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Honda Fit gangs stage flash protest at City Hall
A convoy of seven Honda Fit vehicles disrupted normalcy outside City Hall this afternoon as unidentified youths staged a flash demonstration to denounce alleged corruption by city councillors and the ...Published: 7 hrs ago | 383 | by Staff reporter
'Bribe seeking' magistrate's trial kicks off
The trial of Talent Phiri, a Gwanda magistrate accused of soliciting a US$3,000 bribe from an accused person, began in Bulawayo Magistrates Court on Monday. Phiri, who is facing charges of criminal ab...Published: 20 hrs ago | 238 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate denies bail to cops accused of bribery
Two police officers caught on video allegedly taking bribes from kombis, pirate taxis, and public service vehicles have been denied bail by Harare magistrate Mrs. Marehwanazvo Gofa. The officers, Serg...Published: 19 Nov 2024 at 08:30hrs | 156 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Deputy Mayor arrested for bribery
The Deputy Mayor of Bulawayo, Edwin Ndlovu, and Councillor Mpumelelo Moyo, who chairs the Finance and Development Committee, have been arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) on all...Published: 15 Nov 2024 at 08:27hrs | 408 | by Staff reporter
Simbisa Brands warns job seekers of employment scams
Simbisa Brands, a prominent fast food outlet company in Zimbabwe, has issued a public warning regarding a surge in job scams targeting desperate job seekers. In a notice released this week, the compan...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 10:21hrs | 158 | by Staff reporter
Chief exposes Zanu-PF
Chief Bota, born Tafirenyika Bwazvo, has revealed allegations of interference by the ruling ZANU PF party in the selection of traditional leaders. He stated that traditional leaders have been ordered ...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 10:31hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate's $3 000 bribe demand exposed
A 35-year-old magistrate from Gwanda has been arrested and charged with bribery and criminal abuse of duty. The magistrate, Talent Phiri, is accused of soliciting a $3,000 bribe from the ex-husband of...Published: 09 Sep 2024 at 08:11hrs | 438 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe national guilty of running romance fraud schemes in US
A jury has convicted a woman of laundering money from a variety of scams, including romance fraud online.Sherlyn Sims, a/k/a "Sherlyn Dzinzi," is from Zimbabwe, but she set up business in Geor...Published: 07 Aug 2024 at 14:12hrs | 623 | by Staff reporter
'I didn't flirt with Chivayo'
Businessman Wicknell Chivayo recently made headlines for controversial reasons when his Instagram chats with socialites and married women were leaked, showing him allegedly flirting and soliciting sex...Published: 22 Jul 2024 at 15:15hrs | 2452 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zupco board chair wins US$130K lawsuit
The Supreme Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling ordering bus supplier Jayesh Shah to compensate former Zupco board chairperson Charles Nherera with US$130,000 for unjustly causing his arrest and deten...Published: 11 Jun 2024 at 05:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe authorities mix charm with force to shore up ZiG
THE introduction of the world's newest currency in April inspired a reggae artist to record a song praising the ZiG, or Zimbabwe Gold.The catchy tune, titled "Zig Mari," received generous play...Published: 27 May 2024 at 09:56hrs | 4 | by Associated Press
Policeman acquitted in abuse of office case
A POLICEMAN based at ZRP Glen View, who was facing a charge of criminal abuse of office, was yesterday set free by Harare magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka.The magistrate ruled that the State faile...Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula's case is political'
Embattled former Speaker of Parliament has been released on R50,000 bail after she appeared before Magistrate Anna Oosthuizen in a packed Pretoria Magistrate's Court on Thursday morning.The St...Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 13:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
4 VID Depot officers face probe
AT least four Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) officers based at Chitungwiza Depot are facing investigations on allegations of soliciting money from people acquiring driver's licences and learner...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 04:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Minister Mangaliso Ndlovu reported to ZACC...amidst massive corruption allegations
Minister of Environment, Climate Change, Tourism, and International Trade, Mangaliso Ndlovu, is under scrutiny for alleged corruption and misconduct. Citizens Against Corruption, a prominent local org...Published: 23 Feb 2024 at 12:55hrs | 5 | by George Tshuma
Busisa Moyo imposter begs donations from business executive's colleagues
Busisa Moyo has warned family and friends to disregard a social message by a fraudster who has been soliciting for financial donations from his circle while pretending it was the renowned business exe...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo's US$5 million spending binge
FOR Wicknell Chivayo, money seems to grow on trees.Never the one to be shy to ostentatiously display his wealth, Chivayo, who likes to call himself Sir Wicknell, has of late been on an unrelen...Published: 04 Feb 2024 at 17:36hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa guns for sex predators
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has evoked the presidential powers to protect children against rape after amending some sections of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act on rape and indecent ass...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:49hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over Beitbridge crack team operations
Cross-border traders, shipping agents, and truck drivers utilizing the Beitbridge Border Post have reported mistreatment at the hands of a State security team assigned to combat smuggling and other il...Published: 13 Oct 2023 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Rallies legitimise Zanu-PF hegemony'
Academic, Mcdonald Lewanika, has characterized Zanu-PF's campaign rallies leading up to the August 23 harmonized elections as a deliberate effort by the ruling party to legitimize its dominance. He as...Published: 12 Sep 2023 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
2-man race in battle for Zimbabwe State House
AS things stand, it is abundantly clear and an inescapable fact that the battle for State House is squarely between Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa and President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 21 Aug 2023 at 06:38hrs | 10 | by Lovemore Moyo
Sex worker jailed for bedding teenage boy
A COMMERCIAL sex worker has been sentenced to six months imprisonment for being intimate with a teenage boy.Mercy Chisiyo (20) of Lion's Den, Chinhoyi was, however, spared a custodial term aft...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF targets 80% vote
Zanu-PF is targeting 80 percent of the vote during the August 23 harmonised elections to deal the country's detractors and their regime change puppets a lethal blow, the party's Vice President and Sec...Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo bus operators bend the rules, flout BCC by-laws
WITH the words "Inter Africa" inscribed at the back, a silver Toyota Quantum vehicle makes a sudden stop and a tout bolts out, approaches two women and asks where they are travelling to. The tout tell...Published: 15 Jul 2023 at 11:38hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition party in shock Mnangagwa endorsement
Two weeks after criticising the government and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) for setting excessive candidate nomination fees, the Zimbabwe Republicans Front (ZRF) endorsed President Emmerson...Published: 24 Jun 2023 at 17:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF snubs US$10m western poll donation, dares CCC to accept grant
Zanu-PF has pulled rank and issued a chilling warning on political rivals not to accept a US$10 million donation offered to Zimbabwean political parties by Western countries through their agencies for...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 07:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Green Bombers' groupings haggle over who 'owns' Mnangagwa
TEMPERATURES are rising among former National Youth Service (NYS) graduates, derogatorily known as ‘Green Bombers', amid revelations two distinct groupings are tussling to claim rights to canvass su...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Teachers sleep in the bush after threats from Zanu-PF
Teachers at Guni Secondary School in Gutu South were on Wednesday last week forced to sleep in bushes after receiving death threats from a Zanu-PF ward chairperson.The threats rattled the teac...Published: 10 Jun 2023 at 18:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ratepayers flag bribe-taking municipal police
BULAWAYO residents have accused municipal police operating at the central business district revenue hall of soliciting for bribes from ratepayers to fast track access to services."Now in order...Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF affiliate gives Chamisa sleepless nights
AN invisible hand by a shadowy Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) linked organisation, Forever Associates Zimbabwe (FAZ) continues to give Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamis...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Doctor extorts US$350 from accident victim
A Chitungwiza Central Hospital medical doctor is facing disciplinary charges on allegations of attempting to extort US$350 from a parent of a girl who was one of the learners injured in a road traffic...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers cry for Indaba with Mnangagwa
THE mantra ‘‘leaving no place and no one behind'' as touted by the incumbent Second Republic Government in its national development policies must surely inspire all of us Zimbabweans to march into...Published: 20 May 2023 at 19:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in bid to weather Kasukuwere's influence
GOVERNMENT'S decision to take the Independence Day celebrations to Mashonaland Central province is an effort by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime to neutralise former G40 key member Saviour Kasuku...Published: 28 Apr 2023 at 20:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Charumbira threatens 'sex attack victim'
CHIEFS Council president Fortune Charumbira, who has been reported for allegedly sexually abusing his married niece on two occasions, has threatened to sue the victim for defamation, claiming the char...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Charumbira in sexual assault storm
POLICE in Masvingo province have opened an indecent assault charge against Chiefs' Council president Fortune Charumbira after he allegedly sexually abused his 27-year-old married niece on two occasion...Published: 18 Apr 2023 at 19:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Al Jazeera puts Zimbabwe corruption documentary on hold
Al Jazeera on Thursday said it had put a pause on a broadcast of a four-part investigation into official corruption in Zimbabwe without giving reasons.The first episode of Gold Mafia, a two-ye...Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 19:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Senior registry officers building big houses from proceeds of corruption
DISMAYED by rife corruption levels at Bulawayo passport offices, residents have called on government to nip the vice in the bud.This comes after it emerged over the weekend that some senior re...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 19:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gold panner bashes woman for turning him down
IMAGINE as a woman you're at the bar on a night out and you get chatting to the man beside you.He then offers to buy you beer and you agree not knowing that what he wants is not your company b...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Former UZ Vice Chancellor cleared of fraud
FORMER University of Zimbabwe vice chancellor Levi Nyagura has been removed from remand in a case he was facing several counts of fraud.This follows the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA)'s ...Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 04:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC refutes Gokwe violence allegations
MAIN opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has dismissed allegations levelled against it by Zanu-PF over violence that erupted in Gokwe Sunday saying it is an attempt to soil its image ahead ...Published: 14 Feb 2023 at 05:26hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC blames police over violence
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has blamed lack of police presence at their rallies as a major reason for electoral violence.This comes after their campaign rallies that wer...Published: 14 Feb 2023 at 05:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sex workers abused by police officers beg ZRP boss to intervene
LEGISLATORS have tasked the Economic Justice Women's Project (EJWP) to urgently facilitate an engagement meeting with the Commissioner General of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)Godwin Matanga to ir...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 08:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
4 bribe-sniffing cops arrested
FOUR police officers have been charged with theft and criminal abuse of duty after being caught red-handed soliciting for a bribe from a motorist and stealing his phone in Harare on Thursday last week...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
This & that with Mal'phosa: Will the real Ndebele please stand up
There has been a lot of talk about the resorgimento of the Ndebele Kingdom and crowning of the King himself. We have had so many pretenders to the throne, all claiming to be the rightful heirs or Prin...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 18:40hrs | | by Clerk Ndlovu
Zanu-PF tells aspiring candidates not to jump the gun
Zanu-PF has warned aspiring candidates intending to represent the party in next year's harmonised elections against jumping the gun saying everyone should wait for the party to make an official statem...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers 4ED take over teachers recruitment
The recently launched Zanu-PF aligned teacher union called Teachers for Economic Development or Teachers4ED seems to have taken over recruitment and deployment of teachers as Zanu-PF is soliciting for...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police warn against blocking roads
POLICE have said they will arrest people blocking roads purporting to be fixing them as they disturb the flow of traffic and put their lives at risk.Most of those involved in the activity are ...Published: 02 Nov 2022 at 05:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe chefs attempt to sneak to UN
SENIOR government officials reportedly secretly contacted the United Nations (UN) secretariat seeking to attend the UN General Assembly and other routine meetings, a leaked memo from Agriculture perma...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Fake lawyers on the prowl'
THE Zimbabwe Law Society has warned the public against hiring "touts" masquerading as lawyers as cases of people being conned by fake lawyers increase."The public is being warned to desist fro...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Land barons arrested for extorting cash in Mnangagwa's name
Police say they have arrested some land barons and other criminals who have been abusing President Emmerson Mnangagwa's name as a licence to extort cash and other expensive property from unsuspecting ...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 15:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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