ZIMBABWEAN businessman Frank Buyanga Sadiqi is taking the SA Revenue Service (Sars) to court, claiming it confiscated Kruger gold coins worth an estimated R600m, personal jewellery, watches and cellphones from him. The goods were attached during a raid in October on the Hyde Park, Johannesburg, house of Sadiqi’s girlfriend, Melinda Busi Dube. This was revealed…
INFORMATION Communication Technology (ICT) minister Jenfan Muswere says there is need to be more vigilant when it comes to ensuring citizens are protected from cyber criminals. Speaking at the Computer Society of Zimbabwe ICT summit in Nyanga at the weekend, Muswere said the government is working tirelessly to protect people from different online scams…
INTERIM MDC secretary general Douglas Mwonzora, says he is willing to work with both President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his former ally-turned rival, Nelson Chamisa, to help end Zimbabwe’s myriad and decades-long challenges, the Daily News reports. Launching his presidential bid for the country’s main opposition party at the weekend, Mwonzora also said if he wins…
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is also now going after the assets of deceased criminals whose source of wealth cannot be explained, the Daily News reports. This comes as the anti-graft body is intensifying its campaign to combat sleaze in the country, which has seen it arresting many people on corruption charges, including Cabinet ministers,…
THE Department of Civil Protection (DCP) has called on the Mines ministry to come up with stricter regulations on disused mines to avoid unnecessary deaths, the Daily News reports. There has been an influx of illegal miners invading abandoned mines in search of gold, but some have tragically lost their lives after the shafts collapsed….
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s home town of Kwekwe came to a standstill on Friday as scores of Zanu PF supporters thronged the city centre to celebrate the release from jail of suspected machete gang leader, Tapiwa Muto, the Daily News reports. Muto, 36, who is Zanu PF youth league secretary for education for Midlands Province…
By Blessings Mashaya and Mugove Tafirenyika IT HAS emerged that President Emmerson Mnangagwa blew a gasket on Wednesday after he learnt that some Zanu PF bigwigs were allegedly land barons who were using the proceeds of their ill-gotten gains to cause chaos within the ruling party. Well-placed sources told the Daily News On Sunday yesterday…
ZANU PF has come up with a raft of measures to ensure that this coming weekend’s district co-ordinating committee (DCC) polls will not descend into chaos. Speaking in Harare on Friday, at a party function for editors, Zanu PF secretary for administration, Obert Mpofu, said they had come up with a framework to ring-fence the…
HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume, who is accused of unlawfully influencing council officials to award residential stands to his sister and colleague, will have to remain in prison until tomorrow as there was no magistrate available to deliver his bail ruling yesterday. Mafume is facing allegations of criminal abuse of office and was not asked to…
SUSPENDED Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya and her alleged accomplices Steven Tserayi, Raphios Mufandauya and Gift Karanda who are in prison are worried with their continued incarceration and have appealed to the court to have the record of proceedings transcribed so that they will approach the High Court for bail appeal. The five are…
