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74-year-old jailed over US$85k residential stands scam
A 74-year-old man from Gweru has been sentenced to 30 months in prison after failing to repay US$85,000 in restitution to River Valley Properties, following his involvement in a land scam dating back ...Published: 20 Jun 2025 at 06:02hrs | 295 | by Christopher Mutambirwa
Gated communities redefine Bulawayo's residential landscape
Once considered exclusive enclaves for the elite, gated communities are rapidly transforming the urban fabric of Bulawayo, introducing new standards of security, lifestyle, and legal property ownershi...Published: 09 Jun 2025 at 08:42hrs | 5114 | by Staff reporter
Zacc cracks down on rampant land grabs
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has raised alarm over the persistent and unlawful takeover of State and communal land by powerful land barons, despite repeated government warnings again...Published: 30 May 2025 at 08:56hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa monopolises 2030...as govt extorts servants behind Wi-Fi
Local Government and Public Works minister, Daniel Garwe announced that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has the monopoly to continue presiding over the country's affairs until and beyond 2030, while prom...Published: 04 Mar 2025 at 15:02hrs | 2669 | by Gideon Madzikatidze recently in Manyame (Mahusekwa/Chihota)
Harare land scam unmasked
Harare residents are raising alarm over an elaborate scheme involving corrupt city council officials that is leading to the loss of properties and stands. In the latest scandal, four residents in Mabv...Published: 19 Dec 2024 at 16:36hrs | 122 | by Staff reporter
ZANU-PF in tatters...as Chiwenga, Mnangagwa factions loot Harare
The ZANU-PF succession infighting has torn apart Harare provincial leadership into political debris, with some land barons allegedly channelling their loot towards consolidating alliances and legitima...Published: 18 Nov 2024 at 17:02hrs | 6160 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Deeds Office sucked into Harare land scam
The Harare City Council (HCC) land scam involving plots in Greendale has escalated, drawing in the Deeds Office amid serious allegations of the creation of fake deeds by individuals allegedly linked t...Published: 21 Oct 2024 at 07:51hrs | 721 | by Staff reporter
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
Commission exposes Harare land scam
The Commission of Inquiry into the Governance of Harare City Council recently uncovered tactics used by city councillors, mostly from the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), to loot council land thro...Published: 21 Aug 2024 at 07:09hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF disown Saturday Retreat land barons
The ruling Zanu-PF party has disowned some land barons in Harare South's Saturday Retreat (Border Gezi) who have embarked on an overdrive to dupe unsuspecting homeseekers through allocating them land ...Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 10:31hrs | 80 | by Paul Ndou
Zanu-PF aspiring MP in land scam
Zanu-PF's aspiring parliamentary candidate for Goromonzoi South constituency Tinashe Chikonye has been accused of parcelling out State land to home-seekers in Caledonia, claiming the land was his....Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF turns State land into campaign tool'
VIILAGERS in Plumtree's ward 14, Matabeleland South province, have accused their community leaders of turning State land into a Zanu-PF campaign tool.They claimed that land was also being dist...Published: 05 Apr 2023 at 09:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Land scam sucks in Harare town clerk
Harare City Council's acting town clerk Phakhamile Mabhena Moyo and Citizens Coalition for Change councillor Happymore Gotora appeared in court yesterday facing criminal abuse of office charges....Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 07:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CCC councillors plot to disregard protocol
CCC members have hatched a plan to make Harare City Council ungovernable through wanton disregard of protocol, sacking of management deemed anti-opposition and imposing their corrupt cronies, The Hera...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC candidate fined $50 000 for building on wetland
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) candidate for Harare's ward 41 in the March 26 council by-election, Kudzai Kadzombe, has been fined $50 000 by the Environmental Management Agency for building ...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 05:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa retains current councillors
OPPOSITION leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has sparked public outcry after his party, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), nominated persons with corruption charges hanging over their heads to be candida...Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 05:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru council protects US$10m dodgy dealers
SOME corrupt Gweru City Council officials who benefited from more than US$10 million in unprocedural land deals over the past decade are yet to be made public with residents criticising the local auth...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 15:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Urban home-seekers invade rural area land
The rising cost of land in urban centres such as Harare has pushed desperate home seekers to invade adjacent rural areas, which are now experiencing increasing pressure on demand for social services....Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 07:00hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
War veterans threaten to sue Minister for selling land
War veterans Association district chairpersons in Masholand Central province have threatened to sue Minister for provincial affairs in Mash Central Senato...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 21:43hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa ally saved by Zanu-PF elections suspension
MASVINGO Provincial Affairs minister Ezra Chadzamira has emerged as the main beneficiary of the Zanu-PF politburo's decision to suspend provincial elections which were scheduled for month-end, as the ...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's intervention sort
EMBATTLED Harare City Council human and capital development director Dr Cainos Chingombe secretly met with MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa as he desperately tries to get support for his comeback...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 08:20hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
MDC devises new ways of milking Harare
The chicken thief does not listen to the chicken's prayer! This adage clearly brings out life at Harare City Council's Town House where the MDC-Alliance led council officials seem to have devised new ...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC devises new ways of milking council
MDC-ALLIANCE'S Harare City councillors are now devising new ways of milking the cash-strapped local authority to fund their party after their traditional cash cows, including land sales, have been c...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 06:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Poisoning scare as land barons' war turns nasty
GOVERNMENT'S fight against land barons, accused of illegally parcelling out State land in urban areas, has turned nasty amid reports that Harare's provincial development coordinator (PDC) Tafadzwa Mug...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Council finance director still on the run
Harare City Council's acting finance director, Stanley Ndemera who is wanted by Police and the Special Anti-Corruption Unit (SACU) on allegations of criminal inquiries relating to land allocation and ...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:15hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Corruption in Zimbabwe fueled by ZANU PF's 'tichingotonga' mentality of a leadership that believes will never leave power
After waking up early in the morning to chop firewood for cooking, in the middle of a low-density suburb - as there has not been any electricity supply in our area for the past two days - there is not...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 14:08hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Land barons misusing Zanu-PF name warned
Mashonaland West Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution, Mary Mliswa-Chikoka has warned land barons who misuse the names of Zanu-PF and Government officials that their days are number...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 16:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Residents accuse govt over Harare mess
RESIDENTS yesterday accused the government of authoring the confusion currently devilling the Harare City Council (HICC) to push its own political agenda.Harare Residents Trust director Precio...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 19:55hrs | 1 | 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 | 10 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Zimbabwe to demolish illegal upmarket homes, lodges in Victoria Falls
The government is reportedly hunting for land barons who allegedly illegally parcelled communal land outside the world-class resort city amid indications more than 100 "illegal executive settlers" wil...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC-led council show true colours
THE year2020 will go down in the history of the MDC-led Harare City Council as the worst under its leadership. The year exposed existing massive corruption, land scams, leadership crisis, arre...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:18hrs | 3 | by Blessings Chidakwa
Mutizwa appointed acting Harare mayor following Mafume's suspension
Ward 9 Councillor, Stewart Mutizwa, has been appointed acting mayor of the beleaguered MDC-Alliance led Harare City Council.His appointment follows the suspension of mayor Jacob Mafume and his...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 17:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF officials links with land barons exposed
Daggers are drawn in Zanu-PF over ruling party officials that are amassing land in urban areas, which they sell to desperate home seekers, with some disgruntled youths demanding action.A lette...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Daggers drawn in Zanu-PF over land barons
DAGGERS are drawn in Zanu-PF over ruling party officials that are amassing land in urban areas, which they sell to desperate home-seekers, with some disgruntled youths demanding action.A lette...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fresh details on land scam
Top officials at Rural District Councils (RDC) are conniving with village heads in the illegal sale of State land especially in peri-urban areas across the country, prejudicing the government of milli...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 21:23hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urges Zanu-PF vigilance on Chamisa's councils
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged his Zanu-PF party to monitor corruption by MDC Alliance dominated local authorities.He was addressing a Mashonaland East Provincial Coordinating Committe...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 13:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wants everyone to expose corruption
The Zanu-PF leadership must help Government to closely monitor local authorities using devolution funds and expose corruption as well as poor service delivery, President Mnangagwa has said. Ad...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:43hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Two corrupt council officials face suspension
Two Mvurwi town council officials under one under housing department Simbarashe Kambare and Sydney Chionde under Information and Technology have been suspended following graft allegations.Mvur...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 15:29hrs | | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Corruption in councils riles Mnangagwa
Unprecedented levels of corruption and poor governance bedevilling local authorities across the country, particularly Harare, are worrying President Mnangagwa and the Government, a Cabinet Minister ha...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Sacu storms Harare full council meeting, detains councillors
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Special Anti-Corruption Unit (Sacu) has reportedly stopped an on-going full Council meeting Thursday detaining all in attendance.City Deputy Mayor Luckson Mukung...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 21:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lifestyle audit for council officials
THE Government is set to conduct lifestyle audits for Harare City Council officials, amid indications that some of them might have amassed wealth through the sale of State land, Harare Provincial Deve...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stern warning to State land sellers
All those invading State, council and private land and creating bogus housing cooperatives are criminals that deserve to be arrested and prosecuted for fraud, corruption and land invasions, despite th...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Council land scam takes new twist
HARARE City Council's head of planning Priscilla Charumbira has denied allegations that she unprocedurally changed land use plans for several open spaces in the capital, accusing fellow employees, alr...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 07:05hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zacc prepares to arrest BCC officials
GOVERNMENT has unearthed a massive scam under which MDC-Alliance-led councils are allegedly fundraising for their party through illegal sale of State land to the detriment of service delivery. ...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:42hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents hail Zacc probe
BULAWAYO residents have hailed the move by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) to investigate reports of alleged land scams involving city fathers, saying this would help bring sanity at th...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare town clerk arrested
Harare City Council town clerk Engineer Hosiah Chisango has been arrested this afternoon in Gweru over alleged land scams.Chisango, who was arrested while attending a town clerks' forum in Gwe...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 18:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Corrupt council managers, councillors on ZACC radar
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is set to rid Chitungwiza and Bulawayo councils of corrupt councillors and managers involved in land scams with arrests and prosecutions imminent. ...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
More nabbed in Chitungwiza land scam
Phillip Guyo, who contested the St Mary's seat in last year's harmonised elections on a Zanu-PF ticket, was yesterday arrested in connection with the land scam involving Chitungwiza Mayor Lovemore Mai...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 12:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chombo named in another land scam
FORMER Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo allegedly parcelled out undesignated housing stands in Banket's Kuwadzana Phase 2 and converted the money to personal use, NewsDay has learnt.T...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Beyond elections: When the chickens come home to roost
This article could not have come at a better time than this interesting political time when Bulawayo is battling with the local governance conundrum, probably a historical first when the opposit...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:57hrs | 1 | by Michael Mhlanga
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