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Lake Kariba black market fish trade fuels illicit financial flow
A booming black market fish trade along Lake Kariba, driven by the illegal use of cheap twine nets, is undermining Zimbabwe's formal fishing economy and fuelling millions of dollars in illicit financi...Published: 22 Jun 2025 at 09:08hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
Land earmarked for public schools sold to land barons
Residents of Eastview and Caledonia in Harare have called for an urgent investigation into the alleged illegal sale of State land, initially earmarked for the construction of a public school, to a pri...Published: 13 May 2025 at 18:29hrs | 647 | by Staff reporter
Dr Nkululeko Sibanda's assets to be forfeited
The National Prosecuting Authority of Zimbabwe (NPAZ) has filed a High Court application to seize properties worth millions of dollars from the estate of the late businessman Dr. Nkululeko Sibanda, ac...Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 10:03hrs | 3346 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa's son to spend more time in remand prison
High Court judge Justice Esther Muremba has opted to recuse herself from Neville Mutsvangwa's bail hearing, citing personal reasons for her decision.Neville is the son of Women Affairs Ministe...Published: 28 May 2024 at 09:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Wadyajena removed from remand
HARARE regional magistrate Taurai Manuwere has ruled that Gokwe Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena (Zanu-PF) has no case to answer in a matter he was accused of money-laundering and fraud charges i...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 05:03hrs | 404 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's cash-rich govt suppliers fuel currency volatility
GOVERNMENT procurement and service providers - who include public works contractors and suppliers of goods and services - are destabilising the foreign exchange market by offloading part of their stag...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 08:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Errant contractors face blacklisting
Firms using money they earn from Government contracts to deal in the foreign currency black market will be blacklisted from future contracts, have the proceeds of illegal transactions confiscated, the...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZACC blocks US$18m illegal transactions
THE widening of the battle against corruption to include prevention as well as hunting down the lawbreakers is paying off for the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission which recently blocked two illegal...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Africa lost billions to cyber criminals in 2020
A mobile payment cyber security specialist has lifted the lid on the business model underpinning the mobile fraud that cost the African continent over US$4 billion (R59,68 billion) last year.A...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Money changers camp outside shops
Illegal money changers in Harare and other parts of the country are now hanging around and even inside supermarkets that might have a reasonable number of shoppers using foreign currency offering to p...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:00hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa frets over graft links
GOVERNMENT yesterday claimed that reports linking President Emmerson Mnangagwa's family to corrupt deals were designed to cause public disaffection and lead to a rebellion.Information minister...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff writer
Bonuses for civil servants
Since President Mnangagwa came into power in November 2017, the Government has shown commitment to improve the welfare of its workforce.In an interview after touring a food manufacturing and p...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 12:18hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Widow loses $40 000 in card cloning scam
A Bulawayo widow lost more than $40 000 after a Harare man allegedly cloned her late husband's bank card and went on to conduct illegal point of sale (POS) transactions at various retail outlets. ...Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 06:15hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Spike in jail escapes
There has been a spike in the number of jail escapes, with some fleeing from cells during court appearances.More inmates have gone over the wire now more than the previous years....Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 20:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's land audit team descends on Manicaland
A GOVERNMENT commission of inquiry tasked to probe illegal sale of State land, including residential stands pegged on sites reserved for schools, clinics and recreational facilities, will this week de...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mangudya's colourless phishing joke
I miss Gideon Gono. That's only because John Mangudya, his successor at the central bank, is that turtle you can't pick out from the rocks, which when it strays onto the road, looks and sounds like a ...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 08:22hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni
Schools defy Govt on mobile money transfers
SOME schools in Mutare are resisting fees payments through mobile money transfers despite a directive by the parent ministry that they acquire merchant codes and cushion parents from the cash crisis, ...Published: 11 May 2018 at 07:11hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Government must come clean on who externalised funds
President Mnangagwa promised to name and shame individuals who externalized funds. But the list unveiled today the 19th March is disappointing. Conspicuous by their absence are Zanu PF big wigs ...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 20:29hrs | | by Dr. Tapiwa Mashakada
Econet dismisses social media reports on EcoCash
ECONET Wireless has dismissed social media claims regarding the security around EcoCash transactions after allegations that people can easily manipulate the system went viral.In some of the me...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zanu-PF MP slams Mnangagwa govt
Expelled Zanu-PF central committee member Daniel Shumba has lashed out at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, labelling it "corrupt, partisan and power hungry."Shumba - once viewed ...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's financial system is living on borrowed time - and borrowed money
Zimbabwe's financial system increasingly resembles a house of cards. Were one card to give way – for instance, if South Africa's power utility, Eskom, were to have the temerity to suggest that Zimba...Published: 02 Nov 2017 at 06:20hrs | | by Roger Southall, University of the Witwatersrand
$60,000 seized from cash dealers in police blitz
THREE Chinese nationals and 19 illegal money changers have been arrested in Harare since the gazetting of regulations criminalising cash vending with police recovering $55 000 worth of bond notes, US$...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
22 illegal money-changers jailed
THREE Chinese nationals and 19 illegal money-changers have been arrested in Harare since the gazetting of regulations criminalising cash vending, with police recovering $55 000 worth of bond notes, US...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa threatens cash, forex traders
CABINET has approved a host of measures to arrest artificial shortages of basic commodities and the price madness triggered by economic saboteurs through social media, with Finance and Economic Develo...Published: 28 Sep 2017 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tricksters target money changers, cash dealers
POLICE in Bulawayo have warned residents who buy and sell cash that they are now targets of fraudsters and robbers.Residents are buying cash and are charged interest of between 10 and 20 perce...Published: 13 Jul 2017 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fidelis Fengu challenges court's restitution order
Political activist Fidelis Fengu, who was jailed for masquerading as an immigration principal director and forging a letter for a Chinese who wanted a residence permit, has approached the court seekin...Published: 01 Dec 2015 at 05:14hrs | 2 | by Court Reporter
Drivers' licences for sale
YOUTH in Zimbabwe are involved in corruption activities to the extent some have to pay bribes to pass examinations, get drivers' licences and even get promotion at work.A Transparency Inte...Published: 01 Oct 2014 at 09:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Wife in court for stealing from hubby
A Bindura woman who used her husband's automated teller machine (ATM) card to withdraw more than $9 000 on numerous occasions without his consent was yesterday arraigned before a Harare Magistra...Published: 28 Jun 2014 at 13:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Makandiwa illegally acquired large tracts of land
Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa's United Family International Church (UFIC) has admitted to irregularly acquiring huge tracts of land from Chitungwiza Town Council and has asked the local authority to "reg...Published: 03 May 2012 at 07:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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