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Salad cream intercepted at border
AUTHORITIES at Beitbridge Border Post have intercepted 21 tonnes of salad cream worth R470 000 being smuggled from South Africa to Harare. The Hash Logistics Truck was intercepted by the Ferre...Published: 24 hrs ago | 485 | by Staff reporter
The EU Parliament resolutions on Zimbabwe read like Chamisa's script
The European Parliament resolutions on Zimbabwe (2019/2563(RSP) are like reading from Chamisa script. In fact it's not surprising as the EU has been half-hearted in its attempts to engage the Second R...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 11:14hrs | 2268 | by Brightface Mutema
Impounded smuggled goods overwhelm Zimra
ZIMRA is overwhelmed by impounded smuggled goods that are piling and taking up space at three warehouses in Mutare.Zimra regional manager Mr Innocent Chikuni told heads of Government departmen...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:31hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa lost the plot again on dialogue
President Emmerson Mnangagwa in his inimitable wisdom invited other presidential hopefuls who lost the 2018 Presidential race in a bid to map the way forward on the framework towards resolving the nat...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:54hrs | 3650 | by Elijah Chihota
Mnangagwa's regalia smuggled for resale in Mozambique
A MOZAMBICAN man yesterday escaped jail after he was fined $100 for smuggling 245 pieces of Zanu-PF regalia inscribed with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's face for resale in the neighbouring country....Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:32hrs | 1747 | by Staff reporter
SA Hawks arrest car thief, smuggling suspect
THE Hawks have arrested a second suspect believed to be part of a racket stealing vehicles from South Africa and smuggling them to other countries via Zimbabwe. It is understood that most of the stole...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 08:15hrs | 327 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's sugarcandy mountain
The decision by the Zimbabwe government to increase fuel price is insane and unrelated to the underlying causes of fuel shortages but everything to do with benefiting the ruling gang of vampire elites...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 15:17hrs | 8441 | by Sam Wezhira
Zimbabwe's grand fuel heist
Zimbabwe consumed almost 480 million more litres of petrol and diesel in six months between June and November last year than in the same period in 2017, a gargantuan 77 percent extra, at an additional...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:32hrs | 525 | by Staff reporter
Drug trafficking in Zimbabwe on the rise
Drug trafficking in Zimbabwe has risen as criminal networks groom mules to smuggle packets of hard drugs into the country, the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (Mcaz) and ZRP CID drugs and narc...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 20:08hrs | 563 | by Staff reporter
Unregulated, unregistered medicines flooding into Zimbabwe
Unregulated and unregistered medicines are reportedly flooding into Zimbabwe, with consignments of expired medicines being smuggled into the country through the country's porous border posts.S...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:03hrs | 430 | by African News Agency
Zimbabwe relaxa travelling requirements for minors
THE Government has clarified conditions on what is required to enable minors to travel to South Africa, saying it is still committed to fight human trafficking and human smuggling.The clarific...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 08:56hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
Vandalism costs TelOne
DIVERSIFIED telecommunications firm, TelOne, has lost over US$3 million in the 10 months to October this year due to vandalism of network infrastructure.Of the US$3 million, US$2, 2 million wa...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 08:42hrs | 99 | by Staff reporter
Police urged to deploy vehicles to critically needy areas
POLICE should prioritise deployment of service vehicles to areas where they are critically needed instead of issuing them to senior officers who keep them idle for the greater part of the day, a parli...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 06:04hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube fires Green Bombers
GOVERNMENT has followed up on its word and cut loose over 3 000 members of the national youth service programme, commonly known as "Green Bombers" who were smuggled into the civil service under former...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 05:19hrs | 2719 | by Staff reporter
Panic as Mutsvangwa throws Matemadanda under the bus
The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association has been thrown into a panic mode after it emerged that the announcement by Secretary General Victor Matemadanda to increase Presidential age ...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 09:11hrs | 19196 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe's Black November
In Zimbabwe, the month of November is revered by most cultures and in traditionally considered as a sacred month.So scared is the month that traditional rituals and rain making ceremonies are ...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:49hrs | 1248 | by staff reporter
Ginimbi finally gets bail
A HIGH Court judge yesterday set aside a lower court decision to deny socialite Genius Kadungure, popularly known as Ginimbi bail saying the magistrate might have been influenced during an adjournment...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 05:35hrs | 2762 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi's bid to escape weekend detention flops
THE bid by embattled Harare socialite, Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure, to avoid spending the weekend in remand prison hit a brickwall after his urgent chamber application at the High Court was heard on Sa...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 06:03hrs | 1546 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi denied bail in $3,5m fraud, money-laundering case
SOCIALITE and businessman Genius Kadungure, popularly known as Ginimbi, was yesterday denied bail by a Harare magistrate in a case in which he is accused of prejudicing Treasury of $3,5 million in a t...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 06:53hrs | 2367 | by Staff reporter
Official statement from Brooklyn Express on Gwanda bus disaster
Our heartfelt apologies go out to the relatives and families of the deceased whose lives were lost in an accident involving one of our Brooklyn express buses along the Bulawayo, Beitbridge highway. We...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 15:23hrs | 9478 | by Brooklyn Express
Detectives arrested with 4 tonnes of fertiliser
TWO police officers stationed at Binga Criminal Investigations Department were recently arrested at Cross Dete in Matabeleland North after they were found in possession of nearly four tonnes of fertil...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 05:54hrs | 1329 | by Staff reporter
Sugar smugglers hit the jackpot in Mozambique
Economic saboteurs are taking advantage of low sugar prices locally to smuggle hundreds of tonnes of sugar into Mozambique daily through illegal crossing points, raking in tens of thousands of dollars...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 05:44hrs | 2161 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe goods smuggled out of the county'
A number of product lines that have become household names in Zimbabwe are being smuggled out of the country, thereby depriving the fiscus of millions of United States dollars.The Daily News c...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 13:25hrs | 1173 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa a young Robert Mugabe
Editor,Nelson Chamisa who has falsely appropriated himself the robes of a Messiah remains an unrepentant and dangerous toddler dictator. The dismissal of the democratically elected May...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 05:34hrs | 4057 | by S Dube
Mnangagwa's net closing in on fuel dealers
The net is closing in on fuel dealers who stand accused of abusing their foreign currency allocation from the central bank amid revelations a syndicate of Zambian fuel smugglers was [on Wednesday] nab...Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 21:19hrs | 5419 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe struggling with spike in fuel demand
Suspected smuggling of Zimbabwean fuel across the border is propelling the country's demand to record highs, with fuel consumption spiking by a staggering 30 percent since July this year, perman...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 14:26hrs | 2099 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa closes in on forex kingpins
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is apparently closing in on foreign currency kingpins - amid indications that a number of Zanu-PF bigwigs and prominent businesspeople are among those fac...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 15:40hrs | 7142 | by Staff reporter
Edgars resumes exports
LISTED clothing retailer, Edgars Stores Limited has resumed exports after a decade as it seeks to improve its revenue base through foreign currency generation.Speaking during a tour of the clo...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 09:43hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF 'smuggled' money to China for regalia
The ruling Zanu-PF party claims that the United States of America tried to sabotage their campaign by blocking them from wiring their transaction to a Chinese firm which printed the party's regalia un...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 15:03hrs | 4993 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge woman smuggled drugs in canoe
A 35-YEAR-OLD Beitbridge woman appeared before a Guruve magistrate today charged for smuggling boxes of illicit drugs from Zambia.Mavis Bhayi (35) of stand number 192 Dhulivadzimu Township Bei...Published: 06 Oct 2018 at 11:34hrs | 1682 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Nothing wrong in principle with 2% electronic transfer tax
"In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes," observed presciently Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), one of the founding fathers of the United States, who was both a philoma...Published: 06 Oct 2018 at 09:14hrs | 979 | by Conway Tutani
Chamisa confused about the role of the leader of the opposition in parliament
The president of Zimbabwe indicated that he is minded to create a formal position of a leader of the opposition in parliament in accordance with the British and commonwealth system. This raised a grea...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 07:02hrs | 3115 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Unpacking idea of 'losing' Chamisa in Parliament
The President of Zimbabwe indicated that he is minded to create a formal position of a leader of the opposition in Parliament in line with the British and Commonwealth systems. This raised great excit...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 06:44hrs | 574 | by Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe sex vendor brags about bedding 6,000 men
"I used to bed more than 300 men every year with most of my clients being long distance truck drivers who passed through this border post," says 52-year-old Prudence Nyeke (not her real name), Chirund...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 11:02hrs | 7140 | by Staff reporter
Manhunt launched for smuggling truck driver
POLICE in Victoria Falls have launched a manhunt for the driver and owner of a United Kingdom-marked container truck that was intercepted along Kazungula Road on Friday last week loaded with a Honda C...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:12hrs | 1904 | by Staff reporter
Border accident exposes smuggling racket
TRAVELLERS at Beitbridge Border Post were on Sunday treated to a free movie when dozens of bottles of smuggled Broncleer cough syrup, with a street value of $500, fell off the front fenders of a Botsw...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 06:43hrs | 1774 | by Staff reporter
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 | 4136 | by Staff reporter
Outrage over racist South African writer’s toxic article on Zimbabwe
A VICIOUS article penned by a South African freelance white cricket writer, describing Zimbabwe as a "fascist'' country whose national team should not be allowed to compete against their international...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:26hrs | 575 | by staff reporter
Zimbabwe military not involved in Biti arrest
THE Zimbabwe National Army has nothing to do with the arrest of MDC-Alliance principal Tendai Biti, a senior police officer said yesterday.Chief Superintendent Jealous Nyabasa made the remarks...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 15:56hrs | 1022 | by Staff reporter
Smugglers cash in on porous Beitbridge border
SMUGGLING across the dry Limpopo riverbed has never been this high. Queues of vehicles loading goods illicitly brought into the country have turned dirty village road networks into busy streets....Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 07:55hrs | 1119 | by Staff reporter
EXCLUSIVE: Mnangagwa wins Zimbabwe Presidential Election through the barrel of a gun
HARARE - Caretaker leader, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, is all but almost certain to be announced the winner of today's historic presidential election, by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) by lu...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 07:09hrs | 12043 | by Mary-Kate Kahari- Zimbabwe Editor
Be sober and vigilant on this day!
The end of this month is like no other month end, it is a defining moment for everyone.This could be the silver lining we all been hoping for, this could be the demise of Zanu-PF. This month end could...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 19:42hrs | 724 | by AT Kadada
Smuggled blankets suffocate Waverly
ZIMBABWE's remaining blanket manufacturer, Waverly Blankets, faces collapse as its operations are being suffocated by an influx of smuggled blankets allegedly from China. It is understood that once th...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:48hrs | 400 | by Staff reporter
It's a hoax - Pakistan contaminated rice message false
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has scoffed at a message circulating on social media about Dana, a rice brand, allegedly imported from Pakistan contaminated with an unnamed virus.Zimra'...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 06:56hrs | 306 | by Staff rpeorter
Impact of illicit financial flows on socio economic development
While the "Zimbabwe is open for business" mantra is good in attracting foreign investors the government of Zimbabwe need to step up efforts to curtail illicit financial flows (IFFs) by enforcing anti ...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 15:04hrs | 240 | by Davison Kaiyo
Tax amnesty 2018 in respect of motor vehicles
IN an effort to encourage our valued clients to regularise their tax obligations, the Government has, through the Finance Act No. 1 of 2018 published on 15 March 2018, made provisions for granting of ...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 07:05hrs | 1025 | by zimra
Is multi-tier pricing the problem or symptom?
As Zimbabwe's central bank tries to calm the problem it caused in the market through the introduction of bond notes in November 2016, questions have been raised on whether the multi-tier pricing syste...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 07:17hrs | 410 | by Victor Bhoroma
Impact of illicit financial flows on socio economic development
While the "Zimbabwe is open for business" mantra is good in attracting foreign investors the government of Zimbabwe need to step up efforts to curtail illicit financial flows (IFFs) by enforcing anti ...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 07:04hrs | 268 | by Davison Kaiyo
FreeZim wins t-shirts wrangle with ZRP
THE High Court has ordered Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga to immediately release 50 000 campaign T-shirts which were seized from an opposition political party by police at Beitbridge Borde...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 07:08hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
How Zimbabwe loses millions to smuggling syndicates
THE government could be losing millions of dollars in revenue via its north-eastern port of entry at Forbes Border Post due to under-declaration and false classification of goods by importers to evade...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 11:42hrs | 550 | by Staff reporter
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