Prophet Makandiwa’s UFIC pastor loses US$20 000 after buying a non-existent stand in Harare. Pastor Armstrong Chitauro allegedly lost the money to Rodrick Kuvarega of Kambuzuma, Harare. Kuvarega today appeared at the Harare magistrate court charged with fraud. A pastor at United Family International Church(UFIC) lost US$20 000 to a self-styled intermediator between land barons and home seekers, who sold him a non-existent residential stand in Harare. He was not asked to plead to the charges when he appeared before magistrate Ms Tafadzwa Miti, who remanded him to April 6 on $10 000 bail. Allegations leading to Kuvarega’s arrest are that sometime in April 2018, Pastor Chitauro was looking for a residential stand to buy in Harare. He allegedly told Pastor Chitauro that there
ED reveals: Opposition leader secretly gets Covid-19 jab at a foreign embassy. Yesterday, the President told reporters soon after being publicly vaccinated in Victoria Falls that he had heard that an opposition figure had secretly received the jabs. Some politicians in the opposition have Nicodemously received the Covid-19 vaccines even as they continue to discourage their supporters from getting the scientifically proven vaccines from China. “It is rumoured that some people from certain political persuasions have gone to certain embassies quietly to get vaccinated. As time goes, we will get to know them,” the President said. Zimbabweans are currently being vaccinated using the Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines secured from China, while the country is expecting deliver
3 robbed during a visit to the cemetery. The robbers, who are still at large, went away with US$90, cellphones and a laptop. Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube said they were still investigating the matter. Three Bulawayo residents were on Saturday robbed at knifepoint by two men and two women at West Park Cemetery. He said the victims were from Mahatshula and Nketa 9 suburbs. “On March 20 at 4:20 pm, the complainants visited the West Park Cemetery to check on the state of their three relatives’ graves. They parked their cars opposite Green Spar Beer Hall near West Park Cemetery and walked to the gravesite,” police said. “While still searching for the grave numbers of their relatives, two men appeared from the west side and ordered them to l
Pothole kills 84-year-old Mount Darwin woman. Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Inspector Milton Mundembe confirmed the accident. An 84-year-old Mount Darwinwoman died on the spot when a Nissan lorry she was travelling in hit a pothole and veered off the road before falling in a ditch yesterday. “I can confirm a fatal road accident along Glendale – Centenary highway where Sangras Maswi died on the spot, ” Mundembe said. Allegations are that a 15-year-old minor was driving the lorry with five passengers on board when he hit a pothole and failed to control the truck. The truck fell in a ditch and one persondied while the other was seriously injured.
President Mnangagwa Commissions National ICT Device Factory: Pics. His Excellency President Emmerson Mnangagwa is commissioning ZITCO, a National ICT Device Factory in Harare this morning. He will also hand over computers for public sector workers manufactured by the Zimbabwe Technology Company (ZITCO). ZITCO is a joint venture between TelOne, Chinese company Inspur and a Government-owned entity and is involved in the assembling of computers, laptops, tablets and other technological gadgets. It is the first company in Zimbabwe to assemble computers locally and has the capacity to produce 150 000 gadgets annually at its plant in Msasa, Harare. See the pictures below
MASVINGO – There shall come false prophets! A man from Dzimbi Village under Chief Chirumhanzu in Mvuma learned the hard way that not all prophets are men of God after a man of cloth advised him to bring his money to the shrine so he could pray for it. The money then disappeared at the holy place. Patrick Musasa (55) told his client Joseph Muchakata to bring his US$6 000 to the shrine because there were evil spirits after it. He said prayers at the shrine would ensure that the money was safe. Unbeknown to Muchakata, Musasa and his co-accused Madzibaba Shadrack Gwatiringa (34), Alex Muzondiwa (46), Francis Makopa (65) and Conrad Ngamera (18) had connived and plotted to steal the money. After the prayers and on his way home, Muchakata realised that he no longer had his money. He tr
Zanu PF will hold a Politburo meeting tomorrow (Thursday) at its Harare headquarters, the party spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo said. In a statement, the party’s Secretary for Information and Publicity Khaya Moyo urged members to be punctual. He said: The Secretary for Administration Cde Dr O.M. Mpofu wishes to advise all members that there shall be a Politburo meeting to be held on Thursday 25th March 2021 at The Home of The People’s Revolution, ZANU PF Headquarters commencing 1000hours. All members should be seated by 0945 hours sharp. Zanu PF normally holds Politburo meetings on Wednesdays but the party’s First Secretary, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is in Victoria Falls today where he was expected to officially launch the Second Phase of the COVID-19 Vaccina
A self-proclaimed prophet, Tapuwa Freddy was allegedly caught in an exam cheating storm last week at a local university, Zim Morning Postreports. Freddy reportedly smuggled a mobile phone into the exam room at the Women’s University of Africa where he was writing a Theology exam. The clergyman, who is the founder and leader of Goodness and Mercy Ministries, mistakenly dropped the phone from his lap and walked out of the room in shame. A classmate told the publication: He smuggled the phone and hid it on his lap but I don’t know how he dropped the phone. He left the exam room in a huff before the invigilator confronted him. It was an embarrassing episode and classmates made fun of him, questioning why he failed to use the spiritual spectacles to spot the exams. Th
1 killed and 17 injured in Zupco, kombi accident. The crash of a Rujeko bound Zupco commuter omnibus which occurred on Wednesday, March 17, claimed one life while 17 others were injured, after a tyre burst near Masvingo Polytechnic College, TellZim News has learnt. The deceased Abigail Chidanhika died on the spot after sustaining multiple head injuries when the commuter omnibus burst its front tyre, veered off the road and overturned before landing on its roof. Masvingo provincial police spokesperson Inspector Kudakwashe Dhewa confirmed the incident and said the body was taken to Masvingo Provincial Hospital mortuary. “A female adult Abigail Chidanhika (34) died on the spot due to multiple head injuries and the other 17 were seriously injured and taken to Masvingo provin
Nelson Chamisa’s MDC melting like a candle. Victor Matemadanda said this while addressing a Zanu-PF Mashonaland East provincial co-ordinating committee meeting held in Marondera on Sunday, where he told delegates that the revolutionary party would never surrender the country to the opposition. ZANU PF national political commissar Victor Matemadanda has said that the ruling party will not regret the downfall of opposition MDC Alliance and its leader Nelson Chamisa. He likened Chamisa’s demise to a “melting burning candle”, adding that Zanu-PF would ensure his total annihilation. His statement came at a time the MDC Alliance has suffered heavy losses in recent weeks, where 48 legislators and more than 80 councillors were also recalled by the rival MDC-T camp led
