HARARE – Residents in the affluent suburbs of the border city of Mutare are living in fear amid a spate of armed robberies. The suburbs of Morningside, Greenside, Beira Corridor, Palmerston, Darlington and Borderview, all near the Mozambique border, have become hot spots for machete and axe-wielding robbers. It is understood the Mutare Central Police…
HARARE – A High Court judge will issue a ruling today on an application for bail by flamboyant socialite and businessman Genius “Ginimbi” Kadungure, who is accused of prejudicing the government of $3,5 million in tax evasion. The 34-year-old gaudy businessman will know his fate today after spending the weekend behind bars, following a court…
HARARE – The Insurance Council of Zimbabwe (ICZ) has announced its pledge to the Zimbabwe Republic Police and the Civil Protection Unit to render the necessary assistance to the Brooklyn bus disaster victims. According to a press statement, ICZ is currently working with funeral parlours to facilitate burial of the deceased, and hospitals that have…
HARARE – Transport and infrastructural Development ministry in conjunction with Beitbridge Bulawayo Railway (BBR) Private Limited have fixed a 50-metre stretch of the railway line that was uprooted after a collision between a freight train and a truck along the Masvingo Beitbridge highway. The level crossing at the 280km peg along the Masvingo-Beitbridge highway was…
HARARE – Hwange-based Zambezi Gas, a coal mining company, has appealed to the Temba Mliswa-led parliamentary panel to intervene so that it can get its land, which was allegedly grabbed by Zanu PF administration secretary Obert Mpofu’s Makomo Resources, back. Mpofu’s Makomo Resources is the largest privately-owned coal producer in Zimbabwe and supplies power stations,…
HARARE – Ministries under President Robert Mugabe’s regime blatantly violated tender procedures mostly in the purchase of motor vehicles, fuel and equipment, Auditor-General Mildred Chiri has said. This emerged in audit reports for 2017 presented in Parliament by Auditor-General Mildred Chiri. The damning report slammed government ministries for flouting governance and procurement rules which was…
HARARE – The coup d’état that ousted long-ruling despot Robert Mugabe last November, was a watershed moment in both the history of Zimbabwe and southern Africa. The post-coup leader Emmerson Mnangagwa was held out by many as the best hope to spearhead an economic recovery predicated on re-engagement with international creditors and a package of…
HARARE – At least $17 million was unaccounted for by the Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment ministry, Auditor General Mildred Chiri has said. In her 2017 report, the AG said the ministry failed to appropriately account for $17 520 015 which was processed under the salary bill without Treasury authorisation. The ministry was then run…
HWANGE – Members of the parliamentary portfolio committee on Mines and Mining Development were on Friday left seething with anger after Hwange Colliery administrator Bekithemba Moyo and the management committee snubbed them during a visit to the coal miner. Hwange mines coal in the northwest of Zimbabwe on some of the country’s richest coal deposits….
HARARE – It feels almost like 2008 all over again in Zimbabwe. In 2008, the country was embroiled in one of the worst economic hardships in history, which forced millions of people to flee to neighbouring states, including South Africa, to escape an economic meltdown which led to widespread shortages, 80 percent unemployment and inflation…
