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Zanu-PF a sanctuary for thieves
If one is a convicted felony and wants to start on a new page then Zanu PF is the right place to go. Dexter Nduna's moment of revelation that he killed many people is enough to have him question...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 14:15hrs | 977 | by AT Kadada
Corrupt cops feel the heat
POLICE have directed all policing provinces to set up investigating teams to probe graft and unprofessional conduct by law enforcement agents with a view to take disciplinary action against offenders ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:36hrs | 656 | by Staff reporter
Dismissal of Zacc commissioners commendable
Corruption in Zimbabwe has to be stamped out. On January 31, 2019, President Emmerson Mnangagwa fired the entire Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) in a move that was hailed as progressive....Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:28hrs | 550 | by Gloria Ndoro-Mkombachoto
Chamisa digs in on Mnangagwa talks
Pressure mounted on President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC Alliance Nelson Chamisa last week to engage in dialogue to solve the country's worsening economic and political crisis.Chamisa ignored ...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:21hrs | 1430 | by Staff reporter
Mandiwanzira seeks exception to graft charges
Former ICT minister Supa Collins Mandiwanzira yesterday filed an application for exception to the charges that he corruptly engaged a South African company, Megawatt to do consultancy work for NetOne ...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:42hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
'Skilled pros must run ZACC'
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission can only effectively discharge its duties if manned by skilled and untainted individuals eager to fight graft, analysts said yesterday. ZACC chairperson...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:44hrs | 83 | by Staff reporter
ZACC reconfiguration was long overdue
The acceptance by President Emmerson Mnangagwa of the resignation of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) chairperson, Dr Job Whabira and his Commissioners has brought a sigh of relief to th...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:16hrs | 322 | by Elijah Chihota
Corruption-PFee Mubini brings new ideas for tackling corruption
Corruption damages the social and institutional fabric of a country and it's a scourge that cannot be changed, from corrupt to clean, simply by relying on the government to enact and enforce laws....Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 12:03hrs | 1170 | by Moses Mugugunyeki
MDC blasts Mnangagwa
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC yesterday demanded to know the full reasons why the Job Whabira-led Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) was disbanded as there were suspicions that the move was polit...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 05:59hrs | 1638 | by Staff reporter
Anti-corruption commission corrupt, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says he will next week restructure the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) as part of his fight against graft, arguing it had become a haven for corruption....Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 14:08hrs | 1511 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dissolves Zacc
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday disbanded the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) amid claims that it had become a white elephant, with some of the members allegedly involved in corrupt ...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 09:51hrs | 1576 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-corruption fight set to get fresh impetus
President Mnangagwa's anti-corruption fight is set to get fresh impetus following the resignation of Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) chairman Dr Job Whabira and his entire commission yester...Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 23:04hrs | 880 | by Staff reporter
Anti-graft commissioners resign
Commissioners of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) have resigned with immediate effect.In statement, the Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda said Presi...Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 20:53hrs | 555 | by Staff Reporter
Anti-Corruption Commision resignations must be explained in full
The MDC notes with suspicion the release of information pertaining to resignations at the anti-corrution commission.While we would accept that the commissioners had failed dismally to deliver ...Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 13:50hrs | 1806 | by Jacob Mafume MDC National Spokesperson
Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe now ranked 160th on world corruption index
Zimbabwe is now ranked 160th most corrupt country out of 180 countries down from index from the 157 ranking of 2017, according to a report by Transparency International (TI), ...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 14:26hrs | 1815 | by Staff reporter
MDC MPs, councillors in $60m scandal
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has opened an investigation against 23 MDC councillors and two National Assembly members implicated in a $60 million tender scandal.Other charges...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 18:59hrs | 442 | by Staff reporter
Special court for Machaya graft case
A Bulawayo regional magistrate and prosecutors from Harare will handle the high profile case involving Mashonaland West provincial administrator Cecilia Chitiyo, former Minister of State for Midlands ...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 16:57hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-graft body in turmoil
Back in the days, we had a teacher we nicknamed "Rubbish". That was a bit unflattering and unfair, of course, but he earned that moniker because, at the drop of the hat, he would always exclaim, "Good...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 22:27hrs | 524 | by Tawanda Majoni
Chamisa's messy takeover and other 2018 highlights
AFTER nearly 40 years of former guerrilla leader Robert Mugabe's rule, 2018 opened with the successor he did not want, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, consolidating his rule and embarking on a global ch...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 18:04hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally sucked into $33m shady deal
TRANSPORT and Infrastructural Development minister Joel Biggie Matiza is entangled in a multi-million dollar Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (Caaz) scandal after he reportedly authorised a €28 ...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 21:53hrs | 486 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Judges lock horns
A battle of the titans has ensued between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the highest court in the land after the first citizen threw down the gauntlet by accusing some of the Constitutional Court (C...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:53hrs | 2865 | by Staff reporter
Corruption unit raises flag over Kasukuwere, Supa Mandiwanzira training
The Special Anti-Corruption Unit in the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) has questioned the engagement of two prominent politicians for work-related training at the Harare Magistrates' Court ...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 08:36hrs | 1381 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa not genuine in dealing with political corruption'
Zimbabwe's transition to a democratic and economic recovery is shadowy due to a lack of political will to fight corruption, a local political think tank has said.In its December 2018 report, t...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 19:49hrs | 1493 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's transition in prisoner's dilemma
This study interrogated two fundamental indicators of transition in the "quality of government" (service delivery and corruption reduction) in Zimbabwe since November 2017.Undergirding the stu...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 18:52hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister sucked into $33m shady deal
TRANSPORT and Infrastructural Development minister Joel Biggie Matiza is entangled in a multi-million dollar Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (Caaz) scandal after he reportedly authorised a €28 ...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 18:52hrs | 1508 | by Staff reporter
Finance Minister stirs controversy
Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube has divided opinion after appointing his permanent secretary, George Guvamatanga, to the board of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra)....Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 16:34hrs | 2327 | by Staff Reporter
Officials arrested for failing lifestyle audit
Police have arrested two Zimbabwe Revenue Authority employees after they failed a lifestyle audit initiated by the Special Prosecuting Unit in the Office of the President and Cabinet.After com...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 09:02hrs | 2607 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-graft prosecutor in bribery storm
ONE of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's anti-corruption special unit prosecutors, Zivanai Macharaga, has allegedly been accused of demanding a $20 000 bribe from a former Cabinet minister, who is facing...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 05:55hrs | 915 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fumes over R5 million bribe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, blew his gasket on Wednesday and put his ministers on notice, after he received damaging reports that some of them were demanding bribes from investors to facilitate meet...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 14:02hrs | 1183 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's 'arrest and release on bail' program exposed
The new dispensation government led by President Mnangagwa on dealing with corruption has turned to be a talkshop staged cosmetics theatre which Zimbabweans are not ready for in the brink of a collaps...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 16:38hrs | 13436 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Moment of truth for Phillip Chiyangwa
He would have preferred to be unopposed this time around as he seeks re-election as the Zifa president.Flamboyant businessman and National Assembly member for Zvimba South Phillip Chiyangwa di...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 06:34hrs | 3909 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa top aide demands R5m bribe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed that one of his top aides demanded R5 million from a prospective South African investor, reflecting the challenge he faces to rid his administration of graft ...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 05:55hrs | 2756 | by Staff reporter
Oscar Pambuka, Maziwisa released from jail
Former Highfield Member of Parliament Psychology Maziwisa and ZTV news anchor Oscar Pambuka have been released from prison on $800 bail each.The pair had appealed again...Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 13:38hrs | 2451 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Blacklist firms engaged in corruption'
GOVERNMENT has been urged to blacklist companies engaging in corrupt activities as part of its drive to fight graft. Industrialist, Mr Busisa Moyo, said corruption discourages fair competition...Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 05:21hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's quiet transformation
When ED came to power just over a year ago, many of us were expecting big things. And fast. The situation was just so bad under Bob and Grace's misrule, that when, in those heady days of Novem...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 19:48hrs | 7549 | by Joice Tsitsi
Calls for diaspora vote at ZANU PF conference
The upcoming ZANU PF conference is a perfect stage for ZANU PF to demonstrate that it is reshaping and recreating itself into a modern party that is worth a sit at the table of global powerhouses....Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 11:08hrs | 3414 | by Fidelis Fengu
Zacc opens Bulawayo office
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) which was instrumental in enforcing repatriation of about $1 billion worth of stolen funds and property this year has opened an office in Bulawayo as it ...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 06:11hrs | 1735 | by Staff reporter
Was Nelson Chamisa right after all?
I liked Emmerson Mnangagwa and I cheered him on in-person and through my writings but today I am write in utter despair at what my hero has turned out to be. Could there be some element of truth to Ch...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 21:20hrs | 8589 | by Wezhira Sam
Mnangagwa's graft probe targets judges
With President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration desperate to restore public trust, a senior government official has said the anti-corruption dragnet has been extended to cover all judicial officers...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 14:10hrs | 1585 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Oscar Pambuko, Maziwisa sentenced to 6 years
Former Highfield Member of Parliament Psychology Maziwisa and Former ZBC News anchor Oscar Pambuka who were facing two counts of fraud have been found guilty and sentenced to 6 years and 5 month...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 15:59hrs | 6299 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Oscar Pambuka and Maziwisa found guilty
Former Highfield Member of Parliament Psychology Maziwisa and Former ZBC News anchor Oscar Pambuka who were facing two counts of fraud have been found guilty.The duo duped Zi...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 15:00hrs | 3352 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZACC bemoans duplication of work
POOR coordination between the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) and the police's anti-graft unit has resulted in duplication of investigations and a waste of the State's resources, a top ZACC...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 05:52hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter
Corruption damaging Zimbabwe recovery
TRANSPARENCY International's 2017 corruption perception index ranked Zimbabwe number 157 out of 180 countries. Using a scale of 0 to 100 (where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean), Zimbabwe has...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 06:03hrs | 970 | by Paddington Masamha
ZACC, ZRP duplicating roles
POOR coordination between the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) and the police's anti-graft unit has resulted in duplication of investigations and a waste of State resources, a top ZACC offic...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 05:48hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
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 | 3989 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's selective arrests erode anti-graft campaign
ZIMBABWEANS, who were very hopeful for progress after President Emmerson Mnangagwa's call for zero tolerance to corruption in his maiden speech, have reason to now feel despondent.Talk is chea...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 06:12hrs | 876 | by Editorial - newsday
18 November 2017 - the day of Zimbabwe's delusional politics!
I have just been reading some testimonies from some of the people who partook in the 18 November 2017 mass protests against Robert Gabriel Mugabe's 37 year long tyranny - and the tremendous hopes that...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 13:32hrs | 2510 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Greed, graft major undoings for Zimbabwe
Over the years, the Zanu-PF leadership has taken the country and its citizens down a bottomless pit where recovery is proving very difficult.Since independence from the British in 1980, when t...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 11:52hrs | 1394 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya raided by Zimra as part of its lifestyle audits
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority last week raided Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries leader Prophet Walter Magaya as part of its lifestyle audits.Zimra has been seeking clarity on how ...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:40hrs | 921 | by Staff reporter
Chief Justice on laxity in corruption cases
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba yesterday breathed fire over some magistrates' lackadaisical approach to high profile corruption cases, which has resulted in the collapse of cases and unjustified release of...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 06:36hrs | 531 | by Staff reporter
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