Bulawayo24 News - Skyes! "it makes perfect sense"

NetOne in fresh internal corruption allegations

Three senior executives at state-owned NetOne Cellular are facing internal allegations of corrupt procurement practices, following the recent arrest of the comp

Published: 14 hrs ago | | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa - Chiwenga rivalry will shape Zimbabwe's next chapter

ZIMBABWE'S politics has once again been dragged into the shadows of intrigue, poison, coup whispers and factional bloodletting.At the centre are President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy, General Constantino Chiwenga, whose rivalry has b…

Published: 19 Sep 2025 at 17:57hrs | | by Karabo Ngoepe

The Zimbabwe Government is Not Learning from Past Mistakes

In Zimbabwe today, it is clear that history is repeating itself. Our government is unwilling to learn from the errors of the past, both from our own experiences under Robert Mugabe and from the failures of other African governments. Instea…

Published: 16 Sep 2025 at 19:35hrs | | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi

Zimbabwe needs a new leader

Mnangagwa has turned into our modern-day Vasco da Gama, globetrotting from one nation to another and signing fruitless mega deals while the vast mass of Zimbabweans live in extreme poverty.It has been extremely difficult to live under the …

Published: 07 Sep 2025 at 19:45hrs | | by Leonard Koni

ZRP faces rising corruption, public safety at risk

Zimbabwe's police service, once hailed as a guardian of law and order, is increasingly under scrutiny as allegations of corruption threaten public safety. Under Commissioner-General Stephen Mutamba, reports suggest that the force has becom…

Published: 20 Aug 2025 at 09:37hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter

The Fight Against Corruption: A Collective Responsibility

Corruption is a pervasive and insidious pandemic that has infected our societies, leaving no one unscathed. It's a cancer that eats away at the fabric of our nation, causing irreparable harm and suffering. The fight against corruption is r…

Published: 19 Aug 2025 at 07:58hrs | 72 | by Tatenda Hwari

Zimbabwe has tragically become a lootocracy

Zimbabwe has been reduced to a shadow of its former promise - a jewel of Africa, a nation of hope and prosperity now lies bruised and exploited under the weight of a political elite that robs its people with impunity.Our country has tragic…

Published: 16 Aug 2025 at 16:22hrs | 558 | by Jacob Mutisi

Harare's special unit to tackle past corruption

The Harare City Council (HCC) has set up a dedicated Special Legacy Department to investigate historical corruption, implement corrective measures, and begin rebuilding public confidence after years of financial mismanagement and administr…

Published: 14 Aug 2025 at 10:30hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter

ZICC labels corruption a Human Rights Violation

The Zimbabwe Independent Complaints Commission (ZICC) has issued a strong condemnation of corruption in both public and private sectors, describing it as not only a governance failure but a fundamental human rights violation that undermine…

Published: 07 Aug 2025 at 09:19hrs | 141 | by Staff reporter

Govt swindled out of thousands for Gokwe Uhuru gig?

The government is reportedly losing thousands of dollars due to inflated accommodation bills and fraudulent tender awards involving unregistered suppliers colluding with some officials, according to sources close to ongoing investigations.…

Published: 26 Jul 2025 at 11:20hrs | 120 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe govt reads riot act over corrupt land subdivisions

Agriculture Deputy Minister Davis Marapira has issued a stern warning to corrupt officials and stakeholders, urging urgent action to protect dairy farmers' land through the finalisation of title deeds. He highlighted rampant land subdivisi…

Published: 26 Jul 2025 at 11:20hrs | 90 | by Staff reporter

Corruption and poor planning blamed for Zimbabwe housing woes

Zimbabwe is grappling with a worsening urban housing crisis, as a combination of poor planning, corruption, and unaffordable housing compounds an estimated 1.5 million-unit backlog nationwide. Local authorities, housing experts, and reside…

Published: 25 Jul 2025 at 17:55hrs | 205 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo ramps up its anti-corruption efforts

The City of Bulawayo has ramped up its anti-corruption efforts by upgrading its internal audit unit into a full-fledged department, aimed at enhancing fraud detection, accountability, and good governance in local council operations.The dev…

Published: 24 Jul 2025 at 14:42hrs | 454 | by Staff reporter

18 Zimbabwe prosecutors arrested for corruption charges

At least 18 public prosecutors stationed across Zimbabwe have been arrested on corruption-related charges, predominantly bribery and extortion, the country's Prosecutor-General, Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo, revealed yesterday.She made the d…

Published: 24 Jul 2025 at 09:22hrs | 405 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa ally reported for corruption

President Emmerson Mnangagwa's business associate, Muller Conrad "Billy" Rautenbach, along with senior government ministers, has been reported to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) for alleged fraud and corruption involving the…

Published: 19 Jul 2025 at 21:30hrs | 1434 | by Staff reporter

Council ropes in Mnangagwa

Amid escalating losses and allegations of deep-rooted corruption, Harare City Council has turned to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office to intervene in the stalled acquisition of a critical Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. The …

Published: 17 Jul 2025 at 21:01hrs | 707 | by Staff reporter

Senior magistrate blames crippling economy, supports corruption

Inyathi Senior Magistrate Samukeliswe Gumbo's leaked audio on corruption is circulating on social media.The magistrate who is reported to have offered passengers a lift was recorded blasting the country's economy while supporting corruptio…

Published: 16 Jul 2025 at 11:42hrs | | by Paul Ndou

Africa's inequality crisis: How government systems fuel corruption and entrench elitism

A recent Oxfam report has ignited renewed scrutiny of Africa's political and economic order, revealing a disturbing truth: while a handful of billionaires accumulate staggering wealth, hundreds of millions on the continent are being pushed…

Published: 14 Jul 2025 at 07:12hrs | 210 | by James Mathonsi

Bulawayo councillor slams City management over corruption

Bulawayo Ward 3 Councillor Mxolisi Mahlangu has launched a scathing attack on the city's management, accusing officials of rampant corruption and gross mismanagement that he says is crippling service delivery and eroding public trust in th…

Published: 10 Jul 2025 at 08:54hrs | 316 | by Staff reporter

Kasukuwere escalates attacks on Tagwirei

Former Zanu-PF national political commissar and minister Saviour Kasukuwere has sharply escalated his criticism of local business tycoon Kudakwashe Tagwirei following Tagwirei's public accusations labeling Kasukuwere as corrupt.The exchang…

Published: 27 Jun 2025 at 09:45hrs | 1821 | by Staff reporter

Panic grips Harare City Council bosses

Panic has swept through Harare City Council as senior executives scramble to safeguard their positions following the release of a scathing commission of inquiry report into the municipality's operations. The commission, appointed by Presid…

Published: 26 Jun 2025 at 09:20hrs | 427 | by Staff reporter

Even the government's own excuses prove it's to blame for drug shortages in hospitals

When incompetence runs deep, even your excuses end up exposing you. The recent state-sanctioned explanation in The Sunday Mail on why public hospitals in Zimbabwe are running out of basic medication such as paracetamol reads more like…

Published: 23 Jun 2025 at 11:12hrs | 183 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Mukanya, the great Chimurenga guru

Born Thomas Tafirenyika Muchadura Mapfumo. The epitome of a Chimurenga music guru. With a career spanning over 50 years, Mapfumo, whom his followers call Gandanga, has not let them down. Listening to Thomas and the Blacks Unlimited is an a…

Published: 23 Jun 2025 at 11:09hrs | 304 | by Leonard Koni

ZACC joins fight against education corruption

 The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has intensified efforts to root out corruption in schools across Manicaland by enlisting the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) and the police, following a wave of fraud and mis…

Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:34hrs | 117 | by Staff reporter

BCC collects US$2,000 in environment fines

The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has collected more than US$2,600 from environmental fines while still being owed over US$3,300, according to a new report from the council's Parks Section detailing intensified operations against environment…

Published: 18 Jun 2025 at 07:33hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's govt eyes Harare-like probe in Bulawayo

The Commission of Inquiry into the Harare City Council has completed its year-long probe and handed its findings to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, with government now hinting at the expansion of similar investigations to other local authori…

Published: 18 Jun 2025 at 07:33hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter

Deep-rooted corruption at Harare City Council

Harare City Council has for decades been run by unscrupulous individuals whose corrupt activities continue to cripple service delivery, a damning Commission of Inquiry report has revealed. The findings, presented to President Emmerson Mnan…

Published: 18 Jun 2025 at 07:29hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter

Mandatory radio licence risks fuelling Zimbabwe corruption

The recently enacted Broadcasting Services Amendment Act No. 2 of 2025, which makes it mandatory for all motorists to pay for a Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) radio licence before renewing vehicle insurance or Zimbabwe National Ro…

Published: 11 Jun 2025 at 09:11hrs | 1008 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe doesn't need 249 years to fight corruption, Mr. Murwira!

The Zimbabwe government never ceases to amaze.During the recent United States Independence Day commemorations in Harare, the American ambassador to Zimbabwe, Pamela Tremont, described corruption as a "cancer" that is robbing the people of …

Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 08:26hrs | 237 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Is the Trabablas Interchange a monument to Zimbabwe's misplaced priorities and corruption?

Is Zimbabwe's so-called â€˜spaghetti road' just another highway to corruption?The recent announcement by Zimbabwe's Ministry of Transport that the long-awaited Mbudzi Interchange - now curiously renamed the "Trabablas Interchange" - is nea…

Published: 15 May 2025 at 08:08hrs | 393 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Mid-Level managers are Destroying Zimbabwe's Health Sector

Zimbabwe's health sector is in critical condition, unfortunately no amount of propaganda or spin can change the facts on the ground. The problem with our health care system is not because of lack of funding, policy, or political will but b…

Published: 03 May 2025 at 11:51hrs | 890 | by Hector Madzima

It's high time foreign governments took the lead in investigating Zimbabwe's corrupt elite

The Zimbabwe ruling elite clearly won't act against high-level corruption.There is something profoundly disturbing about the silence of Zimbabwean authorities in the wake of the damning exposÃ© by South Africa's Financial Intelligence Cent…

Published: 03 May 2025 at 11:48hrs | 631 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Zimbabwe's rot of corruption began at the top - that's where it must end

No one can deny that Zimbabwe has become synonymous with corruption.This morning, I woke up to deeply disturbing news reports that shook me to the core  -  not because they were shocking, but because they were sadly familiar. One…

Published: 01 May 2025 at 19:53hrs | 991 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Mnangagwa regime making blacks look bad in the eyes of the world

This is a painful article to write.There's a creeping shame that often grips me, deep and almost unspeakable. It rises whenever I hear former Rhodesians gloat, with a vindicated smirk, about how they always knew we couldn't govern ourselve…

Published: 25 Apr 2025 at 14:26hrs | 1087 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Prosecutors cry foul

The Prosecutor General Loice Matanda Moyo has issued a rotation and transfer memorandum of the National Prosecuting Authority's prosecutorial and administrative staff.According to the memorandum dated April 16, the move will go a long way …

Published: 17 Apr 2025 at 10:37hrs | 896 | by Simbarashe Sithole

Corruption now a national threat

Mnangagwa's administration is notoriously corrupt. Recently he wired $50 to police officers, thus greasing them during the mass shutdown organised by a former combat, Blessed Geza, that was code-named M31.There are also some allegations th…

Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 09:29hrs | 139 | by Leonard Koni

Eddie Cross fails to provide evidence of Mnangagwa corruption

Unconfirmed reports claim that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa launched a blistering attack on prominent economist and former presidential adviser Eddie Cross following his explosive claims that the First Fam…

Published: 05 Apr 2025 at 20:35hrs | 1057 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe has faced numerous challenges in recent years, including economic instability, political turmoil, and social unrest. As the country looks to the future, there are several factors that will have to shape its social, economic, and p…

Published: 14 Mar 2025 at 19:46hrs | 424 | by Mlilo Joyinani and Ndaba M. Nhuku

Deaths from infrastructure collapse are usually the tragic cost of corruption

There's always a human cost to corruption.The recent tragedy at Bandama Farm Dam in Chipinge, where five lives were lost due to the dam's sudden collapse, is a stark reminder of the perilous state of Zimbabwe's infrastructure. Eyewitnesses…

Published: 11 Mar 2025 at 20:14hrs | 375 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Why Transparency Internationalâ€™s flagship Corruption Index falls short

For nearly 20 years, Transparency International has published a Corruption Perceptions Index that ranks countries (176 last year) according to how corrupt they are perceived to be by a small group of individuals. This approach was chosen i…

Published: 22 Feb 2025 at 09:54hrs | 247 | by Alex Cobham

I'm not prepared to continue suffering until 2030!

Zimbabwe, under President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has sank deeper into poverty.Granted, when President Emmerson Mnangagwa took power in November 2017 through a military coup, Zimbabwe was already struggling.The economy was in distress, the cas…

Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 22:56hrs | 1193 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Smear Campaign Against Chiwenga

Vice President Chiwenga sparked the wrath of corrupt individuals when he warned people against corruption and likening them to zvigananda. Chiwenga speaking at the heroes acre said "We can only realise our vision of attaining an empowered …

Published: 07 Feb 2025 at 20:20hrs | | by John Mbizvo

Harare City Council inquiry accused of protecting corrupt officials while attacking reformers

The ongoing Commission of Inquiry into the Harare City Council, led by retired Justice Maphios Cheda, is facing mounting accusations of complicity in shielding corrupt officials, while exerting unnecessary pressure on those fighting for ac…

Published: 07 Feb 2025 at 17:14hrs | 164 | by David Hunda

Zimbabwe's cycle of betrayal

Is it not a pity how the people of Zimbabwe have been duped not once, but twice? The first betrayal came from figures like Cecil Rhodes and his clansmen, who, under the guise of imperialism, promised development and progress but instead ex…

Published: 19 Jan 2025 at 14:23hrs | 666 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi

AMH Workers in salary arrears quandary

Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) workers are grappling with stress over unpaid salary components, particularly the United States dollar portion, which has remained outstanding for five months and is not reflected on their payslips. Workers are d…

Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 11:17hrs | 1424 | by Staff Reporter

Wadyajena shortlisted for ZACC role

In a move that has sparked public debate, former parliamentarian Justice Mayor Wadyajena has been shortlisted for a commissioner position at the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC), an agency where he once faced arrest.Wadyajena, a …

Published: 11 Dec 2024 at 14:50hrs | 903 | by Staff reporter

Massive corruption at Zvishavane town council

Dear Editor, Please publish this exposÃ© which involves the Zvishavane town planner who is selling public roads to business people without full council approval. At least 3 public roads have been sold to business people without any benefit…

Published: 09 Dec 2024 at 18:55hrs | 652 | by Concerned Zvishavane Resident

The tale of two criminal politicians

CORRUPTION is a type of dishonesty or a criminal offence that is often perpetrated by a person or an organisation that is entrusted in a position of authority to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's gain.It is a practice that …

Published: 09 Dec 2024 at 08:14hrs | 939 | by Tapiwa Gomo

Zimbabwe's Banking Sector and No Arrests Years Down the Line

United Merchant Bank (UMB) - Closed in 1998 due to insider loans and mismanagement.Universal Merchant Bank (UMB) - Closed in 2003 struggled with negative perceptions after UMB's collapse.Barbican Bank - Closed in 2004 due to financial mism…

Published: 05 Dec 2024 at 20:15hrs | 308 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi

ZANU-PF corruption and mismanagement have turned Air Zimbabwe into an international embarrassment

This once-proud national airline, which began its journey in 1980 with a modern fleet inherited from Air Rhodesia, is now a global laughingstock, a shadow of its former self. At independence, Air Zimbabwe inherited 15 well-maintained aircr…

Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 23:21hrs | 1329 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Search / Corruption

Get latest news by email:

Edward Kieswetter charged over 'fake' judgment

Biti slams 'unconstitutional' ouster of Mutodi

Woman stabs husband after infidelity accusation

Gwanda-Manama Road to be rehabilitated

An epidemic of avoidable deaths: Why Zimbabwe's road carnage is a sign of systemic failure

Zimbabwe Exemption Permits extended to 2027

Mnangagwa's betrayal of Chiwenga spells danger

Zimbabwean police shot dead South African armed robbers

Zim Reaffirms Commitment to Regional Integration and Pan-African Cooperation

Zanu-PF UK in turmoil

Zimbabwe slashed liquor licence application fee to US$20

Gwanda villagers clash with Town Clerk

Zimbabwe has one of the most unequal societies in the world

Charamba threatens ugly measures for drug users

Brigadier General (Rtd) dies at a local clinic

106 km of water pipes to be laid in Harare

Woman beds minor she met in a bar

Mutodi ousted

Mnangagwa's betrayal of General Chiwenga

uMzingwane pump station upgrade delayed

Nyambirai proposes flexible house co-ownership arrangement

A mother's struggle with an intersex child

Patient arrested for stealing copper pipes at hospital

Mafume defends cooperation with Mnangagwa's govt

Man crushed to death by train

Zimra official name drops Zanu-PF official's name

Chikomba West MP Mavetera Engages Constituency on Digital Development

Why Mutodi attacked Guvamatanga

Chivhayo tries to shrug off Gwanda solar project accusations

Police destroys illegal drugs baggage at Sally Mugabe Hospital

Biti slams 'unconstitutional' ouster of Mutodi

Former ZANU PF legislator warns those plotting against General Chiwenga