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Councillors fired over graft bounce back as CCC candidates
Stephen Chadenga
Two former Gweru councillors who were fired by the Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC-T more than a decade ago for alleged corruption have resurfaced as Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) candidates for the 2023 harmonised…
Chamisa sucked into candidate imposition as CCC members allege nepotism
Moses Ziyambi/Sofia Mapuranga
The Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) suffered major embarrassment in Masvingo Urban during the sitting of the nomination court on 21 June, with some party leaders being roughed up in public for alleged…
Goromonzi residents in land wrangle with Chinese firm
Jeffrey Moyo
Residents of Nora Valley in Goromonzi, Mashonaland East province, among them smallholder farmers who have lived in the area for 60 years, have engaged the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) in a land wrangle with…
Mnangagwa’s head of elections defends “scandalous” US$20,000 nomination fee
Staff Reporter
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s chief elections agent and outgoing Justice minister, Ziyambi Ziyambi, has scoffed at claims the US$20,000 nomination fee set for presidential candidates is too high.
The Zimbabwe…
Zimra loses tax records
Sofia Mapuranga
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has lost tax records dating back to six years ago, NewsHub has established.
The tax authority ignored several calls for an explanation, so it could not be verified how the records…
Lithium workers unhappy with embattled Bikita Minerals salary offer
Moses Ziyambi
Bikita Minerals has conceded some ground in its long-running feud with employees over demands for better salaries, with the Chinese lithium miner offering a US100 increment to the lowest paid employees.
The workers,…
Security agents illegally mining, smuggling precious minerals: Parliamentary report
Brenna Matendere
Security operatives from the army, police and central intelligence are operating illegal mines and take part in million—dollar leakages of precious minerals, a report by the parliamentary portfolio committee for Defence,…
INDEPTH: Shocking deaths, freak accidents at Chinese lithium mine expose unsafe working conditions
By Mary Taruvinga
TWO employees have died in a short space of time due to unsafe working conditions at Arcadia Mine, a Chinese-run multi-million open-pit lithium mining company based in Goromonzi, 38km east of Harare, the capital, …
CIO-linked outfit takes over ahead of watershed elections
THE shadowy Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)-run Forever Associates Zimbabwe (Faz), which has unconstitutionally seized control of the running of the 2023 elections to retain President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu PF in power, has…
Coal mines put lives of Hwange villagers, livestock in peril amid deadly pollution
Skefa Tembo on his polluted crop field
Skefa Tembo appears dejected and lost as he inspects his maize field that is enveloped by a cloud of coal dust with prospects of a decent harvest vanishing for yet another season.
BURZIL DUBE…