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Mawarire accuses Mnangagwa of 'monetising problems'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's surprise visits to Parirenyatwa and Sally Mugabe Hospitals, as well as the NatPharm warehouse on Monday, June 16, have sparked a storm of controversy, with former Nation...Published: 18 Jun 2025 at 19:30hrs | 1135 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt official in US$1,5m land scandal
A senior official from the Ministry of Local Government and Public Works, Everest Nyamadzawo, appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court yesterday facing allegations of extorting over US$1.5 million fro...Published: 28 Nov 2024 at 06:52hrs | 3968 | by Staff reporter
CCC MP accuses govt officials of diverting food aid
Fanuel Cumanzala, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator for Binga South, has accused government officials of illegally diverting food aid meant to alleviate the effects of the El Niño-in...Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 07:09hrs | 128 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt official in court over stands scandal
A local government ministry official, Everisto Nyamadzawo, appeared in court last week facing serious allegations of criminal abuse of office involving more than $77,000. The case has raised eyebrows ...Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 10:15hrs | 490 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt officials accused of land grab at Kanondo
Government officials have been accused of seizing land in the Kanondo area of Matabeleland North, designated for relocating villagers from Lubimbi to make way for the Gwayi-Tshangani Dam catchment are...Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 14:39hrs | 319 | by Staff reporter
Ex-top Zimbabwe govt official accused of grabbing farm equipment
Former diplomat and ex-permanent secretary Joey Bimha is embroiled in a legal dispute concerning allegations of improperly seizing farming equipment from his former business partner, Sebastian Hugh Zi...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 14:14hrs | 4471 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt officials loot food aid
Two officers from the Ministry of Public Service, Labour, and Social Welfare in Guruve, Mashonaland West Province, have been arrested for allegedly stealing food aid meant to support villagers affecte...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 14:49hrs | 890 | by Staff reporter
ZACC arrests top govt official over Mbudzi interchange project fraud
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has arrested a Ministry of Transport top official on allegations of conniving to fraudulently claim compensation for a property affected by the ongoing c...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 05:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF member wants govt officials barred from seeking medical attention abroad
Zanu-PF's candidate for the Pelandaba -Tshabalala Constituency by-election, Joseph Tshuma, says if he is elected as the Member of Parliament, he will immediately propose a bill that would prohibit gov...Published: 18 Jan 2024 at 18:28hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Ex-top govt official up for drug peddling
A FORMER principal accountant in the Finance and Economic Development ministry, Tonderai Musekiwa has been arrested for allegedly dealing in dangerous drugs.Musekiwa (50) appeared at the Harar...Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Top govt official in trouble over ‘questionable' wealth
THE Ministry of Finance and Economic Development has suspended senior official Marcos Nyaruwanga to pave way for investigations to ascertain his source of wealth as a public official, the Zimbabwe Ind...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 18:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe govt officials too corrupt
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says there is rampant abuse of public funds by government bureaucrats by flouting procurement procedures, crippling service delivery.Addressing delegates at the pr...Published: 22 Oct 2022 at 05:43hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt officials in Dubai to study modern systems of Statecraft
THE Chief Secretary in the Office of President and Cabinet, Misheck Sibanda is leading a delegation of top government officials to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where they are understudying modern g...Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 05:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt officials should first declare assets
BEFORE Finance minister Mthuli Ncube asks us to declare where our foreign currency is coming from when we bring in foodstuffs and household goods from outside the country, the leadership of Zimbabwe s...Published: 23 Aug 2022 at 06:29hrs | 6 | by Concerned
Govt official 'blocks' school construction
A SENIOR official in the Foreign Affairs ministry has been accused of blocking the construction of a secondary school in Goromonzi district, Mashonaland East province.This has resulted in lear...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs deplore top govt officials
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is under fire from senior Zanu-PF officials, including those stationed at party headquarters, who have raised concern over the failure by ruling party officials deployed i...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 19:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top govt official in messy land fight
A COMMISSIONER at the Public Service Commission (PSC) Tsitsi Choruma is at the centre of a farm invasion storm that has rocked the Lands ministry in the Mazowe area after being allocated part of the l...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 19:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top govt officials in messy Petrotrade fight
STATE-OWNED petroleum firm, Petrotrade, has been rocked by fresh controversy amid reports that Energy and Power Development permanent secretary Gloria Magombo ordered the firing of two executives via ...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 18:00hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
25 Govt officials arrested in one week
Twenty-five Government officials have been arrested over the past week on allegations of criminal abuse of office, or fraud and stealing large quantities of bitumen meant for the rehabilitation of the...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 05:29hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Govt officials up for fraud
TWO Ministry of Industry and Commerce officials have been charged with fraud for allegedly issuing out 200 vehicle import licenses without authority.Andrew Matevere aged 37, who is a Licence C...Published: 29 Oct 2021 at 13:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF, govt officials in panic mode
AFRICA has a long-standing history of heavily contested elections.Most liberation war parties find it hard to let go of their grip on power.In Zimbabwe, the late Robert Mugabe had to t...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:08hrs | 1 | by Evans Mathanda
Zanu-PF youths summon govt officials
Zanu-PF youths in Mashonaland East province on Wednesday summoned government workers, district development co-ordinators and ministers, and ordered them to support their activities.The tense m...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Crisis Coalition blasts Mnangagwa's spin doctor
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has vowed to continue with its pursuit for a democratic society in the wake of continued intimidation by some top government officials irked by the NGO grouping's w...Published: 12 May 2021 at 10:33hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
4 local govt officials remanded in custody to today
FOUR top officials in the Local Government ministry were yesterday remanded in custody to today for bail hearing after they fraudulently dispossessed a housing co-operative of land and allocated it to...Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt official recruits 28 family members
A TOP official in the Health and Child Care ministry, Portia Manangazira appeared in court yesterday charged with criminal abuse of office after she illegally facilitated the recruitment and training ...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt official in planes tender storm
A senior civil servant who recommended that a cloud-seeding tender be awarded to a company with faulty planes unsuitable for the purpose has been arrested and appeared in court yesterday on corruption...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Don't stigmatise COVID-19 patients, says Govt official
DIRECTOR of epidemiology in the Health ministry Portia Manangazira has cautioned communities to desist from stigmatising COVID-19 patients, especially infected schoolchildren who will return home afte...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nyamandlovu farmer charged over threats to shoot govt officials
A Nyamandlovu farmer has been dragged to court on charges of threatening to shoot lands ministry officials that are allegedly trying to force him off his property.Ramutsi Mukwena, who runs Wel...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:50hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Govt officials loot US$20m farm mechanisation grant
SENIOR government officials, including those from the Ministry of Agriculture, feasted on a US$20 million farm mechanisation grant from China after diverting to personal use some of the farm equipment...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Corrupt Zanu-PF, govt officials must resign'
THE Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association (ZNLWVA) executive has thrown its weight behind the Zanu-PF youth league's anti-corruption drive by calling on party and government officials...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biti roasts govt officials over US$3,2bn command agric loot
THE Finance ministry yesterday came under fire over how it managed to spend US$3,2 billion in six months, allegedly under the government flagship command agriculture programme between 2017 and 2018....Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 12:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt official doubts the integrity of Auditor-General Mildred Chiri's audit reports
ACTING Finance secretary Zvinechimwe Churu yesterday angered legislators from the Public Accounts Committee when he suggested that he doubted the integrity of Auditor-General Mildred Chiri's audit rep...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
War vets lock out govt official
ABOUT 15 Chivhu war veterans on Tuesday demonstrated against alleged maladministration by the district development co-ordinator Michael Mariga and locked him out of his office.The war veterans...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
MISSING USD$ 3 BILLION: Mnangagwa called to account
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the Chief Secretary to the Office of the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda have been called upon to account for the USD$3 billion that went missing after treasu...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 12:56hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Former top govt official in US$5 million Zinara storm
FORMER deputy chief secretary to the president and cabinet Ray Ndhlukula is in the eye of a storm after it emerged this week that he unprocedurally ordered the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Senior govt officials to buy own vehicles
The government has moved in to reduce expenditure emanating from the purchase and maintenance of government vehicles by introducing the public service vehicle loan scheme.The public service ve...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 19:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Performance contracts for senior Govt officials
Government has started preparing performance contracts for senior officials such as permanent secretaries and directorates and parastatals to measure the extent to which they would have implemented th...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UK using Zimbabwe govt officials to interrogate failed asylum seekers
The Home Office has been inviting Zimbabwean government representatives to interview asylum seekers who have fled political persecution in the country, in what has been branded a "corrupt" exercise....Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 08:13hrs | | by The Independent
Govt officials summoned over illegal land sales
The Land Commission has summoned government and local authorities' officials to a public hearing, to give evidence on the illegal acquisition and allocation of State land reserved for urban developmen...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt officials lambast trafficking middlemen
VILLAGERS who use their homes in the vicinity of the country's borders with other countries to facilitate human trafficking have no respect for human life and must face the full wrath of the law, a se...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt officials up for theft of command fuel
Three Agriculture, Mechanisation and Rural Resettlement ministry officials, who allegedly diverted fuel coupons worth thousands of dollars meant for command agriculture beneficiaries, yesterday appear...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt officials accused of taking bribes
PARLIAMENT's Mines and Energy Committee has accused Energy ministry officials of contributing to the country's fuel shortages by taking bribes from Billy Rautenbach's Green Fuel and allowing him to ma...Published: 29 May 2018 at 07:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Top govt officials assisted in diamond mine grab'
A KARIBA-BASED gold mining company, Townsend Enterprises, has accused top government officials of facilitating the takeover of its gold claims at Gache-Gache on the shores of Kariba Dam by State-owned...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
'The General' urges Mnangagwa to ensure non selective law enforcement on corrupt govt officials
Former ZBC presenter Eric 'The General' Knight has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to ensure that the law is not applied selectively on corrupt top government officials."The commitment...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:57hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
More corruption arrests for govt officials
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson, Mr George Charamba, has said more government officials face arrest as the crackdown on corruption in Government is continuing.He also shot down claims that the Gover...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MP Majome tells local govt officials to abide by the laws
Harare West legislator for MDC-T Jessie Majome has told the local government officials to abide by the laws which demands respect for residents by authorities.She made the remarks during a mee...Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 07:09hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Govt official using his office to intimidate investors'
The deputy director of Women and Youth Affairs Mr Steve Nyaruwata has been accused of abusing his office and harassing two farmers in Darwandale, Mashonaland West, Bulawayo24.com has learnt.Al...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 12:49hrs | 3 | by Simbarashe Sithole
9 local govt officials cheat death
NINE Beitbridge local government officials, including district administrator Kilibone Ndou, cheated death yesterday when their car overturned 65km from Beitbridge.The accident occurred as they...Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told his govt officials must lead by example
Zimbabwe Retailers Association leader Denford Mutashu has reportedly told president Emmerson Mnangagwa to lead by example in the reduction of prices.He reportedly said he should be the l...Published: 09 Jan 2018 at 15:55hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Hundreds prospective voters turned away for not having National IDs
Hundreds of people trying to register to vote are being turned away in Matobo district for not having national identity particulars in an area which was hard hit by the Gukurahundi genocide in the 198...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 06:46hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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