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Bigwigs fight over Mazowe Dam
THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) has initiated moves to gazette the iconic Mazowe Dam as it emerged that Zanu PF bigwigs and senior government officials, whose farms are downstream and...
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RBZ tightens screws on banks
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is considering tightening screws on the banking sector by planning to make public bank ratings which show the health of banks to protect depositors, a senior central...
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NSSA to increase its minimum retirement pension benefit
THE National Social Security Authority (Nssa) has retrenched close to 200 workers as part of its restructuring exercise which began in October 2015, board chairman Robin Vela has said. By Hazel Ndebele...
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Mnangagwa in dodgy project
VICE-President Emmerson Mnangagwa is entangled in a multi-million dollar chrome deal involving dodgy South African investors illegally granted permission to import fuel duty-free under the guise they...
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Mugabe meets edgy security chiefs
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has held two consecutives meetings with anxious service chiefs following his warning last Thursday against their succession manoeuvres which could amount to a coup. This came...
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… as Mbeki engages on succession
FORMER South African president Thabo Mbeki met President Robert Mugabe this week to discuss the state of liberation movements and succession problems in the region as well as the need for leadership...
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Duty-free fuel scam deepens
A FUEL scandal has rocked government after it emerged that two private companies imported 312 million litres of diesel duty-free, while prejudicing the broke Treasury of revenue in unpaid taxes, an...
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VP Mnangagwa offers to resign
IN a dramatic development which could have led to a seismic shift in local politics, Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week offered to resign from his government and ruling party posts, saying he...
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Mugabe summons security bosses over disturbances
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe last week summoned Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo and police bosses, then acting Defence minister Kembo Mohadi as well as Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander General...
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Zanu PF politburo video exposé
A 72-minute video presented in the Zanu PF politburo by Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo on July 19, which is now circulating among senior party members and state security agents, portrays...
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Zanu PF chefs drain Zinwa dry
TOP security officials, Zanu PF bigwigs and senior government functionaries owe the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid bills for water supplied to...
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The offspring of Africa’s strongmen are living it up
THE Mugabe brothers are having a night out again. Here they are showing off their outfits: distressed white denim, high-top sneakers, statement sunglasses. Now they’re in a VIP booth at a club, swaying...
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Grace splurges $8m on houses
FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe — currently in hot soup after assaulting a model in South Africa who was in the company of her two sons at a luxurious Johannesburg hotel — has splurged more than US$8 million...
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. . . First Lady still in hot water
ALTHOUGH the Zimbabwe government has invoked diplomatic immunity cover in a bid to rescue First Lady Grace Mugabe from the trouble she has landed in after assaulting a South African model, Gabriella...
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Mystery surrounds Mnangagwa poisoning
Mystery surrounds Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s illness as two contending narratives have emerged following a food poisoning scare which erupted while he was attending a Zanu PF youth interface...
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Zim in spotlight at Sadc summit
AMNESTY International — a human rights non-governmental organisation — has called on South Africa, which will this weekend takeover the chair of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) from...
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Zhuwao tears into Chiwenga, war veterans
YOUTH, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment minister Patrick Zhuwao has savaged Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander General Constantino Chiwenga and the Chris Mutsvangwa-led Zimbabwe National...
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Indigenisation snag stalls Barclays deal
Compliance with the controversial indigenisation policy has become the only pending issue stalling the Barclays Bank Zimbabwe take-over bid by Malawi’s First Merchant Bank (FMB) amid fresh indications...
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Officialise bond notes, govt told
GOVERNMENT’S top advisor on Ease of Doing Business reforms, Ashok Chakravarti, has recommended that bond notes operate as the official local currency and not as a surrogate of the United States dollar....
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Zuma skirts on Grace diplomatic immunity
UNDER-FIRE South African President Jacob Zuma yesterday professed ignorance over the legal grounds on which Zimbabwe’s First Lady Grace Mugabe was last month granted diplomatic immunity after allegedly...
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