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Holy Ten diss Winky D, receives fierce backlash
Controversial hip hop artist Holy Ten has been at the receiving end of a fierce backlash on social media following his recent threats to "end" Zimdancehall guru Winky D's career.Holy Ten who i...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 10:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CIO takes over running of Zimbabwe elections from the military
ZIMBABWE'S Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) has secretly taken over the running of national elections — designed to manipulate the process in favour of the incumbent President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:10hrs | 52 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF going to do yet another rerun of its primary elections
Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF is going to do yet another rerun of its primary elections in some areas as it battles to overcome intensifying factionalism and internal strife amid failure to run its ...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 19:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean minister sweats over idle platinum miner
INVESTORS in one of Zimbabwe's biggest platinum projects - Todal Mining - were this week said to have dumped the project, turning the heat on Mines minister Winston Chitando to cancel its licence....Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 19:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo implicated in murky Chiredzi land deal
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo's staggering US$155 million Chiredzi land deal — stinking to high heaven in the lowveld — for his cronies has now fully exploded as residents and Members of Par...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:16hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Why Nssa suspended top boss
THE National Social Security Authority (Nssa), established in 1989 as a statutory corporate body tasked by the government to provide social security, suspended its Director for Investment and Properti...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zacc fails to recover stolen US$7 billion
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's anti-corruption fight has been exposed as nothing but hot air following revelations that less than US$2 million out of identified US$7 billion ill-gotten wealth stashed ...Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 08:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs 'blocking' parastatal reforms
CONCERTED efforts by Treasury to push for key parastatal reform and privatisation of the loss-making entities have been frustrated by some hawkish cabinet ministers and senior bureaucrats, who have fo...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:58hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Matutu elbowed out of mine
FORMER Zanu-PF youth leader Lewis Matutu has been elbowed out of the late business tycoon John Bredenkamp's gold-rich Thetford Estate in Mazowe, the Zimbabwe Independent has established.This c...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Stop abusing youth, political bigwigs told
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has been urged to put in place measures to stop political parties from using young people as conduits of political violence.The Zimbabwe Coalition on De...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zacc, prosecutors trade barbs over graft
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption (Zacc) and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) yesterday accused each other of failure to nail political bigwigs and private sector bosses involved in graft.T...Published: 26 Jan 2022 at 04:47hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Headman in dock over State land
A HEADMAN at Silver Hills Farm in Mhangura was on Thursday arraigned before a Chinhoyi magistrate for allegedly selling State land.According to the State, sometime last year, Obediah Muchada c...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matiza's son rattles Zanu-PF
THE emergence of e late Transport and Infrastructure Development minister Joel Matiza's son, Batsirai, on the political arena in Mashonaland East Province has unsettled some leaders from the youth lea...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 07:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Its not sanctions but corruption hitting Zimbabwe
The 2017 Coup was for ZANU PF political bigwigs who felt that they were being outclassed in joining the gravy train of looting the country dry.The coup was just like fielding a reserve side of...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 15:47hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Police 'shield' Marange sect
POLICE yesterday claimed that members of the Johanne Marange Apostolic sect that are said to have gathered in Manicaland for an annual festival were permanent residents at a shrine there. Acti...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa copying and pasting Mugabe toxic policies
THE move to reintroduce the National Youth Service training programme has sent chills down most Zimbabweans' spines who experienced brutality at the hands of Green Bombers in 2008. The re-intr...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Confusion mars schools opening
CHAOS characterised the opening of schools yesterday after some non-examination classes turned up and were sent back home, while most teachers did not report for work saying they would only do so afte...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF defy COVID-19, hold elections to replace Gwaradzimba
ZANU-PF yesterday claimed that all COVID-19 protocols were followed by the party when it conducted its elections to fill in the senatorial seat which was left vacant after the death of Minister of Sta...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 08:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF, police leading human rights violators'
THE ruling Zanu-PF party and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) have been ranked top in the violation of human rights which occurred in December last year, latest findings by the Zimbabwe Peace Projec...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF emerges biggest winner in major scandal
THE ruling Zanu-PF, which thrives on a chokehold grip on airwaves to win elections by hook or crook, has emerged as the biggest winner in the controversial awarding of six new free-to-air licences to ...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 19:28hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zamco debt recovery at 23%
A SPECIAL purpose vehicle set to take up banks' accrued debts, the Zimbabwe Asset Management Company (Zamco), has so far recovered only 23,2% of the $1,13 billion toxic money, the minister of Finance ...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Togarepi lays into corrupt Zanu-PF bigwigs
Top Zanu-PF officials are using the party's name to indulge in corrupt activist, Zanu-PF youth league secretary Pupurai Togarepi told a local daily paper as he threatened to name and shame those who a...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 07:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Austerity measures causing more suffering to Zimbabweans
Emmerson Mnangagwa's led government must come clean on the austerity measures implemented by Finance Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube.Zimbabwe announced austerity measures to spur the economic ...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
500 Zanu-PF supporters fight eviction
THERE was pandemonium at Lot H, Whiteside Farm in Bromley on Friday after 500 illegal settlers attacked the High Court Sheriff who was evicting them to pave way for a new owner.The settlers, m...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Machete terror gangs spreading mayhem in Mnangagwa's home province
Murder and violence are spreading in the mineral-rich Midlands - President Emmerson Mnangagwa's home province - as armed militias reportedly sponsored by politicians wreak havoc with impunity....Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 09:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF in $500 000 bribery storm?
An official from Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (AACZ) has sensationally alleged that ZANU PF official Energy Mutodi was given US$500 000 by the members of the Korean cult leader Hak Ja...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 10:41hrs | 15 | by Mandla Ndlovu
22 investors eye struggling Zupco
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo yesterday told Parliament that 22 investors from local and abroad had expressed interest in struggling State-owned transport operator, Zimbabwe United Passenger Com...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 05:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa threatens to expel MDC members opposed to his leadership
MDC-T political bigwigs are on a renewed collision course over attempts to oust some senior party members critical of its president Nelson Chamisa's leadership style after a heated National Council me...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 13:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF bigwigs suffer shocking defeats
Many political bigwigs in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF suffered shocking defeats in the July 30 National Assembly elections even as votes were still being counted.Ministers Chris Mut...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 08:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
A journalist's horror encounter with Mukupe
My horror encounter with Finance deputy minister Terrence Mukupe on Thursday May 24, will remain etched in my mind forever.Early in the day a colleague at Spot FM, Chamunorwa Murava, invited m...Published: 26 May 2018 at 14:35hrs | 2 | by Blessed Mhlanga
Top cops fingered in smuggling
Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga, pictured, has demanded the arrest and prosecution of local police commanders he claimed were integral members of the criminal smuggling syndicates.Addressi...Published: 24 May 2018 at 15:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
More heads to roll at ZRP
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has warned of another shake-up with some positions being abolished as part of the force's ongoing restructuring programme to improve service delivery....Published: 17 May 2018 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Externalisation: Mnangagwa gropes in the dark
GOVERNMENT will find it difficult to prosecute corporates and individuals it accuses of illegal externalisation of money as questions arise over the legal framework and the prosecutability of the offe...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 12:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Dangote returns after Zimbabwe bribery shock
Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote's much-hyped plan to invest $1 billion in Zimbabwe's cement, coal and power industries in 2015 collapsed after political bigwigs pressured him to 'grease their palms...Published: 22 Feb 2018 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Political bigwigs must face justice like everyone else
IT appears to be in the nature of people in positions of power or authority to use their offices to duck the long arm of the law. But time is often a harsh master and such people tend to eventually ha...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa asked Kasukuwere recuse himself from the Politburo meeting
Zanu PF political bigwigs are on a renewed collision course over at tempts to oust the party's national commissar Saviour Kasukuwere after a heated politburo meeting on Wednesday failed to bring the m...Published: 16 Jun 2017 at 08:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Mugabe is breeding endemic corruption
President Robert Mugabe often presents himself as a clean politician who abhors corruption, but latest developments in his government have once again stoked accusations that the veteran ruler does...Published: 04 Jun 2017 at 20:26hrs | 2 | by Veranda Langa
Game changer or another Zanu-PF dummy?
IT is almost impossible to dispassionately describe the panorama. But elementary geography informs that some inestimable years ago, igneous rock lava inruded into this part of the world, resulting in ...Published: 26 May 2017 at 07:05hrs | 6 | by Staff writer
Mugabe's govt dupes civil servants
Government's non-monetary incentive residential stands scheme has hit a snag after the122 000 signed up civil servants threatened to pull out following revelations that they will have to pay for t...Published: 12 Dec 2016 at 07:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants demand bonus, salary dates
Civil servants have written to the Government demanding to be furnished with dates for the 2016 bonuses and their salaries.The workers said they wanted their salaries before December 25 to...Published: 06 Dec 2016 at 09:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants stands going for a song
Cabinet has directed that residential stands civil servants are expecting under a Government non-monetary incentive scheme be pegged at $4 per square metre to ensure affordability.The work...Published: 17 Nov 2016 at 04:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil servants demand stands
Civil servants have demanded that Government comes up with a housing scheme for them as part of non-monetary incentives. The workers, who had a three-day engagement with their employer thi...Published: 08 Oct 2016 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe blasts Kasukuwere for selling land to Prophet Magaya
President Mugabe yesterday blasted Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Saviour Kasukuwere for reportedly selling land earmarked for Harare youths to Prophet Walter Magaya and ...Published: 08 Sep 2016 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Felex Share
Mugabe takes over Anti-Corruption Commission
FACED with a rapidly advancing scourge of corruption, President Robert Mugabe has assumed full control of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC), which had apparently became a victim of feral ...Published: 07 Jul 2016 at 11:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe slams rogue elements within Zanu-PF
President Robert Mugabe has warned misguided youths who are going to the extremes of denigrating party leaders including the First Lady, Dr Grace Mugabe, saying they will face the full wrath of the la...Published: 27 Feb 2016 at 16:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe plunges into elections mode
CRISIS-TORN Zimbabwe this week drifted into election mode, despite 2018 general elections being three years away, after former vice president Joice Mujuru emerged from her woodwork to declare her ambi...Published: 10 Sep 2015 at 13:47hrs | | by Nelson Chenga
Crisis in Zim Coalition in major U-Turn
Efforts to effect illegal regime change in Zimbabwe are demonic and the sooner genuine non-governmental organisations start working closely with Government for the upliftment of people's lives the...Published: 19 Aug 2015 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Telecel closure: Zanu-PF double standards exposed
Telecel Zimbabwe (Telecel) licence cancellation by the country's telecommunication regulator smacks of hypocrisy and Zanu-PF-led government's double standards when dealing with perceived political ene...Published: 12 May 2015 at 14:14hrs | 1 | by John Kachembere
Africa's youngest female billionaire firms up interest in Zimbabwean Telecel
Isabel dos Santos, daughter of Angola's President Eduardo dos Santos and one of Africa's richest women, is reportedly gearing up to acquire a significant stake in Zimbabwean Telecom giant Telecel. He...Published: 17 Apr 2015 at 09:43hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Prove me corrupt first,' says Obert Mpofu
TRANSPORT minister Obert Mpofu, who has had several allegations of graft levelled against him, has challenged the media to prove the alleged corrupt activities first before implicating him in any sh...Published: 08 Jan 2015 at 10:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
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