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Russia fines Google US$2.5 decillion
A Russian court has fined Google $2.5 decillion for allegedly blocking pro-Kremlin propaganda on YouTube.The fine, which is the equivalent of $2.5 trillion trillion trillion, is the result of ...Published: 31 Oct 2024 at 08:37hrs | 752 | by Staff reporter
SA businessman under scrutiny for US$850m Zimbabwe oil pipeline project
In an emerging narrative that intertwines immense financial stakes and allegations of corruption, South African businessman Errol Gregor is spotlighted for his involvement in a US$850 million oil pipe...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 08:06hrs | 682 | by Staff reporter
Rutendo Matinyarare drags Mnangagwa and his family into his contempt of court saga
Self professed marketing and communication strategist Rutendo Matinyarare has dragged the President and the President's family into his shenanigans. Rutendo paid a visit to Champions Milling where he ...Published: 17 May 2024 at 14:37hrs | 29 | by George Tshuma
Zec hit with over 100 lawsuits
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has revealed that it attracted over 100 court cases over the secrecy and controversy surrounding its handling of the August 2023 elections with some still pendi...Published: 11 Feb 2024 at 21:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Donald Trump suffers Kasukuwere fate
Colorado's Supreme Court has ruled former United States President Donald Trump is ineligible to run for the White House because of his role in the 2021 assault on the Capitol by his supporters and sho...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 05:57hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zimbabwe commercial farmers sue SA government for R7bn
DOZENS of former Zimbabwean commercial farmers are demanding R7 billion from the South African government for its role in the suspension go the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal....Published: 29 Oct 2023 at 12:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
US court rejects Zimbabwe's bid to evade US$440m payment
A FEDERAL judge in the United States (US) recently tossed a bid by the Zimbabwe government to escape payment of some US$440.3 million compensation awarded to a European family over Harare's controvers...Published: 31 Aug 2023 at 06:40hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
The illusion of smooth elections
THE cornerstone of democratic governance, elections, often conjure images of civic participation and the people's voice resonating through the ballot box. Yet, reality paints a more complex picture as...Published: 24 Aug 2023 at 06:40hrs | 11 | by Stanford Chiwanga
Zimbavwe sleepwalks into another unfair, discredited election
AS Zimbabwe sleepwalks into yet another sham election, amid the brazen subversion of citizens' constitutional right to vote for representatives of their choice, the 23 August polls are already irretri...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:12hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Former UJ lecturer Lyness Matizirofa faces off against top attorneys at LPC
FORMER University of Johannesburg lecturer Lyness Matizirofa has launched a complaint against global law firm Eversheds Sutherland and two members of Group One Advocates for unfair treatment and acts ...Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 08:54hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
BCC blasted over proposal to disband municipal police
BULAWAYO residents have reacted with anger following the proposal by the local authority to disband municipal police and engage a private security company, saying the move is not only unprecedented, b...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 07:09hrs | 10 | by Staff rporter
Flurry of court cases casts shadow on August 23 polls
A string of court cases challenging processes leading to the August 23 elections has raised the spectre of Zimbabwe holding another disputed poll with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's challengers compla...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:46hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Harare mayor threatens court action against government
HARARE City Council Mayor Jacob Mafume has threatened legal action over the slow disbursement of devolution funds to the local authority, saying the development is hampering service delivery in the ca...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 05:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top govt official in trouble over ‘questionable' wealth
THE Ministry of Finance and Economic Development has suspended senior official Marcos Nyaruwanga to pave way for investigations to ascertain his source of wealth as a public official, the Zimbabwe Ind...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 18:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
NSSA probe widens
CORRUPTION investigations at the National Social Security Authority (Nssa), which saw general manager Arthur Manase being suspended early last month, have widened to include companies and individuals ...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Scandal-ridden Glencore has a big footprint in Zimbabwe
GLOBAL commodities giant Glencore, one of the world's largest diversified natural resource companies, currently engulfed in a corruption and bribery storm in the United States, Britain and Brazil, has...Published: 31 May 2022 at 07:37hrs | 160 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo says 'ZEC must be sued like hell'
EXILED former Cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo says the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) must be "hit hard" with lawsuits to force the elections management body to be transparent in handling the vote...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:41hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Pressure mounts on Zec over voters' roll
EXILED former Cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo says the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) must be "hit hard" with lawsuits to force the elections management body to be transparent in handling the vote...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
The need for social media regulation
IT is estimated that half of the world's population is now using social media. This is according to the Digital 2021 Global Statshot report.Global Web Index (GWI) puts it at 57,6% with about 4...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:37hrs | 10 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Startups News: Corporation vs LLC, The Latest Trends
The pandemic has been accompanied by a range of obstacles and challenges for most, if not all people, across the globe. Due to this many have lost their jobs and have had to find new or alternative fo...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 11:29hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Herd immunity Dec target unlikely to be attained
ZIMBABWE's ambitious target of attaining 60% Covid-19 herd immunity by December is in doubt, with only 15.9% of the country now fully vaccinated , three months before the government's set deadline to ...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
LLC vs Corporation: A state comparison
Recent statistics show that the total of active Limited Liability Companies in the state of Florida totaled to around 1,971,0...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 10:00hrs | 8 | by Staff Writer
US$6,5m suit against Makandiwa flops
The Supreme Court has upheld the High Court ruling rejecting business couple - Mr Upenyu Mashangwa and his wife Blessing's $6,5 million lawsuits against United Family International Church (UFIC) leade...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:05hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi dragged to court
A FORMER ZESA employee has dragged Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to court after he was blocked from filing a US$550 000 lawsuit against the power utility.Ken Francis Manyellah intended to s...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 20:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mining destroys CSC ranches
Some mining activities have left a trail of destruction at the Cold Storage Company (CSC)'s ranch and feed lot in Darwendale where the company used to keep at least 25 000 cattle. Mining compa...Published: 26 Aug 2021 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Companies threaten to sue Auditor General Mildred Chiri
AUDITORGeneral (AG) Mildred Chiri says her office has been threatened by some companies named in her recently released hardhitting annual audit report for 2019.Giving oral evidence to the Publ...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Spain Covid-19 pandemic lockdown unconstitutional
Spain's Constitutional Court has ruled that last year's stay-at-home lockdown order by the government under a state of emergency was unconstitutional.The court ruling on Wednesday was in respo...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 16:10hrs | | by AP
Police shooting victim awarded US$7,000 in restitution by High Court
A taxi driver who was shot by a trigger-happy cop has been awarded US$7,000 in damages by the High Court after suing home affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and police commissioner-general Godwin Matang...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 18:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trump launches website dedicated to 'putting America first'
Donald Trump has unveiled a new website that will serve as a platform to carry on his political legacy, fueling theories that the former US president is once again eyeing the White House.The o...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 15:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zantac: How one common medication caused the public outcry
The phrase health is wealth will never be any truer. This is why we seek medical attention whenever we fall sick or feel ill. Sometimes a trip to the pharmacy across the street will do the trick, wher...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 20:33hrs | 4 | by Staff writer
Pfizer, aided by British govt trying to manipulate Zimbabwe over COVID-19 vaccine?
Pfizer, aided by British GVT via @HMAMelanieR is trying to manipulate Zimbabwean GVT over #COVID19 vaccines: Nobody knows long term impact of mRNA vaccines. So they want indemnity from all fut...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 16:50hrs | | by mmatigari
Justice Hungwe entangled in messy Lesotho 'sham trial'
SEVERAL high-profile trials of Lesotho politicians, serving and former members of the country's security agencies are in limbo as lawyers representing murder and treason-accused former army commander ...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wades into ZESA tariff hike
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has ordered power utility ZESA to reduce its stepped electricity tariff from about US$0.19 per kilowatt hour (kWh) to about US$0.10 /kWh following a public outcry....Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africans taken aback by US election turmoil
FOR some Africans, President Donald Trump's actions in the aftermath of the US election have been a cause for dark humour, while others reacted with dismay or disbelief.In countries whose own rece...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 18:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa congratulates new US president
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday led Zimbabweans in congratulating United States president-elect Joseph Robinette Biden (Joe Biden) who won last week's US presidential election, beating incumbent Donald ...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Joe Biden defeats Trump in US presidential election
Joe Biden is now projected to have 290 Electoral College votes, the Associated Press (AP) news agency said on Saturday, above the threshold needed to clinch the hard-fought United States presidential ...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 18:15hrs | 2 | by AP
Chinese Hwange blitz a minister's directive
THE shock decision by the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) to grant two Chinese mining firms the greenlight to drill and explore for coal in the giant Hwange National Park w...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Labour registrar shuts down employment council to cover corruption
THE Registrar of Labour Grace Kanyayi has been taken to court after she unilaterally withdrew the certificate of registration for the National Employment Council (Nec) for Engineering and Iron and Ste...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 13:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Youth says it will not stop naming, shaming corrupt bigwigs
Lawsuits and threats will not stop the Zanu-PF Youth League from naming and shaming corrupt individuals, youth commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu has said. Addressing hundreds of party supporters at...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Graft list divides Zanu-PF
President Emmerson Mnangagwa was caught by surprise when the Zanu-PF youth league released a list of alleged corrupt senior officials, a senior official has claimed amid reports those implicated belie...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Zanu-PF youths are targeting heavy weights
Zanu-PF youths threw the cat among the pigeons recently when they released a list of alleged corrupt people that included senior ruling party officials such as Obert Mpofu and Prisca Mupfumira....Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu, Zanu-PF youths in heated exchanges
THe Zanu-PF youth league reportedly stood firm during an explosive politburo meeting in which secretary for administration Obert Mpofu reportedly tried to threaten them into silence, highly-placed sou...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Youth League challenges Obert Mpofu
The Zanu-PF Youth League has stood its ground in the fight against corruption and revealed last night that a team of 17 lawyers had been lined up to defend lawsuits following the naming and shaming of...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top cops, ZPCS, doctors face jail
Heads of hospitals, police stations and prisons will be jailed a mandatory five years if found guilty of destroying or tampering with vital evidence that incriminates in the death of people under thei...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 09:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
ANC, Zanu-PF brothers in arms
The recent fifth South African national and provincial elections were certified free and fair by the local and foreign observers but they were not without their critics.27 political parties lo...Published: 18 May 2019 at 18:27hrs | | by Daniel Itai
Mnangagwa's mixed messages
It is ironic that Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa happened to be in London spreading the 'Zimbabwe open for business' message when it was announced in Harare that draconian power cuts are being...Published: 12 May 2019 at 23:13hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Mugabe's farm equipment auctioned
Former president Robert Mugabe's farm equipment and vehicles are set to go under the hammer in what could signal a collapse of the once thriving diversified business empire. A local auction fi...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bosso CEO still in office
BULAWAYO football giants Highlanders have not severed ties with their chief executive officer Nhlanhla Dube, despite a decision by some executive committee members not to renew his contract that ran o...Published: 02 May 2019 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Marvo judicial manager's role must be reviewed
Since the beginning of companies mass closures over a decade ago, with Bulawayo being the hardest hit by closures and relocations. The Judicial managers have been beneficiaries of the crisis. In most ...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 08:11hrs | | by Mbonisi Gumbo
Herentals defies courts, litter Bulawayo streets
Lawsuits and calls from President Emmerson Mnangagwa for companies to be environmentally conscious have failed to stop the Herentals Group of Colleges and Schools from littering Bulawayo streets....Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:24hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
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