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Council ropes in Mnangagwa
Amid escalating losses and allegations of deep-rooted corruption, Harare City Council has turned to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office to intervene in the stalled acquisition of a critical Enterpri...Published: 17 Jul 2025 at 21:01hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
2-year-old found dead, father missing
A dark shadow has fallen over Musvuti Village under Chief Marambo in Midlands Province following the tragic death of a two-year-old boy whose body was discovered dumped in a nearby gully. The boy's fa...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:43hrs | 127 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo's arrogance is an insult to millions of suffering Zimbabweans
There's a saying: "A soft answer turneth away wrath" - but what happens when arrogance and contempt are the response to a nation's cry for accountability?There is something profoundly disturbi...Published: 18 Jun 2025 at 19:25hrs | 679 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa appoints Dr Zimbwa Coroner-General
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Dr Innocent Zimbwa as the Acting Coroner-General of Zimbabwe, with effect from April 22, 2025, in a move aimed at strengthening the country's capacity to inv...Published: 30 Apr 2025 at 07:11hrs | 856 | by Staff reporter
NSSA chairman embroiled in underhand Rainbow Tourism Group takeover bid
NATIONAL Social Security Authority (Nssa) chairman Emmanuel Fundira, who is former chairman of African Sun Limited, and an ex-Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG) senior executive Paula January are accused of ...Published: 18 Feb 2025 at 20:01hrs | 1544 | by NewsHawks
Harare City Council implicated in cattle looting scandal
The Harare City Council has been embroiled in a cattle looting scandal, with allegations surfacing that approximately 100 cattle are being illicitly removed from the city's paddocks each month....Published: 29 Nov 2024 at 06:50hrs | 100 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate releases drug lord under suspicious circumstances
Plumtree residents are not happy with the conduct of magistrate Lungile Ncube who ordered a Drug Lord Sam Junior Mhako to perform community service at Plumtree court.The 36-year-old drug Lord ...Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 11:18hrs | 1471 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's driver dies mysteriously at Bulawayo hotel
In a shocking turn of events, Ishmael Maburisa, the driver of Deputy Finance Minister David Mnangagwa, was found dead in his hotel room on Sunday, October 27, just hours after the conclusion of the Za...Published: 30 Oct 2024 at 08:32hrs | 5078 | by Staff reporter
Row over release of fraud suspects
A senior regional prosecutor in Harare, Ms. Gossy Mudambu, is facing allegations of facilitating the release of three fraud suspects before their scheduled bail hearing, sparking concerns of potential...Published: 03 Oct 2024 at 08:43hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
What is the probability that those who poisoned Jacob Zuma poisoned Paul Mashatile?
The recent health scare involving Paul Mashatile, South Africa's Deputy President, has reignited discussions about the troubling pattern of alleged poisonings among top South African politicians. With...Published: 15 Sep 2024 at 10:09hrs | 2257 | by Askari
Chiwenga trapped in crocodile jaws
In just six years, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, once a formidable figure and key player in the military coup that ousted former President Robert Mugabe, has seen a significant decline in his i...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 18:50hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is being led by the Devil himself - please, dear God, intervene!
I have seen evil in this country before. In fact, I believe that my childhood experiences of watching those in my neighborhood of Redcliff being gruesomely beaten up, and their homes burnt to ...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 09:53hrs | 12 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zupco bus deal case: High Court reserves judgment
HIGH Court judge Justice Joseph Mafusire has reserved judgment on the case of the Zimbabwe Independent newspaper and Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ), which are suing three government ministe...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 18:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's lawyer piles pressure on High Court judge
Advocate Thabani Mpofu is piling pressure on embattled Zimbabwean High Court judge Justice Webster Chinamora, who is facing a series of accusations ranging from conflict of interest, judicial miscondu...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 20:40hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora skeletons tumble
THOKOZANI Khupe has revealed that the MDC-T received assistance from the state through judicial and parliamentary processes in their fight to destroy the Chamisa-led MDC Alliance.This would se...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe Kazembe in US$2,5 million tender scandal
HOME AFFAIRS minister Kazembe Kazembe has been implicated in massive tender scandal after a company he has interests in won a lucrative tender under suspicious circumstances, it has emerged.Th...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Robert Gabriel Mugabe: The killer of our dreams
THIS week marks the second anniversary of the death of Robert Gabriel Mugabe, the first prime minister of an independent Zimbabwe, on April 18, 1980.While we acknowledge the fact that there ar...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:59hrs | 13 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Trevor Ncube's newspaper corners Mnangagwa's govt over Zupco 'shady deal'
THE Zimbabwe Independent newspaper is suing the government for refusing to release information regarding the procurement of the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) buses.According ...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UK based Zimbabwean 'shining star' teen drowns in river
A teenager who died while swimming in a river has been described as a "shining star".Thandolwethu Ndlovu, who turned 15 just two days ago, got into difficulty in the River Trent near Swarkesto...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 06:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Corruption trials to be speeded up
Corruption cases will now be expedited within two months after a suspect is arrested with nine of the 27 recently opened court cases ready for trial a departure from the previous trend where accused p...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
A history of abductions, assassinations in Zimbabwe
October 15, 1975: Edson Sithole and his secretary Miriam Mhlanga were grabbed by unknown assailants, bundled into a car and were never seen again. A few weeks earlier, Sithole had fallen out with othe...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 15:04hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Man arrested for carrying RTGS$23 940
The Zimbabwe Republic Police have reported that their officers in Kadoma have arrested a man for carrying large sums of money in the Central Business District. In a report the police said, "We...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 13:57hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Unregistered cars can no longer buy fuel
POLICE have engaged the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) to ensure that vehicles without registration numbers do not fill up at fuel service stations following an upsurge in crimes committe...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 09:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
$3 million fraud haunts Jonathan Moyo
Exiled former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo's woes are mounting amidst revelations that a political organisation Zimbabwe Economic Freedom Fighters (ZEFF) is pushing for his extradit...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 07:58hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
EFF calls for Jonathan Moyo's arrest
The Zimbabwe Economic Freedom fighters have called upon the government to seek the assistance of Interpol and extradite exiled Former G40 Kingpin to face corruption charges in Zimbabwe.Moyo is...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 14:43hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Take corruption charges against Jonathan Moyo seriously
Editor,As the Economic Freedom Fighters of Zimbabwe we are worried that corruption charges levelled against former Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo are not taken seriously. We are call...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 05:51hrs | 3 | by Innocent Ndibali
'Wife killer’ hangs self
AN injiva from Plumtree committed suicide by hanging from the roof of his bedroom after being linked to the death of his wife in South Africa. The incident occurred shortly after Pennius Ncube...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo's problems mount
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is studying a forensic audit report on Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef) amid indications that more than $3 million could have been taken from the fund in suspic...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa told to terminate Chivayo's $183 million contract
PARLIAMENT yesterday recommended the investigation and prosecution of the four former Energy ministers Samuel Undenge, Dzikamai Mavhaire, Elton Mangoma and former Energy deputy minister Munashe Mutezo...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 09:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa name-dropping scandal hits Zacc
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's anti-corruption crusade is in jeopardy after Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission bosses came out guns blazing over the alleged politicisation of the graft-busting body....Published: 06 May 2018 at 10:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe believed its Ndebeles that were going to stage a Coup
Since 1980, Mugabe held a misinformed belief that the coup d'etat that was to upstage him from power was going to originate from Matabeleland. Reality struck, on the 15th of November 2017....Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Wilson Mahlafuna Sibanda & Khohliso Maqhoba
Grace Mugabe PhD: Zacc got it all wrong!
In early 2014, after being tipped off by staff, I broke the story that Grace Mugabe, then first lady, had just enrolled for a doctoral degree in the Sociology department at the University of Zimbabwe ...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:36hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Morgan Tsvangirai and the making of a national hero
When Elliot Manyika - with the help of Bryn Muteki - sang and danced his way to national hero status in Zimbabwe, conferred on him by the Zanu-PF politburo in December 2008, I oscillated between alarm...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 16:56hrs | 3 | by Tafi Mhaka
Mnangagwa's False Dawn
After 37 years of Mugabe's rule, Zimbabwe finally had a forced transition through a mixture of people power, political pressure and military intervention. The forced transition gave birth to the...Published: 27 Dec 2017 at 23:45hrs | 2 | by Darlington Nyambiya.
Zimbabwe's mystery car crash deaths
This is a 2013 article extracted from amabhungane website.The death of outspoken Zanu-PF MP Edward Chindori-Chininga has reignited debate over the mysterious deaths of Zimbabwean politicians t...Published: 21 Nov 2017 at 05:34hrs | 1 | by amabhungane
Air Zimbabwe rot must be investigated
Something is definitely not right at Air Zimbabwe Corporation. At independence in April 1980, Air Zimbabwe, formed from the ashes of Air Rhodesia, inherited no less than fourteen (14) fairly new...Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 15:11hrs | | by Obert Chaurura Gutu, MDC National Spokesperson
Mnangagwa under probe on 39 counts of fraud; Mugabe to stand trial on 20 000 murder charges
The ideology ZANU PF is a proponent of a conservative socialist ideology, Pan Africanist and anti- imperialist western values, doctrines and democracies. Pu...Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 05:38hrs | 6 | by Themba Mthethwa
Will this be the end of an era and error?
Zimbabwe's current political conundrum is hinged on Zanu PF's weakness and the opposition's confusion. Zanu PF is engulfed in a fierce succession battle and it has never been this weak since its forma...Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 09:39hrs | | by Patson Dzamara
Cde Mnangagwa has recovered, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I must express my displeasure at the manner in which the sad news of Cde Rutanhire's passing was handled. It appeared as if the party does not have ...Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 09:36hrs | 1 | by CZ
We never kill each other in our party, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, as we remembered the gallant sons and daughters of the land, I was saddened by the sudden passing on of Cde Shuvai, one of the young and very energe...Published: 24 Aug 2017 at 08:33hrs | 2 | by CZ
Zanu-PF chairman under fire over Kasukuwere
THE Zanu-PF Bulawayo Women and Youth leagues are seething with anger over what they call the continued capture of the provincial structures by the Dennis Ndlovu- led executive.They have since ...Published: 21 May 2017 at 16:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wants Tsvangirai dead
The MDC has reacted angrily to threats by a State media columnist who said yesterday that popular opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was only being saved from harm by the "grace" of President Robert ...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 06:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Singer George Michael dies aged 53
British Singer Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou popularly known as 'George Michael' has died at the age of 53.His publicist broke the news in a statement issued and George Michael is said to have&...Published: 25 Dec 2016 at 23:45hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The Angeline Tongogara story, how Zanu-PF cowers victims of its violence and political intransigence
It is very disturbing how ZANU-PF cowers victims of its violence and political intransigence. Since independence, I have noticed spouses of fallen heroes getting on with their lives without any idea o...Published: 07 Sep 2016 at 10:00hrs | 1 | by Tanonoka Joseph Whande
Tsvangirai's remarks to the University of Zimbabwe students
A good afternoon to the student leaders and all students gathered here. It is with great pleasure that I address you here today. I say great pleasure because the party I lead, the MDC, ha...Published: 12 Apr 2016 at 16:49hrs | | by Morgan Tsvangirai
Inspired by the Jacaranda, we won't give up
One of those things that linger in our minds even if we happen to be thousands of miles away from home, is the exquisite beauty of blooming Jacaranda trees especially in September and October, when ou...Published: 13 Mar 2016 at 11:35hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Mujuru death: Family plans fresh probe
FOUR years to the day Zimbabwe's most decorated soldier, Retired General Solomon Mujuru died in a mysterious inferno that gutted part of his farm house at Almein Farm in Beatrice, the Mujuru family is...Published: 14 Aug 2015 at 19:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's statement on the abduction of Itai Dzamara
The demon is backToday is supposed to be my birthday and I never budgeted that on what was supposed to be my day of joy, I could end up talking about a morbid abduction and disappearance o...Published: 10 Mar 2015 at 13:25hrs | | by Morgan Tsvangirai
Dear Comrade Malema
So, the mighty Malema fears death after all. He was called a cockroach by the Speaker of the House after he and his rowdy Members of Parliament made a nuisance of themselves during the State of the N...Published: 22 Feb 2015 at 15:26hrs | 2 | by This n That with Maluphosa - Clerk Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo snobbery won't work
A person's social standing can breed certain behaviours and attitudes.Snobbery is a sense of superiority often expressed with condescending comments or acts.Looking at Zimbabwe, it is ...Published: 27 Jan 2015 at 11:58hrs | | by Conrad Nyamutata
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