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Legal woes mount for Italian Mafia Boss Francesco Marconati as CID and Home Affairs are roped in
In the sinister saga unfolding within Zimbabwe's gold mining industry, Francesco Marconati emerges as a dark specter, casting a menacing shadow over the operations of DGL Investments Number Five (Pvt)...Published: 12 hrs ago | 494 | by George Tshuma
BREAKING: Self-styled Italian Mafia Boss Francesco Marconati sentenced to community service
In a verdict handed down by the Harare Magistrates Court, Francesco Marconati, aged 65, and his son Alessandro Marconati, aged 25, have been sentenced to 105 hours of community service each. The sente...Published: 27 Mar 2024 at 18:16hrs | 1924 | by George Tshuma
Retraction and apology: 'Grace Mugabe threatens minister over cancellation of niece's title deed'
NewsDay retracted an article published on its website on March 20, 2024, headlined 'Grace Mugabe threatens minister over cancellation of niece's title deed'.This retraction is in acknowledgeme...Published: 27 Mar 2024 at 06:40hrs | 1257 | by Staff reporter
6 arrested for motor vehicles theft
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested six suspects in connection with robbery and theft of motor vehicles on separate occasions in the city.Bulawayo police spokesperson Abednico Ncube identified th...Published: 27 Mar 2024 at 06:37hrs | 514 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's special envoy embroiled in bizarre 'extortion' plot
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's special envoy and self-proclaimed prophet Uebert Angel is being accused of engineering a smear campaign to extort money from a prominent church leader....Published: 26 Mar 2024 at 07:04hrs | 1742 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt currently distributing food relief to vulnerable households
Public Service Labour and Social Welfare Minister, July Moyo yesterday said the government is currently distributing food relief to vulnerable households faced with low grain yields during the drought...Published: 26 Mar 2024 at 06:42hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF MP drags lover to court
ZANU PF Mazowe North Member of Parliament, Tsungai Makumbe, yesterday dragged his estranged lover Ludia Makuvure to court accusing her of tarnishing his image and threatening him with unspecified acti...Published: 23 Mar 2024 at 20:39hrs | 1589 | by Staff reporter
Man bashes girlfriend over funeral
A jealous man threatened to stab his girlfriend with an okapi before assaulting her with open hands over a funeral program.The boyfrien...Published: 22 Mar 2024 at 12:47hrs | 1977 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Vendors threaten to sue HCC over violence
INFORMAL traders have threatened to sue the Harare City Council (HCC) for using severe force during raids against suspected illegal vendors.This follows a video circulating on social media sho...Published: 21 Mar 2024 at 08:46hrs | 331 | by Staff reporter
Zimplats shields US$1,8 billion expansion plan
PLATINUM giant Zimplats says the current cost-cutting initiatives aim to lessen the effect of budget cuts on its growth strategy, which includes a US$1,8 billion expansion programme.The compan...Published: 21 Mar 2024 at 08:46hrs | 349 | by Staff reporter
EXCLUSIVE: Jameson Timba; Chibaya to wrestle CCC from Welshman Ncube...as Chamisa plots comeback
Nelson Chamisa’s lieutenants led by Jameson Timba are this Friday expected to set in motion their "Blue Movement Moments" working plan whose first phase is wrestling the party from the Welshman Ncub...Published: 21 Mar 2024 at 08:11hrs | 3038 | by George Tshuma
How did things get so bad in Haiti? Here's what to Know
Things in Haiti have gotten so bad that Ariel Henry, the unelected Prime Minister, resigned and called for the installation of a tra...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 18:58hrs | 798 | by Staff Reporter
Grace Mugabe threatens minister Chitando
Former First Lady Grace Mugabe last week allegedly confronted Local Government minister Winston Chitando over the cancellation of title deeds for an 8003sqm² land bought by her niece Farai Mashongany...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 15:06hrs | 6335 | by Staff reporter
San to re-birth language, culture
THE San community has embarked on a project aimed at re-establishing its culture and language threatened with extinction.Tsoro-o-otso San Development Trust director Davy Ndlovu said the projec...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 06:35hrs | 342 | by Staff reporter
Why US sanctions on Zimbabwe 'have not worked'
The United States is a global superpower. Its political and economic reach is massive and global in character. Look back in history and you can see how the US has so often made real changes to the wor...Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 19:54hrs | 317 | by Eddie Cross
Shadowy COZWVA: Purveyor of fake news threatening national stability
In a recent revelation, the Shadowy Children of Zimbabwe War Veterans Association (COZWVA) has emerged as a prominent provider of fake and malicious news content, with the apparent intention of destab...Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 14:54hrs | 469 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Cyber City project threatens Mt Hampden graves
GOVERNMENT says it has no plans to desecrate and destroy graves in Mt Hampden area to pave way for the ambitious multimillion dollar Cyber City project.Online reports said graves were being de...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 07:17hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter
High Court dismisses former Gwanda Mayor's rape conviction appeal
THE High Court sitting in Bulawayo dismissed an appeal by Rido Mpofu, the former Mayor of Gwanda who had been convicted and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment on rape charges. In a statement, ...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 07:11hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
ANC, Zanu-PF and other former liberation movements converge
AHEAD of the country's 44th Independence celebrations next month, Former Liberation Movements (FLM) will converge in Victoria Falls to exchange notes and guard against infiltration by former coloniser...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 07:08hrs | 354 | by Staff reporter
Corrupt female cops arrested
TWO female police members stationed at Mbare Police Station in Harare were caught collecting bribes from motorists who wanted their impounded vehicles released.Victoria Shoriwa (36) and Naume ...Published: 14 Mar 2024 at 06:18hrs | 1901 | by Staff reporter
Rights watchdogs condemn embarrassment of Zimbabwe lawyers
GLOBAL legal watchdogs, the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) and Lawyers for Lawyers (L4L), have urged the government of Zimbabwe to urgently investigate the abuse of la...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 12:37hrs | 499 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe says scorching El Niño pattern is withering corn crop
Zimbabwe warned that farmland planted with corn has shrunk by 12% because of scorching El Niño weather patterns, threatening the nation's food staple and potentially triggering surging prices and soc...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 05:11hrs | 407 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean jailed for life in SA
A ZIMBABWEAN man who committed a series of crimes in South Africa, including murder, armed robbery, rape, kidnapping, housebreaking, escaping from jail and unlawful possession of a firearm, was yester...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 05:07hrs | 626 | by Staff reporter
ZBC board threatens ex-CEO
THE Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) board of directors has threatened to take legal action against former chief executive Ms Adelaide Chikunguru if she does not formally file a complaint in th...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 05:05hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Why a farmer is riding from Zimbabwe to Windhoek on a horse
When Ben Freeth headed west on horseback from the derelict Mount Carmel farm near Chegutu in Zimbabwe on 28 November, he had to lay low. For about 800km, Freeth avoided roads and stuck to the bush, fo...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 20:05hrs | 1032 | by GroundUp
Unilateral sanctions are not illegal!
IT was so laughable listening to Information minister Jenfan Muswere fuming over US targeted sanctions on some Zimbabweans.I could easily tell that he was trying his best to please his boss, P...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 05:14hrs | 407 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Southern Africa just had its driest February on record
A swathe of Southern Africa suffered the driest February in decades that wiped out crops, precipitated power shortages and threatened to send already high food prices surging further.Last mont...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 17:10hrs | 738 | by Staff reporter
Call log helps police apprehend armed robber
A 35-YEAR-OLD armed robber will spend 20 years in prison after he was nailed by call logs from the victims' phone that he had stolen as a member of a six-man-gang.In a statement, the National ...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 16:37hrs | 492 | by Staff reporter
ZMC threatens to muzzle the press on Gukurahundi genocide reporting
THE Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) chairperson, Professor Ruby Magosvongwe, says media houses which refuse to sign the controversial code of conduct produced by the commission and an unrepresentative...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 09:09hrs | 429 | by Staff reporter
Olinda and Chivayo in nasty TWAR
Olinda Chapel-Nkomo and Wicknell Chivhayo engaged in a heated altercation on social media recently. It all began when Olinda publicly criticized Chivhayo and individuals who have received cars from hi...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 11:58hrs | 2647 | by Staff reporter
Cop jailed 15 years for raping a student
A Rushinga-based police officer Tarisai Madondo was sentenced to 15 years in jail yesterday at Bindura regional magistrates courts after raping a low...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 07:03hrs | 1073 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Filabusi senior cops bribed by Zinyama
TENSION remains high in Matebeleland South's Insiza district after marauding machete gangs invaded villages last week where they attacked people over a mining claim dispute.A numbe...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:32hrs | 476 | by Staff reporter
US spies busted, deported
FOUR United States nationals contracted by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) reportedly sneaked into the country last month without notifying the authorities as per protoc...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:24hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
The US should show us some respect
PALESTINIANS who live in Gaza, which has now been literally turned into a hellscape by the Israeli military's firepower, are experiencing untold suffering.While the media in the West calls it ...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:21hrs | 34 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa threatens to dethrone chiefs over droughts
President Emmerson Mnagagwa has blamed traditional leaders mainly chiefs over impending droughts that the country is facing.Mnangagwa who was addressing scores of Zanu-PF supporters at the Rob...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 10:40hrs | 1113 | by Staff reporter
Filabusi gold wars turn ugly
IN a harrowing ordeal that shook Filabusi District, Prosper Ncube, a young miner, recently became a victim of a vicious assault. Under the cloak of night, he was ambushed and mercilessly beaten by a g...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 09:14hrs | 342 | by Staff reporter
Caretaker fatally assaulted in school robbery
A Caretaker at Glen View Number 9 Primary School in Harare died after he was attacked by three suspected robbers who raided the school looking for cash after getting wind that school authorities inten...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 09:11hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
EXCLUSIVE: Victim of Mafia Boss Francesco Marconati speaks on how he lost his beer plant and got deported
In the shadowy world of mafia dealings, a sinister evil chess game orchestrated by the self-styled Italian Mafia boss,Marconati, (pictured) has been exposed.Today, we delve into the Francesco ...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 17:27hrs | 738 | by George Tshuma
Man wears wife's panties
IN the Book of Genesis, God's plan for marriage is set forth poetically but clearly: "One man and one woman in a stable, lasting, fruitful relationship of mutual support".While reporting the e...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 15:48hrs | 1026 | by Staff reporter
Fake prophet jailed for kidnapping
Gweru based fake Apostolic prophet was sentenced to four years in jail after he kidnapped a female fuel attendent.Chengetai Mudhedye wa...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 07:04hrs | 461 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu-PF witnesses contradict police statements
TWO Zanu-PF State witnesses yesterday contradicted the statements recorded by the police in a case in which Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) candidate Patrick Cheza in last year's elections is alle...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 05:07hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
FRANCESCO MARCONATI FILES: Unveiling the dark trail of violence and plunder at Queens Mine
Francesco Marconati, a self-styled Italian Mafia boss, has become a notorious name associated with Queens Mine, where his malevolent actions have left an indelible mark on the lives of those who have ...Published: 07 Mar 2024 at 11:45hrs | 1048 | by George Tshuma
Lawyer threatens witnesses with black magic
Harare attorney Linda Kovi faced court charges on Tuesday for obstruction of justice, allegedly attempting to intimidate witnesses involved in a separate pending case.Recently apprehended by t...Published: 07 Mar 2024 at 05:12hrs | 843 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa regime doing the work of US sanctions in Zimbabwe!
My own views on this sanctions issue have always been that we needed to prove these measures were the cause of our suffering. I have never denied that there have been targeted sanctions impose...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 23:01hrs | 404 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Self-styled mafia boss Francesco Marconati panics...threatens to sue media
In the wake of widespread media coverage exposing Francesco Marconati's alleged misdeeds across Zimbabwe, the self-styled Italian Mafia boss has resorted to legal threats in an attempt to suppress the...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 17:02hrs | 559 | by George Tshuma
Zimbabwe's Met office warns of heatwave
The public must guard against a heatwave from today until March 12, with temperatures rising as high as 41 degrees, although some isolated thundershowers are expected this week, the Meteorological Ser...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 04:45hrs | 1063 | by Staff reporter
Shona-speaking youths invade Insiza, abuse locals
VIOLENCE has erupted in Theleka area in Insiza, Matebeleland South province, after a machete-wielding gangs reportedly from Mashonaland and Midlands provinces, notoriously known as Mashurugwi or Mabha...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 18:41hrs | 1959 | by Staff reporter
Matinyarare's 'Innscor has destroyed the taste of Zim food' comments cause consternation
If Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE)-listed food giant Innscor was hoping to avoid press scrutiny, it could hardly have chosen a more self-destructive path than seeking a gag order against journalist Rute...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 21:20hrs | 919 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ministries fight over key institutions
A SIMMERING dispute between the Higher and Tertiary Education and the newly-established Skills Audit and Development ministries has escalated into a full-blown turf war, raising concerns about the pot...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 04:44hrs | 1206 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF fissures widen over Mnangagwa term
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is battling to prop up waning support in his ruling Zanu-PF party and disloyal party cadres are facing the axe as power battles take centre stage while the economy i...Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 08:49hrs | 1428 | by Staff reporter
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