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Council, war vet land saga deepens

The Marondera Municipality has sparked controversy after instructing residents and stand beneficiaries to proceed with construction on Elmswood Farm, even though ownership of the land is the subject of an ongoing High Court case.At the cen…

Published: 31 Aug 2025 at 10:35hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter

Mutapa top official in alleged abuse of office

A senior executive at the Mutapa Investment Fund (MIF) has been accused of governance breaches and abuse of office, raising fresh concerns about accountability within Zimbabwe's sovereign wealth fund.According to internal sources, Wilfred …

Published: 31 Aug 2025 at 10:34hrs | 666 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's office blows 81% of budget in 6 months

President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Office had already spent 81 percent of its 2025 budget by the halfway mark of the year, while the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development exceeded its full-year allocation, spending 116 percent …

Published: 05 Aug 2025 at 12:19hrs | 486 | by Staff reporter

Harare's 'cursed' office

The office of the Town Clerk at Harare City Council has long been mired in controversy, corruption scandals, and political infighting, leading to widespread mismanagement and plunder of council resources. Over the years, the position has b…

Published: 26 Jun 2025 at 11:19hrs | 662 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa says his councillors went bonkers once elected into office

Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) councillors have reportedly rejected a blueprint designed to promote transparency and curb corruption in local authorities, according to former party leader Nelson Chamisa. Chamisa made this claim during…

Published: 15 Dec 2024 at 09:21hrs | 1745 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's top aides stampede in congratulating Auxillia

The Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) has extended its heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Auxillia Mnangagwa, the First Lady of Zimbabwe, for successfully attaining a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Tourism and Hospitality Management.I…

Published: 23 Nov 2024 at 13:30hrs | 970 | by Staff reporter

Mutumbuka's house theft exposes deeds office

The theft and forgery of former Education Minister Dr. Dzingai Mutumbuka's title deed have exposed critical flaws in Zimbabwe's property registration system. The nearly three-year legal saga concluded last week with the High Court restorin…

Published: 19 Nov 2024 at 08:39hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter

High Court clips immigration office's powers

The High Court of Zimbabwe has ruled that a section of the Immigration Act, which allowed immigration officers to detain individuals for up to 14 days without a court appearance, is unconstitutional and violates both national and internati…

Published: 15 Nov 2024 at 08:42hrs | 1598 | by Staff reporter

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 to the department. Investigations are cu…

Published: 21 Oct 2024 at 07:51hrs | 722 | by Staff reporter

12 Zimbabwe Registrar General's Office employees denied bail

Twelve employees from the Registrar General's Office in Harare, accused of fraudulently issuing passports to four Cameroonian nationals, were denied bail yesterday by Harare regional magistrate Mrs. Marehwanazvo Gofa. The employees, who ha…

Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 07:42hrs | 1329 | by Staff reporter

8 Harare councillors in trouble over abuse of office

The trial of eight Harare councillors accused of corruptly allocating 24 industrial stands to themselves resumed on Thursday, with the State presenting testimony from the council's acting town clerk, Pakhamile Mabhena Moyo.Moyo informed Ma…

Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 15:41hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa 'offered third term in office'

A Zanu-PF lawmaker on Wednesday said Zanu-PF had "offered" President Emmerson Mnangagwa a third term in office after several party officials chanted a slogan that the 81-year-old "will still be there in 2030."Mnangagwa began his second and…

Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 16:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Major shake-up at Deeds Office

A MAJOR shake-up to eliminate corrupt activities in the Department of Deeds, Companies and Intellectual Property is underway, The Sunday Mail has learnt.This follows a series of complaints and accusations of malpractices reported against t…

Published: 18 Feb 2024 at 08:59hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's office raided

A COURT case has lifted the lid on the smuggling of high-end vehicles into the country by some officers from various State agencies such as the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO).Three of the suspected car smugglers were denied bail w…

Published: 15 Feb 2024 at 10:19hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's office raided

A COURT case has lifted the lid on the smuggling of high-end vehicles into the country by some officers from various State agencies such as the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO).Three of the suspected car smugglers were denied bail w…

Published: 15 Feb 2024 at 10:08hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Red flag raised over mess at Deeds Office

SHAMBOLIC record-keeping at the Department of Deeds, Companies and Intellectual Property could compromise Zimbabwe's listing as a low-risk country for money laundering and financing of terrorism by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a…

Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 10:32hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Insiza MP fumes over registry office project

A fact-finding mission, tasked with resolving issues hampering the construction of the Insiza District Registry offices in Filabusi, Matebeleland South, encountered a series of challenges. These hurdles include an uncooperative contractor,…

Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Graft rocks Midlands Mines office

The Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-SA) has published a report that exposes widespread corruption purportedly occurring at the offices of the Midlands provincial mining department (PMD).In this report, dated October 6 and aut…

Published: 10 Oct 2023 at 07:47hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Fire guts Mpilo Hospital office

Another fire gutted an office at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo, less than two months after an inferno destroyed property at the referral hospital.The latest fire incident, which was caused by faulty electricity cables, damaged propert…

Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 20:59hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Parly mulls returning voter registration to RG's Office

The position taken during the inclusive Government to migrate voter registration from the Registrar-General to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has created a lot of red tape through duplication of duties, Parliament has been told.Oppositi…

Published: 30 May 2023 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter

Govt probes Bulawayo passport office staff

GOVERNMENT has dispatched a team of investigators to probe alleged rampant corruption at the Bulawayo passport offices.The probe follows reports that some staffers at the passport office were building imposing houses in the city's leafy su…

Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 05:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo's iconic Post Office Gardens crumble

A gaping hole now exposes the western part of the Post Office Gardens. It is perhaps ironic that a building also known as the War Memorial Park or the Cenotaph, now looks like it was the victim of a night time air raid from squadrons of en…

Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Zimra builds main office in Bulawayo

THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has started the construction of its main offices in Bulawayo, set to house all its operations as the tax collector seeks to improve efficiency.Work on the site has started near the Zimbabwe Internatio…

Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 09:59hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

Open defecation at Harare's new passport offices

IT is a few minutes before midday and the new Makombe complex, which is now handling passport applications, is a hive of activity.Hordes of e-passport seekers patiently queue outside awaiting their turn to submit their documents.Many, espe…

Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 06:40hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Fifa get brazenly fast start at keeping Infantino in office

LESS than a week after Fifa's Congress in Doha and president Gianni Infantino's announcement that he would be standing for election for a third term, Fifa's administration have begun aggressively politicking for their president in a clear …

Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mobile telecoms revenue rises 15,8%

MOBILE telecoms operators' revenues increased by 15,8% to $19,5 billion during the third quarter of 2021, Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) data showed on Wednesday.The performance was also boosted by …

Published: 23 Dec 2021 at 05:40hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Suspended Harare Mayor, aide have invades mayoral office

Suspended Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume and his aide have occupied the mayoral office, claiming that his suspension has ended, but his vehicle and the driver are still working for the acting mayor, Stewart Mutizwa. Both "mayors" yesterday clai…

Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 06:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Calls to disband DDC office grow louder

NKAYI residents have called for the abolition of the district development co-ordinator (DDC)'s office formerly known as district administrator (DA) amid concerns that the post was inherited from the colonial system to suppress people's fre…

Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 08:55hrs | | by Staff reporter

RG Office's inefficiency unsettles Zanu-PF

THE Zanu-PF party in Mashonaland East province is fretting over the Registrar-General (RG) Office's inefficiency, saying this would negatively affect their targeted five million votes in the 2023 elections.Speaking during a provincial co-o…

Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter

Passport office turns away hundreds

POLICE in Bulawayo on Tuesday turned away hundreds of people who had thronged the Registrars General's Office for the application and collection of passports defying Covid-19 regulations. As a precautionary measure against the deadly virus…

Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 16:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Chilonga evictions: State capture at play

You would have hoped that the post-Mugabe establishment could - at least - get one or two things right. But, ouch, this so-called "new dispensation" is as crude, primitive and self-serving as such regimes ever come.Just recently, the gover…

Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 08:16hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni

Civics must drive the VP's office

In our new kind of normal, where restraint, moral integrity and sound values have been replaced by lumpen orgy, profanity and clown foolery, I meet the question: So what do you think of the latest VP sexual audio than what's to be done wit…

Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 08:15hrs | 3 | by Zifiso Masiye

Newly appointed ministers take oath of office

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has sworn in four new ministers at State House.The four include a cabinet minister, a provincial affairs minister and two deputy ministers.Honourable Felix Mhona took the oath of office as the Minister of Trans…

Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 18:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

2 Zimra officials up for abuse of office

The police have arrested two more Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials deployed at Beitbridge Border Post, as the Government intensifies its crack down on rent-seeking activities at the border with South Africa. Nelson Chinguwo and…

Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:06hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's office disowns scholarships advert

THE Zimbabwe Presidential and National Scholarship Office has disowned an advertisement for educational scholarships circulating on social media.Last week, a fake advert was circulated on social media inviting prospective applicants to app…

Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 13:49hrs | | by Staff reporter

Police officers in court for robbing motorists

Central Bureau Four police officers, including a woman attached to the crime prevention unit, who allegedly assaulted and robbed a motorist of US$70 a few metres from a roadblock, have appeared before Bindura Magistrate's Court along with …

Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Kambarami 'back in office'

Ousted Deputy Mayor, Tinashe Kambarami is challenging his removal from office.Ousted Bulawayo Deputy Mayor, Tinashe Kambarami has challenged a High Court ruling that rendered his election into public office as null and void last week.Kamba…

Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 18:24hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Lands secretary quizzed over Manicaland farm invasions

SECRETARY for Lands and Agriculture Ringson Chitsiko was yesterday taken to task in Parliament over a spate of fresh farm invasions, including the one in which Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Ellen Gwaradzimbaâ€™s son attempted to g…

Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Binga RDC boss acquitted of criminal abuse of office

BINGA Rural District Council (BRDC) chief executive officer, Joshua Muzamba, has been acquitted of criminal abuse of office charges following an appeal to the High Court.Muzamba, who was facing a criminal abuse of office charge, had applie…

Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 07:02hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Court orders inspection at Mugabe son in-law's office

An inspection -in-loco has been set for February 19, at former President Robert Mugabe's son-in-law Simbarashe Chikore's business premises to ascertain the credibility of the Human Resources manager's testimony during trial yesterday.Simon…

Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 10:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Theft at Bosso offices

HIGHLANDERS chief executive officer Nhlanhla Dube reportedly lost R20 000 he had left at the club offices over the Christmas holiday.The club's head of secretariat had reportedly left over R30 200 in a laptop bag last week before office st…

Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 10:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Mandiwanzira accused of abuse of office

Former cabinet minister Supa Mandiwanzira has been charged by the police for allegedly contracting Megawatt Company to do consultancy work for Net-One without going to tender.Mandiwanzira is further accused of abuse of office by appointing…

Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 15:01hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's first 50 days: Zimbabwe sinks deeper into abyss

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa this week completed 50 days in office, but in that short stint, the negatives have so far outweighed the positives amid indications he faces a herculean task in his bid to revive the comatose economy.Mnangagwa,…

Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 06:56hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

IT security firm sets up in Bulawayo

AXIS Solutions, an information technology (IT) security firm has opened a new branch in Bulawayo where it seeks to assist business curb cyber crime and associated risks. The Harare-headquartered business offers various end-solutions for di…

Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Mudede's Office to open during elections

The Registrar-General's Office will be opened from today till Monday to assist members of the public who lost their national identity documents to obtain new ones to be able to vote during the harmonised elections. According to the RG's Of…

Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 09:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

IDBZ opens new office in Bulawayo

THE Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) yesterday officially commissioned its southern regional office in Bulawayo, positioning itself to adequately steer infrastructure projects across the country.Finance and Economic Plann…

Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Parliament committee savages AG's Office

Parliament's Mines and Energy portfolio committee has slammed the Attorney-General(AG)'s Office, accusing it of delaying the Mines and Minerals Amendment Bill submitted to them.The committee's chairperson, Temba Mliswa, told the National A…

Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 10:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Suspended G40 allies barred from holding office

Zanu-PF Midlands province has recommended that six senior party members suspended over alleged misconduct, chief among them their involvement in the G40 machinations and creating parallel structures within the party, should remain ordinary…

Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa winds up 100 days in office

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has appealed for patience as he winds up his first 100 days in office, saying "it takes more than 100 days to recover an economy", so citizens should not lose hope at the slow pace of change.When he assumed off…

Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter

Office romance backfires

HELL hath no fury like a woman scorned!Having had enough of her husband's office romance with another woman, Mrs Mavis Chinganga (36) recently sought the court's intervention, demanding $10 000 in adultery damages.The sensational adultery …

Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

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