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Harare housing co-op leaders in land scam
Two leaders of the Simon Mazorodze Housing Co-operative in Harare have been implicated in a land scam involving the illegal conversion of land designated for schools and a clinic into residential stan...Published: 01 Oct 2024 at 09:01hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
Land barons ride on Zanu-PF campaign
SUSPECTED Zanu-PF-linked land barons have invaded large tracts of land in Harare and Chitungwiza, where they are doling out residential stands to desperate home-seekers as a vote-buying gimmick ahead ...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 08:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Govt guns for land barons
GOVERNMENT has finally decided to act on land barons and illegal settlements by crafting a cocktail of strategies that include reviewing legislation and setting up courts to specifically deal with the...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:59hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chombo can now freely rejoin the feeding trough
THE nation celebrates with Ignatius Chombo, who can now freely join the national feeding trough in peace.It was announced this week that all charges against the man had been dropped, seeing as...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 19:02hrs | 2 | by Muckracker
Pupils learn under trees
COWDRAY Primary school pupils in Bulawayo have been learning under trees during the first term as the school has only two blocks for the over 1 700 learners enrolled.Former Sidojiwe Housing Co...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 14:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt blocks Zanu-PF supporters' eviction
GOVERNMENT has blocked controversial tycoon Billy Rautenbach from evicting thousands of Zanu-PF supporters he accuses of illegally settling on his land in Harare's Aspindale area.Harare Metrop...Published: 05 Jun 2021 at 09:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bigwigs risk losing properties worth US$4m
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is investigating a plethora of cases involving executives at several urban local authorities, who are accused of corruptly acquiring properties worth as ...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa petitioned over looming demolitions
AN international housing and land rights movement has petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa asking him to stop the pending house demolitions in the country, particularly at Crowborough Farm, Harare....Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Housing co-ops remitted money into Chombo personal bank account'
SEVERAL housing co-operatives around the country reportedly deposited cash into former Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo's personal bank account instead of remitting the money to the State, a ...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 21:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF disowns housing co-operatives
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday said it was supportive of government and Harare City Council's proposed demolition of illegal structures, including those under co-operatives led by party members....Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Land probe opens can of worms
GOVERNMENT'S latest blitz on land barons has exposed serious political undercurrents, with one of the suspected barons, Wellington Peyama, sensationally claiming that he was being hounded by Housing a...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:43hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Land for votes haunts Zanu-PF
FORMER Labour and Social Welfare minister and ex-Zanu-PF Member of Parliament for Goromonzi, Petronella Kagonye (pictured) was yesterday arrested over alleged illegal land dealings.Kagonye ser...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 19:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gun-totting land barons terrorise vapositori
Unrepentant gun-wielding lands barons have beyond reasonable doubt become a menace in Harare's Budiriro high-density suburb where they invade land earmarked for Johane Masowe Nyenyedzinomwe low income...Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 15:01hrs | 11 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Recalls have crippled council business, says Mafume
New Harare mayor Jacob Mafume (JM) still believes that the capital has what it takes to regain its Sunshine City status if city fathers can get their act together. Last week, he sat down with NewsDay ...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dragged into Mphoko, Zacc fight
FORMER Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko, who stands accused of abuse of public office, has dragged President Emmerson Mnangagwa into his case, saying the Zanu-PF leader in 2015 made a similar act whe...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 12:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
78 Victoria Falls female protesters arrested
SEVENTY-EIGHT Victoria Falls female protesters were yesterday arrested after they defied a police ban and stormed council offices demanding accountability for the money they contributed over the past ...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa evictees seek recourse
RESIDENTS occupying the contested Nyarungu Estate under the Phillip Chiyangwa-owned Jetmaster Properties have approached the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZHLR) in a bid to stop a High Court dire...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 06:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T run Harare threatens imminent demolitions
Harare City Council (HCC) has opened a Pandora's Box on the eve of elections set for July 30 after the municipality declared war on illegal settlers residing in Crowborough, Churu and Eyestone Farms....Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 12:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe appoints committee to probe shady land deals
President Robert Mugabe has reportedly appointed a Cabinet committee to probe shady land deals in all major urban centres, as government closes in on land barons ahead of next year's general elect...Published: 11 Apr 2017 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Council evicts Zanu-PF land invaders
SCORES of Zanu-PF youths were yesterday evicted from land they had invaded and set up illegal structures in Warren Park, Harare.Harare City Council has earmarked the invaded land for housi...Published: 16 Mar 2017 at 10:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere denies Nyoni tiff
Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Saviour Kasukuwere yesterday said he has no tiff with Small and Medium Enterprises Cooperative Development Minister Sithembiso Nyoni on...Published: 09 Feb 2017 at 05:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe eyes Harare South seat
FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe is reportedly "plotting" to contest for the Harare South parliamentary seat in next year's general elections, which could open the way for her to be considered for a Cabine...Published: 08 Feb 2017 at 12:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ranked number one in housing cooperatives - Zanu-PF Minister
Despite the alarming housing crisis in Zimbabwe - Small to Medium Enterprises Minister Sithembiso Nyoni has claimed that the country is ranked number one in the issue of housing cooperatives.S...Published: 28 Jul 2016 at 06:49hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
Anti-corruption blitz targets Wicknell Chivayo and other bigwigs
Government is on a major anti-corruption operation, with investigators raiding ministries, parastatals, Harare City Council and housing co-operatives last Thursday and Friday.In 2015, Presiden...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 11:25hrs | | by Brian Chitemba
Housing co-operatives NOT banned
HOUSING Co-operatives were not banned but were prohibited from occupying state land, a senior Government official has said.SMEs and Co-operatives Development Deputy Minister Noveti Muponora sa...Published: 28 Feb 2016 at 08:11hrs | | by Tafadzwa Kadani
Policy discord rocks Mugabe government
Sithembiso Nyoni Small-to-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) minister has blasted the Local Government ministry, headed by Saviour Kasukuwere, for encroaching into her portfolio by announcing a ban on hous...Published: 19 Feb 2016 at 08:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Govt bans housing co-ops
Government has stopped allocating land to developers and housing co-operatives with immediate effect, while all servicing and housing development on State land will be done by the Urban Development Co...Published: 28 Jan 2016 at 05:20hrs | 3 | by Innocent Ruwende and Farai Mukuwane
Double allocation of housing stands triggers brawl
Members of two housing cooperatives in Kadoma engaged in a brawl last Friday during a meeting at Pixie Combie after they discovered that there were double allocations for some stands.The warri...Published: 11 Jan 2016 at 05:46hrs | 2 | by Ellah Mukwati
Zvobgo sent on forced leave
Harare Water director Engineer Christopher Zvobgo, has been sent on forced leave with immediate effect to pave way for investigations following rampant illegal water connections to the city's main lin...Published: 04 Jan 2016 at 06:23hrs | 2 | by Nyemudzai Kakore
Gomwe terrorized us
A witness in the $47 000 extortion trial of suspended Zanu PF Harare provincial youth chair Godwin Gomwe and seven other ruling party activists, told the court yesterday that the suspects used to ...Published: 15 Dec 2015 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
200 houses demolished
Harare City Council yesterday demolished 200 illegal structures along High Glen and Kambuzuma Roads whose owners belong to 32 bogus housing co-operatives. Council officials said the houses wer...Published: 11 Dec 2015 at 05:22hrs | | by Masline Mavudzi
Govt to repossess undeveloped state land
The government will soon repossess all state land which land developers and housing co-operatives have failed to develop.This was revealed by the Director for Housing in the Ministry of Local ...Published: 18 Oct 2015 at 19:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
New housing scheme unveiled
Government has introduced a new housing scheme to protect the public from land barons that have fleeced them of millions of dollars through illegal sales of residential stands on undesignated sites. T...Published: 31 Aug 2015 at 07:02hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika and Innocent Ruwende
MDC-T launches own blueprint
The main opposition MDC-T yesterday launched a local governance blueprint to guide its councilors leading various local authorities across the country. The blueprint titled Smart City Camp...Published: 21 Aug 2015 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Housing co-operatives sue Chikwinya for land grabbing
Women's Affairs minister Nyasha Chikwinya has been taken to court for allegedly falsifying documents to claim ownership of land occupied by a housing cooperative in Harare North.Mama MaFu...Published: 20 Aug 2015 at 11:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
1 000 families face eviction
The High Court has ordered more than 1 000 families settled around the Aspindale area in Harare to stop housing developments and vacate the site owned by a land developer, Marimba Industrial Prope...Published: 18 Aug 2015 at 09:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Leave Grace Mugabe alone, says Kasukuwere
Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has warned Zanu-PF members to desist from dragging First Lady Grace Mugabe's name into shoddy land deals. Speaking during a "meet the councilor...Published: 12 Aug 2015 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP orders policeman to remove uniform
The recently-elected Harare East National Assembly member Terence Mukupe led a group of youths that besieged Mabvuku Police Station and ordered the officer-in-charge to remove his uniform if he wanted...Published: 07 Aug 2015 at 11:40hrs | | by Fungai Lupande
Zanu-PF MP arrested
Harare East National Assembly member Terence Mukupe (Zanu-PF) was detained overnight at Rhodesville police station on Tuesday evening for attempting to obstruct the course of justice after he attempt...Published: 06 Aug 2015 at 10:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF land barons funded Mujuru
Chiefs' Council president Chief Fortune Charumbira has accused Zanu-PF land barons of fuelling divisions within the ruling party and funding former Vice-President Joice Mujuru's Gamatox faction us...Published: 27 Jul 2015 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Midzi was under police investigation
FORMER Zanu-PF Harare provincial chairman and Cabinet Minister Amos Midzi, who was recently found dead in his car at his farm in Beatrice, was under police investigation on several allegations of abus...Published: 22 Jun 2015 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
This is the end of Zanu-PF's Chipangano
While in African custom it is taboo to speak ill of the departed, Harare's poor neighbourhood of Mbare in the past few weeks heaved a sigh of relief after the ruling Zanu-PF's brutal purges claimed th...Published: 14 Jun 2015 at 10:48hrs | | by Richard Chidza
Zanu-PF replaces Gomwe
Zanu-PF has appointed Harare provincial youth vice chair Edson Takataka as the acting chair following allegations of extortion against the incumbent Godwin Gomwe. Gomwe has been denied bai...Published: 05 Jun 2015 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Gomwe will exchange Zanu-PF regalia for prison garb,' says Kasukuwere
The Zanu-PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere yesterday took a veiled attack on imprisoned Zanu-PF Harare youth league leader Godwin Gomwe, who is facing charges of extorting $46 000 from hou...Published: 05 Jun 2015 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Arrested Zanu-PF chairman attempts suicide by taking rat poison
Zanu-PF Harare provincial youth chairman Godwin Gomwe attempted to shoot himself when he heard that police were after him in connection with a case in which he and other party officials allegedly ...Published: 03 Jun 2015 at 08:14hrs | | by Tendai Rupapa
Zanu-PF youth leader up for extortion
ZANU-PF Harare province youth chairman Godwin Gomwe and six other party officials have been arrested on allegations of extorting more than $46 000 from eight housing co-operatives in Glen Norah on sev...Published: 02 Jun 2015 at 07:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe's name used for extortion
Zanu-PF top officials in Harare have been accused of using First Lady Grace Mugabe's name to extort money from at least 10 housing co-operatives from the high-density suburb of Glen Norah.Acco...Published: 30 May 2015 at 19:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Just taking a well-deserved break, Cdes
COMRADES, this week I have decided not to address you as I try to catch up with a lot that has been happening both in our party and the country in the past few weeks that I have had hectic schedules b...Published: 21 May 2015 at 15:02hrs | | by CZ
Chiyangwa in stands 'daylight robbery'
OVER 20 000 people who bought land for housing in Harare South from a land developing consortium on three farms face eviction after the Government returned the land to Dr Philip Chiyangwa's Pinnacle P...Published: 16 May 2015 at 11:36hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
Open letter to Robert Mugabe
Our country is currently faced with a myriad of challenges, many of which can very easily be overcome with minimum effort, some originality and innovativeness, and last - but not least - guts and clar...Published: 08 Feb 2015 at 09:12hrs | | by Edmore AM Ndudzo
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