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US$400,000 tender lands ex-Harare officials in court
TWO former senior City of Harare officials were yesterday arraigned before the court to answer to a criminal abuse of office charge involving a fraudulent US$465 290 tender award for the Mbare Biogas ...Published: 02 Apr 2025 at 08:56hrs | 149 | by Staff reporter
Massive fuel theft rocks Zimbabwe Media Commission
Millions of Zimbabwe dollars have vanished from the Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC), with an internal audit revealing the misappropriation of approximately 77,000 liters of fuel over a 20-month period...Published: 26 Feb 2025 at 12:22hrs | 609 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Mutapa Fund likely to create oligarchs
FEARS abound that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's self-serving Mutapa Investment Fund project has hallmarks of how Russian state assets were sold for a song or brazenly stolen during its transition fro...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 13:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in another controversial move
In yet another controversial move, President Mnangagwa has published an Extraordinary Government Gazette exempting the newly renamed sovereign wealth fund from complying with the Procurement and Dispo...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 19:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Suspended Gweru town clerk faces car theft charge
GWERU mayor Hamutendi Kombayi yesterday ordered a senior council official to file a vehicle theft report against suspended acting town clerk Vakai Chikwekwe."We need to make a police report on...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 16:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt says 'disengaging' from controversial Univern contract
Transport minister Felix Mhona says the government has started disengaging from the controversial Univern contract after it was deemed inconsistent with the Procurement Act.This came aft...Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 05:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Row over Zesa US$3.9m tender
A TECHNOLOGY company has dragged the Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) to court, compelling the regulator to investigate a US$3.9 million contract issued by the Zimbabwe Electricity ...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally creams off US$60m from broke Zimbabwe municipalities
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Belarus ally is set to pocket over US$62 million if the murky deal that will see over 63 rural district councils, 32 urban local authorities and metropolitan provinces p...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 19:04hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Praz, Zacc descend on LSU
LUPANE State University (LSU) has been ordered to submit a detailed report on its procurement processes amid suspicions that the systems are flawed.Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Parly queries Chinamasa's role in TBs
FORMER finance and economic development minister Patrick Chinamasa approved a Treasury Bill (TB) worth over US$737, 9 million while his term had expired, a damning parliamentary report on the Command ...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 18:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
US$1,6bn Command Agriculture bombshell
A DAMNING parliamentary report on Command Agriculture has exposed how former Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa (pictured) and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe superintended over a murky and illegal proce...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 17:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Govt speaks on Wadyajena $3 million road deal
GOVERNMENT says the Golden Valley-Sanyati Road project being worked on by a company linked to Zanu-PF Gokwe-Nembudziya member of Parliament Justice Mayor Wadyajena is going ahead despite reservations ...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 17:08hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Parly exposes Zinara tender scam
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) unprocedurally awarded lucrative contracts to private entities to supply equipment and services that prejudiced the parastatal of huge amounts of mo...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Harare City Council taking ratepayers for granted
Harare City Council's abysmal record on matters of accountability would be funny if it was not so sad and infuriating. at a time its rate-paying and hard pressed residents are trying to make ends meet...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 23:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Council top brass in US$8m binge
FORMER Harare City council top brass are facing arrest for illegally authorising over US$8 million in packages for managers and splashing millions on allowances, personal vehicles and holidays that mi...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Harare HR director arrested for corruption
HARARE City Council's recently reinstated human resources director Cainos Chingombe was yesterday arrested by police working with the Special Anti-Corruption Unit (Sacu) for alleged criminal abuse of ...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fresh scandal rocks ZESA
AN external audit has unearthed a massive scandal implicating a senior Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) executive who allegedly prejudiced the struggling power utility of millions of dolla...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
More Bulawayo councillors face the axe
THE much-anticipated report on the Government-stipulated investigation on the conduct of Bulawayo City Councillors is out, with indications that some councillors' conduct was deemed inappropriate and ...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 04:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
AUDIO: Town clerk tried to warn Kambarami and his sidekick
BULAWAYO Town Clerk Mr Christopher Dube reportedly tried to warn the city's Deputy Mayor Councillor Tinashe Kambarami and his sidekick Councillor Silas Chigora, among others, against flouting procurem...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 09:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mangoma nailed over Zesa tender scam
PROCUREMENT and Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) chief executive Nyasha Chizu yesterday said former Energy minister Elton Mangoma violated the Procurement Act by giving a South Korean company a...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Biti threatens to recommend Zinara management dismissal
FORMER Finance Minister Tendai Biti Tuesday, threatened to recommend the dismissal of the entire Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) management over unclear tendering procedures and paymen...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:34hrs | 2 | by newzimbabwe
Potraz boss's trial in false start
Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Potraz) director-general Gift Kallisto Machengete's $1,4 million graft trial failed to kick off yesterday after he advised the court that he would b...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 12:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Perm sec's wife arrested at Supa's trial
THERE was drama at the Harare Magistrates' Courts yesterday when the wife of ICT ministry permanent secretary Sam Kundishora, Beaulla, was arrested for recording an audio of court proceedings in which...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:10hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Supa Mandiwanzira seeks exception to charges
Former Information Communication Technology and Cyber Security Minister Supa Mandiwanzira, who is facing criminal abuse of office charges, has made an application for exception. He argued on Thursday ...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:02hrs | | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's public procurement reform to catalyze greater transparency and development
During fiscal deficits and recessions, when the pressure on the economy is profound, governments face budget shortfalls. The negative impact of a recession can also be amplified when a country, like Z...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 12:52hrs | 1 | by Nazaneen Ismail
Zimbabwe: public procurement reform to catalyze greater transparency and development
During fiscal deficits and recessions, when the pressure on the economy is profound, governments face budget shortfalls. The negative impact of a recession can also be amplified when a country, like Z...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 18:20hrs | | by Nazaneen Ismail Ali
World Bank praises Zimbabwe's public reform system
THE World Bank has said it was impressed by Zimbabwe's public reform systems, saying the "reforms in Zimbabwe can also be a model to follow by other countries in the region, or the world."The ...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo cornered on fraud
THE criminal trial of Intratrek Zimbabwe (Pvt) Limited director Wicknell Chivayo will now proceed after the High Court in Harare overruled his bid to block prosecution on corruption charges involving ...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt defends questionable CAAZ tender
Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Joel Biggie Matiza yesterday dismissed claims in the private media alleging corruption in the procurement of airspace management and radar surveillan...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 18:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporrer
Potraz boss in court for corruption
POSTAL and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Potraz) director-general Gift Kallisto Machengete appeared at Harare Magistrates' Court yesterday facing criminal abuse of office charges after he a...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Setback for Kasukuwere
A Harare magistrate yesterday dismissed an application of exception to charges made by former Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere.The ex-Zanu-PF political commissar is facing three ch...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 11:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Kasukuwere delaying day of reckoning'
The State has accused former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere of boggling the court with frivolous applications in an effort to delay the commencement of his trial and his "day of reckoning."...Published: 29 Nov 2018 at 12:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere applies for exception
Former Cabinet Minister Saviour Kasukuwere, who is facing four counts of alleged abuse of office, yesterday made an application for exception on all the charges as he believes that he did not act crim...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 05:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell gets his passport back
Intratrek Zimbabwe Private Limited director Wicknell Chivayo got his passport back last week to enable him to travel to South Africa on business. Chivayo is facing charges of defrauding the Zi...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lumumba's appointment declined by government
Government has declined the appointment of Acie Lumumba as the so-called Spokesperson for the task force in the Ministry of Finance.ZimLive also reports that On Monday, Vice President Constant...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 21:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZMDC officials in court over criminal abuse of office
ZIMBABWE Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC)'s acting general manager Luke Akino and former board chairperson David Murangari appeared in court last week charged with criminal abuse of office after ...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chivayo case takes new twist
THE case of businessman and Intratrek (Private) Limited director Wicknell Chivayo has taken a new twist with the prosecution seeking to amend the charges against him and his company. This come...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:39hrs | 1 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Muchechetere fraud trial to commence
Ex-Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings chief executive Happison Muchechetere will now stand trial on charges of contravening the Procurement Act over the irregular purchase of an outside broadcasting (OB) ...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 14:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
4 ex-ministers face probe over Chivayo deals
FOUR former Energy ministers, who served under ex-President Robert Mugabe between 2013 and 2017 are being investigated for allegedly turning the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) into their feeding trough,...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 06:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
US firm gets Zimbabwe BVR tender
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has given an American company the nod to supply biometric voter registration (BVR) de-duplication hardware and software notwithstanding the court challenge of t...Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 05:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bid to block Zinara probe backfires
FOUR senior public officials, including two directors in the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development, have been suspended for trying to block investigations into the abuse of State funds...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 06:26hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Govt probe team recommends Zinara suspensions
A GOVERNMENT probe team set up to investigate possible abuse of State funds, particularly in contracts involving the rehabilitation of roads in rural district councils (RDCs), has recommended the susp...Published: 25 Aug 2017 at 06:01hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe assents to two bills
Zimbabweans looking to borrow money from banks will now be able to use cows and goats as collateral after President Robert Mugabe on Friday signed the Movable Property Security Interests Bill into law...Published: 07 Aug 2017 at 14:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Two bills await Mugabe's signature
Two bills have been received by President Robert Mugabe for them to be signed into law.Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda gave notice in the Government Gazette yesterday that the M...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 13:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
General Chiwenga guns for Jonathan Moyo
Constantino Chiwenga, the commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), has once again waded into the factional fights rattling the governing party, taking aim at Jonathan Moyo - the Zanu-PF politbu...Published: 28 Jun 2017 at 14:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai challenges Makarau
The Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC-T has filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court seeking to compel the State Procurement Board (SPB) to conduct site validation tests and publicly disclose...Published: 02 Apr 2017 at 17:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe to present ZNCC awards
First Lady, Dr Amai Grace Mugabe has arrived in Victoria Falls for the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce Congress where she is expected to hand over awards to companies and individuals who excelle...Published: 30 Jun 2016 at 15:32hrs | 2 | by Lloyd Gumbo
ZPC's corrupt tenders not reversible, says Mbiriri
GOVERNMENT is proceeding with tenders for Zimbabwe Power Company's power projects, as awarded by Statement Procurement Board to avoid delays in resolving the national power crisis and the legal conseq...Published: 13 May 2016 at 06:45hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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