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Zacc, Finance ministry in anti-graft blitz
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is currently reviewing all government-funded programmes to identify possible cases of corruption, an official said yesterday.Munyaradzi Magiga, a...Published: 19 hrs ago | 630 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and his VPs urged to declare assets
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his two deputies - Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi - have been urged to publicly declare their assets in order to demonstrate their commitment to fighting corrup...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 14:11hrs | 1728 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's son-in-law under probe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's anti-corruption unit has reportedly opened investigations into former President Robert Mugabe's son-in-law, Simba Chikore's involvement in the botched ZimAirways deal, N...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:20hrs | 2885 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's special graft team under siege
In May this year, President Emmerson Mnangagwa set up a team of lawyers and prosecutors to form the Special Anti-Corruption Unit as part of his pledge to deal with corruption.months later, the...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 13:34hrs | 1105 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's former ministers under siege
FORMER Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa was yesterday arrested on charges of criminal abuse of office, the first high profile casualty of a crackdown by a Special Anti-Corruption Unit...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:27hrs | 3900 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's health minister caught in anti-corruption dragnet
Former Health and Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa was yesterday arrested and appeared at Harare magistrates' courts on charges of criminal abuse of office. The arrest is seen as part of Governm...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:06hrs | 825 | by Staff reporter
MDC Khupe urges new govt to be more accountable
THE Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T has challenged the new government to abide by the Constitution and to be accountable and responsive to speed up the country's economic transformation.MDC-T spokes...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:41hrs | 464 | by Staff reporter
Top Zimra official suspended over graft claims
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has suspended its commissioner responsible for investigations, Charles Jaure, who is currently being probed by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) on ...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:52hrs | 1776 | by Staff reporter
Chidakwa's lawyer challenges Mnangagwa anti-graft team
Former Mines and Mining Development minister Walter Chidakwa's lawyer, Advocate Silvester Hashiti, yesterday filed a notice to challenge the special anti-corruption investigation unit, arguing that on...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:30hrs | 480 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe lacks political will to fight graft'
There is lack of political will at the top to fight corruption that has dogged the nation for decades, anti-corruption group Transparency International has said.Frank Mpahlo, the watchdog's Zi...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 17:15hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
Biti cries political persecution
Former Finance minister Tendai Biti has said the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is being used by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to politically persecute him.Biti said th...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 18:05hrs | 1049 | by Staff reporter
Govt goes after businesses as cash crisis gnaws
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has threatened to go after businesses that do not bank cash proceeds as well as financial institutions that allegedly channel cash into the informal sect...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 07:02hrs | 2113 | by Staff reporter
Spotlight on Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa faces a herculean task after his inauguration this week as he comes under intense scrutiny on whether he can walk the talk during the next five years of his leadership aft...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 13:47hrs | 3295 | by Staff reporter
Acting Prosecutor-General guns for Chivayo
ACTING Prosecutor-General (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi has raised a red flag over the failure by judicial officers to place businessman Wicknell Chivayo on remand after the latter was charged with swindling th...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 06:21hrs | 1537 | by Staff reporter
'Journalists key in fight against corruption'
ACTING Prosecutor General Mr Kumbirai Hodzi has urged journalists to join the anti-graft war and write investigative stories that unearth high level corruption scandals.Addressing journalists ...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 07:42hrs | 272 | by Staff Reporter
Anti-Corruption Commission investigating Biti over $30 million deal
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission is investigating former Finance Minister Mr Tendai Biti over a $30 million deal between the National Social Security Authority and the now defunct Renaissance B...Published: 26 Aug 2018 at 08:06hrs | 7541 | by Staff Reporter
Spotlight on Mnangagwa's new Cabinet
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will have to demonstrate that he does not tolerate corruption by appointing a Cabinet that does not feature people with soiled reputations, a senior academic has said....Published: 26 Aug 2018 at 06:47hrs | 9393 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo town clerk under probe
BULAWAYO town clerk Christopher Dube is being probed by the local authority over a litany of corruption and abuse of office allegations levelled against him.Empowerment lobby group, the Affirm...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:53hrs | 1237 | by Staff reporter
'State not paying for Mnangagwa anti-graft unit'
GOVERNMENT is not paying the lawyers and prosecutors who form President Emmerson Mnangagwa's controversial crack anti-corruption unit, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said at the weekend.Ziya...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:39hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ordered to stop meddling in judicial affairs
REGIONAL anti-graft body, Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-Southern Africa), has ordered President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa to stop meddling in judicial affairs ahead of the Constitutiona...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 06:55hrs | 3398 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's statement made him sound like that false Pentecostal prophet
Last Friday, Nelson Chamisa declared that he would be challenging his electoral loss to Emmerson Mnangagwa, and even promised his supporters that change was still coming. His latter statement is unbel...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 10:00hrs | 1367 | by Tawanda Majoni
Zinara finance manager nails CEO in graft trial
A Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) finance manager yesterday recounted in court how former chief executive officer Moses Juma made him sign a back-dated document that reportedly conceal...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 09:46hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo dumps Mugabe?
G40 cabalist Professor Jonathan Moyo yesterday finally admitted that former president, Mr Robert Mugabe, was removed from office by the masses, departing from his stance that it was the military that ...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 09:20hrs | 8357 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa or Chamisa?
WITHOUT a doubt, Monday's election is about the economy - and who is likely to deliver a better future for Zimbabwe, and the much-needed hope.It is also an indubitable fact that the winner wil...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 12:01hrs | 9411 | by Eric Chiriga and John Kachembere
Vote wisely with country's future at heart
THE findings of a recent survey conducted by Transparency International-Zimbabwe - to the effect that young people are being forced to part with up to $500 to secure employment - are a clear demonstra...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:37hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko's ally in hot soup
A former Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) employee who was released from police custody by ex-vice president Phelekezela Mphoko in 2016 is now facing criminal prosecution over graft char...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 14:02hrs | 1220 | by Staff reporter
'Undenge jailing sends message to thieves'
THE Government is committed to fighting corruption by public officials as evidenced by the jailing of former Cabinet Minister Samuel Undenge and more prosecutions of that nature will help fight agains...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 06:55hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP exposes rot in party
Incumbent Zanu-PF legislator for Chiredzi West, Darlington Chiwa has said the level of corruption in ruling party is so alarming that he chose to stand as an independent candidate in the July 30 water...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 12:17hrs | 1446 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warned
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa should be wary of dirty and corrupt investors who come into the country under the guise of exploring business opportunities, a top diplomat has warned.Speaking dur...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:42hrs | 1367 | by Staff reporter
Chombo graft trial deferred
Lazini Ncube a Harare magistrate yesterday deferred the trial of former Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo until August 2 to allow the High Court to make a key decision on whether to drop charges agains...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 07:45hrs | 1177 | by Staff reporter
Goba tribunal takes oath of office
Members of a tribunal recently appointed to inquire into the question of removal of Prosecutor-General Advocate Ray Goba from office, yesterday took oaths of office before President Mnangagwa. ...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 06:27hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints tribunal on Goba case
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has appointed a three-member tribunal to establish whether or not suspended Prosecutor-General Advocate Ray Goba is still fit to continue as the country's prosecution boss....Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 13:08hrs | 1653 | by Staff Reporter
Ray Goba's dismissal shows 'No Tolerance' is not just a slogan
This cannot have been an easy decision. Prosecutor General Advocate Ray Goba has not been in the job long. He was well respected by his peers and the President alike. But friendship and hi...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 18:32hrs | 2449 | by Mike Tawanda
Amazing, Grace just won't leave us alone
It really is quite amazing that she is still hanging around. But beyond just hanging around. Gucci Grace, the rotten of all rotten apples of the previous regime, is still clambering on to power....Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 11:19hrs | 5847 | by Innocent Dube
Chamisa dares Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa cannot weed out corrupt elements within his government because he has dirty hands, MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has said.Speaking at a rally in Zvishavane on...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 15:33hrs | 1825 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-corruption rhetoric must end
WHEN the very institutions that our hallowed Constitution mandates with fighting corruption become the citadel of the social fabric-gnawing ill, then we should hold our collective heads in shame....Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 08:06hrs | 450 | by Staff reporter
Shiri endorses Dutiro
Agriculture minister and former Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) commander Air Marshal Perrance Shiri has endorsed Guruve South legislator Patrick Dutiro as the ZANU PF candidate while blasting his rival W...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 09:35hrs | 1743 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe is not for sale!
ZIMBABWE Revenue Authority (Zimra) board chairperson Willia Bonyongwe's admission that corruption within and outside the organisation is resembling an organised crime syndicate as it has now become ca...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:29hrs | 833 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa keen to reward talent, hard work
President Mnangagwa says his administration will reward talent and innovation in its drive to transform Zimbabwe into a middle-income economy by 2030 following the launch yesterday of Empower Bank. ...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:03hrs | 124 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Office admits to graft
Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Misheck Sibanda, yesterday admitted that remnants of corruption from the previous government of former President Robert Mugabe's administration were still...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 07:24hrs | 2329 | by Staff rpeorter
Zimbabwe's answer doesn't lie in the box
And so it is with my Grade 2 granddaughter. Only yesterday, she sought my help with what seemed to me a very simple multi-choice Math problem. My wife and I have always admired the rare professional a...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 14:32hrs | 340 | by Zifiso Masiye
Graft, insecurity dominate AU Summit
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa today joins his counterparts from across the continent for the official opening of the 31st Ordinary Session of the African Union Summit, whose proceedings started on Friday with a...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 08:11hrs | 103 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa off to AU summit
President Mnangagwa left the country yesterday for Mauritania, where he is set to join other African Heads of State and Government for the 31st ordinary session of the African Union Summit.The...Published: 30 Jun 2018 at 08:02hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga tightens grip on Zimbabwe government
VICE President Constatino Chiwenga has been given new responsibilities to administer Zimbabwe's public procurement processes, anti-corruption drive and key components of the Home Affairs ministry, ign...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 10:14hrs | 8353 | by Staff reporter
Zinara in bid to conceal graft
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) board has lifted the suspension order imposed on four senior managers who were sent home last year on alleged misconduct charges, arguing "the cases...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 14:49hrs | 950 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe's planes' torment Joram Gumbo
The long-drawn Zimbabwe Airways saga refuses to go away, with under-fire Transport minister Joram Gumbo now standing accused of shielding ousted former president Robert Mugabe's son-in-law, Simba Chik...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 14:11hrs | 3568 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's graft crusade a bark with no bite
THE failure to prosecute culprits has made Zimbabweans in Diaspora skeptical of their government's pledge to fight corruption and ultimately revive the economy.The doubts follow the lack of co...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 13:27hrs | 343 | by CAJ News
Goodson Nguni exposed in Undenge graft trial
Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc)'s investigative head, Goodson Nguni, was yesterday exposed for forcing a witness to testify against former Energy minister Samuel Undenge, who is facing crim...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 07:46hrs | 588 | by Staff reporter
Zimra boss exposes govt rot
The newly-appointed commissioner-general of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has blew the whistle on civil servants from the other arms of government who are working in cahoots to deprive the fi...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 14:21hrs | 3354 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF run council engulfed by graft storm
Tucked away in Shurugwi in the Midlands province, Tongogara rural district council [RDC] has dispelled the myth that corruption is an urban preserve.Most corruption cases that grab the headlin...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:38hrs | 202 | by Staff reporter
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