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Zanu PF burns as bosses fight
THE ructions consuming the ruling Zanu-PF are escalating, with the former liberation movement ramping up its investigations targeted at party bigwigs suspected of plotting against President Emmerson M...Published: 8 hrs ago | 6944 | by Staff reporter
Ministry cracks whip on council land deals
The Ministry of Local Government and Public Works has directed all local authorities to submit information relating to land deals conducted under the current crop of Councillors whose tenure expires i...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:07hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Zesa chairperson suspended and banned
ZESA Holdings executive chairperson Dr Sydney Gata has been suspended and will not be allowed to enter the power utility's headquarters, Energy and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi said yester...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 07:16hrs | 966 | by Staff Reporter
EcoCash probe delays Cassava financials
CASSAVA Smartech Zimbabwe Limited (CSZL) has announced a delay in publishing its financial results for the year ended February 29, 2020 due to investigations into its subsidiary, EcoCash (Private) Lim...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:38hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
Zesa boss Gata suspended for corruption
ZESA executive chairperson Sydney Gata has been suspended to pave way for investigations into his alleged corrupt activities.Gata was suspended yesterday after Energy minister Fortune Chasi wr...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:35hrs | 1887 | by Staff reporter
Old Mutual to stop trading its shares on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange
Old Mutual is poised to stop trading its shares on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, the latest step in the government's efforts to bring order to its chaotic foreign-exchange market.The insurer ag...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 21:33hrs | 3668 | by Bloomberg
'Gono must be arrested'
ZAPU has called for the arrest of former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono and the simultaneous setting up of a commission of inquiry into the extravagant Farm Mechanisation Programm...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 19:44hrs | 2806 | by newzimbabwe
Zesa boss faces corruption probe
ENERGY minister Fortune Chasi says he has been alerted to fresh corruption allegations at Zesa Holdings (Zesa) - and specifically being perpetrated by executive chairperson Sydney Gata - and which the...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 16:20hrs | 1105 | by Staff reporter
#July31 and #Zanupfmustgo: Another failed political heist in the making
The 31st July movement which is being propelled mainly by Jonathan Moyo and his G40 associates is another failed political heist in the making, after all else has failed to unseat, a duly elected gove...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 13:59hrs | 2608 | by Zvinyaningwe Mangwiro
Varsity lecturer pounces on students: No sex, no trips
A SENIOR lecturer at Lupane State University (LSU) has been accused of allegedly demanding sex from students in return for university-facilitated trips that pay up to US$30 a day in allowances....Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 18:28hrs | 8413 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP in CDF abuse storm
COMMUNITY leaders in Shurugwi South have accused local MP Edmond Mukaratigwa (Zanu-PF) of abusing the 2019 Constituency Development Fund (CDF).Reports are that the local constituency developme...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:49hrs | 1833 | by Staff reporter
Prominent Zanu-PF financier dies
A PROMINENT Zanu-PF financier Jayan Joshi has died.Details were still sketchy last night, but Information permanent secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana said Joshi died in London yesterday."W...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:46hrs | 3987 | by Staff reporter
Pressure mounts over killer cop
POLICE are yet to identify the officer involved in the fatal shooting of a Bulawayo man with a senior official claiming provisions of the Inquest Act have now been invoked to ensure the case is not sw...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 19:01hrs | 4308 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean problems need a military solution
To solve problems brought by genocidists in a country, the route can never be through the popularly known ballot box but a military intervention, if indeed prosperity becomes the ultimate goal wanted ...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 18:35hrs | 3601 | by Mthwakazi Liberation Front
R4 million cigarette smuggling racket busted
Smuggling of cigarettes from Zimbabwe into South Africa through illegal crossing points along the Limpopo River, always a problem because of the tax differences, increased dramatically from the beginn...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:12hrs | 583 | by Staff reporter
Interim Zisco board chair leaves in a huff
ECONOMIST Gift Mugano has resigned as Ziscosteel interim chairperson after Industry minister Sekai Nzenza reportedly censored him for making remarks that were deemed in 'conflict' with his role as a b...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:16hrs | 1460 | by Staff reporter
ZNA dismisses social media assault claims
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has dismissed social media allegations that soldiers deployed in Kadoma and Kwekwe to assist the police in ensuring compliance to lockdown regulations are assaulting c...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:19hrs | 361 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to the Minister of Local Govt and Rural and Urban Development Hon. July Moyo
As concerned citizens, it is our belief that Local Government refers to the establishment of participatory and democratically elected structures that can identify with the needs of people at grassroot...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 10:47hrs | 1842 | by Concerned citizens of Bubi Rural District
Zimbabwe murder suspect escapes from SA prison
SOUTH African police are looking for a 25 year-old Zimbabwean man who escaped from a prison in Limpopo Province on Wednesday morning.Knowledge Lucky Mashava, reportedly escaped from remand pri...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 12:27hrs | 2250 | by Staff reporter
Bredenkamp: A dark overlord taking Zimbabwe's darkest secrets to the grave
AN entry on the website of one of John Bredenkamp's companies tells us all we need to know about the controversial businessman: "In Africa, it is essential to work with change, not against it." Breden...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 08:00hrs | 1656 | by Staff reporter
Council boss' woes mount
Gokwe town councillors have laid fresh corruption charges against suspended town council secretary, Melania Mandeya, amid reports of a crackdown by management on whistleblowers, who are set to testify...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:43hrs | 913 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU needs Shona president
Zapu is at crossroads as they seek to replace the late Dr Dumiso Dabengwa. Zapu has two big challenges on its hands. They need to rebrand big time if they are to survive until the next election and be...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 20:39hrs | 2292 | by Juliet Gumede
New twist to US$60m Covid-19 deal
A company that is at the centre of a US$60 million coronavirus supplies procurement storm, was cleared by permanent secretary in the Finance ministry, George Guvamatanga, lawyers defending its r...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:48hrs | 2363 | by Staff reporter
Covidgate scandal explodes in Zimbabwe
A controversial businessman with alleged links to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's family was given government contracts worth US$42 million to buy materials to fight Covid-19 after supplying false info...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:10hrs | 1554 | by Staff reporter
Obadiah Moyo probed over coronavirus deals
HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo is in the dog box after the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) opened a docket to probe his qualifications and controversial coronavirus deals following a complain...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 17:14hrs | 3015 | by Staff reporter
NetOne director under probe
NetOne Cellular non-executive director Rangarirai Mathias Mavhunga is under probe over allegations of concealing his personal interest in a transaction involving FMC Holdings Limited and the state-own...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:49hrs | 568 | by Staff reporter
Zacc, police probe coronavirus deals
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) and police yesterday opened a probe into the multi-million dollar procurement deals for Covid-19 personal protective equipment (PPEs) which have overshad...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 18:28hrs | 451 | by Staff reporter
'Hodzi must be probed for graft'
PROSECUTOR-GENERAL Kumbirai Hodzi could land in soup over allegations of abusing and using his position for personal benefit in the ongoing arrests and alleged harassment of lawyers behind the Constit...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 07:54hrs | 1258 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF captured'
ZANU-PF's politburo members have allegedly been captured and were no longer keen on fighting corruption, a former Zanu-PF youth league political commissar has claimed.Former youth league polit...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 08:00hrs | 6669 | by Staff reporter
Slain Silobela man's family to sue police
THE family of a 20-year-old Silobela man, who was shot and killed by a police officer on March 15, have filed a notice of intention to sue the officer, Police Commissioner-General and the Minister of ...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 09:47hrs | 1530 | by Staff reporter
Drax scam: New indictment on Mnangagwa's regime
THE controversy surrounding the recent awarding of a US$1 million procurement contract without going to tender to Drax International, whose beneficial owner has close ties with President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 09:18hrs | 1737 | by Staff reporter
Slain man's family pushes for private investigator
HE family of a Bulawayo man fatally shot by the police in May, is pushing for the involvement of private investigators in the matter after expressing fears that there "is something the police want to ...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 09:01hrs | 397 | by Staff reporter
US, Zimbabwe diplomatic row escalates
ZIMBABWE has torched a diplomatic storm with the United States following remarks by key government officials, including Zanu-PF national political commissar Victor Matemadanda, describing the US as "e...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 09:32hrs | 4678 | by Staff reporter
Plumtree High fire under probe
GOVERNMENT has sent a team to probe to Plumtree High School quarantine Centre following a fire that broke out at the institution yesterday.People, mostly those returning from Botswana are quar...Published: 29 May 2020 at 14:18hrs | 1036 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa joined the struggle only in 1978'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa joined the liberation struggle in 1978 when he arrived in Mozambique, National Patriotic Front Spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has said. The firebrand Spokesperson ...Published: 28 May 2020 at 11:03hrs | 7298 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Human Rights Commission to probe man shooting
A Bulawayo man who was shot dead by police on Saturday was buried yesterday and a local Member of Parliament has engaged the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) to investigate the matter. ...Published: 28 May 2020 at 07:37hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube summoned to explain economic mess
A ZANU-PF MP for Rushinga, Tendai Nyabani has asked parliament speaker Jacob Mudenda to summon Finance Minister Mthuli to the house to explain why the country's economy continues to take a nose-dive....Published: 28 May 2020 at 07:33hrs | 1033 | by newzimbabwe
MDC Alliances loses confidence in Adv Mpofu?
MDC bigwigs in the Nelson Chamisa-led faction have expressed concern over the continued loss of MDC court cases by the opposition party's top lawyer Advocate Thabani Mpofu.A source within the ...Published: 27 May 2020 at 20:13hrs | 2983 | by Christopher Makaza
Pressure to arrest MDC officials' tormentors
CIVIC organisations yesterday called on government to institute thorough investigations into allegations of sexual abuse and torture of MDC Alliance officials by State security agents.Harare W...Published: 23 May 2020 at 08:53hrs | 2096 | by Staff reporter
America wants Mnangagwa, Chamisa talks
WITH Zimbabwe's political and economic crises deepening, the United States of America (USA) and the European Union (EU) have once again implored authorities to engage the MDC to end the country's myri...Published: 22 May 2020 at 20:14hrs | 3851 | by Staff reporter
Chinhoyi fire tender under probe over Banket hospital inferno
CHINHOYI - The Government has instructed a probe into Chinhoyi municipality fire brigade after it failed to react to put down ravaging fire that destroyed a drug room at Banket district hospital on We...Published: 22 May 2020 at 11:31hrs | 465 | by Naume Muza
Govt orders re-run of TSCZ interviews
THE government has ordered a re-run of the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ) managerial post interviews, saying the initial process was flawed and marred by irregularities. NewsDay is reliably...Published: 21 May 2020 at 07:49hrs | 1397 | by Staff reporter
EU, UK, US light fires under Mnangagwa
THE international community has unequivocally told President Emmerson Mnangagwa that it expected his government to carry out swift, thorough and credible investigations into last week's abduction and ...Published: 21 May 2020 at 07:08hrs | 3462 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ropes in UN envoy
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has sought the intervention of the United Nations to facilitate investigations into the alleged abduction and torture of his three-party members by suspec...Published: 18 May 2020 at 07:59hrs | 8183 | by Staff reporter
Police probe MDC activists' case
Harare West legislator Joana Mamombe and two other MDC-Alliance activists, who reportedly went missing on Wednesday after a flash demonstration in Warren Park, Harare were on Thursday night found in B...Published: 16 May 2020 at 07:23hrs | 860 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo police probe 6 rogue officers
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police has reportedly begun disciplinary action against its officers recently arrested for assaulting two women from Cowdray Park high-density suburb in Bulawayo on charges of vi...Published: 15 May 2020 at 07:45hrs | 936 | by Staff reporter
Justice Bere loses bid to stop probe
SUSPENDED judge Justice Francis Bere had his bid to block a tribunal inquiring into his fitness to hold office, after a lawyer accused him of interference in a civil case, ruled as non-urgent by the H...Published: 14 May 2020 at 17:05hrs | 968 | by Staff reporter
Suspended town council bosses take revenue collection EcoCash lines
THERE are fears that Gokwe Town Council could have lost thousands of dollars in revenue collections following the disappearance of an EcoCash agent line used for receiving payments by ratepayers for c...Published: 05 May 2020 at 08:51hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter
NetOne board chair under probe
Law enforcement agents have launched an investigation into suspected criminal abuse of office by NetOne acting chairperson, Ms Susan Mutangadura, after she reportedly appointed her suspected business ...Published: 03 May 2020 at 08:56hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
RBZ puts senior officials under corruption probe
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has launched an internal investigation into the conduct of some of its senior officials following a tip-off from a whistleblower at alleged underhand dealings regard...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 11:43hrs | 2511 | by Staff reporter
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