Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) top officials yesterday appeared at the Harare Magistrates’ Court facing charges of criminal abuse of office after allegedly undervaluing import duty on motor vehicles and swindling the State of $110 000.The parastatal’s human resources and administration director, Sithokozile Mrerwa (47), internal audit director, Clive Charles Manjengwa (52) and loss control

Suspensions have hit four officers from the Registrar-General’s office in Kwekwe District, pending disciplinary action over acts of alleged misconduct. Midlands Provincial Registrar, Agnes Gambura, briefing members of the Defence and Home Affairs parliamentary portfolio committee during an outreach meeting at Kwekwe RG’s office on Tuesday, Gambura said two of the suspended officials demanded a

 Post mortem results for the Air Zimbabwe public relations executive, Shingai Dhliwayo, who was found dead in a bush in Botswana, have revealed that she was strangled to death. The post mortem was conducted at a Francistown hospital in the presence of a team of senior police officers from Zimbabwe who were dispatched to assist in probing the death of Dhliwayo.The team was made up mostly of of

Thirty seven Grade 2 pupils were yesterday rushed to Mpilo Central Hospital after some of them started vomiting after eating poisonous Jatropha fruits. Sources at Manondwane Primary School in Bulawayo’s Nketa 7 said 16 pupils ingested the toxic fruits at the school playground at around 10AM and the rest of the class was taken for treatment as a precaution.Some of the children, sources said, had

Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Prophet Walter Magaya has written to the National Prosecution Authority (NPA) seeking to avoid testifying in the ongoing inquest into the death of 11 people at his church’s crusade in Kwekwe in 2011. Prophet Magaya was summoned by Kwekwe magistrate Taurai Manwere to appear at the inquest on May 17.PHD lawyer Everson Chatambudza, in a

Investigations into shady dealings within Zesa holdings have revealed a link with Energy and Power Development Minister Samuel Undenge who is being accused of flouting tender regulations in a deal that is bleeding the power utility of tens of thousands of dollars monthly.Udenge allegedly directed Zesa Holdings subsidiaries to hand-pick a private firm to do public relations consultancy.Zesa Holding

An audit report has revealed that government is losing millions of dollars due to its inept and corrupt systems in the Civil service structures. This comes amid reports that seven officers from the Civil Service Commission have been suspended for their role in a well-knit recruitment scandal which was revealed by the 2015 Civil Service audit report .Nancy Chinyoka, Venagi Dembure, Munyaradzi Marum

Zanu PF government officials have come out guns blazing to defend their recent controversial policy announced by the RBZ to bring into circulation Bond Notes. Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa, said Government was fully behind the announcements by RBZ Governor, John Mangudya, saying there were adequate consultations on the matter.He said this in the National Assembly duri

The Minister of State in Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko’s Office, Tabitha Kanengoni-Malinga, on Tuesday moved for the withdrawal of the National Peace and Reconciliation Bill to allow the National Healing, Peace and Reconciliation Ministry to consider complaints over the Bill which the Parliamentary Legal Committee (PLC) said has clauses that are ultra vires the Constitution.The PLC had

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe says it has no appetite to print bond notes beyond the US$200 million facility. Following concerns and fears from the local market on whether the Apex Bank will not print more bond notes, RBZ Governor, Dr John Mangudya has told captains of industry who graced the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) breakfast meeting that the central bank has no capacity to pr

Minister of secondary and primary education Lazarus seems to be  so far the king of controversial proposals in government.  Below we publish fourteen of his shocking policies:1. Banned incentives2. Banned Form 1 entrance exams3. Introduced Post Grad Cert in Edu to degreed teachers4. Proposed removal of leave days for teachers5. Proposed school levy money be deposited in a central account

The government has been approached by Zesa Holdings,with a Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority approved application of a 14 percent hike of electricity tariff.An inter-Ministerial Committee is currently studying Zera’s determination to have electricity charges raised from 9,83 cents per kilowatt per hour to 11,2c.Zesa Holdings, through the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Comp

A senior police officer has been charged with attempted murder after he almost ran over a soldier who happens to be married to a woman he was cheating with in an attempt to flee.Pasipanodya Tadzembwa, 28, was left hospitalised after hung onto the bonnet of a car for 50 metres as he tried to confront fleeing Sipho Ndlovu, 35, he had found in bed with his wife, a court heard.Ndlovu is the offic

Police officers in Masvingo are on the alert in a hunt for a farm worker who is suspected to have gruesomely killed Triangle farm manager Adolph Willem Botha.Botha was found dead in a pool of blood with a deep cut on his neck at the farm house, a day after paying his workers their wages.Masvingo police spokesperson Inspector Charity Mazula yesterday said police are eager to interview a general han

The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans’ Association (ZNLWVA) yesterday ridiculed the Zanu PF youth wing planned million-man march as insincere, ill-timed and an unwarranted abuse of scarce resources at a time the economy was teetering on the brink of collapse.ZNLWVA spokesperson Douglas Mahiya accused the organisers of the march, slated for May 25, of failing to appreciate the real issues