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Gamatox ready for ZANU-PF DCC
Gamatox king pin in Mashonaland Central province Nicholas Goche is allegedly planting his team in ZANU PF Mash Central ahead of the fourthcoming &nb...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 05:08hrs | 2474 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean tycoon in messy divorce
A Zimbabwe-born millionaire-cum-politician has been held in contempt of court for owing about 1323 000 in child maintenance in a divorce settlement matter. The man, who cannot be named to prot...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 20:03hrs | 3439 | by Staff reporter
Court savages Harare businessman
THE High Court has savaged Harare businessman Farai Matsika, pictured, for being dishonest after fabricating documents in a bid to fraudulently snatch a 30 percent shareholding in Croco Holdings, a co...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | 1556 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo tycoon unveils funding for entrepreneurs in SADC
Entrepreneurship activity is on the rise in Southern Africa. The Covid-19 pandemic has also exacerbated the need for multiple streams of income for most households. This has subsequently grown the ent...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 22:53hrs | 2766 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chasi excelled as Energy Minister, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has inadvertently admitted he fired a competent minister, Fortune Chasi, who ensured the country had uninterrupted power supplies during his tenure.Chasi was relie...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:25hrs | 2789 | by Staff reporter
'Chasi a victim of state capture'
FORMER energy minister Fortune Chasi (pictured)'s dramatic sacking from cabinet two weeks ago was a culmination of an intriguing plot of state capture by powerful fuel cartels, notably his spirited bu...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:19hrs | 9182 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa adviser under siege
A GROUP of suspected Zanu-PF hoodlums yesterday blocked cleric and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's outspoken adviser Shingi Munyeza from addressing a public meeting in Harare.Munyeza, who appea...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:22hrs | 13403 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere dying to rejoin Mnangagwa
EXILED former cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere is making behind the scenes manoeuvres to coax old rival President Emmerson Mnangagwa into accepting him back in Zanu-PF.This was revealed by ...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 15:55hrs | 4737 | by newzimbabwe
Leaked audio shakes Mnangagwa allies
ZANU-PF heavyweights whose names feature on a sensational audio clip of a conversation allegedly between business tycoon Kuda Tagwireyi and Temba Mliswa which points to growing frustration with Presid...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 11:25hrs | 6166 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa weak, captured, says Tagwirei and Mliswa
A LEAKED telephone conversation between President Emmerson Mnangagwa's loyalists suggesting that he was weak and unstrategic in his government appointments, has gone viral on social media platforms. ...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 08:35hrs | 9940 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru: The soldier, kingmaker
LAST week marked the fifth anniversary of the mysterious death of Solomon Mujuru (Rex Nhongo) a war hero, former military commander, politician, business mogul and Zanu-PF kingmaker until his demise. ...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 08:31hrs | 2880 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
'I'm a Zim doctor, the COVID-19 crisis is worse than you imagine'
YOU may have heard about the seven babies stillborn at Harare Hospital in one day at the end of July. From the maternity register that night, you can see that the infants were on average a healthy wei...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:42hrs | 1278 | by African Arguments
Biti invited sanctions to be imposed on Kuda Tagwirei
MDC Vice President Tendai Biti has been accused of using his position as Chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Public Accounts to cause the United States of America to impose sanctio...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 08:56hrs | 5605 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli Ncube's permanent secretary flies family in private aircraft after beating Covid-19
Super-rich ministry finance permanent secretary George Guvamatanga has celebrated beating the coronavirus by hiring a private aircraft to fly his family to Victoria Falls.Guvamatanga was hospi...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:22hrs | 2950 | by Staff reporter
US targets Zim tycoons over their rights to freely associate
PETROLEUM mogul Kudakwashe Tagwirei's placement on US sanctions is a renewed effort to completely cripple the economy as local businesses were moving in to support government frustrating its efforts....Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 12:08hrs | 3853 | by Bernard Chiketo
Tagwirei business empire faces tough times
ZIMBABWEAN business tycoon Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei, accused of capturing the state for personal gain alongside with the Presidium, has been slapped with sanctions by the United States government,...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:11hrs | 7520 | by Staff reporter
Dead Zanu-PF funder removed from US sanctions list
THE US government has removed from its targeted sanctions list, late Zimbabwe businessman and Zanu-PF benefactor, John Bredenkamp and 20 of his companies.Bredenkamp died 20 June this year aged...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 13:13hrs | 5015 | by newzimbabwe
Noic, Sakunda sucked in US$17m loan scandal
EXPLOSIVE details show that the state-owned National Oil and Infrastructure Company (Noic) was advanced by Sakunda Holdings US$17,5 million of a US$22,75 million loan agreement to buy out Lonmin's 50%...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 08:00hrs | 3887 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa struggles to sell stake in Liquid
THE coronavirus pandemic is hampering efforts by Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa to sell a stake in Africa's largest fibre company.Masiyiwa is seeking buyers for 20% to 34% of Liquid Te...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:39hrs | 616 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's advisor Sam Malaba dies
Former Agribank Chief Executive , Somkhosi Mahamba Temba Malaba has died. He had been suffering from kidney illness for the past 12 years.Malaba was also a members of the PAC (Presidential Adv...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 13:20hrs | 10994 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa to sell NetOne to MTN?
MDC Alliance Vice President Tendai Biti has claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and business tycoon Kuda Tagwirei are plotting to sell NetOne to MTN South Africa in a bid to frustrate Strive Mas...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 12:42hrs | 13205 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa picks fight with tycoon
Zimbabwe's president has picked a fight with the country's most successful businessman. The economy may be the loser.Under pressure from a plunging currency and 737% inflation, President Emmer...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:57hrs | 9289 | by Bloomberg
Zimbabwe fuel price hike raises ethanol eyebrows
ZIMBABWE'S fuel is the most expensive in the region following this week's price hike, amid grave concern over the cost component of locally-produced ethanol on the overall petrol price. Ethanol is sup...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:55hrs | 2911 | by Staff reporter
Landela and CBZ get green-light to buy gold
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's adviser and Zanu-PF benefactor Kudakwashe Tagwirei could soon become Zimbabwe's biggest gold buyer after getting a special permit from Fidelity Printers and Refiners....Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 14:58hrs | 1036 | by Staff reporter
Gold Leaf Tobacco boss wins property wrangle
THE High Court has absolved local business tycoon Simon George Rudland, co-owner of Gold Leaf Tobacco Corporation, of any wrongdoing in a matter in which he was being accused of transferring his busin...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:10hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter
SA tycoon in US$40m Zimbabwe fraud storm
South African business tycoon, Martin Simmons is embroiled in a fraud storm after allegedly prejudicing a local businesswoman of nearly US$40m in a botched mining deal, Business Times can reveal....Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 17:36hrs | 2729 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces sterner test
EMBATTLED President Emmerson Mnangagwa is facing his sternest economic test since assuming power in 2017 as the crash of the Zimbabwean dollar pushes up prices, amid growing disenchantment with his le...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:26hrs | 9796 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF alleged funder John Bredenkamp dies
Controversial arms dealer and mining tycoon John Bredenkamp has died.According to online publication ZimLive, the late businessman is known for assisting the Ian Smith regime to bust sanctions. ...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 14:08hrs | 15108 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Masiyiwa donates 1 000 ventilators to Zimbabwe
BUSINESS tycoon Strive Masiyiwa yesterday announced the arrival of 45 full intensive care unit ventilators in Zimbabwe, for which he placed an order a couple of months back.The billionaire ent...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 14:09hrs | 1086 | by Staff reporter
The Dalish Nguwaya saga, Justice or scape goat
For the past few months Zimbabwe was gripped with news of corruption involving The first family in particular Collins Mnangagwa and his associate DALISH Nguwaya the local representative of a medical c...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 13:47hrs | 1044 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Fight over tycoon's estate rages
The fight for control of Waverley Blankets founder Victor Cohen's estate is still raging three years after his death and now his children say their relatives, who allegedly grabbed his companies want ...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:15hrs | 1722 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's family members clash with Army Commanders'
Sandton business tycoon Frank Buyanga Sadiqi has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa that it may be late to redeem his integrity after some of his family members have clashed with members of the feare...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 11:51hrs | 13809 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Buyanga warns Mnangagwa
FRANK Buyanga has penned a 79-page letter to President Emmerson Mnangagwa demanding the national leader to stop First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa and sons from meddling into the outspoken businessman's ch...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 07:04hrs | 5395 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reported to Anti Corruption and Human Rights Commissions
Sandton Business Tycoon Frank Buyanga has reported President Emmerson Mnangagwa's son Collins Mnangagwa, Justice Manzunzu, and Dylish Nguwaya to Zimbabwe Anti Corruption and Human Rights Commissio...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 18:31hrs | 4889 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bulawayo tycoon demands justice for City man killed by Bulawayo police
Bulawayo born venture capitalist and hedge fund manager Kelvin Mazhandu has issued a message of condolence to the family of the Bulawayo city man Paul Munakopa who was killed by details of the Zimbabw...Published: 31 May 2020 at 16:52hrs | 4967 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Fuel challenges worse without Tagwirei, says Mliswa
Norton legislator Temba Mliswa said fuel challenges continue to be experienced even without the business tycoon Kudakwashe Tagwirei who was believed to be a cartel in the oil industry."Why is that...Published: 27 May 2020 at 20:14hrs | 5093 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Queen B in Zupco buses procurement scandal
LEAKED government documents this week confirmed that buses initially said to belong to Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) were imported by a private company Landela Investments (Landela), befor...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:18hrs | 4713 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere farm take-over scuttles US$5m investment
THE invasion of former Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere (pictured)'s thriving Cornucopia Farm in Mazowe in Mashonaland Central province by a war veteran comes after the Reserve Bank of Zim...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:14hrs | 4164 | by Staff reporter
'ZANU PF curse haunts MDC' Jonathan Moyo says
Professor Jonathan Moyo says the position of Secretary-General is an albatross on the opposition Movement for Democratic Change and it takes its roots from ZANU which had problems with its Secretary G...Published: 13 May 2020 at 19:55hrs | 4798 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo attacks Mutumwa Mawere
Professor Jonathan Moyo has accused exiled businessman Mutumwa Mawere of being an attention seeker who is beyond repair. Moyo was moved to make the remarks after the Sandton based business tyc...Published: 12 May 2020 at 12:47hrs | 5772 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Buyanga, Muteswa using courts as 'playground', says High Court judge
An exasperated judge on Thursday said he wished he could stop businessman Frank Buyanga and his ex-girlfriend Chantelle Mutesewa from using courts as a "playground" in their long, drawn-out child cust...Published: 02 May 2020 at 08:08hrs | 2369 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa ranked the most influential businessperson in the world
Telecoms tycoon Strive Masiyiwa has been ranked by CrowdTangle as the most influential businessperson on Facebook. The list includes Mark Zuckerberg who is number 2, Richard Branson who is num...Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 17:56hrs | 4065 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: Bulawayo tycoon feeds destitute Zimbabweans in South Africa
Commodity broker and serial entrepreneur Kelvin Mazhandu has stepped in to assist destitute Zimbabweans who are struggling to make a living in neighboring South Africa during the trying times of the d...Published: 25 Apr 2020 at 11:39hrs | 4615 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Triple threat of COVID-19, food shortages and economic crisis
Some restrictions of an initial 21-day lockdown that began last month, and was later extended by two more weeks, to contain the spread of CoVID-19 are being eased as the government tries to offset the...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 08:35hrs | 121 | by The New Humanitarian
COVID-19 presents opportunity to remodel Africa, says Tagwirei
BUSINESS tycoon Kudakwashe Tagwirei yesterday said Africa should take advantage of the global COVID-19 crisis to reshape the region's narrative and redefine its growth trajectory by boosting productiv...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 08:27hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa equates Kuda Tagwirei to Biblical Peter
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was Thursday full of praise for oil mogul and advisor, Kudakwashe Tagwirei, whom he equated to the Biblical Peter after the latter had handed over to government, a fully e...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1570 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sucked into US$60 million Covid-19 tender storm
The Zimbabwe government is funneling US$60 million to a company linked to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's son, Collins, in a murky coronavirus drugs deal.A little-known company called Drax Cons...Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 07:38hrs | 805 | by Agencies
Millions of coronavirus dollars funneled to Mnangagwa-linked company
The Zimbabwe government is funneling US$60 million to a company linked to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's son, Collins, in a murky coronavirus drugs deal, ZimLive reported.A little-known compan...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 15:44hrs | 2216 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga to return son to ex-girlfriend
The High Court on Thursday ordered millionaire businessman Frank Buyanga to return his five-year-old son to the boy's mother within 24 hours, or face contempt charges.Justice Jacob Manzunzu, w...Published: 16 Apr 2020 at 14:20hrs | 1286 | by Staff reporter
Corona Virus in Zimbabwe: The Battle for Mis(Information)
International Health Regulations Review Committee (2011) opined that, "The world is ill-prepared to respond to a severe influenza pandemic or to any simil...Published: 13 Apr 2020 at 17:37hrs | 1488 | by Sikhulumeli Kole
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