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LATE president Robert Mugabe’s family has been rocked by a fresh scandal after allegedly selling an assortment of farm equipment belonging to government departments and pocketing the money, it has emerged. Some of the equipment sold, including tractors, high-pressure water pumps and vehicles, was bought by various government departments using …

AS Africa reels from the catastrophic effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine marked by acute food and commodity shortages, the United States (US) has issued a stark warning of the prolonged consequences that will hit the continent (Zimbabwe included) if hostilities escalate. Ratcheting pressure on Zimbabwe and Africa as a …

Harare magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti has sentenced former Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister, Petronella Kagonye to 16 months imprisonment after finding her guilty of Theft Wednesday. Kagonye was convicted of converting 20 computers donated by the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (POTRAZ) to benefit schools in Goromonzi South Constituency …

Local maize farmers are set to keep hold of their grain as they stand firm on their initial demand of being paid in United States dollar despite the government rolling out a US$90 incentive for early grain deliveries. On Tuesday the Cabinet agreed that farmers who deliver maize to the …

HARARE – Approximately 90% survivors of the early 1980s Matabeleland and Midlands state sponsored atrocities, commonly referred to as Gukurahundi, are suffering from mental health impairments caused by trauma, a Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission inquiry has revealed. This came in Harare Wednesday during a brief ceremony in which the human …

The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) and some local authorities have been named among a list 50 defaulting employers who owe the Insurance and Pensions Commission (IPEC) in excess of ZWL$5.3 billion in unremitted pensions. Their failure to comply with the labour based statutory requirement has seen some of the …

A TOP United Nations (UN) health expert has raised the red flag on second-hand clothes, particularly those coming from countries currently experiencing monkeypox outbreaks as they could be contaminated with the virus. United Nations As of June 2, 2022, 780 laboratory confirmed cases have been notified to the World Health …

Zimbabwe has not recorded any case of monkeypox, authorities said Tuesday. Monkeypox has been reported in 19 endemic and non-endemic countries within and outside Africa. As of 26th May 2022, a total of 257 confirmed cases and 120 suspected cases and no deaths have been reported. “The Ministry has also …

By Daphne Nyakanyanga On Tuesday government bowed to pressure from maize producers who were reneging to sell the product to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) citing poor prices which required a review. An uproar from the farmers pressured Cabinet to offer them a US$90 per metric ton incentive (backdated to …

For five years, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance served as a conduit for the laundering of at least $2.35 billion in illicit funds, a Reuters investigation has found. In September 2020, a North Korean hacking group known as Lazarus broke into a small Slovakian crypto exchange and stole virtual …