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Airport official claims Al Jazeera reporters drugged him before he “lied”

Civil Aviation Authority (CAAZ) Security Manager Cleopas Chidodo has apologised to former First Lady Grace Mugabe saying he lied in the Al Jazeera ‘Gold Mafia’ documentary that she was involved in ivory smuggling. Chidodo, featured on Gold Mafia’s episode four bizarrely said he was drugged by the Al Jazeera journalists before he allegedly accused Grace of being involved in poaching and smuggling of ivory and gold during the time of her late husband Robert Mugabe was President.

May 05, 2023 Read more

Plane stowaways: Do any survive?

A suspected stowaway is believed to have fallen to his death from a Kenya Airways flight from Nairobi to Heathrow, landing in a garden in south London.

Jul 02, 2019 Read more

CEOs blow US$800 million

By Shame Makoshori | Financial Gazette | Chief executive officers (CEOs) of at least 28 State-owned firms salted away nearly US$1 billion between 2014 and 2015 through corporate crimes related to tax evasion, as well as mismanagement of public funds, official documents have revealed. Some US$800 million was siphoned between 2014 and 2015 by bosses […]

Jul 01, 2016 Read more

Emirates makes maiden flight into Zimbabwe

EMIRATES Airlines made a grand entrance into the Zimbabwean airspace yesterday at a colourful event witnessed by hundreds of on-lookers at the Harare International Airport. The crowd, including travellers and spectators, cheered as the Airbus 330-200 touched down shortly after 4pm.

Feb 02, 2012 Read more

Goche named worst cabinet minister in Zimbabwe

HARARE – Transport, Communications and Infrastructural Development minister, Nicholas Goche emerged as the worst performing minister in the inclusive government for the 2011 year, according to the rating of government ministers by the Daily News.

Dec 29, 2011 Read more