Zimra raids Zinara

A crack team of Zimbabwe Revenue Authority officers has twice raided the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration's Harare offices, in a move widely seen as symptomatic of divergent agendas in government.

This comes as transport minister Obert Mpofu - a successor to Nicholas Goche - has said the roads manager has been placed "under a daily surveillance programme, especially in terms of its revenue collection systems and to improve transparency" in its operations.

While Gershem Pasi's organisation was not readily available for comment last week, the minister on Friday deflected back the issue to the revenue collector.

With last week's onslaught fashioned as an income tax-compliance blitz - the second such in as many weeks - the latest raid was conducted when Zinara chief executive Frank Chitukutuku was away on company business in South Africa.