News » Fungai Kwaramba, Staff Writer
Thursday, 25 April 2013 10:41
HARARE - Spies drawn from across African countries will meet in Zimbabwe next month, with the country’s director of intelligence taking over the chairmanship of a body bringing together the continent’s secret service organisations. The Conference of the Intelligence and Security...Read More
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Wednesday, 20 February 2013 12:11
HARARE - The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has admitted to the long-held view that it is staffed with a militarised secretariat. Addressing delegates at a workshop on conflict management in Harare yesterday, Zec commissioner Bessie Fadzai Nhandara admitted some of the...Read More
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Tuesday, 29 January 2013 11:27
HARARE - A Harare magistrate has jailed a bogus Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operative who allegedly swindled six people after lying he was able to facilitate their recruitment into the secretive organisation. Magistrate Audrey Tarugarira yesterday sentenced Khomani Jarzin Mbichani to...Read More
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Thursday, 20 December 2012 12:38
HARARE - High Court Judge November Muchiya has slammed the State team for lacking autonomy in the ongoing bail hearing of an ex-Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operative accused of leaking government secrets. Justice Muchiya said this yesterday during the bail hearing...Read More
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Saturday, 15 December 2012 12:56
JOHANNESBURG - They say records are set to be broken. Last Sunday, the little Argentine and Barcelona great Lionel Messi just did that when his two goals at Real Betis took him past German legend Gerd Müller’s officially recognised 40-year old...Read More
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Tuesday, 04 December 2012 11:51
HARARE - A Bindura magistrate has refused to dismiss charges against an ex-Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operative and a police officer accused in a damning leak of government secrets to an American think-tank. The magistrate denied the defence motion for...Read More
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Features » Gugulethu Nyazema, Staff Writer
Monday, 03 December 2012 12:19
HARARE - She is blind, living positively with HIV and has been abandoned by her policeman son. But Gracious Vela’s situation is far from grave. At one time, odds were so staked against her that the 49-year-old Gwanda resident was...Read More
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Thursday, 15 November 2012 12:39
HARARE - The High Court has set aside a Zimbabwean government law compelling motorists to carry fire extinguishers, among other instruments, and a ban on left-handed trucks. The ruling, delivered by Justice Francis Bere, comes after a Transport Operator’s Association of...Read More
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Tuesday, 06 November 2012 11:12
HARARE - Yesterday police raided the Counselling Services Unit (CSU) head office in Harare ostensibly to search for subversive material. While police had a search warrant claiming that the CSU is in possession of material that contravenes Section 46 of the...Read More
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Sunday, 04 November 2012 14:15
HARARE - Amid talk of Vice President John Nkomo’s possible retirement due to renewed health setbacks, a fresh and vicious power struggle has erupted in Zanu PF’s top echelons, it has emerged. This also comes as there is a strong push...Read More
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Friday, 12 October 2012 10:25
HARARE - A Harare magistrate has jailed a Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operative who extorted $2 000 from Zifa boss Jonathan Mashingaidze as a “protection fee” for his supposed political links to the mainstream MDC and role in the Asiagate scandal....Read More
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Tuesday, 09 October 2012 12:12
HARARE - A senior Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operative and businessperson claiming to be President Robert Mugabe’s relative has been arrested for attempting to extort over $300 000 from a brick-making company director. Justin Wellington Mataure, 54, who gave his business...Read More
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Saturday, 06 October 2012 14:05
HARARE - Zifa's announcement this week that seven more players had been cleared of any wrongdoing in the Asiagate match-fixing scandal came as welcome relief to national side coach Rahman Gumbo, but the announcement further highlighted the need to bring the...Read More
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Thursday, 27 September 2012 12:11
HARARE - Suspected state security agents on Sunday confiscated 3 300 T-shirts, party cards, receipt books and $1 800 from mainstream MDC supporters in Karoi as they prepared for their party’s 13th anniversary celebrations scheduled for Bulawayo at the weekend. The...Read More
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Wednesday, 26 September 2012 11:41
HARARE - A Harare man who collected money from teachers masquerading as a Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) officer has been jailed for eight years. Agrippa Guti appeared before magistrate Lazarus Murendo on two counts of impersonation and one count of unlawful...Read More
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