnangagwa bailout request
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's desperate attempts to secure a financial rescue package from China were once again flatly rebuffed after Chinese Foreign minister Wang Yi emphasised during his visit thi...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:28hrs | 2780 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe governance system beyond repair
OF late, I have been quite irritated by my smartphone's maddeningly frequent demands for me to upgrade its system—at times, as little as only two days after my last upgrade. What I, however, found v...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:26hrs | 334 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa, maShurugwi and the coming anarchy
SOON after arriving in Zimbabwe, in September of last year, I had to visit a friend in Bindura, whom I needed to extend — as part of my enduring gratitude for his assistance during a research projec...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:26hrs | 1736 | by Simukai Tinhu
Sanctions: EU, US and post-Mugabe Zimbabwe
THE United States of America (USA) has two forms of sanctions relevant to Zimbabwe. The first is imposed by Executive Order, with the President using powers under the International Emergency Economic ...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:25hrs | 192 | by Derek Matyszak
Harare City Council tender scandal deepens
THE massive tender scandal rocking Harare City Council (HCC) has taken a new twist after it emerged in an explosive email trail that a local company, Microlab Scientific (Microlab), offered to use its...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:25hrs | 391 | by Staff repoirter
NRZ land wrangle blocks investors
CONTINUED resistance by resettled villagers to vacate a National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) farm in Matabeleland South has frustrated a joint agribusiness partnership between the insolvent parastatal ...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:24hrs | 182 | by Staff repoirter
Tapfuma says he is facing trumped-up charges
Former State House director Douglas Tapfuma, who is facing criminal abuse of office and corruption charges involving irregular importation of cars, yesterday said the charges against him were fabricat...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:14hrs | 210 | by Staff reporter
'Corruption fuels Zimbabwe hunger'
CORRUPTION and mismanagement of the agricultural sector are the major drivers of food shortages in Zimbabwe, where over 7,7 million people urgently require food, a top European Union (EU) diplomat has...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:08hrs | 162 | by Staff rpeorter
Zimbabwe sanctions to remain
THE restrictive measures imposed on Zimbabwe by the United States will remain in place until President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration implemented the necessary political and economic reforms key ...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:05hrs | 325 | by newzimbabwe
Chiyangwa faces fresh fraud allegations
EMBATTLED former Zifa president, Philip Chiyangwa faces fresh allegations of fraudulently forcing the broke football governing body to fund his personal expenses.It has emerged that he caused ...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:05hrs | 918 | by Staff reporter
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