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Parliament releases list of 133 applicants for 9 ZACC posts
Former Zimpapers board chairman Tommy Sithole and former Chronicle editor Geoffrey Nyarota are among a list of 133 people who have applied to become commissioner of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commis...Published: 4 mins ago | 6 | by ZimLive
'Zinara Finance Director deliberately dodged Parliament"
PARLIAMENTARY Public Accounts Committee chairperson Tendai Biti, was left seething with anger after an apparent snub from the Zimbabwe National Roads Authority (Zinara) Financial Director.Biti...Published: 3 hrs ago | 168 | by newzimbabwe
Hordes apply for Zacc posts
Parliament has been inundated by applications from potential corruption busters willing to join the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), with 130 aspirants having thrown their hats into the rin...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 09:44hrs | 1702 | by Staff reporter
Deployment of Shona civil servants in Matabeleland condemned
The government of Zimbabwe is not doing the people of Matabeleland any favour by withdrawing Shona teachers it deployed in Bulawayo primary schools, this should not have happened in the first place. M...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 08:42hrs | 2720 | by Israel Dube
Boeing sucked into Zimbabwe Airways saga
The world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of aircraft and other equipment - Boeing - has been sucked into the Zimbabwe Airways saga where the son-in-law of former president Robert...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:02hrs | 1669 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo predicted the split of Zimbabwe in 1986
Just 6 years into the so called independence of Zimbabwe, Dr Joshua Nkomo mentioned among other things, genocide, tribal hate and unfettered corruption as ticking bombs that would cause Zimbabwe implo...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 09:11hrs | 8052 | by Israel Dube
Zinara chefs face corruption probe
DETECTIVES from the police's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Fraud Squad have opened a probe into two Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) senior managers over allegations of corrupt...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 13:14hrs | 1470 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police bosses in US$4m housing scandal
SCORES of junior police officers were allegedly prejudiced in excess of US$4 million by their superiors in a botched housing scheme bankrolled by CABS under a 10-year mortgage arrangement, the Zimbabw...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 07:12hrs | 2757 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe, Zanu-PF bigwigs looted $1 million ZINARA funds
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe as well as top ZANU-PF leader went on a looting spree and stole over $1 million funds from the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (ZINARA), according to a report by ...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 00:25hrs | 8755 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa sucked into mine dispute
Norton legislator and businessman Themba Mliswa could face yet another parliamentary probe for allegedly dragging Mines and Mining Development Portfolio Committee into the Makomo Resources and Zambezi...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 23:19hrs | 472 | by Staff reporter
Chaos as Mnangagwa is sucked into ZANU PF Byo fiasco
The Provincial Administrator of ZANU PF Bulawayo Province Elifas Mashaba has been caught in the eye of a storm after President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday dissolved Bulawayo Province ZANU PF struc...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 17:39hrs | 4762 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Police instructed to investigate Dexter Nduna over threats to kill Mliswa.
The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has written a letter to the Commissioner General of Police instructing to institute investigations into allegations by Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mli...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 09:00hrs | 3412 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimra in fresh scandal
ZIMBABWE Revenue Authority multi-million dollar contract to install an online payment system in 14 banks linked to the tax collector was an underhand deal with no approval from the board, the High Cou...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 07:22hrs | 1081 | by Staf reporter
Kereke, prison bosses embroiled in chicken scandal
Three senior Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officers have been arrested on charges of engaging in a chicken project with jailed rapist and former senior Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe offi...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 11:03hrs | 1735 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants demand $3,000 salary
TEACHERS' unions yesterday said they were planning to go on strike if government does not urgently revise their salaries, as frustrated civil servants demanded a minimum of $3 000 per month after the ...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:19hrs | 1229 | by Staff reporter
Mines ministry vehicle scandal telling
The MDC has been arguing that the country needed saving from the hands of a very dangerous cartel which fits the description of George B.N. Ayittey that states that a Vampire state, is one in which th...Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 07:28hrs | 3476 | by Jacob Mafume
Mines ministry vehicle scandal telling
The vehicles scandal involving senior employees at the Ministry of Mines is an insult to the tax payer and an indictment to the military government's rhetorical intention to fight corruption.T...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 18:34hrs | 1991 | by Jacob Mafume
Massive fraud at Amnesty International Zimbabwe
An audit has unearthed serious fraud and financial mismanagement involving millions of dollars at Amnesty International Zimbabwe. Amnesty, an international human rights organisation that has b...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 22:35hrs | 2473 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's multi-billion coal-to-fuel project on track
GOVERNMENT and a Canadian investor have completed setting up a special purpose entity - Vectol Zimbabwe - to spearhead the much anticipated US$5,2 billion coal to fuel project in Lisulu, Hwange....Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 06:34hrs | 430 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's gaffe in bad taste
The shocking and scandalous statements by President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Saturday once again illustrate the flagrant disdain and contempt for the rights and due protection of the law as provided for ...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 10:49hrs | 5892 | by Innocent Gonese
Spy camera scandal rocks Falcon College
A SCANDAL has rocked Falcon College after some school boys allegedly placed a spy camera in the girls' changing rooms resulting in unsuspecting pupils from Girls College in Bulawayo, who had visited t...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 22:38hrs | 8151 | by Staff reporter
Tollgate scandal rocks Zinara
inara has lost thousands of dollars in foreign currency and bond notes to tollgate cashiers who have been manipulating operating systems. According to people familiar with the developments, th...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:33hrs | 2690 | by Staff reporter
CIO dirty secrets exposed
A top Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) officer has accused his bosses in the spy agency of victimising him because they fear he will expose their corrupt activities.Augustine Mutambu, the C...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:17hrs | 3085 | by Staff reporter
Avalanche of blunders gives Mangudya guts to challenge 'Tzar' Ncube - another sneak resignation on card
Rumour has it that Minister of Finance, Professor Mthuli Ncube, and the Governor of Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Dr John Mangudya are failing to agree on key monetary policies including when Zimbabwe shou...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 21:04hrs | 6230 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mliswa-Nduna feud moves to another level
Independent legislator, Themba Mliswa, has said he would write an official complaint to President Emmerson Mnangagwa after being ejected from the National Assembly yesterday.The former fitness...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 17:53hrs | 4498 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Top ZANU PF leader dies
Bulawayo ZANU PF Provincial Chairman Professor Calistus Ndlovu has died. Ndlovu is known for defecting from the Central Committee position of ZAPU to join ZANU PF in 1984 after calling ZAPU a ...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 13:41hrs | 18572 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe Army to fire soldier couples
HUNDREDS of soldiers face expulsion from the army after Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Commander General Philip Valerio Sibanda activated a policy that prohibits officers from marrying each other....Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:40hrs | 2736 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs in near fistfight
TEMPERS flared in Parliament yesterday during the sitting of the Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy when Norton MP Temba Mliswa accused former Transport Committee chairperson, Dexter Nduna, of il...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:48hrs | 2242 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Chaos in parliament over $11 million scandal
There was chaos in parliament on Monday during the sitting of the Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy when Norton MP Temba Mliswa accused former Chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfo...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 11:04hrs | 4991 | by Mandla Ndlovu
More heads to roll at Zesa
SEVERAL Zesa Holdings senior managers face the axe following a damning forensic audit that has unearthed serious allegations of corruption and abuse of office.Last week, the national electrici...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:55hrs | 851 | by Staff reporter
Butcheries sell infected meat
A RARE tick-borne disease (atheileriosis) is killing cattle at an alarming rate in Mutare district with some unscrupulous elements reportedly selling the carcases to butchery operators at give away pr...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 11:07hrs | 2345 | by Staff reporter
PSL scam explodes
MORE damning and incriminating evidence emerged yesterday, exposing a cartel that has been corruptly siphoning funds from Premiership side ZPC Kariba, amid chilling revelations the cancer has spread t...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:35hrs | 340 | by Staff reporter
ED's human rights record as the president of Zimbabwe plunges?
Zimbabweans dotted through out the world woke up on the morning of 14th January 2019 not feeling particularly patriotic. Tired of long queues, runaway prices very grumpy not patriotic anymore. Very fe...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 18:35hrs | 4769 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe's ingenious intelligence services and a liability Head of State
That shocking erroneous diagnosis grossly lacking real intelligence! Deliberate or otherwise! The inability to see and act on that daily shimmering hot potato pot since the first of August 2018! ...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 14:36hrs | 1257 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Mohadi takes Mliswa to task over 'defamatory' tweet
VICE President Kembo Mohadi has ordered Norton legislator Mr Temba Mliswa to within 24 hours retract allegations he posted on his Twitter account alleging that the former is corrupt and President Mnan...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 06:00hrs | 919 | by Staff reporter
Top officials cornered in $9m probe
AN investigation into the abuse of over US$8,7 million at the Unified Council Pension Fund (UCPF) has claimed the scalp of fund manager Benjamin Chiyangwa, while four others have voluntarily stepped d...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 14:09hrs | 522 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa to expose Kembo Mohadi
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has threatened to expose Vice President Kembo Mohadi over corruption scandals. He fiurther called for the firing of the Vice Presiddnt highlighting that the co...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 06:50hrs | 7728 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Hackers hit Khama, demands $10,000
ZIMBABWE international footballer Khama Billiat is being traumatised after some fraudsters hacked his Facebook and Twitter accounts and demanded he pays them US$10 000 by yesterday or they will releas...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 07:48hrs | 1011 | by Staff reporter
MDC MPs, councillors in $60m scandal
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has opened an investigation against 23 MDC councillors and two National Assembly members implicated in a $60 million tender scandal.Other charges...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 18:59hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo must be puking as Strive Masiyiwa's fortune rises to US$2.3bn
exiled Former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo last week made a jibe on telecommunications guru Strive Masiyiwa saying that Masiyiwa is a Bond-note billionaire, a reference to the local currency th...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 20:25hrs | 2640 | by Staff reporter
Sexual allegations rock Zimbabwe's National Aids Council
Government has launched an investigation into the operations of the National Aids Council (NAC) over allegations of sexual harassment, corporate sleaze and maladministration.The probe coincide...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 08:43hrs | 1008 | by Staff rpeorter
Govt resumes apprenticeship training
About 1 000 young people will this year enrol for apprenticeship training at various State institutions as Government resumes the programme abandoned in 2015 to pave way for (Science, Technology, Engi...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 07:59hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter
Life as an illegal immigrant in the UK
Staying in UK without a visa or a right to stay is like sitting on a razor blade. Life as an Illegal Immigrant Inside a 'Hostile Environment' is the worst thing ever. There are people wh...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 15:21hrs | 2029 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Prosecutor-General appointment chaos
THE race to succeed Prosecutor-General (PG) Ray Goba has been plunged into chaos after it emerged this week that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has rejected the three front-runners for political reasons...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:55hrs | 1609 | by Staff reporter
Time to confront bloodsuckers wherever and whenever
THAT things could be on the verge of boiling over is not an overstatement, but for the "big boys" these are the best of times as they are making a killing.But it should be pointed out from the...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:39hrs | 384 | by Conway Tutani
Can ED turn the economy round
Over the last three months, Zimbabwe has been dominated by some ugly headlines from elections squabbles to economic down turn.- It is fair to say the loud silence on the issue by His Excellence did no...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 10:53hrs | 1541 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimra top brass in smuggling racket
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) 10 top managers have been named in an alleged $3 million cooking oil and chicken smuggling racket, which was reportedly swept under the carpet.Documents ...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 09:54hrs | 729 | by Staff repoirter
The primacy of regime survival: State Fragility and Economic Destruction in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe crisis has been analysed from varying stand points among researchers. State fragility as analytical and conceptual framework is deployed by the duo of Mark Simpson and Tony Hawkins (2018)...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 07:52hrs | 719 | by Brian Maregedze
Reviving the 'New Zimbabwe' dream in 2019
As Zimbabweans enter 2019 from a forgettable festive season, probably the worst in the past decade, uncertainty abounds about Emmerson Mnangagwa's government.Zimbabweans are deeply concerned a...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:07hrs | 198 | by Vivid Gwede
Mukupe calls for Mangudya ouster
FORMER Deputy Minister of Finance, Terence Mukupe has emerged from his political hiatus to propose the axing of Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, John Mangudya as a way of solving the worsening...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 11:48hrs | 6290 | by newzimbabwe.com
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