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Mutsvangwa's Mugabe coup remark opens can of worms
Observers have criticized Zanu-PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa for speaking with a "forked tongue" following his recent remarks alleging that the late former President Robert Mugabe was removed...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 15:19hrs | 1814 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa succession: Zanu-PF purge opens can of worms
ZANU-PF officials recently expelled or suspended from the party are claiming they are being punished for opposing a campaign to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rule beyond 2028, a move they say ...Published: 09 Mar 2025 at 13:23hrs | 712 | by Staff reporter
Goat-gate opens can of worms
Moses Mpofu and Mike Chimombe, currently in remand prison over a US$7 million fraud charge, allegedly used similar fraudulent methods to secure funds for projects at the Harare City Council (HCC) thro...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 04:05hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe farm dispute opens can of worms
THE land dispute between Zanu-PF Hurungwe East legislator Chenjerai Kangausaru and a communal farmer Vincent Tendayi has opened a can of worms.Kangausaru, who has been tussling with Tendayi ov...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 05:55hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'Bona Mugabe divorce opens can of worms'
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara says a divorce case involving the late former President Robert Mugabe's daughter, Bona, exposed how Zimbabwe has been looted to economic collapse by the r...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe daughter's divorce opens can of worms
A LOCAL property developer has accused the late former President Robert Mugabe's daughter, Bona and her estranged husband, Simba Chikore of stealing vast tracts of its prime land at Carrick Creagh Est...Published: 05 May 2023 at 06:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZCDC CEO suspension opens can of worms
THE Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) chief executive officer (CEO) Mark Mabhudhu was suspended on Monday for reportedly stalling the corrupt purchase of Kuvimba Mining House (KMH)'s 33% sh...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 19:34hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Wadyajena fraud case opens can of worms
Zanu-PF Member of Parliament for Gokwe-Nembudziya constituency Justice Mayor Wadyajena who is accused of fraud and money laundering involving US$5,8 million appeared in court Wednesday and was remande...Published: 19 Aug 2022 at 06:48hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Land probe opens can of worms
GOVERNMENT'S latest blitz on land barons has exposed serious political undercurrents, with one of the suspected barons, Wellington Peyama, sensationally claiming that he was being hounded by Housing a...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:43hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya gold case opens can of worms
THE dramatic arrest and subsequent prosecution of suspended Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya has lifted the lid on the cutthroat gold trafficking underworld dominated by t...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:56hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Icsaz lecturer's resignation opens can of worms
The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Zimbabwe (Icasz) is under the spotlight after a former lecturer, Last Mapuranga, quit his job alleging exam fraud and poor corporate govern...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira's arrest opens can of worms
Tourism minister Prisca Mupfumira was yesterday denied bail and will spend 21 days in custody as the government dismissed accusations that her arrest was linked to Zanu-PF's internal fights.Ac...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 18:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Businessman's death opens can of worms
THE sudden death of Mirirai Driving School proprietor, Washington Jekanyika (35), who died in unclear circumstances last Saturday has been the mainstay of public discourse in Mutare over the past week...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 17:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Biti case opens can of worms
THE trial of MDC deputy chairperson, Tendai Biti has exposed the rot within the judiciary after a text message from a senior prosecutor that was produced at the Harare Magistrates' Courts yesterday sh...Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 05:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
CEO's case opens can of worms, suspended over hunting concessions
TSHOLOTSHO Rural District Council (RDC) CEO Themba Moyo was suspended for allegedly being the "stumbling block" in efforts to capture all hunting concessions in the district by private players, accord...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 12:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi documentary opens can of worms
A new documentary film on the Matabeleland and Midlands atrocities soon after Zimbabwe's independence claims the mass killings were probably planned before independence.The film by Bulawayo-ba...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 07:30hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa case opens can of worms
MDC Alliance candidate Nelson Chamisa claims that at least 700 000 votes cast in the July 30 presidential elections cannot be accounted for and believes the anomaly is an indication the polls were man...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 10:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Appointment of Zimbabwe judges opens can of worms
LEGAL experts have demanded that the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) releases the scoresheets of candidates who were publicly interviewed for four advertised Supreme Court judges' vacancies, as they...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 14:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Harare-Beitbridge dualisation deal opens can of worms
The cancellation of the Geiger International road dualisation deal has exposed that incompetence and corruption abounded in Government corridors amid revelations that the Austrian company is just a "b...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
$15bn diamond inquiry opens can of worms
THE current investigation on the missing $15 billion diamond revenue by the Temba Mliswa- led Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy has revealed serious corruption by top government bi...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'poisoning' opens can of worms
THE reports that Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa was poisoned through ice cream supplied by President Robert Mugabe's Gushungo Dairies have opened a can of worms in Masvingo province, where top Zanu...Published: 23 Aug 2017 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chigwedere paternity test saga opens can of worms
FORMER Education minister Aeneas Chigwedere's "troublesome" son, Mangwiza, has claimed that he was born when his mother was only 16 years old after being impregnated by the ex-government minister....Published: 09 Aug 2017 at 11:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere saga opens can of worms
LOCAL Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere is not the only one left bruised by the latest infighting rocking Zanu-PF after Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs minister Martin Dinha got entangled ...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 12:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, war vets fight opens can of worms
The government's investigations into a war veterans' communiqué denouncing President Robert Mugabe as a dictator and a failed leader allegedly reached a dead end after indications that some senio...Published: 07 Aug 2016 at 11:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mushore saga opens can of worms
Recent interviews for the selection of the town clerk for Harare were merely a political act designed to impose an individual who had already been chosen by MDC-T, the Harare Residents Trust has said....Published: 15 Apr 2016 at 06:45hrs | | by Innocent Ruwende
Lawsuit opens can of worms on Airport Road
A foreign company with a controlling stake in Augur Investments has approached the High Court seeking an order to protect the interests of shareholders in the firm which is accused of disposing its im...Published: 24 Feb 2016 at 05:25hrs | | by Fidelis Munyoro
Dinha's arrest opens can of worms
The recent arrest of Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs minister Martin Dinha over charges of criminal abuse of office, bribery and money laundering, has opened a can of worms, as it emerged s...Published: 21 Sep 2015 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wadyajena, Kasukuwere war opens can of worms
THE on-going battle pitting indigenisation parliamentary portfolio chairperson Justice Mayor Wadyajena and former Indigenisation minister Saviour Kasukuwere, who is also Zanu-PF national commissar, ha...Published: 15 Aug 2015 at 10:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC probe opens can of worms
The ongoing police investigations of serious fraud at the Zimbabwe Election Commission (Zec) involving abuse of equipment, election budget materials and missing fuel coupons have opened a Pandora'...Published: 18 Jul 2014 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gumbura case opens can of worms as 10 more church leaders are accused of sexual abuse
An increasing number of women are coming forward to report cases of sexual abuse they have suffered at the hands of their church leaders following the ongoing trial of RGM Independent End Time Me...Published: 21 Dec 2013 at 19:34hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF poll rigging opens can of worms
FORMER Zanu-PF politburo heavyweight and Zapu president Dumiso Dabengwa yesterday warned that the arrest of 11 National University of Science and Technology (Nust) students who attempted to vote in in...Published: 08 Oct 2013 at 03:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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