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Mnangagwa's govt to probe State capture allegations
THE government will investigate allegations of State capture made by Prosecutor-General (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi early this month, Vice President Kembo Mohadi told Parliament on Wednesday.This come...Published: 4 hrs ago | 302 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa equates corruption to cancer
The New Dispensation is on a vigorous drive to eliminate all forms of corruption from all sectors of society as they are a cancer that impedes meaningful development to take place, Harare Post can rep...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 18:28hrs | 720 | by Innocent Mujeri
Mohadi urges Hodzi to shed light on cartels remarks
Prosecutor-General Mr Kumbirai Hodzi should explain what he meant when he said most State institutions were captured by cartels, Vice President Kembo Mohadi has said. VP Mohadi said this in th...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 05:43hrs | 994 | by Staff reporter
Zacc ropes citizens in anti-graft fight
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Committee (Zacc) has called on members of the public to join the commission it the fight against corruption which has become a national crisis.Speaking on the side...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 13:24hrs | 635 | by Staff reporter
'Corrupt politicians snub Zacc meetings'
POLITICIANS have been snubbing public meetings organised by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), raising questions on their willingness to fight the scourge, a commissioner with the graft-b...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 06:16hrs | 374 | by Staff reporter
'Anti-graft fight no longer a Zacc, ZRP thing'
Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) spokesperson John Makamure yesterday said the anti-graft body and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) were unable to deal with highly connected cartels at the...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:54hrs | 272 | by Staff reporter
Youths, vendors join anti-corruption fight
VENDORS and activists have joined the anti-graft fight spearheaded by suspended Zanu-PF youth league leaders, Godfrey Tsenengamu and Lewis Matutu, vowing to take the fight to corrupt officials' doorst...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 17:37hrs | 589 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt struggling to contain graft,' says Ziyambi
THE government is facing hurdles in its efforts to deal with corruption, despite hoping that the new Money Laundering Act will provide the answers, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi told Senators this ...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 07:01hrs | 487 | by Staff reporter
176 Zimra officers fired for corruption
ONE-HUNDRED-AND-SEVENTY-SIX Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officers were either suspended or dismissed between 2016 and last year for allegedly smuggling 433 vehicles into the country, according t...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:25hrs | 1785 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube key witness in Jokonya trial
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube is billed to testify as one of the chief witnesses in Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) board chairperson Callisto Mazorodze Jokonya's graft trial.Jokonya is bei...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 18:20hrs | 2241 | by Staff reporter
ZACC to launch anti-corruption strategy
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has said the country's anti-corruption strategy is expected to be launched by the end of April as a draft document is already in place.Last year ...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:22hrs | 819 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo businessman fights for freedom
PROMINENT Bulawayo businessman Ismail Moosa Lunat, who is accused of fuelling the forex black market, money laundering and externalisation of more than US$2,2 million, has approached the High Court ch...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:17hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
Zacc won't be used to settle personal scores
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's lethargic approach in the fight against corruption has raised the spectre of distrust towards his administration's will to fight graft. The appointment of Loice ...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:53hrs | 1123 | by Staff reporter
Don't shush the PG please!
OUR worst fears have been confirmed that Prosecutor-General (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi would land himself into trouble for confirming the mechanics behind the rot that is destroying this country's economy af...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:26hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube slams silencing of youths
FORMER War Veterans minister Tshinga Dube has slammed the suspension and silencing of Zanu-PF youth leaders who spoke out against graft, adding that the named cartels should prove their innocence and ...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 07:55hrs | 4846 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa waiting for Mnangagwa to come to the negotiating table
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has said he would patiently wait for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to come to the negotiating table, adding that any other options available to him came with dire c...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 07:54hrs | 1106 | by Staff reporter
'Revolutions if don't chuck out leaders a.s.a.p' said G Orwell - 40 years, our supremacists still there
"Despite all the hurdles and all the barriers, Zimbabwe in 2019 leaped 15 places in the Global Ease of Doing Business rankings. As we look to improve this in 2020, privatisation is a big part of this ...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 21:43hrs | 1256 | by Nomusa Garikai
Anti-graft rhetoric leading us nowhere
THE public admission by Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi that corrupt cartels have captured key government institutions including the police and judiciary demonstrates that as long as the fight again...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 10:39hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
The people using Tsenengamu and Matutu exposed
The excitement caused by the press Statements issued by the former youth league leaders is short-lived and a none event. The behaviour of the youth was not only disgusting but indeed depressing and fl...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 10:03hrs | 4061 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Axed Zanu-PF youth leaders in extortion storm
TWO of the three former Zanu-PF youth leaders, who were axed from their positions last week, allegedly extorted goods and services from businessman and Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) cha...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 06:07hrs | 4227 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa is the godfather of Zimbabwe corruption'
MDC Vice President and legislator Tendai Biti has accused maverick business mogul and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally, Kuda Tagwirei of capturing and running the country's Finance Ministry....Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 21:29hrs | 4821 | by Staff reporter
Tsenengamu returns Zanu-PF Ford Ranger, denies CIA link
SUSPENDED Zanu-PF youth league bosses, who faced the wrath of the party politburo last week, have had their salaries and allowances frozen and all benefits that came with their posts garnished....Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 21:23hrs | 7289 | by Staff reporter
Zacc, NPA claims to be fighting cartels
THE National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission have said they are taking the corruption fight to cartels that have captured various institutions including the jud...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 05:39hrs | 327 | by Staff reporter
Kuda Tagwirei is Zimbabwe's de-facto Finance Minister, says Biti
MDC Vice President and legislator Tendai Biti has accused maverick business mogul and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally, Kuda Tagwirei of capturing and running the country's Finance Ministry....Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 05:30hrs | 3248 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's game of fools to deceive the downtrodden
THIS week, two leaders of the Zanu-PF youth league were seen in public ranting against corruption. These were sights reminiscent of youths high on "bronco", shouting at their own reflections in the lo...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 21:12hrs | 453 | by Muckraker
Zacc probes cartel kingpins - Tagwirei and Billy
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption yesterday said it was investigating allegations of corruption levelled against business tycoons and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies Kudakwashe Tagwirei, Billy Rauten...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 06:08hrs | 3043 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance mayor arrested
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has arrested Victoria Falls Mayor Councillor Somvelo Dlamini for alleged abuse of office. ZACC officials picked up Clr Dlamini who is also MDC-Al...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 05:36hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
Anti-graft body swoops on Command Agric looters
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has begun swooping on farmers and companies that were repackaging inputs obtained from the Special Grain and Oil Seed programme - commonly known as Comma...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 05:47hrs | 769 | by Staff reporter
Of Zimbabwe's educated fools, thinkers
LAST week, Higher and Tertiary Education minister Amon Murwira made a startling revelation in as far as the Zimbabwean education system is concerned.Speaking at a Zanu-PF meeting in Masvingo, ...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 16:19hrs | 1032 | by Cliff Chiduku
Zanu-PF rocked by fresh power struggles
A FRESH power struggle has erupted in Zanu-PF, with senior officials clashing over the suspension of Youth League leaders during Wednesday's stormy politburo meeting in what insiders have described as...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 06:12hrs | 2649 | by Staff reporter
Zimra recovers only $80 million
National revenue collector, the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra), intensified war against graft and other forms of crime resulting in the recovery of $80 million during the fourth quarter to Decembe...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 05:40hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter
Biti amazed by Mnangagwa's response to an attempt to expose corruption
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's unpopular move to suspend corruption busting party youth leaders has triggered a negative reaction from among locals who accuse the national leader of condoning the vice...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 18:23hrs | 5550 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa now weak and vulnerable
ZANU-PF yesterday summarily fired President Emmerson Mnangagwa's close allies, youth league leader Pupurai Togarepi and his deputy Lewis Matutu, from its top decision-making body, the politburo, for "...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 18:22hrs | 9222 | by Staff reporter
Matutu dares Mnangagwa
SUSPENDED Zanu-PF youth league deputy secretary Lewis Matutu has refused to back down on a surprise anti-corruption crusade, posting on Twitter that "the fight continues".Matutu was adamant he...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 12:08hrs | 11131 | by Staff Reporter
Tsenengamu defiant on Tagwirei graft claims
UNDER-FIRE Zanu PF youth league national commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu says he has no regrets in naming business mogul Kudakwashe Tagwirei as corrupt, an action that has elicited his summary suspension...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 06:27hrs | 3072 | by newzimbabwe.com
Heads roll in Zanu PF
ZANU PF yesterday summarily fired President Emmerson Mnangagwa's close allies, youth league leader Pupurai Togarepi and his deputy Lewis Matutu, from its top decision-making body, the politburo, for "...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 06:25hrs | 6485 | by Staff reporter
Another Zanu PF youth side show presser
The cartels and their cohorts causing the economic hardships in the country are real and President Emmerson Mnangagwa, ought to flex his muscles than just a talk. If the whole nation wan...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 12:34hrs | 2049 | by Leonard Koni
Maitengwe border exposed for corruption
THE Deputy Minister of Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services, Dingumuzi Phuthi, has called on relevant authorities to deal with corruption at Maitengwe Border Post that has...Published: 03 Feb 2020 at 05:30hrs | 1227 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe at war
THIS country is at war with itself — a silent but ruthless war nonetheless. It is a war to annihilate the stink being encrusted on its foreign image with those elsewhere in the global village who sn...Published: 01 Feb 2020 at 06:28hrs | 1015 | by Stephen Mpofu
Mnangagwa's hollow graft rhetoric detached from reality
A RECENT report by Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) showing the country is losing a staggering US$1,8 billion annually to corruption is a damning indictment on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 19:15hrs | 203 | by Tinashe Kairiza
Zimbabwe to recruit 200 prosecutors to fight graft
THE National Prosecution Authority (NPA) has been given the nod to recruit 200 public prosecutors for special anti-corruption courts across the country. The development comes as prosecutors se...Published: 30 Jan 2020 at 08:42hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
Nyarota sues Zimpapers
Veteran journalist Geoffrey Nyarota is suing Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) Limited (Zimpapers) for $500,000 over a story published by The Sunday Mail which claimed that he had been investigated by the Zi...Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 15:17hrs | 1758 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's graft commission yet to meet
A ZANU-PF commission of inquiry set up by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in August last year to investigate bigwigs accused of corruption by the party's youth league has not met since then to deal with ...Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 14:42hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF bigwigs' investigation grows old
A Zanu-PF commission of inquiry set up by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in August last year to investigate bigwigs accused of corruption by the party's youth league has not met since then to deal with ...Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 07:25hrs | 4364 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe urged to strengthen graft investigation tactics
Zimbabwe must take a leaf from Uganda to strengthen its investigation tactics and subsequent prosecution, to ensure convictions on cases of corruption, Uganda's top anti-corruption judge has said. Whi...Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 07:07hrs | 80 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe anti-graft fight isn't for the faint-hearted'
CHIEF JUSTICE Luke Malaba has said the fight against corruption is failing because those enthrusted with tackling the scourge were faint-hearted and did not have the spine to confront it headlong, res...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 12:55hrs | 225 | by Staff reporter
Huge salaries for anti-graft officials
GOVERNMENT is taking extraordinary measures to ring-fence all officers employed by the special anti-corruption courts through paying them competitive salaries and allowances. The Government be...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 12:36hrs | 474 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe improves on graft ranking
Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) has expressed disappointment over the country moving only two places upwards to be ranked 158th out of 180 countries in the newly-released Corruption Percepti...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:25hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
Passport scam: Kazembe takes action
FOLLOWING our article titled "Shocking corruption at Passport Office", which exposed deep-rooted graft at the Passport and Birth Registry offices, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe K...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:12hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
ZACC probes drug thefts at hospitals
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is now monitoring public hospitals and clinics to curb thefts and ensure drugs are not diverted to the black market. This follows checks that wer...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 05:14hrs | 443 | by Staff reporter
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