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Former soldier loses pension in fraud scheme by ex-colleague
A former Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) member, Forward Mapfunde of Warren Park D in Harare, is counting significant losses after his pension funds were fraudulently stolen by a former colleague who ret...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:48hrs | 256 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teacher and human rights activist struggles after 4 years without salary
Robson Chere, a 40-year-old trained teacher and passionate human rights activist, has spent the past four years without receiving a salary after the government halted his payments. As the secretary-ge...Published: 08 Feb 2025 at 12:47hrs | 996 | by Staff reporter
Estranged wife wins landmark judgment
In a landmark judgment, Petronella Tendai Militala, a 56-year-old woman, has secured a significant victory in the High Court, awarding her a share of her estranged late husband’s estate valued at mo...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 11:46hrs | 1837 | by Staff reporter
Dembare players back at work
After two-and-a-half days of strike action, Dynamos players returned to training yesterday in preparation for their highly anticipated Chibuku Super Cup semi-final clash against Manica Diamonds at Ruf...Published: 26 Oct 2024 at 12:41hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Dembare players snub their Chairman
Dynamos players are intensifying their protests over unpaid bonuses and sign-on fees ahead of Sunday's Chibuku Super Cup semi-final clash against Manica Diamonds at Rufaro Stadium, which they see as t...Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 15:35hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos, players standoff persists
Tensions are mounting at Dynamos Football Club as players staged a second day of protest yesterday, boycotting training over unpaid winning bonuses and sign-on fees. The unrest has thrown their Chibuk...Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 08:38hrs | 108 | by Staff reporgter
Zimbabwe's civil servants long for GNU days
ZIMBABWE Prison and Correctional Service (ZPCS) officer Mbekezeli Dube* sits hunched over his desk in his discoloured uniform.The once-vibrant green shade is now a pale shadow of its former se...Published: 06 Jul 2024 at 11:48hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Association with Chivayo warrants impeachment from Presidency
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, as I see it, the scriptural rhetorical question, "Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?" (Amos 3:3) underscores the impea...Published: 03 Jul 2024 at 15:18hrs | 15 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Mnangagwa keeping Zim dollar to oppress Zimbabweans!
Why is the Zimbabwe government so adamant in holding on to a useless currency?On what logic would anyone believe that it is a good idea to continue using money that loses its value nearly on a...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 23:33hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
King Lobhengula: The Statesman Par Excellence
The man who is credited to have expanded Buthwakazi until it covered virtually the whole of Budlanondo (present day Zimbabwe and parts of present day Botswana) is King Lobhengula (named after Prince N...Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 17:31hrs | 28 | by George Mkhwanazi
Zimbabwe cops refuse to retire
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has reportedly tightened screws on officers who wish to extend their service post retirement after an unprecedented number of retiring officers applied for extension...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 05:55hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Headmasters confront govt over Zimdollar salaries
HEADMASTERS from government schools across Zimbabwe have put their employer on notice to press for United States dollar salaries starting from the forthcoming term.School heads and teachers ar...Published: 03 Jan 2024 at 05:30hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Maybe if there had been no social media, Zimbabwe would be free today!
When I started writing these social justice articles way back in 1989, as a form three pupil, the world was a very different place.Those of us who had chosen this path - of speaking for the op...Published: 05 Nov 2023 at 13:23hrs | 17 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zipra war collaborators feel betrayed by govt
Tensions are mounting among former Zipra liberation war collaborators who underwent vetting in 2021 to determine their eligibility for monthly payouts promised to them.These unarmed combatants...Published: 04 Oct 2023 at 20:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Public wage bill balloons 3 times ahead of key Zimbabwe elections
ELECTION-related spending by the Zimbabwean government is going through the roof as President Emmerson Mnangagwa goes for broke, spending public funds like confetti at a wedding to retain his position...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 17:30hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Pregnant immigrants turned away from Joburg clinics
Priscilla Tumira from Zimbabwe thinks she is eight months pregnant, but she has not had any prenatal health care. Without valid documents, Tumira says, staff at Jeppe and Hillbrow Clinics in Johannesb...Published: 10 May 2023 at 06:10hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs and village heads to get US$550 each
CHIEFS and village heads are set to receive lump sum payments of at least US$550 each as part of Covid-19 allowances backdated to May 2022.There are about 26 000 village heads countrywide, who...Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 09:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe, police boss escape jail term
Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe and Police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga have escaped imprisonment for failing to pay over US$60,000 dues to a police officer who was irregularly fire...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
MPs for sale, damnable loans
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, as I see it, the Legislature ought to have felt unease about the impropriety of accepting housing loans from Treasury at a time hospitals are...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Mnangagwa's govt appeases war vets with $4.6 billion
IN a bid to appease war veterans, who play a crucial role in Zanu-PF election campaigns, the government has set aside ZW$4.6 billion to invest in farms, mining and tourism.Finance and Economic...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 09:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'War vets hold Mnangagwa to ransom'
WAR veterans have cornered President Emmerson Mnangagwa demanding that he approves "commensurate benefits", including loan guarantees and rebates for duty-free car imports before they could back his r...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Four nabbed for creating fake IDs
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has arrested four suspects for creating fake IDs used for stealing pensioners money.The four suspects have allegedly swindled more than ZWL$15 00...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 12:23hrs | 12 | by Desmond Nleya and Shelton Muchena
Mnangagwa to compensate 160,000 more war veterans, ex-detainees
The Zimbabwe government plans to pay one-off gratuities and monthly pensions to a new batch of 160,000 war veterans, war collaborators and ex-political prisoners who missed out during the first round ...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:15hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Govt should prioritise war veterans' welfare
ZIMBABWEANS will, in a few weeks' time, be celebrating 42 years of independence attained through the sacrifices of fellow countrymen in a protracted war of liberation where thousands died on the battl...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 11:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gata divorces Mugabe's sister after 35 years of marriage
ZESA executive chairman Sydney Gata is divorcing his wife of 35 years after telling a court their marriage has "irretrievably broken down."Gata married Ntombana Regina Mugabe, a sister to the ...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 16:43hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Give war vets US$200 monthly pension'
UMZINGWANE legislator Levi Mayihlome (Zanu-PF) has urged government to pay pensioners including war veterans a minimum of US$200 in monthly pensions to cushion them against the high cost of living in ...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 06:23hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Econet answers church's prayers
Econet Life, a subsidiary of EcoCash Holdings Zimbabwe Limited (formerly Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe), has partnered the Zimbabwe Christian Ministers Association (ZCMA) to provide an assortment of insur...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 07:52hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
CIO boss entangled in BAT bribery scandal
A joint investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, BBC Panorama and the University of Bath reveals British American Tobacco (BAT) was linked to a conspiracy to pay a bribe of between US$...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF hijacks war vets vetting'
THE Zipra War Veterans Association has accused the ruling Zanu-PF party of manipulating the ongoing war veterans vetting exercise amid allegations that some undeserving party activists were being regi...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 11:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
New vetting exercise for war vets, Zipra
A NEW national vetting exercise for former freedom fighters in Zimbabwe is expected soon, and the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) has urged its members to prepare and take part in the scr...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 18:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe's huge daily cash withdrawals exposed
FORMER first lady Grace Mugabe allegedly made multiple United States dollar cash withdrawals amounting to US$300 000 per day in 2019 from her CBZ Bank account at a time ordinary Zimbabweans were allow...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
How to choose a tokenization platform for your business
Cryptocurrencies, and the technology that makes their existence possible are gaining more popularity by the day. People increasingly buy bitcoins for various reasons,...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 15:46hrs | 19 | by Staff Writer
Load shedding relief as power supplies improve
LOAD shedding has eased after Zimbabwe started receiving 400 megawatts of electricity from South African power utility Eskom on Thursday night, the Minister of Energy and Power Development, Advocate F...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 08:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Duty waiver on solar equipment
Government has approved a duty waiver on solar equipment and allowed mining firms to procure energy directly from the Southern African Power Pool. Further, selected hotels in resort areas will soon st...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Banana's widow gets windfall
THE widow of former Zimbabwean President Canaan Sodindo Banana, Mrs Janet Madade Banana has started receiving her pension, as promised by Government.President Emmerson Mnangagwa, last month or...Published: 05 May 2019 at 12:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe should be grateful and rest
Former President Robert Mugabe celebrated his 95th birthday last week, a befitting occasion indeed for a man whom God granted the gifts of not only good life as a President of Zimbabwe for 37 years an...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 09:15hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Former Harare treasurer sues council over unpaid pension
Former City of Harare treasurer, Misheck Mubvumbi, has approached the High Court seeking an order to compel his ex-employer to pay him pension benefits amounting to over $300 000.The ex-counci...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
'True heroes, heroines never die'
We publish the final part of an interview by our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati with nationalist Jane Lungile Ngwenya. In this instalment, Ngwenya chronicles how she earned mistrust in both Zapu and...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:00hrs | 3 | by Staff rpeortet
Speculation fuelling panic buying, black market
IT would appear Zimbabweans have not learnt their lessons from the past as seen in the panic buying of basic commodities that started early this week. This has, in some cases, consequently created art...Published: 06 Oct 2018 at 10:04hrs | | by Editorial - newsday
Tarumbwa out of prison
CHICKEN Inn FC striker Obadiah Tarumbwa has been released from prison after he committed to pay more than $600 monthly until he clears about $6 000 in maintenance arrears for the upkeep of his two chi...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 09:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Pensioner loses $17 000 to fraudster
A 28-YEAR-OLD man from Bulawayo has been arrested after he allegedly stole $17 000 from a pensioner's bank account before splashing the money on a car and transferring funds to other accounts. ...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chihuri to pay $1,250 maintenance monthly
A BULAWAYO magistrate has ordered former Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri to pay $1 250 every month for the maintenance of a minor child sired with his estranged mistress, who is a top co...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ethan Tsvangirai kicked out of school
The late MDC founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai's child has been chucked out of school for failing to pay school fees, the Daily News reported.As a result, the mother of the child - born out of...Published: 25 May 2018 at 11:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sacking of Hwange colliery boss could open can of worms
The mid-week suspension of Hwange Colliery Company's managing director, Mr Thomas Makore, is likely to open a can of worms at the coal-producing company, which has been struggling to pay its workers f...Published: 20 May 2018 at 07:12hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Chihuri must come back home
Former police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri has been sucked in a number of controversies ever since he was retired from the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) in December last year.Unlike...Published: 18 May 2018 at 10:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nurses get $5 000 windfall.
NURSES on Monday received lump sum payments of up to $5 000 from Government as payment of outstanding allowances.In a survey conducted by The Chronicle yesterday, nurses said they were shocked...Published: 16 May 2018 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa dangles lump sum for war vets
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa yesterday dangled lump sum pensions and decent living conditions for veterans of the country's 1970s liberation war if they support him in...Published: 14 May 2018 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
War vets demand exemption from tollgate and parking fees
MEMBERS of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) said the government must allow them to import their personal vehicles duty free as part of a thank you for the time they s...Published: 13 May 2018 at 12:04hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's power retention scheme ruinous
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's pledge that the government will increase the allowances for war veterans and review their benefits is yet another illustration that, just like his predecessor Robert Mug...Published: 13 May 2018 at 11:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chihuri, mistress disagree on child upkeep
Former Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Commissioner-General Dr Augustine Chihuri and his mistress, Ms Sithulisiwe Mthimkhulu, seem to have failed to negotiate for an out-of-court maintenance settlement...Published: 11 May 2018 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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