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Complex scamming syndicate targets Zim and African NGOs
Kenneth Matimaire
AN intricate online scamming syndicate is targeting African non-profit-making organisations, including those operating in Zimbabwe, by purporting to advance grants to the unsuspecting institutions before defrauding…
Scott Sakupwanya in the limelight, again
Brenna Matendere/Pamenus Tuso
Harare/Bulawayo—Pedzai Sakupwanya, a gold miner and ruling Zanu PF politician, has gained a bad-boy tag after the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) singled out his Mabvuku-Tafara constituency for…
Zanu PF-linked co-op, land developers leave Harare home seekers high and dry
Marshall Bwanya
HARARE – Thousands of Hatcliffe residents in Harare have been living at the mercy of Zanu PF aligned land barons and unscrupulous housing cooperatives who sold them houses in irregular settlements in the aftermath of…
NGOs provide lifeline to marginalised Binga community
Lulu Brenda Harris
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have been a lifeline to the marginalised Binga community in Zimbabwe, stepping in to provide education and support where the government has failed.
Despite the district’s wealth…
President Mnangagwa hosts dissolved, financially struggling UK investors
Sofia Mapuranga
Harare—Two of the three British business entities that President Emmerson Mnangagwa hosted in early October are either dissolved or facing serious financial problems, NewsHub has established.
The president bragged…
Minister evicts resettled farmers, gives land to Zanu PF youths
Pamenus Tuso
Lupane—The Zanu PF Matabeleland North chairperson and provincial government minister, Richard Moyo, has been accused of dispossessing land from at least 35 A1 farmers who were resettled on the Emmergron Estate—rich in timber…
Undocumented Chinese national unleashes terror at lithium plant
Jeffrey Moyo
Goromonzi—An undocumented female Chinese national illegally working as a human resources officer at Shengxiang Lithium Processing Plant in Goromonzi’s Nora Valley is at odds with local workers at the giant firm east of the…
Whistleblowers suffer victimisation—ZACC
Staff Reporter
Harare—The former Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) chairperson, Loyce Matanda-Moyo, has revealed that witnesses and whistleblowers contributing information for criminal prosecution are being victimised by…
Warren Park: Neglected pits turn into death traps amid escalating land degradation
Thandiwe Garusa
The exploitation and mining of gravel by the City of Harare (CoH) in Warren Park, a high-density suburb in Harare, has led to massive environmental damage, air pollution and death due to drowning in un-reclaimed pits, an…
Resurging abductions worry human rights defenders
Tafadzwa Muranganwa
Harare—A Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist, Tapfumaneyi Masaya, who was recently abducted as he campaigned for his party’s parliamentary candidate ahead of the 9 December by-elections is believed to have…