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Zacc, councils partner in anticorruption fight
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has engaged local authorities in the fight against corruption.This was revealed by Zacc commissioner Jessie Majome during a three-day integrity w...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 17:36hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
AMH journalists kicked out of State House function
Alpha Media Holdings journalists have been chased out of a function at State House where President Emmerson Mnangagwa was appointing a tribunal to look into the Zimbabwe Anticorruption Commission (ZAC...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga warns Innscor
A TENSE meeting between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Innscor Africa shareholders over allegations of fuelling currency volatilities rocking the market had a chilling effect after Vice-President Co...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 20:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala accuses magistrate Nduna and State of bias
CITIZENS Coalition for change lawmaker, Job Sikhala, Thursday appeared before a Harare magistrate answering to charges of defeating the course of justice.Sikhala was charged at a time he is cu...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 19:01hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala, Sithole challenge court jurisdiction
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators Job Sikhala and Godfrey Karakadzai Sithole arrested Wednesday on allegations of inciting public violence are challenging the jurisdiction of their court...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zacc probes govt ministries
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is investigating government ministries named in the latest AuditorGeneral's (AG) report accused of misappropriating public funds with an aim to prosecute...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 12:10hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zacc to probe teachers conducting extra lessons
PRIMARY and Secondary Education minister Evelyn Ndlovu has threatened to rope in the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate and arrest teachers demanding payments for extra lessons....Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 20:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lawyer in fraudulent sale of property
THE Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) disciplinary and ethics committee (Dec) is set to make recommendations on allegations levelled against Harare lawyer, Kudzaishe Gama, who is being accused of facilita...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:28hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Graft rife in govt, says Zacc
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) yesterday exposed massive looting by senior government officials and parastatal bosses, accusing line ministries tasked with playing an oversight role of...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ruling elite roving bandits, says Biti
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti yesterday described the ruling elite as "roving bandits" who are clinging to power to loot national resources without concern for the ordinary citize...Published: 19 Jul 2021 at 06:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
NetOne board members face Sacu probe
FORMER NetOne chief executive Lazarus Muchenje has written to the Special AntiCorruption Unit (Sacu) requesting that it launches a probe against the telecommunications firm's board members.Muc...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sacu completes 1 case in 3 years
THE Special Anti-Corruption Unit (Sacu) has completed only one graft case since its inception in 2018, amid concerns over rise in high-profile corruption cases.According to a Sacu dashboard up...Published: 18 May 2021 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police launch probe into Mwonzora
POLICE have launched investigations into allegations that Douglas Mwonzora stole $6 million from MDC-T coffers in the run-up to the party's elective congress last year, piling pressure on the beleague...Published: 10 May 2021 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zacc investigator guns for police boss
AN investigator with the Zimbabwe AntiCorruption Commission (Zacc) and a junior police officer have slapped top cop, Senior Assistant Commissioner Erasmus Makodza with a $15 million defamation lawsuit...Published: 03 May 2021 at 06:22hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Idolisation of champions of corruption
We are just two days away from celebrating Zimbabwe's independence from the shackles of colonialism. For some painful years, we have been trying to decide how best we can fight the cancerous worm of c...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 08:00hrs | 2 | by Sharon Hofisi
$6m scandal haunts Mwonzora
An MDC-T activist on Friday lodged a complaint with the Zimbabwe AntiCorruption Commission (Zacc) accusing the party's leader Douglas Mwonzora of stealing over $6 million from the opposition party's c...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 07:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Corrupt' ZANU PF MP blasted for protecting arrested council officials
Mazowe District Coordinating Committee (DCC) on Tuesday held a meeting in Mvurwi where Mazowe North legislator Campion Mugweni was booed by the crowd after trying to protect three council worker...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 17:07hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Rural Council CEO nabbed
Bindura Rural District Council Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Savie Munoriarwa has been arraigned before Bindura magistrate Tinashe Ndokera today fac...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 14:35hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu-PF functionaries invade protected farm
ZANU-PF Masvingo provincial officials have grabbed a massive flourishing ranch in Chiredzi owned by an Italian national and ring-fenced under a Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement ...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
'When you fight corruption, it fights back'
JANUARY is a time of reflection. After the New Year's hangovers have worn off, many will try to take stock of the previous year, to understand what went wrong and how they could have done better....Published: 01 Feb 2021 at 05:37hrs | | by Prosper Simbarashe Maguchu
Anti-graft bodies swoop on city fathers
AT least four Harare City Council officials and 13 councillors are facing arrest over allegations of attempting to siphon millions of dollars in a dubious US$868 million Chinese loan deal.The ...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dangarembga challenges Anti-Corruption Court trial
RENOWNED author Tsitsi Dangarembga has dragged Harare magistrate Trynos Wutawashe to the High Court challenging his decision to try her in the Anti -Corruption Court when her matter "has nothing to do...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rule of law now a pipe dream, says ZPP
THE Zimbabwe Peace project (ZPP) has castigated government over the recent arrest of civil rights and political activists, saying the move shows lack of respect for democracy and the rule of law....Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 08:47hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
The tale of a captured judiciary
THE year 2020 did not see any major judicial decisions, but was replete with prolonged postponement of trials.At one time, chief magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi threatened to sit on a Sunday for...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 11:08hrs | | by Miriam Mangwaya
Zimbabwe's curious 'fight' against corruption
OUR institutions are palpably corrupt and the corrupt are apparently powerful.According to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chairperson Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo, there is rampa...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Corruption rife in NPA, Judiciary and police: Zacc
ZIMBABWE Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chairperson Justice Loice MatandaMoyo yesterday decried rampant corruption at institutions that are supposed to fight graft such as the Zimbabwe Republic Pol...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drama as Chin'ono is brought to court late
THERE was drama at the Harare Magistrates Court yesterday as journalist Hopewell Chin'ono's was brought to court well after all the courts had closed for business and staff knocked off.A speci...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:38hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa frets over graft links
GOVERNMENT yesterday claimed that reports linking President Emmerson Mnangagwa's family to corrupt deals were designed to cause public disaffection and lead to a rebellion.Information minister...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff writer
Why police stormed Harare Town House
POLICE stormed Harare City Council chambers to stop the city fathers from passing a resolution that would have seen suspended executives returning to work as fears of government interference in the op...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's weird fight against corruption
THERE are some weird winds winds sweeping corruption in high places blowing across Zimbabwe since November 2017. No one can tell which direction the tornado will blow, but a pattern is emerging some p...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Gweru council top brass faces arrest
GWERU City Council's top brass faces arrest by the Zimbabwe AntiCorruption Commission (Zacc) over a slew of graft cases, Southern Eye can reveal.According to sources, a number of officials hav...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-police commissioner spills the beans on corrupt top cops
A LEAKED police internal correspondence has exposed how top police fat cats are frustrating criminal investigations by allegedly shielding criminal cartels in return for money and gold.The let...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa targets Chamisa-led councils
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has threatened to unleash the Zimbabwe AntiCorruption Commission (Zacc) to sniff out corrupt elements in all councils led by Nelson Chamisa's MDC Alliance.But crit...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
NUST student off the hook
NATIONAL University of Science and Technology (Nust) student Panashe Vongai Sivandani has been removed from remand following her arrest for participating in the foiled July 31 anticorruption protests....Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Zanu-PF Youth League
The organisation or should I say one of the structures of Zanu-PF, their youth league is one hell of a problem in this country. A totally antidemocracy force that usually takes the law into thei...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 19:01hrs | 6 | by Clemen Moyo
Mnangagwa, EU envoy in public spat
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday threw away diplomatic etiquette and publicly censured EU ambassador Timo Olkkonen after the latter in his speech touched on the worsening human rights abuses in ...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
US 'very enthusiastic' about Mnangagwa govt
AMERICA'S Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan said on Friday that Washington was "very enthusiastic" about the new Harare government, but wanted to see more action on reform."We are very enthu...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 13:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa and Biti begs for GNU why now?
We can praise the revolutionary parties for their unity on the two most important national issues facing the Zimbabwean people: The political impasse and the economic melt down. Some peopl...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 08:40hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa's corrupt investigating officers scuttling his efforts
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's anti-graft crusade appears to have been thrown off the rails amid indications top investigators and officials tasked to spearhead the operation are conflicted, Business ...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 17:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere and Chombo will not be convicted, this is why?
You often hear about politicians facing public corruption charges in the news. Public corruption refers to any time of instance in which a government official abuses their position of power or public ...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 20:12hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimra, SARS agree on seamless movement of goods
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) and South Africa Revenue Services (Sars) have agreed to cooperate on the facilitation of a seamless movement of goods at Beitbridge, Africa's largest inland port...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 11:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe PhD: Nyagura seeks referral to Con-Court
Suspended University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Vice Chancellor Professor Levi Nyagura who is facing charges of abuse of office has made an application for referral of his matter to the Constitutional Court cit...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 16:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
$850m repatriated back to Zimbabwe says Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says a total of $850 million has been repatriated back in Zimbabwe through the measures put in place by the new political dispensation to fight corruption.With onl...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 17:16hrs | 10 | by Staff reprter
Mnangagwa 'assassin' rots in prison
A SELF proclaimed prophet and bogus CIO spy who landed in the dock on allegations of taking a firearm to events attended by President Emmerson Mnangagwa has put the state on notice to challenge furthe...Published: 10 Mar 2018 at 14:20hrs | | by staff reporter
Less talk, more action in Zimbabwean fight against corruption
The Zimbabwean masses have implored the Mnangagwa government to ride on the current public support and take significant action on pervasive corruption in the country. This is the time to take ...Published: 24 Dec 2017 at 11:09hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Illegal roadblocks along Jumbo Road
Editor, I am a concerned citizen who is worried about the level of corruption at Jumbo road. I live at Mazowe and 7,5km away from my place of residence is a Mine called Jumbo where i mak...Published: 27 Jun 2017 at 06:26hrs | | by Concerned Citizen
ZIMRA Beitbridge marches against corruption
ZIMRA staff based at Beitbridge Border Post held an anti-corruption march around the border post and in Beitbridge town on 14 March 2017, as the Authority intensifies its fight against corruption....Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 06:57hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
No hope for Africa: Next generation of leaders learnt from the best, could yet be the worst
Kenya's former Director of Anticorruption Commission, Prof Lumumba, warns that the younger generation is even more dangerous to Africa because they have learned from the older generation. Structures s...Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 11:42hrs | | by Phillemon Sithole (Khuluma Afrika)
ZIMRA Observes International Anti- Corruption Day 2016
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority has joined the rest of the world in observing the International Anti-Corruption Day on 9 December 2016, under the theme, “Corruption: An impediment to the Sustainable ...Published: 14 Dec 2016 at 03:50hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
A new era for African media
Enter digital media with tweets, blogs and a plethora of new voices The advent of digital media has turned the media landscape upside down. The news cy...Published: 08 Nov 2016 at 17:16hrs | 1 | by Zipporah Musau
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