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Mupfumira case deferred
Harare regional magistrate Mr Crispen Mberewere yesterday deferred the criminal abuse of office charges against former Cabinet minister Prisca Mupfumira and ex-Public Service, Labour and Social Welfar...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:44hrs | 362 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt too poor to pin down corrupt bigwigs
JUSTICE Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has admitted it was not easy for the state to go after corrupt bigwigs he said had a tendency of deploying all their financial might to fight their crimes within natio...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:26hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
High-profile people in Zimbabwe to be jailed for corruption
THE government says the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) are not doing enough to bring to book high profile people accused of corruption....Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 20:13hrs | 3117 | by Staff reporter
High Court orders Mupfumira trial
HIGH Court judges Pisirayi Kwenda and Benjamin Chikowero have ordered that former Tourism and Hospitality minister Prisca Mupfumira go for trial after throwing out her application in which she sought ...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 06:50hrs | 737 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira's bid to stop trial flops
Former Cabinet Minister Prisca Mupfumira had her application to stay her trial without exhausting remedies available at the lower courts thrown out yesterday in a judgment in which the High Court chas...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 05:39hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Linda Masarira pens damning letter to Mnangagwa
Dear @edmnangagwa When you got into office, a lot of people had high expectations that you would clean up the mess left by Mugabe. We expected a corrupt-free cabinet & fiscal discipline to ensure ...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 11:16hrs | 5729 | by Linda Masarira
Big wigs in court
Several top government officials yesterday appeared in court on routine remand as their trials have not yet began.First to appear before Harare regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya was former Home...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 09:27hrs | 2900 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira, Masoka bid for longer remand denied
FORMER Cabinet Minister Prisca Mupfumira and ex-Secretary for Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Ngoni Masoka yesterday had their request to have their hearing set for May turned down. ...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 07:51hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira bid for longer remand denied
FORMER Cabinet Minister Prisca Mupfumira and ex-Secretary for Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Ngoni Masoka yesterday had their request to have their hearing set for May turned down. ...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 07:14hrs | 568 | by Steve Grays
Zanu-PF to revive bush bakeries
ZANU-PF political commissar Victor Matemadanda says his party has directed all party wards to construct bakeries this week as the cost of bread has gone beyond the reach of many.Speaking in Ch...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 07:34hrs | 160 | 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 | 882 | by Innocent Mujeri
Judgment reserved on Mupfumira application
THE High Court has reserved judgment on an application by former Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister Prisca Mupfumira for a review of a magistrate's dismissal of her original ...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 05:26hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Priority shifts to investigations, asset recovery
The commission has so far this year received more than 60 reports of suspected corruption.The reports were received through walk-in clients, by telephone, through letters, email and use of soc...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:32hrs | 99 | by Comm John Makamure
Muchinguri's faction behind Tsenengamu and Lewis Matutu?
Chris Mutsvangwa began his solo anti Kuda Tagwirei crusade in 2018 during an interview with the Standard he said, "One of the optimal conditions to attract investment is free competition. The RB...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 13:05hrs | 3652 | by Nicholas Ncube
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 | 280 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira granted relief
Former Tourism minister Priscah Mupfumira was last Friday granted relief after she applied for stay of her criminal prosecution at the High Court.Mupfumira is facing abuse of office charges an...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 06:51hrs | 954 | 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 | 369 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira contests magistrate's decision
Former Cabinet Minister Prisca Mupfumira and ex-permanent secretary in the Ministry of Public Service and Social Welfare Ngoni Masoka have filed an application at the High Court for review of a Harare...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 15:30hrs | 1416 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira's application for exception dismissed
Deputy chief magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi yesterday dismissed an application for exception of charges filed by the former Tourism minister Priscah Mupfumira, who is facing a criminal abuse of office ...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 06:09hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira corruption trial further deferred
The trial of former Public Service minister Priscah Mupfumira, who is facing criminal abuse of office charges was again deferred yesterday after the State indicated that it was not ready for trial....Published: 02 Feb 2020 at 12:06hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira to file for refusal of further remand
FORMER Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister, Prisca Mupfumira will have to wait a little bit longer for her trial, amid indications that investigations into her criminal abuse of office case are ...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 19:59hrs | 1267 | 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 | 4372 | by Staff reporter
Former Zimbabwe consular to UAE removed from remand
BUSINESSMAN and former Zimbabwe Honorary Consular for Investment and Trade in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Shamiso Fred, who was facing US$1,4 million fraud allegations, was yesterday removed from ...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 12:59hrs | 1105 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira remains suspended from Zanu PF
The Zanu PF Mashonaland West Provincial Executive Council (PEC) has reaffirmed that former Cabinet Minister Prisca Mupfumira remains suspended from all elected positions pending a determination by the...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:17hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira trial in false start
Former cabinet minister Prisca Mupfumira's trial failed to start Thursday morning after the State failed to provide documents requested for by the defendant's defence team.Mupfumira, who is jo...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:41hrs | 2104 | by Staff reporter
Noose hangs over bigwigs as ZACC sharpens its claws
The anti-corruption drive has moved a gear up towards prosecution of individuals fingered in graft, with fresh revelations the Attorney-General's Office is now being ropped in to team up with the Nati...Published: 29 Dec 2019 at 07:46hrs | 3139 | by Staff Reporter
Pressure mounts on NSSA board
LABOUR minister Paul Mavhima has descended heavily on the Cuthbert Chidoori-led National Social Security Authority (NSSA) board and ordered it to restore order at the scandal-ridden pension scheme....Published: 15 Dec 2019 at 12:14hrs | 1659 | by Staff reporter
'Mupfumira not mentally fit for trial'
FORMER Cabinet Minister Prisca Mupfumira's trial yesterday failed to kick off after her legal representative told the court that she was not mentally fit to stand trial and that a psychiatrist had rec...Published: 10 Dec 2019 at 06:44hrs | 2032 | by Staff reporter
ZACC intensifies asset recovery
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) intensified its asset recovery programme in the past two weeks by impounding several vehicles suspected of being smuggled into the country without paymen...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 05:52hrs | 135 | by Comm John Makamure
POLAD takes on NSSA corruption
Participants in the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) spearheaded by President Mnangagwa will discuss the corruption ravaging the National Social Security Authority (NSSA), MDC-T vice president Obert ...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 18:53hrs | 1766 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister caught in messy scandal
INDUSTRY and Commerce minister Sekai Nzenza has been accused of failing to pay back US$8 000 she allegedly took from the corruption-ridden National Social Security Authority (NSSA) under the guise of ...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:01hrs | 3806 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa Cabinet reshuffle sparks uproar
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured)'s cabinet reshuffle has caused consternation in government and Zanu-PF as officials believe it was motivated by the need to consolidate and retain power rather ...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:20hrs | 1905 | by Staff reporter
Politburo on tomorrow - Khaya Moyo
THE ruling Party, Zanu-PF will convene the Ordinary Session of the Politburo tomorrow at the party headquarters.The party's Secretary for Information and Publicity Simon Khaya Moyo confirmed i...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 16:08hrs | 1294 | by Staff Reporter
NSSA rot sucks in another minister
FORMER Public Service minister Sekai Nzenza allegedly ordered State pension manager, National Social Security Authority (NSSA) to pay $1,8 million to a group of local experts she handpicked to unpack ...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:27hrs | 5244 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to axe bigwigs
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is planning to make further changes to his Cabinet after last Friday's mini-reshuffle that saw some ministers being redeployed and new deputies appointed, it has emerged....Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 09:02hrs | 10664 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa expands Cabinet
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday reshuffled his Cabinet and expanded his administration by splitting the Home Affairs ministry in his second reshuffle since the election in July last year....Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 10:09hrs | 1485 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga in remarkable recovery, returning home soon
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga, who was airlifted to China from South Africa in July amid poisoning fears, is preparing to return home after making a remarkable recovery at a top hospital in Beij...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 05:18hrs | 1916 | by Staff reporter
Joram Gumbo arrest political game: Churches
ZIMBABWE Heads of Christian Denominations executive secretary Bishop Kenneth Mtata yesterday said the arrest of Presidential Affairs minister Joram Gumbo by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Za...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 11:41hrs | 1520 | by Staff reporter
ZACC closes in on 44 bigwigs
Forty-four serving and former Cabinet ministers, permanent secretaries, parastatal bosses and legislators are facing "imminent" arrest for corruption, Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) chairp...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 11:29hrs | 858 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira trial dates postponed
The trial of former Tourism minister Priscah Mupfumira, who is facing charges of criminal abuse of office and money laundering, failed to kick off yesterday after the State said, it wanted more time t...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 06:55hrs | 886 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Joram Gumbo arrested
Former Transport Minister Joram Gumbo was arrested on Monday accused of corruption involving a US$70 million deal to acquire four planes from Malaysian Airlines.The planes were sold to Zimbabw...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 11:33hrs | 9689 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa regime's attempt to mis-locate Zimbabwe's problems
Today, the regime in Zimbabwe has bussed the hapless victims of its unmitigated cluelessness in a vain attempt to mis-locate the country's problems in far-away Europe and Washington.As the hun...Published: 26 Oct 2019 at 07:54hrs | 900 | by Luke Batsirai Tamborinyoka
Obert Mpofu lawsuit headache for Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa faces a headache over the legal action taken by Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu against the party's youth league deputy secretary Lewis Matutu where the f...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 17:59hrs | 18531 | by Staff Reporter
Mupfumira's trial to kick off on the 4th
The state has completed investigations into four of the nine criminal abuse of office charges against former Minister of Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry, Priscah Mupfumira, to pave way f...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 21:40hrs | 1361 | by Staff reporter
Naming and shaming corrupt Bigwigs is not enough: They ought to rot in jail - Nomboka
Responding to a question posed by this reporter during a live interview on ‘what should have been done by seating parliamentarians which they were apparently not doing to put an immediate stop to ra...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:24hrs | 494 | by Agencies
Mupfumira to lose Senate seat, Central Committee position
FIRED Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister Prisca Mupfumira is set to lose her Senatorial seat and Zanu-PF Central Committee position after Mashonaland West Province, where she comes...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 07:09hrs | 1461 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira faces fresh charges
Former Minister of Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry, Prisca Mupfumira, today appeared in court on fresh charges of criminal abuse of office.The court heard that sometime in Octobe...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 19:52hrs | 104 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira ejected from Politburo meeting
Sacked Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister and Zanu-PF Politburo member Prisca Mupfumira, who is on $5 000 bail for alleged criminal abuse of office, was ejected from yesterday's ex...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 08:44hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF to fire Prisca Mupfumira
President Ememerson Mnangagwa is reportedly initiating a move to fire embattled former Minister of Tourism Prisca Mupfumira from her Politiburo post due to the web of corruption allegations that...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 17:55hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
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