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Smugglers dump vehicle, contraband after ZRP chase
MUTARE - An anti-smuggling crack team deployed in Zimbabwe's Manicaland peripheral borders intercepted and foil an attempt by unknown assailants to smuggle second-hand clothing bales from Mozambique i...Published: 25 Jun 2025 at 08:01hrs | 352 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Zimbabwe will only develop once we've citizens who're truly eager for prosperity!
It is not necessary the unashamedly corrupt, incompetent and uncaring government that we have in power.Neither is it the grand looting of our vast national resources by the ruling elite - who ...Published: 12 Aug 2023 at 16:34hrs | 13 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZANU PF is way beyond redemption!
It never ceases to baffle the mind what exactly the ruling ZANU PF party intends to achieve by singing on rooftops over their supposed 'achievements'.Surely, after authoring the unimaginable m...Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 17:45hrs | 14 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
PHOTO: Tsikamutandas who violently bashed an alleged Plumtree witch in Matobo arrested
Two men who appeared on a disturbing video on social media beating up an elderly woman, whom they accuse of being a witch, with tree branches have been arrested, senior journalist Zenzele Ndebele has ...Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 12:03hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bulawayo's street 'shops' flood city by night
FILLED to the brim with groceries ranging from foodstuffs, toiletry to skin care products, a pushcart — commonly known as iScania in the streets of Bulawayo — is strategically positioned at a busy...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Widows4ED wants Mnangagwa to fire Harare provincial coordinator
WIDOWS for Economic Development (Widows4ED) has written a scathing letter advising President Emmerson Mnangagwa to fire Provincial Development Coordinator (PDC) Tafadzwa Muguti, who they accused of ar...Published: 23 Nov 2022 at 05:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mbare violence signals worse to come ahead of 2023 elections
VIOLENT clashes between marauding Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) and Zanu-PF youths at the weekend left a trail of destruction at vending sites near Mupedzanhamo Complex, one of the busiest area...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Smuggling cartels control Mutare
CARTELS smuggling fuel and second-hand clothes into the country have become powerful and daring to an extent of hiring earth-moving equipment to clear and periodically repair gravel roads connecting i...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Substandard vehicles, goods flood Zimbabwe
SMUGGLED inferior goods, including second hand clothes and imported used defective vehicles, have flooded Zimbabwe to the detriment of the local industry, according to a recent report by AuditorGenera...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe now dumping ground for used knickers'
ZIMBABWEAN companies are losing millions of dollars due to unfair competition from both imported and smuggled inferior products, a report by the Auditor General Mildred Chiri has said.The repo...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 18:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
AUDIO: Prophet Makandiwa takes ZANU PF politicians head on
An audio of UFIC leader Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa attacking government officials for sabotaging efforts that his ministry has been doing to help the underprivileged has surfaced online.In the...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:06hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Accepting abnormality as normal in Zimbabwe
The ruling Zanu-PF party has mastered the art of destruction since the early 80s.The year 1980, when all Zimbabweans rejoiced for a country free from colonial oppression marked the path of destruction...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 13:16hrs | | by AT Kadada
Police arrest female drug smuggler
...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 10:15hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Economic empowerment to stop prostitution
Sex workers in Gweru are receiving HIV prevention education, with most of them being asked to come up with business ideas to ensure that they get a comprehensive package of services to mitigate the im...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 08:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Rogue police, soldiers turn to crime
More and more members of the security services are being arraigned before the courts for playing a major role in perpetrating blue-collar and violent crime.Analysts attribute the breakdown of ...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 18:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt donates seized second hand clothes to Zanu-PF supporters
THE government has parceled out loads of goods seized by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) to villagers in Uzumba Maramba-Pfungwe (UMP), an area that has consistently given Zanu-PF the biggest vo...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:34hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Payment of duty in foreign currency is justified
Presenting the 2019 national budget last week under the theme, "Austerity for Prosperity," Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Professor Mthuli Ncube announced a raft of measures which inclu...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 18:48hrs | 1 | by Brian Johnson Mutonhori
Our problerm is not the bond note but fiscal deficit - ZCTU
Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions secretary general Japhet Moyo has said the problem the nation is facing is not about the bond note but it is about the fiscal deficit which has affected every sector ...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 09:40hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
How ZIMRA calculates duty on imported clothing items and shoes
Any person who imports items of clothing and shoes is required to make a declaration of the nature, quantity and value of the items. ZIMRA reserves the right to accept the declared values ...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 07:55hrs | 182 | by ZIMRA
Gonyeti used to smuggle UK car
POLICE in Victoria Falls have intercepted a smuggled container truck fully loaded with a Honda Civic vehicle, 105 bales of second hand clothes and a variety of other goods with an estimated combined v...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 08:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Detectives arrested over $220 bribe
TWO detectives based at Mutare Central Police Station were this week hauled before the courts on allegations of collecting bribes amounting to $220 from second hand clothes dealers.Collen Taru...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance outlines sweeping economic reforms
The MDC Alliance has kickstarted its bid to reshape the Zimbabwean economy for a post-Zanu-PF government, anchored on Transformation, Opportunities and Prosperity (TOP).Former Finance minister...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 13:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe industry must start functioning'
VETERAN nationalist Angeline Masuku has bounced back into Government having been appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the Minister of State for Provincial Affairs in Bulawayo taking over from ...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mpopoma man accused of stealing $316 worth property
A 27-year-old Mpopoma man has been dragged to court for unlawfully entering and stealing property worth $316 from a 35-year-old man in Nketa suburb on October 28.Doubt Gasa was found in posses...Published: 13 Nov 2017 at 07:05hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Chimene feared Mugabe's axe
Outspoken Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister - Mandiitawepi Chimene - has revealed that she feared losing her job during President Robert Mugabe's recent Cabinet reshuffle due to the rampant smugg...Published: 26 Oct 2017 at 13:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe 'used underwear' story - rights group slams arrest of journalist
A rights group has slammed the recent arrest of Zimbabwean daily newspaper journalist Kenneth Nyangani, adding that this was "a deliberate tactic to harass and intimidate him and other journalists in ...Published: 04 Oct 2017 at 12:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZimAsset, a failed economic policy
Zim-Asset is an economic policy much celebrated in the political front but with nothing much to bring home from the economic perspective. Zimbabwe has crafted so many economic policies from the early ...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 11:59hrs | 20 | by Blessing Machiva
Treasury toughens stance on errant transit truckers
Treasury has toughened its stance on errant transit truckers by introducing penalties, as it moves to stem smuggling.It is estimated that government is losing $1 billion annually through smugg...Published: 19 Sep 2017 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Wife 'killer's' body found hanging
Barely a day after the burial of Mrs Victoria Murimba who was allegedly killed by her husband, Mr Elisha Murimba last week under unclear circumstances, the body of the husband has been found hanging i...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 14:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Biti's stance on MDC alliance
The People's Democratic Party (PDP) has said it was formed on the bedrock of the principles of solidarity, freedom and justice – ideals of social democracy.The party President Tendai Biti sa...Published: 25 Aug 2017 at 06:50hrs | | by Stephen
If PDP fails to get into MDC Alliance, best winner is ZANU PF, says Biti
Biti's Address to the Party, 22 August 2017 The People's Democratic Party (PDP) was formed on the bedrock of the principles of solidarity, freedom and j...Published: 22 Aug 2017 at 20:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Smuggling syndicate busted by police
Police in Manicaland have burst another syndicate involved in smuggling goods and groceries from neighbouring Mozambique and recovered 151 bales of second hand clothes.The Forbes Border Post c...Published: 23 Jun 2017 at 13:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Smuggling syndicates highly resourced'
ACUTE lack of resources has crippled police's capacity to curb rampant and highly organised smuggling syndicates along the porous border with Mozambique - where the force is only able to deploy at 34 ...Published: 16 Jun 2017 at 09:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
What June 16 2017 should mean to the Zimbabwean Youth
The day that is celebrated internationally in honour of the Soweto youth ( 5 - 10,000 students) of 1976 who marched against apartheid in South Africa leaving some dea...Published: 15 Jun 2017 at 16:32hrs | 2 | by Vimbai Mavherudze
Fraud-accused soldier gets bail
A Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) officer on trial over $59 000 theft has been freed on $350 bail after engaging another lawyer.Tsungai Mazani, whose case was thrown into disarray after his lawye...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 12:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's visit triggers action
Zanu-PF has scrambled to spruce up the poor town of Marondera in preparation of President Robert Mugabe's visit to the Mashonaland East provincial capital where he holds a mega rally at Rudhaka Stadiu...Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 14:04hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Rural Industrialization: A sleeping potential for economic development
It is the fashion of the developing world that there largely is rural to urban migration. The opposite is true in developed worlds. The great trek to the city is in search of opportunities and other c...Published: 17 May 2017 at 14:16hrs | | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
Policy makers: A cost to the economy
The post-independence government of Zimbabwe inherited a fairly well diversified economy with an industrial base stronger than that of most Sub-Saharan African countries north of the Limpopo River. In...Published: 09 May 2017 at 13:30hrs | 1 | by Blessing Machiva
Cops arrested for 'thief' assault
THREE police officers from Bulawayo and their domestic worker have been arrested for allegedly assaulting a 22-year-old man after accusing him of stealing a T-shirt.Livingstone Sango (55),...Published: 31 Mar 2017 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Baby-face' thief manages to stay 17 for 3 years
A notorious jail nomad who for the past three years has told courts he's 17 year old has again appeared before Guruve magistrate facing unlawful entry and theft charges.It is the state case th...Published: 28 Mar 2017 at 12:05hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chamboko says voters are selling out 'for beer' - how insulting when he is the one selling out
A General who is indifferent to the suffering and death of those under his command and even sees glory is the bloody the business and is always demanding more soldiers to send to the frontline is a cu...Published: 06 Mar 2017 at 09:19hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Are Zimbabweans worth dying for?
Many people have lost their lives fighting for democracy in Zimbabwe. These include Talent Mabika and Tichaona Chiminya, MDC activists who were callously murdered in the lead up to the hotly contested...Published: 05 Mar 2017 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Moses Chamboko
Government backs down on importation of second hand clothes ban
Government has backed down on the ban of importation of second hand clothes saying it can not enforce it.According to Industry Minister Mike Bimha, at present there is little alternative...Published: 19 Jan 2017 at 02:52hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Prostitute feeds her goblins with semen from clients
A 40-year-old Borrowdale sex worker is boasting that she has made big cash by feeding her goblins with semen from her clients.It is alleged a hooker identified as Shylet uses her clients’ se...Published: 30 Dec 2016 at 08:10hrs | 11 | by Staff Reporter
Miracle money 'prophet' arrested
A SELF-PROCLAIMED prophet from Gweru recently appeared in court for stealing money from church members under the guise that he was praying for it.Simbarashe Siziba (24) of Clonsilla suburb...Published: 12 Dec 2016 at 07:07hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Who’s the tortoise now? - Zim Vigil
On Friday Botswana celebrated 50 years of independence. There has been a transformation. In 1966 it was the poor relation in the region. Some of us at the Vigil recall travelling through Botswana by t...Published: 03 Oct 2016 at 10:19hrs | | by Zim Vigil
MP empowers youth, women
NATIONAL Assembly Member for Nkulumane Killian Sibanda has initiated vocational training courses in his constituency aimed at helping youths and raise standards of life for women, children and other v...Published: 11 Sep 2016 at 13:07hrs | | by Nozibelo Maphosa
Mugabe backs import controls
PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday backed import controls under Statutory Instrument 64 of 2016 saying the measures were meant to correct trade imbalance and boost domestic production. Zimbabwe, reduced to a ...Published: 09 Aug 2016 at 08:54hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Promote Zimbabwean products for economic revival
It is sad to note that some Zimbabweans continue to import non-essentials or finished products while shunning local goods. The benefits that can be accrued by consuming Zimbabwean products are immeasu...Published: 07 Jun 2016 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Susan Chipanga
Promote local products for economic revival
"An economy that continually imports and fail to export will die". This statement proffered by a Zimbabwean economist Kipson Gundani, is all but too true. The current Zimbabwe economic malaise c...Published: 03 Jun 2016 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Susan Chipanga
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