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Call for more arrests to stamp out corruption
Bulawayo is facing a corruption scandal within its city council, with land developers revealing that they have long been forced to pay bribes to city councillors to secure contracts. The allegations c...Published: 24 Nov 2024 at 10:09hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo enlists rangers to tackle illegal structures
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has taken decisive steps to address the increasing number of dangerous and unauthorized structures in the city, enlisting the help of rangers and urging the public to r...Published: 20 Nov 2024 at 06:49hrs | 1023 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga calls for good corporate governance
Vice President Dr. Constantino Chiwenga has called on business leaders to maintain the highest standards of corporate governance and transparency to promote private sector growth and strengthen Zimbab...Published: 20 Sep 2024 at 07:49hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
As long as ZACC isn't catching the 'big fish' then its work is useless!
The ZACC (Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission) has, of late, been bragging over its supposed 'successes'.ZACC commissioner Ndakaripa Hungwe recently told a national anti-corruption indaba in H...Published: 18 Jul 2024 at 15:02hrs | 671 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe launches corruption bait manual for cartels
In its quest to lure cartels into spreading their looting operation spree on devolution resources (funds), the Zimbabwean government on Wednesday launched an intergovernmental fiscal transfers system ...Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 14:29hrs | 48 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwean must report land deals corruption
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has emphasized the importance of a multi-sectoral approach to combat corruption, which is hindering the country's economic growth, and has urged the publ...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 07:43hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'Thievocracy' thriving in rural areas.
Wanton thieving, villages are under siege. It's so bad that no one trusts anyone anymore. The 'gold fingers', call them thieves, are striking almost every week. The treasure hunters move nocturnally l...Published: 17 Jun 2024 at 20:34hrs | 2 | by Murisa Chiweshe
The year Mnangagwa tightened grip on power
The air crackled with anticipation on November 22, 2017 as Zimbabwe witnessed a moment etched in history.Emmerson Mnangagwa, the man once cast out, returned to his homeland not as a fugitive, ...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 12:59hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa under fire
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition chair decries signing of Patriotic Act into lawCrisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) chair, Peter Mutasa has lamented the enactment of the Patriotic Act which he said ha...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:32hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Amnesty International urges Mnangagwa to reject Patriotic bill
RIGHTS watchdog Amnesty International has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to reject the Criminal Law Codification Amendment Bill known as Patriotic Bill saying it is a grave assault on human rights...Published: 10 Jun 2023 at 17:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean gold dealer claims to be well-protected
ZIMBABWEAN gold dealer Ewan Macmillan has made a sensational claim that President Emmerson Mnangagwa, whom he pays an undisclosed amount of money every month, jumps to his protection whenever he gets ...Published: 18 Apr 2023 at 20:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wanted SA rapist Thabo Bester skipped the country to Zimbabwe?
Thabo Bester skipped the country to Zimbabwe to lay low after escaping from the Mangaung maximum security prison where he allegedly paid R5 million to at least nine prison warders who helped him escap...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 16:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's name mired in underworld gold activities
FROM the Macmillan family and their gold-smuggling activities to the Kwekwe underworld mining adventures and Henrietta Rushwaya's sensational arrest three years ago, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's nam...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 14:00hrs | 56 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's spokesman refuses to comment on the Al Jazeera gold scandal snippets
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman George Charamba has refused to comment on the Al Jazeera gold scandal documentary, saying he doesn't respond to snippets."What do you want f...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 18:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt zeroes in on rogue teachers
GOVERNMENT has moved to uproot rogue teachers reportedly ill-treating pupils whose parents would have failed to pay for extra lessons.The latest case happened in Norton, Mashonaland West provi...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 06:16hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's SONA raises dust
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday urged legislators to finalise laws relating to elections and the controversial Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) (Amendment) Bill, which has been criticised...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 05:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZACC hit by resignations
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission has been losing highly skilled workers trained in investigating cases of corruption, especially cyber crimes, making it harder to track down and deal with sophi...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
'West abetting corruption in Zimbabwe'
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi on Tuesday accused Western countries of supporting organisations that have been breeding corruption in Zimbabwe in a bid to propagate a negative narrative that Preside...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:34hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Rich pickings for whistle-blowers
Whistle-blowers who outed corporates involved in tax-related offences have pocketed more than $29 million from the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) over the last four years after assisting the tax-m...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bigwigs threatening whistle-blowers
SENIOR government officials facing corruption charges are allegedly victimising whistle-blowers and their subordinates to stop them from testifying, Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chairper...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
US$20m externalised in Zimbabwe diamond sales
MORE than US$20 million was illegally moved out of the country's borders in murky deals involving blacklisted diamond dealer Jamal Ahmed in an opaque sale of one million carats of diamonds from the Mi...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 19:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZLHR pay tribute to brave journalists
ON World Press Freedom Day, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has paid tribute to the brave media practitioners in Zimbabwe and across the globe, who continue to pursue the truth despite the pe...Published: 03 May 2022 at 15:07hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Teachers defy government...vow to continue with extra lessons
The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe has vowed to defy a government directive barribg them from conducting extra lessons. Through a Twitter post on Tuesday, PTUZ said, "Teachers will con...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 11:32hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimra targets US$ tax evaders
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has launched an operation targeting companies not paying taxes in United States dollars despite selling their goods and services in foreign currency.Sect...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zacc seeks prosecuting powers
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has requested amendments to the Anti-Corruption Act to give it prosecuting powers.Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi tabled the Zacc 2021 report in...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zaac seeks prosecution powers
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) wants to be given prosecution powers to take cases it is investigating to court in order to speed up the process.Zacc argues that speeding up the...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 05:21hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Trial delays: Zacc, NPA in blame games
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has said it cannot be blamed for failure to prosecute high-profile corruption cases and shifted blame to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA)....Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:35hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
$11bn set aside for elections
TREASURY has allocated $11 billion to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to carry out its activities that include conducting by-elections next year.The by-elections, which will be held du...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 08:58hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Zacc urges perm secs not to drop their guard
ZIMBABWE Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chairperson Loice Matanda-Moyo has urged secretaries of ministries not to succumb to undue pressure from Cabinet ministers resulting in them misappropriating...Published: 02 Nov 2021 at 18:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jail term for leaking whistle-blowers' identity
Staff of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) who leak names or identify whistle-blowers will face jail terms of up to six months, along with ordinary disciplinary action under legal amendme...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I remained with Zuma to end state capture' says Ramaphosa vs Mnangagwa colluded with Mugabe to loot
History will show just how close the late Nelson Mandela's "Rainbow democratic South Africa" came to collapse and become just another African Banana Republic like Zimbabwe during former President Jaco...Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 20:40hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Ramaphosa throws Zuma under the bus
South African President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa has distanced himself from the former President Jacob Zuma administration's dealings with the infamous Gupta family that is accused of capturing the st...Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 10:52hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimra executives in US$585m tax evasion corruption scam
CORRUPTION skeletons involving a series of multi-billion-dollar tax evasion scandals are tumbling out of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) cupboard amid a new corruption scam involving Chinese di...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 11:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
How whistle-blowers are gaming the Zimra system
WHILE the gazetting of a statutory instrument on whistle-blowers who help sniff out tax evaders was seen as a useful move in promoting accountability, recent events and investigations have shown that ...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 15:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimra launches witch-hunt
TOP Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) executives are panicking over recent revelations by The NewsHawks of corruption involving the tax collector's multi-million-dollar whistle-blowing fund as they s...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 19:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa claims that fight against corruption has intensified
Zimbabwe is putting in place appropriate legislative and institutional arrangements to facilitate greater cooperation with other sates in the event of requests for mutual legal assistance, extradition...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Multi-million dollar whistleblowing corruption scandal rocks Zimra
MASSIVE corruption - which has dragged on for years - is rocking the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra)'s multi-million-dollar whistle-blower fund which the tax collector's senior officials are lootin...Published: 26 May 2021 at 16:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF is counting on miracle feeding for the constituents whose councils covets
For a while now, Zanu PF has made its illogical intentions to everyone who gives their valuable time to listen to it blow its own trumpet. Illogical intentions premised on basic lack of comprehension ...Published: 17 May 2021 at 10:34hrs | 1 | by Anesu Munyama
Zimra engulfed in corruption storm over whistle-blowers
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra), which operates a whistleblower facility in a bid to eradicate tax fraud and duty evasion, is caught in a damaging storm of corruption in which its senior office...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 16:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lifestyle audit for public prosecutors
THE National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has introduced lifestyle audits for prosecutors and support staff countrywide with a view to flushing out and prosecuting bad apples as the office intensifies ...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 04:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
2-week blackout for Hillside suburb
RESIDENTS of Hillside suburb in Bulawayo have gone for almost two weeks without electricity after thieves once again stole nearly 1km of copper cables along Percy Avenue in the suburb. The inc...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:18hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe blocked son-in-law, daughter and nephew over attempts to take over Telecel
WHILE the late former president Robert Mugabe's regime was corrupt and incompetent it allowed ministers, top civil servants and its business cronies to loot public resources Mugabe himself was very st...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa goes after foreigners, to review permits/visas for all foreigners
SOUTH Africa's Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has appointed a five-member committee to review permits and visas issued to most immigrants who have been in that country since 2004. He s...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zacc probes dismissal of four Harare water engineers
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is investigating how four senior managers in Harare City Council's Water Department were dismissed ahead of the forensic audit on council ordered by Pres...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo calls for defiance
A proposed new law criminalising the identification of rogue state agents committing rights abuses must be "defied with contempt", former minister Jonathan Moyo has said.Godfrey Gandawa, the f...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reportetr
'Walls collapsing for the corrupt'
IN the relentless fight against corruption, Government will not be deterred by malcontents, who abuse the name of the First Family to carry out their criminal activities, Information, Publicity and Br...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff writer
ZIMPARKS corruption and irregular appointments exposed
Whistle-blowers from ZIMPARKS have reported the wildlife authority to the Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission. The reports are over irregular appointments of 7 top executives at the authority. The off...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 07:37hrs | 9 | by Claris Magwenzi - Freelance journalist
Whistle-blowers help bust Covid-19 looters
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is on record calling on all those entrusted with managing resources earmarked for fighting Covid-19 to exercise a high degree of transparency and account...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:27hrs | | by Comm John Makamure
Zimbabwe does not have whistle-blowing legislation
Zimbabwe does not have a stand-alone law that sets out guidelines for persons who report incidents of corruption and misconduct, a new report has said. In its report, Platform to Protect Whistle-blowe...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 08:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Corruption busting whistle-blower app launched
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has, in partnership with various stakeholders including Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ), launched an online whistle-blower platform to encourag...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 20:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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