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June 27, 2014

Bulawayo houses to go under the hammer over debts

At least 23 Bulawayo families will have their houses and residential stands auctioned today for failure to pay debts owed to council and different financial institutions. An auction company with offices in Harare and Mutare, Hollands Auctioneers, is conducting the auction which has drawn the ire of the Affirmative Action Group (AAG).

A coalition that may resurrect somnolent ZANU ‘PF’

The long confrontation by Zimbabwean opposition parties with the tyrannical and slimy ZANU mob has had a fundamental impact on the country’s political culture. The most dramatic example of this political culture is the repetitive mass mobilisation and fragmentation of the Zimbabwean opposition in the past 34 years in general and the MDC’s last 15 years in particular.

Zimbabwe snubs China’s CMEC

HARARE – Zimbabwe has officially awarded the $1,3 billion Hwange Power Station (HPS) expansion tender to Sino Hydro Corporation (SHC) after cancelling an initial offer to China Machinery and Engineering Company (CMEC).

Exclusive Audio: Zifa board member accepts $1500 bribe

Nehanda Radio has obtained an exclusive recording of a phone call in which current Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) board member Tavengwa Hara is heard demanding US$1500 from Edward Kanyangu, the owner of Tripple B football club, to throw away an appeal by Gweru based Hardbody FC. (Listen to the recording below the story)

Kereke pushes for Gono’s arrest over tax fraud

The war of words between former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono and his advisor Munyaradzi Kereke has escalated with Kereke writing to the police and the Prosecutor-General seeking the arrest and prosecution of his former boss for alleged fraud involving more than US$400 000.