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Records from a massive offshore data leak have provided the most detailed account yet of buccaneering mining and fuel magnate Billy Rautenbach’s family empire. It started with a marriage settlement. In 2013, one of Zimbabwe’s richest men and arguably one of the most controversial business figures in southern Africa, Muller …

When Mthuli Ncube was appointed Zimbabwe’s finance minister in September 2018, the country’s crypto enthusiasts hoped he would walk back some of the restrictions imposed on cryptocurrency trading. The truly optimistic hoped he would become a champion of digital currencies. “When he joined government, he was bullish about cryptocurrencies,” William …

The family of Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta, that has dominated the country’s politics since independence, secretly owned a network of offshore companies for decades, according to a huge leak of financial papers. The Pandora Papers – 12 million files – is the biggest such leak in history. Mr Kenyatta and …

Zimbabwe’s deputy chief secretary to the president and cabinet set up an offshore shell company in the Seychelles while serving as defence secretary, leaked financial documents show. Martin Rushwaya, a relative of then defence minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, now president, created Greatgem Corp. in the Seychelles in 2010, with the help …

The Matabeleland South branch of the MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora on Friday resolved to work with councillors affiliated to the MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa in an electoral pact that will see them fielding one candidate to contest elections in the province.  More than 80 council by-elections are …

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame says his government is urgently looking for ‘quality’ Zimbabwean teachers who are in high demand in a vote of confidence for the country’s professionals, Business Times can report. Kagame revealed this yesterday at the on-going Rwanda-Zimbabwe Trade and Investment Conference in Kigali, Rwanda. “Zimbabwe can offer …

Voter registration campaigners in Manicaland have accused police of frustrating their efforts. Project Vote 263 transported 56 citizens to register as voters in Chikanga-Dangamvura and Mutasa North last Thursday, but activists say they were interrogated by police and had their pictures taken without their consent. “Police authorities accused us of …

Zimbabwe has been asked to settle a US$70 million debt after it lost an international arbitration case over canceled nickel and platinum ventures between a private company and the state miner more than a decade ago. Companies linked to the British Virgin Islands-registered Amari Platinum Mauritius Limited (Amaplat) in 2019 …

Provincial Ministers of State and Devolution have been assigned to assemble crack teams that deal with the menace of illegal miners carrying out their activities in ecological sensitive ecosystems, Nhau has learnt. The teams will be comprising of members of the security sector, the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) and other …

It is 7 pm and inside the shebeen, or unlicensed bar, in Harare, men and women clutch small bottles of “whisky” and talk animatedly as they dance to loud music. One man staggers and falls over, to the amusement of other drinkers. He mumbles inaudible words as he drifts into sleep. …