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What does Mnangagwa call a 'brutal colonial regime' when the ZANU-PF government is even more brutal?
It's often easy for the pot to accuse the kettle of being black. I am always left bewildered whenever I hear President Emmerson Mnangagwa express outrage at what he calls ‘the brutal co...Published: 21 Jul 2025 at 08:26hrs | 399 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The weaponization of the law and relentless persecution of dissent in Zimbabwe's 'Second Republic'
THE persecution never appears to end. The recent arrest of and denial of bail to renowned journalist Blessed Mhlanga has brought a disturbing trend in Zimbabwe to the fore. Since the a...Published: 02 Mar 2025 at 18:09hrs | 360 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Jailed Buyanga in critical condition
Lawyers representing incarcerated businessman Frank Buyanga Sadiqi have raised concerns over the impact of his continued detention on his health. Reports from South Africa indicate that Buyanga has fa...Published: 17 Feb 2025 at 09:03hrs | 1035 | by Staff reporter
ZACC clashes with NPA over Chisango's acquittal
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has announced plans to bring new criminal charges against former Harare Town Clerk Josiah Chisango and four other officials who were acquitted last Frida...Published: 05 Feb 2025 at 12:06hrs | 626 | by Staff reporter
Malema beefs up Phala Phala legal team
EFF leader Julius Malema will pick a fresh battle with President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Constitutional Court this week over the Phala Phala case without his long-time allies, Floyd Shivambu and Adv Da...Published: 24 Nov 2024 at 14:07hrs | 1160 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's fitness to lead ANC renewal questioned
In a recent interview with Sunday World Engage, Solly Mapaila, the general secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP), reiterated his long-standing concerns about President Cyril Ramaphosaâ...Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 08:46hrs | 1253 | by Staff reporter
Registrar General officials denied bail
Harare magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa on Wednesday denied bail to officials from the Registrar General's Department, who are accused of criminal abuse of office after allegedly facilitating the fraudule...Published: 03 Oct 2024 at 13:07hrs | 824 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is presiding over a mobster regime!
It has been confirmed.So, the ruling ZANU PF party can, after all, have its opponents arrested and thrown in jail on trumped-up charges.This shocking revelation was made by none other ...Published: 20 Aug 2024 at 07:10hrs | 647 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans don't need to be paid by the US to reject oppression, Mr. Mnangagwa!
It never ceases to amaze!Can there be anything more demeaning than an entire nation being regarded as dimwits by its own leaders?What can be more insulting than your own government acc...Published: 31 Jul 2024 at 17:17hrs | 886 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Pan-Africanism is dead!
Twice, in as many weeks, I have heard Zimbabwe President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa speak on the need to preserve Pan-Africanism.Yesterday was the latest, as he attended a memorial service he...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 22:11hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa unwittingly creating a future president in Sikhala through his persecution!
This morning, my eyes could not move from the image of opposition activist Job Sikhala as he disembarked from a prison truck. This was on his arrival for his conviction hearing two days ago, w...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 19:32hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zambia is on the verge of being a one-party state
Zambia's former ruling parties have typically fared poorly after losing power. The United National Independence Party (UNIP) ruled for 27 years but gradually collapsed following its defeat in 1991. Th...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 21:11hrs | 20 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
Why did Ngarivhume spend 8 months in jail without prima facie evidence?
Finally, Zimbabwe opposition activist Jacob Ngarivhume has been released from jail. This was after languishing behind bars for the past eight months – as part of a three-year sentence in Apr...Published: 11 Dec 2023 at 16:38hrs | 13 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZEC unlawfully adjourned Nomination court to benefit CCC
INTRODUCTIONIn light of the continuing peddling of falsehoods by CCC – exemplified by the false claims by @Cde_Ostallos as reported by @citezw in the attached tweet – it is in the public...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 06:50hrs | 13 | by Jonathan Moyo
Ramaphosa's money hidden in couch 'was not declared to Sars'
The DA has revealed that the US dollars hidden inside a couch on President Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala farm was not declared to the SA Revenue Service.Party leader John Steenhuisen said Sars...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 17:57hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
'Thieves' beg Ramaphosa to stay
Ministers with "smallanyana" skeletons are drumming up support for President Cyril Ramaphosa not to resign because they are afraid of going to jail or their shenanigans being exposed once he is gone....Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 15:27hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Motion tabled in Parliament to probe Ramaphosa's Farmgate scandal
Leader of the African Transformation Movement (ATM), Vuyo Zungula, has tabled an official motion requesting Parliament to investigate President Cyril Ramaphosa's possible involvement in the concealmen...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 08:29hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Court clears Beitbridge town engineer of theft charges
Beitbridge Municipality's director of engineering and works Mr Douglas Siphuma has been acquitted by a local magistrate court on charges of stealing fencing wire worth $14 850 from his employer....Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
RBZ intensifies probe on forex auction violators
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has launched a crackdown on businesses that violated exchange control rules, demanding import and export acquittal records for the past five years.Informatio...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 07:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Corrupt firms banned from the forex auction
GOVERNMENT has suspended 12 companies allegedly involved in transfer pricing from the foreign exchange auction system on suspicion they channel part of the funds from the auction to the parallel marke...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's meeting disaster in Japan
The Local Solutions Council would like to register its outrage at the prima facie evidence of inadequate preparation by President Mnangagwa and his delegation at the 7th TICAD meeting being held from ...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 23:53hrs | 9 | by Darlington Nyambiya
'Ramaphosa's donations from White Monopoly Capital must be made public'
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane wants President Cyril Ramaphosa to publish all the donations he had received during his 2017 ANC presidential campaign, finding he had breached the executive ethics...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 17:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kombi passenger loses lawsuit against Potraz
A BULAWAYO man has lost a $40 000 lawsuit against the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) which he was suing after sustaining injuries when a kombi he was travellin...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
75 land barons arrested
AN inquiry into the illegal sale of State land in urban areas is now 60 percent complete and so far, 75 land barons have been arrested for fraud, theft of trust funds and other corruption-relate...Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 14:49hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo acquitted
Harare businessman Wicknell Chivayo has been acquitted of fraud charges he jointly faced with fellow businessman Genius Kadungure relating to 1.5 million rand where they allegedly swindled Kadoma mine...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 15:58hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Demystifying the MDC Alliance Constitutional petition
As I promised, Zimbabwe here is my critic of the Constitutional petition filed by the MDC Alliance. Everything starts and falls on the founding affidavit. Before going into the substance of his applic...Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 20:14hrs | 4 | by Lloyd Msipa
It would be 'unwise' for Grace Mugabe to visit SA again
It would be "unwise" for former Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe to enter South Africa again.This is the view of Nicole Fritz, executive director of Freedom Under Law.Fritz told News...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 16:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Postpone Zimbabwe's elections and address serious issues of concern
The past few days have been marked by electoral scandals of enormous proportions.Zanu-PF apparently has access to registered voters' private data, specifically mobile numbers which it is using...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 17:04hrs | 1 | by Zimbabwe Election Watch
Chihuri 'personalised' diamond firm
FORMER Police Commissioner General Dr Augustine Chihuri allegedly personalised the Zimbabwe Republic Police's diamond mining company, Gye Nyame, in Marange as he "sorely" operated it, a Parliamentary ...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 08:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mohadi must come out clean or resign'
An MDC official Bekezela Fuzwayo has challenged Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa to come clean over the picture of him and a school girl which has gone viral on social media"Mohadi must come ...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 08:01hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa anointed remains PG
ADVOCATE Ray Hemington Goba remains the substantive Prosecutor-General of Zimbabwe and his removal from office was done unlawfully, the High Court has ruled.High Court judge Justice Priscila C...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Reform the police force
The Zimbabwe Republic Police is the national police force of Zimbabwe, known until July 1980 as the British South Africa Police.The force consists of at least 40,000 officers and is head-quart...Published: 02 Oct 2017 at 17:40hrs | 4 | by Leonard Koni
Maimane 'My-monkey' is on Zille's leash
We have expressed, in these lines before, the superlative admiration for one Joram Nyathi and his wisdom that comes oftentimes with a generous seasoning of dark and savage humour.For a good me...Published: 05 Apr 2017 at 06:41hrs | 2 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Zinara grader tender was not above board
Just too often, corporates step up to say lofty things about themselves, especially when there are questions around their conduct. This is predictable because capital mostly tends to rebel against ins...Published: 26 Mar 2017 at 10:11hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mugabe's office won't fight corruption
Last year's decision to shift the administration of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) to the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) from the home affairs portfolio amounts to an absurd...Published: 05 Feb 2017 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Corrupt officials won't be arrested without evidence, says Mnangagwa
POLICE will not arrest individuals for alleged corruption without any evidence to back up the charges, acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Thursday.Mnangagwa was in Bulawayo yester...Published: 16 Sep 2016 at 10:45hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Businessman acquitted of theft
MUTARE businessman Ibraimo Richard Dauto, who was accused of stealing an $18 000 machine used to analyse the quality of diamonds from his Israeli counterpart, has been acquitted.Dauto was acqu...Published: 01 Jul 2016 at 13:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Cop acquitted of faking hubby's death for fraud
A MASVINGO police officer stationed at Mashava Police Station had all the reasons to smile after being acquitted on allegations of faking her husband's death to defraud First Mutual Insurance Company ...Published: 29 Mar 2015 at 14:20hrs | 1 | by Walter Mswazie
Full Text of Thabitha Khumalo's controversial Parly submissions on Gender Violence
Thank you Mr. Speaker Sir. I would like to thank Hon. Mpariwa for this brilliant present ation. I want to air my views on the question of gender violence. The last speaker put it very clear....Published: 15 May 2014 at 16:11hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Jonathan Moyo attack those opposed to Salarygate exposés
Jonathan Moyo, the Media, Information and Broadcasting Services minister, has launched a blistering attack on politicians opposed to the ongoing Salarygate exposés, saying attempts to defend or hide ...Published: 17 Feb 2014 at 14:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
NUST 2013 Intake: An example of a divisive outcome
I first came across the Bulawayo based National University of Science and Technology (NUST) 2013 prospective intake list quite by accident, via an e-mail from a horrified associate. The list which als...Published: 20 May 2013 at 10:51hrs | 1 | by Fuyane, Lovemore
Malema feels his human rights are being undermined, 'Hawks media leaks'
South Africa - ANC Youth League president Julius Malema feels his human rights are being undermined by media leaks from the police, SABC news reported on Tuesday.The broadcaster said Malema wa...Published: 01 Nov 2011 at 21:46hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
SA has refused to extradite the man accused of defrauding Grace Mugabe
THE Vanderbijlpark magistrate's court in South Africa yesterday dismissed a request by President Robert Mugabe's government to extradite a man accused of defrauding first lady Grace Mugabe of R7 milli...Published: 16 Aug 2011 at 04:45hrs | 1 | by .
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