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Ghost workers at Zimbabwe's major hospitals

Zimbabwe's biggest hospitals are losing billions of dollars in public funds due to ghost workers, missing drugs, and a complete lack of oversight, a damning Auditor-General's report has revealed.The hard-hitting audit exposes shocking mism…

Published: 04 Aug 2025 at 13:00hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter

Kariba turns into ghost town

The eastern shoreline of Kariba, once a crown jewel in Zimbabwe's tourism industry, is fast slipping into obscurity as tourism operators flee the area amid plummeting visitor numbers, collapsing infrastructure, and rising investor pessimis…

Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 12:04hrs | 11505 | by Staff reporter

Manager in court over ghost workers

Tinashe Madzima, a human resources manager at Livetouch Investments Private Limited, appeared in court on Tuesday facing fraud charges after allegedly creating fictitious employee accounts to defraud three microfinance companies. Magistrat…

Published: 31 Oct 2024 at 06:50hrs | 740 | by Staff reporter

Ghost wards attributed to Hwange poor performance

Hwange Local Board (HLB) has been facing significant challenges in service delivery, a situation exacerbated by the existence of 10 "ghost" wards. These wards, whose councillors do not fall under HLB's jurisdiction, have been a key factor …

Published: 16 Sep 2024 at 08:16hrs | 374 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa anxious to exorcise election ghost

THE upcoming Sadc summit is important for President Emmerson Mnangagwa not only because he will assume the chairmanship of the regional bloc but he will also use it attain legitimacy by, among other things, sanitising the results of last y…

Published: 19 May 2024 at 11:53hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Kasukuwere ghost haunts Zanu-PF

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has cracked the whip on  errant Zanu-PF top officials whom he either suspended or expelled  from the party accusing them of backing former political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere's presidential bid ahe…

Published: 27 Mar 2024 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter

'Ghost' sparks chaos at primary school

A SUSPECTED 'ghost' caused chaos at Mberi Primary School in Zengeza yesterday morning, resulting in one child being injured in a stampede.The 'ghost,' which they claim was in the form of a woman, scared students in Grade 4 Yellow to the po…

Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 18:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Without Zimbabweans, Musina is going to be a big ghost town

By 7AM, lines of customers snake down the block outside stores on the main commercial strip in Musina, a bustling South African border town where thousands of people arrive daily from neighboring Zimbabwe to buy food, clothes and other nec…

Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 08:46hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter

Ghost voters haunt Zimbabwe elections

On election day in Zimbabwe this month, Tendai and his wife will leave home and head in opposite directions.The couple, from the central town of Kadoma, live under the same roof but have been assigned to different polling stations in one o…

Published: 13 Aug 2023 at 21:58hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa's CCC must not be a ghost organisation, it needs to be accountable

The question of whether or not CCC must frame a constitution, come up with structures and go to congress to select party leaders is, no doubt, such a hot and wearying one.But that's one question you would not want to wish away too soon, no…

Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 12:34hrs | 12 | by Tawanda Majoni

Govt moves to strike off ghost pensioners

GOVERNMENT yesterday said it was embarking on a biometric life certificate verification exercise of its pensioners to strengthen the pension management system and avoid payment of "ghost pensioners".The Public Service Commission (PSC) in a…

Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 09:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

$300 000 fraud ghost haunts Mwonzora

THE MDC-T has expressed concerns that its President Douglas Mwonzora's accusers on the alleged fraud involving $300 000 party funds which he allegedly siphoned to pay one of the party lawyers Sarudzayi Chitsanga were still amplifying the a…

Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 07:01hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Moana â€˜ghost' haunts family

HIGH drama, confusion and controversy have become the hallmarks of the late socialite and fitness trainer Michelle "Moana" Amuli's burial with the feud surrounding her interment dividing opinion among society. The matter has now been taken…

Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:49hrs | 44 | by Staff reporter

Ziscosteel 'ghost' can still be brought back to life

THE car suddenly stops by a gate, hidden by the overgrown grass and shrubs. This is one of the many entrances to Ziscosteel's Sinter Plant, an abandoned factory located in the middle of the woods whose full value was never realised.The pat…

Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:10hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Poll ghost haunts Mnangagwa

A NEW case study done by exiled former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo, a political science professor, in collaboration with publisher Ibbo Mandaza, under his Southern African Political Economy Trust (Sapes), reveals how last year's preside…

Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:38hrs | | by Staff reporter

The ghost of Peter Munetsi hounding coupists

If it was not because of a coup organized by Dr. Chiwenga and SB Moyo the children of Peter Munetsi could be having their father. If it was not because of these coupists, the wife of Peter Munetsi could be having a husband. The Chiwenga-Mo…

Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 20:03hrs | 2 | by Don Chigumba

MDC and the colonial ghost of whiteness

David Coltart, the self-confessed former British South African Police (BSAP) member, who authored a rehashed moribund autobiography, recently rebounded as treasurer of the MDC at the party's congress held in Gweru.It is almost 19 years sin…

Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Ranga Mataire

Zimbabwe govt targets ghost workers

THE Public Service Commission (PSC) is targeting "ghost workers" in the civil service as part of government's transformative agenda, chairperson Vincent Hungwe has said.Hungwe told journalists during an induction workshop for permanent sec…

Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Woman in serious and sexual relationship with ghost

A woman who claims she has sex with ghosts has now revealed she's in a serious and sexual relationship with one â€” and they've even discussed having children.Amethyst Realm hit the headlines last year when she revealed she's slept with 15…

Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 10:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

250 000 'ghost voters' on roll?

THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has reportedly released a register of voters with over 250 000 ghost voters on its final biometric voters' roll (BVR), NewsDay reported.The alleged scam, according to the experts who have been analys…

Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

3 million ghosts on the voters' roll?

ZIMBABWE once again finds herself being railroaded into an election, despite tangible proof that conditions on the ground are not yet conducive for a free and fair poll. All this flies against postulations by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's…

Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Mkhululi Tshuma

Primary polls ghost haunts Zanu-PF

The chaotic manner in which Zanu-PF selected its parliamentary candidates could cost the ruling party in Mashonaland East (Mash East) province where disgruntled supporters have threatened to vote for opposition candidates in the July 30 el…

Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 13:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

'White' ghost torments family

EVER heard of Casper the friendly ghost?His arch rival in the form of a "white ghost" has been terrorising a family from Chingwere village in Mhondoro.The ghost has since forced them to abandon their homestead and move around the country s…

Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 08:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Morgan Tsvangirai and ghost of July 31

THERE shall be no coalition of opposition political parties any time soon beside the delusions of a "grand" one. That means Zanu-PF is left to fight demons only from within for possibly a landslide victory bigger than it got in 2013.For al…

Published: 28 Jul 2017 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Joram Nyathi

Ghost town status stalks Hwange

The sun appears to be setting for Hwange Town, an urban settlement whose origins and growth are anchored on coal mining activities in Hwange District. Hwange Colliery Company Limited, for decades the heart and soul of the town's economy, i…

Published: 20 Jun 2016 at 06:59hrs | 4 | by Kamangeni Phiri

Man claims to be married to a ghost

LUNGILE Makhubo, 41,  is a very sad man as he claims he was tricked into a marriage that never worked and feels like he fell in love with a ghost. Heâ€™s married, he said, to no one.He married the love of his life only a month after m…

Published: 17 Jun 2016 at 16:11hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter

A 'ghost prostitute' called Peggy

It is in the early 1980s. A man is downing a beer at Machipisa Shopping Centre in Harare's Highfield suburb.As the nightclub closes, he wanders along Mangwende Drive, hunting for a little action.His drunken search leads him to a strikingly…

Published: 15 Nov 2015 at 08:11hrs | 27 | by Tendai Chara

Rapist 'ghost' targets pregnant women

"When the ghost abused you, all the other women sleeping in that room also noticed. They did not have strength to shout for help or rescue you. The 'man' was so powerful that you could not push him once he grabbed you"Ever heard of a dead …

Published: 16 May 2015 at 11:44hrs | | by Noah Pito

Salarygate: 10 ghost managers exposed

Management at Chitungwiza Town Council is in the eye of a salary storm following revelations that they operated secret bank accounts and a payroll clogged with 10 ghost managers. The local authority's workers representatives yesterday told…

Published: 18 Mar 2014 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter

Man vows afterlife revenge on ghost that's ruining his life

36-year-old Kenneth Masheleng from extension 6 in Mamelodi East, Tshwane, says that of his 19 dogs, only nine are still alive.He said the dogs started dying mysteriously after he saw a ghost in December."I woke up one morning to find that …

Published: 18 Feb 2014 at 16:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Jealous ghosts terrorise woman

Emma Mabalane (58) from Palm Springs in the Vaal, SA,  says for the past 21 years she has been tormented by the ghosts of dead neighbours who stop at nothing to make her life miserable.According to Emma, the ghosts are three men and t…

Published: 26 Sep 2013 at 13:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Madzibaba sends ghost to have sex with ex-lover

Parishioners at a Bulawayo apostolic sect were shocked after one of their own confessed to having sent a ghost on a number of times to have sex with his ex-lover, who is also a member of the church.Madzibaba Gundani allegedly made the conf…

Published: 16 May 2013 at 12:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

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