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Businesswoman fights off loan shark
A Harare businesswoman has approached the Norton Magistrates Court for an interdict against a loan shark, alleging harassment and intimidation linked to a loan she secured last year.Fungai Gol...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 07:41hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean loan shark jailed in the UK
A Birmingham caregiver who engaged in illegal loan shark transactions, collecting £350,000 and charging a 20% interest rate, has been sentenced to jail.Tecla Bandawe, driven by greed, provide...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 09:19hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Is Hwange Unit 7 another huge big scam and con job?
Is it just me, or has everyone else also noticed that, ever since Hwange Unit 7 Thermal Power Station came online, two days ago, load shedding has strangely increased?Excuse me for my ignoranc...Published: 22 Mar 2023 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Govt launches savings fund for civil servants
Government has launched a civil servants' savings facility known as the Government Employees Mutual Savings (GEMS) Fund, which will create a revolving facility for its workers.Speaking at the ...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 15:55hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Loan shark who terrorised fellow Zimbabweans must repay £40,000 or face jail
Loan shark Rita Tahwa has been ordered to repay £40,000 (US$52,000) or face going to jail after she illegally lent money to 100 members of the Zimbabwean community.The 43-year-old started loa...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by stokesentinel.co.uk
Buyanga's double life exposed
Frank Buyanga, the controversial 38-year-old property tycoon, has been faking it that he is a reverend, The Standard reported.Buyanga, with nearly 400 000 followers on Facebook, wants to be kn...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 09:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
What did Chamisa have to promise for Mugabe to endorse him?
"Since nothing is free, to each his price" (Gore Vidal) One of the universal truisms in life is that nothing comes for free. Everything has a price. This is especially true in politics, ...Published: 06 Jun 2018 at 09:58hrs | 2 | by Mike, Harare
EFF calls for an inquiry into Capitec 'loan shark'
The EFF notes the damning report by Viceroy on Capitec and its loan shark activities and allegations. The EFF, despite the assurances of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), believes there must be a...Published: 01 Feb 2018 at 12:26hrs | 3 | by Mbuyiseni Quintin Ndlozi
Mnangagwa charms civil servants
CIVIL servants have expressed elation at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's responsiveness to their concerns saying signs are there for all to see that the new political administration is sensitive and de...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police stop teachers' demo
POLICE last week stopped a march by teachers who intended to protest the continued deduction of money from some civil servants' salaries through the Salary Services Bureau (SSB) stop order system by l...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 13:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Buyanga's vehicles attached over debt
Flamboyant businessman Frank Buyanga is set to lose four vehicles over a long-standing debt to former employees who approached the High Court which ruled in their favour to pave way for the auctioning...Published: 06 Aug 2017 at 14:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil servants defrauded by loan sharks
LOAN sharks are deducting money from civil servants salaries through the Salary Services Bureau (SSB)'s stop order system ostensibly to service non-existent loans without prior approval from the worke...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 13:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Buyanga in Namibian tender storm
WINDHOEK - The Ministry of Works and Transport is in the eye of a storm after issuing a N$1.6 billion railway procurement tender that will run over three years and will see about 60 000 metric tonnes ...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 11:55hrs | 1 | by The Villager Namibia
Buyanga eyes Lafarge
FLAMBOYANT businessman, Frank Buyanga, is eyeing a 40 percent stake in cement manufacturer, Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe, a unit of Lafarge-Holcim, the world's largest building materials producer with oper...Published: 27 May 2016 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
5000 Zimbabwean teachers to lose their jobs?
ABOUT 5,000 teachers risk being struck off the government payroll for failure to submit certificates from training institutions soon after graduation.It is a legal requirement that upon appo...Published: 10 Jun 2015 at 10:06hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Grace furious with Mugabe over alleged 'lover' Muchinguri
A whistle-blower facebook page called Zimbabweans for Prosperity which claims to have close links with "the intelligence services, key cabinet ministers and the military" has made sensational claims t...Published: 30 Jan 2015 at 14:52hrs | 44 | by Staff Reporter
Who the hell is Sir Wicknell?
He has money and loves flaunting it, irking many in the process. Who exactly is this obnoxious young millionaire?EVERYONE in Harare who has ac...Published: 31 May 2014 at 14:03hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Loan shark's wife bashes customer's wife in church
THE wife of a Victoria Falls loan shark has been arraigned before the courts for assaulting a woman who owed her husband money at a church meeting.Sharon Gambara, 23, of Number 74 Dura Wall in...Published: 02 May 2014 at 02:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Govt pushes for suspension on seizure of mortgaged property
HARARE - The Zimbabwe government is pushing for a suspension on the seizure of mortgaged property, a move that might hugely affect lending businesses, analysts have said.Government last week m...Published: 16 Dec 2013 at 09:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Disabled children stranded as Children's Home closes
AT least 40 children living with disabilities are stranded in Bulawayo following the closure of Emthunzini Wethemba Children's Home which offered day care services to them. Management at the Z...Published: 02 Nov 2013 at 03:43hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
SA based fugitive loan shark Frank Buyanga resurfaces
FUGITIVE South Africa-based Zimbabwean loan shark, Frank Buyanga, made a brief appearance in Harare on Tuesday this week where he privately met over 100 property owners who lost their houses in a ...Published: 26 Oct 2013 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zaoga loan shark loses property
A MASVINGO magistrate has approved the attachment and auctioning of two buses, a Mercedes-Benz, a trailer and office equipment belonging to Honest Chatikobo, who ran a money-lending firm which went bu...Published: 15 Aug 2013 at 14:35hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Money the root of all evil
"Money is the root of all evil," the email read. "It is the reason you Africans are a failure; a dependent of the West. It is the reason you languish at the bottom of the totem pole. Don't blame us. ...Published: 03 Jun 2013 at 03:35hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Zimbabwean loan shark bites Kalusha Bwalya
ZAMBIAN soccer legend Kalusha Bwalya has become the latest to be hit by an intricate loan scam run by suspected Zimbabwean lenders where people put their properties on the line for a once-off cash pay...Published: 08 Jul 2012 at 18:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Auctioning Zimbabwe -The shady individuals and companies behind
Mugabe's brutal regimeAccording to sources close to them, Zanu PF and the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) officials continue to manipulate indigeni...Published: 05 Dec 2011 at 07:27hrs | 3 | by Mathula Lusina
Zim Loan shark gets 3-years behind bars
A 45-year-old loan shark who allegedly swindled three people of their stands and a car valued at US$20 000 after they failed to pay back his loans, has been sentenced to three-year behind bars....Published: 19 Aug 2011 at 06:42hrs | 4 | by Moyo Roy
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