CABS, a subsidiary of Old Mutual Zimbabwe, is set to build over 2,700 housing units in Bulawayo's Nkulumane suburb to provide housing for low income earners. Old Mutual group chief executive officer Jonas Mushosho said they have engaged the Bulawayo City Council which has since provided them with the land for the project in Nkulumane.He said servicing of the land would be done before the end of th

 A former member of the police force pleaded guilty to soliciting $308 from a job seeker to guarantee the mans employment into the Zimbabwe Republic Police service.Lionel Munyaradzi Sambo ,28,is a former police officer who was stationed at Harare Central Police station under force number 078731B.Sometime in mid March this year, Sambo asked Darlington Nyakabangwe, a prospecting job seeker, to

A woman from Nkulumane suburb in Bulawayo allegedly helped her 18 year old daughter to abort her six month pregnancy before disposing of the fetus in a sewage pond.Nompilo Bhebhe, 36, and her daughter Simphiwe, 18, were jointly charged with unlawful termination of pregnancy.An anonymous caller alerted the police, leading to the duo's arrest, the court heard.A doctor's report confirmed that Si

President Robert Mugabe has been fingered to have allegedly benefited through fraudulent ties with prominent business people named in the ongoing international financial fall-out that has become known as the Panama Papers.The Panama Papers are a series of confidential financial information leaks held by Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca and Mugabe is named as having allegedly benefited through

Investigations by police have revealed that an employment agent,James Tungamirai Maroodza ,30,accused of recruiting women and trafficking them to Kuwait manufactured fake police clearances to speed up the process to obtain visas for the victims.Sources yesterday said investigations carried out so far, with the assistance of some of the victims who are back in the country, have revealed that none o

A man from Magwegwe suburb in Bulawayo drowned at Umguza Rest Camp on Sunday after swiming drunk.Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Precious Simango said Rasel Musavengana,20, who was allegedly drunk, drowned while swimming in a pool with his uncle.Insp Simango said members of the public tried in vain to rescue Musavengana.She urged members of the public to avoid mixing drinking and activ

Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Secretary Virginia Mabhiza has revealed that government officials were threatened with violence over auditing the Constituency Development Fund projects by MPs.Mabhiza said one of the reasons why at least 53 constituencies were not audited is that some legislators threatened to harm government auditors.Mabhiza said this while giving oral evidence before a p

Claims by former War Verterans Asssociation leader, Cristopher Mutsvangwa, that Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko abandoned the liberation struggle to be with his wife, have been slammed as lies by Zipra's former intelligence chief Dumiso Dabengwa.Mphoko, according to Dabengwa, remained in Mozambique towards the end of the war for Zimbabwe’s independence in the late 1970s on assignment in his br

National Railways of Zimbabwe paid off its top management salaries worth almost $1 million last year, through an executive bank account held with a local bank while the general staff hasn't been paid for the past 15 months. NRZ workers are currently on strike to force the company to pay up. NRZ acting general manager Lewis Mukwada confirmed the payments to senior management but said other jun

The indigenisation Act, enacted by the Zanu-PF led government  is chasing away prospective investors willing to bring their business to Zimbabwe,a prominent Chinese businessman has said.The official, who declined to be named, said the country had close to 200 Chinese companies and most of them had complied with Indigenisation Act.An official from the Chinese business community revealed that n

MDC-T MP for Kuwadzana East, Nelson Chamisa has blasted government saying it has now been taken over by 'dealers' who are only interested in plundering the countries resources. Chamisa while addressing members of his constituency on Sunday,  said members of the current government were only concerned about making a fortune for themselves at the expense people.He lambasted Zanu PF's campai

Former Vice President Joice Mujuru's Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) party has urged the disgruntled war veterans to take advantage of their Thursday  crunch meeting with President Robert Mugabe to remind him that he owes his political survival to their sacrifices during and after the liberation struggle.In statement yesterday, ZimPF said it respected and recognised the invaluable contributions

Zanu PF youths in Manicaland province are breathing fire, threatening to make a massive demonstration against district administrators, whom they accuse of corruptly dishing out land to their family members and top government officials. The threats were made by the party's provincial youth chairman, Mubuso Chinguno, on Sunday while addressing an inter-district conference that was attended by s

The national pledge imposed upon school children by the government has been dubbed a fascist idea that could infringe on the rights of children by legal experts and opposition parties.Primary and Secondary Education minister Lazarus Dokora last month announced all children would, from next term, be expected to recite the controversial "national pledge".People’s Democratic Party leader Tendai Bit

A treasurer of a burial society in Pumula suburb in Bulawayo has been arrested for allegedly blowing up $13 000 belonging to the society, and falsely reporting to police that buglers had robbed her of the money. Beatrice Sibanda, 48,  made a report on February 13 that the two alleged robbers had broken in through her bathroom window and confronted her in her bedroom demanding the burial