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3 Zimra officers involved in 'well-thought-out' fuel fraud arrested
Three Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) employees stationed at Chirundu Border Post have been arrested on fraud charges, while another is on the run, accused of conspiring to misrepresent the passage...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 06:33hrs | 958 | by Staff reporter
Zimstats boss 'claimed $4,000 school fees for a fictitious child'
Taguma Mahonde, the Director General of the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStats), made a court appearance on Thursday, facing allegations of fraud for purportedly claiming a $4,000 school fe...Published: 28 Sep 2023 at 17:03hrs | 943 | by Staff reporter
Zimstat boss arrested by ZACC over fraud
Taguma Mahonde, the Director General of Zimbabwe's National Statistics Agency (Zimstat), finds himself in legal trouble as he has been apprehended by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) on ...Published: 26 Sep 2023 at 19:30hrs | 1305 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa set to announce major shakeup of government bureaucracy
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to implement a major shake-up of the bureaucracy in the coming weeks with several high-profile departures and appointments.Misheck Sibanda, the chief secret...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 19:44hrs | 904 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's lawyer allegedly received a bribe to conceal racism
PROMINENT attorney Advocate Thabani Mpofu, popularly known as the legal representative of Nelson Chamisa, involved in a wrangle with Zimbabwean-Croat Joseph Crnkovic, a former finance officer for Cheg...Published: 16 Sep 2023 at 22:40hrs | 1323 | by Staff reporter
Man in court for forging bank statements
A 25-year-old resident of Harare appeared before Magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa and was accused of forging bank statements for individuals applying for United Kingdom visas. The accused, Luke Sibanda, h...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 06:26hrs | 596 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira bounces back as Zanu-PF Senator
FORMER Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister, Priscah Mupfumira, accused of bleeding over US$95 million from the National Social Security Authority (NSSA), has landed one of the four Zanu...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 22:10hrs | 1192 | by Staff reporter
Mhetu faces arrest over 2018 murder allegations
HARARE - Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) aspiring Member of Parliament for Epworth North Constituency, Zivai Mhetu faces arrest on allegations of murdering his wife in February 2018.Mhetu ...Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 20:57hrs | 57 | by Staff Reporter
Man up for printing fake certificates
ZIMBABWE Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) officers have arrested a Harare man for allegedly printing fake marriage, Ordinary and Advanced Level certificates and army identification cards, among other...Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 06:34hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere says ZACC officers visited family home in Zimbabwe
Purged independent presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere says his family home in Harare was Friday visited by officers from the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) amid signs the Emmerson M...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 21:09hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
ACT-SA Urges political parties to refrain from vote buying ahead of August 23 elections
After the launch of the "National Citizen Action against Vote Buying Campaign", the Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-SA) received overwhelming responses from members of the public forward...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 20:10hrs | 5 | by Stephen Jakes
Bulawayo Mayor pours vitriol on Coltart
BULAWAYO Mayor Councillor Solomon Mguni has responded to Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) local authority candidate, former Education Minister, Mr David Coltart for insinuating that there is endemi...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 08:09hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo needs urgent cleansing, says Coltart
FORMER Primary and Secondary Education minister David Coltart says Bulawayo is now a mess and needs urgent and serious cleansing by incoming councillors.Coltart, who is eyeing the city's ward ...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs change in governance system as much as change of government!
As the crucial 23rd August 2023 Zimbabwe harmonized elections beckon, all competing political players appear to have one convergence point for a chance to be voted into power.Regardl...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 18:22hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe civil servants abuse car import facility
THE Government has expressed concern over the continued abuse of the duty-free car import facility for civil servants amid revelations that more than 14 000 vehicles have been unprocedurally imported ...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's fuel cartels under fire
Fuel is then offloaded in Zimbabwe before trucks are filled with water and dispatched to cross the borders again.Treasury has launched a series of investigations aimed at fishing out fuel indu...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 18:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Incompetent Western puppet faking political bravery
There is a sequence that can be employed to identify CCC leader Nelson Chamisa as a snollygoster!A snollygoster is a political candidate, usually willing to be an instrument of another country...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:41hrs | 5 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Zimbabwe partners AU countries to shut safe havens for illicit financial flows
ZIMBABWE has reportedly made tremendous progress in combating corruption, having recorded numerous cases of forfeiture of assets derived from illicit financial flows.Over the last five years, ...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 08:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prison officer in US$4 500 car import fraud
A 43-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officer stationed at Khami Prisons on the outskirts of Bulawayo allegedly defrauded a friend of US$4 500 after importing the car on his ...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 08:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
CIO operative caged three years for extortion
A Central Intelligence Office (CIO) operative, Patrick Badza who extorted a Chinese business to give him US$9 900 in order to assist him process work permits for his 33 foreign employees was last Frid...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 15:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CIO operative convicted for extortion
A SENIOR Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) officer was yesterday convicted by Harare magistrate Ngoni Nduna for extorting a Chinese businessman.Patrick Badza, who was initially charged t...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 14:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
19 'bogus' lawyers face deregistration
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has unmasked a scam in which Council for Legal Foundation executive secretary Huggins Hardwork Duri was allegedly issuing certificates of competency to l...Published: 27 Jun 2023 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Busisiwe Mkhwebane merely annoyed agents of white monopoly capital
In my view, both Tina Joemat-Pettersson (may her soul repose peacefully) and Busisiwe Mkhwebane are victims of a system that lives off the subjugation of women, where women are treated very differentl...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 17:18hrs | 3 | by Lindiwe Sisulu
ZACC recovers 36 vehicles from bogus civil servants
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission and the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority have joined forces to curb the abuse of tax rebates extended to civil servants by the Government so they could import vehicle...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 06:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Fuel smuggling hampers growth
FUEL smuggling into Zimbabwe is hampering the Government's revenue collection, and has become a threat to economic growth, despite tax and law enforcement authorities' efforts to curb the scourge....Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prices, currency manipulation is corruption, says Zacc
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has described the country's rampant price hikes and alleged currency manipulation as corruption.Speaking during a National Anti-Corruption Strate...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZACC targets estate agents, exchange rate manipulators
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is out to net unscrupulous real estate agents and those accused of manipulating exchange rates to illegally push large amounts of foreign currency out of...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
3 arrested for forging O Level certificates
THREE Harare residents appeared before magistrate Stanford Mambanje on Wednesday facing charges of forgery after they faked Ordinary Level certificates to enter foreign universities.Cindy Muts...Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Doctors fume over PSMAS 'harassment'
The Medical and Dental Private Practitioners Zimbabwe Association (MDPPZA) has accused Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) of harassing docto...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mphoko trial deferred to September
THE trial of former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko in a matter in which he is being accused of illegally ordering the release of two top Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) officials has...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Petition to The Minister of Primary and Secondary Education
Editor please publish our petition to the Minister of Primary and Secondary education for our pupils are not attending school due to the interference of powerful politicians who are protecting a viole...Published: 29 May 2023 at 22:58hrs | 3 | by Parents/Guardians - Murowa School
ZINARA staffer jailed for 258 criminal abuse of office counts
A Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (ZINARA) licensing officer has been slapped with a three-year jail term after being convicted of 258 counts of criminal abuse of office charges.Patrici...Published: 23 May 2023 at 21:16hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
ZACC probes council over US$57m software scam
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is now investigating the US$200 million that Harare City Council cannot account for to the Auditor-General and has also launched a specific investigation...Published: 23 May 2023 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in spotlight over the massive Nssa corruption
THE National Social Security Authority (Nssa) has presented its forensic audit which unearths corruption and names individuals implicated in the pensions fund's latest scandals to the Office of the Pr...Published: 22 May 2023 at 08:11hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Why is Clerk still on duty despite computer scandal?'
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator for Kuwadzana East Chalton Hwende has challenged the Speaker of Parliament to explain why under-fire Clerk of Parliament Kennedy Chokuda is still coming...Published: 22 May 2023 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZACC arrests Hwange Local Board executives
Hwange Local Board town secretary Ndumiso Mdlalose and housing director Ananias Banda appeared in court last week facing charges of criminal abuse of office after they allegedly sold an industrial sta...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Ngarivhume matters: PART 1
This is the third week since Magistrate Faresi Chakanyuka sentenced Transform Zimbabwe President Jacob Ngarivhume to an effective 3 years in prison for inciting public violence. Not only was t...Published: 16 May 2023 at 17:25hrs | 2 | by F Muridzo
RBZ reverses Gold Mafia accounts freeze
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) yesterday made a summersault by reversing its order for banks to freeze accounts of several government officials and individuals ...Published: 16 May 2023 at 05:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda refuses to grant investigation authority to 'Gold Mafia' committees
Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda has shot down a proposal for Parliament to investigate allegations raised in the Gold Mafia documentary which was premiered by Al Jazeera last month....Published: 15 May 2023 at 19:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trouble at 49 on Cork as Harare City investigates
The City of Harare has unearthed massive structural and environmental irregularities which are in breach of City by-laws at 49 on Cork in Avondale Harare.The posh neighbourhood of Avondale has...Published: 13 May 2023 at 11:03hrs | 11 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZACC investigates nine parastatals
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is investigating nine State-owned enterprises and local authorities flagged by the Auditor General for suspected maladministration and other corporate go...Published: 11 May 2023 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lawyers make demands to Simba, Bona over Carrick Creagh stands
Lawyers representing Arosume Property Development (Pvt) Limited, Jiti Law Chambers are demanding that Ms Bona Ouma Nyepudzai Mugabe and Mr Simba Chikore remove all the Carrick Creagh stands totalling ...Published: 05 May 2023 at 06:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bona, Chikore don't own land in Carrick Creagh'
A private land development company, Arosume Property Development (Pvt) Limited, has said that the stands totalling 213 794 square metres in Carrick Creagh and listed in divorce papers as belonging to ...Published: 04 May 2023 at 06:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zacc pounces on IDCZ bosses
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) on Friday last week arrested two officials from the Industrial Development Corporation of Zimbabwe (IDDZ) on allegations of criminal abuse of office invo...Published: 01 May 2023 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police, ZACC probe 3 PSMAS bosses
Police this week picked up for questioning three Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) managers over allegations of fraud, corruption and criminal abuse of office.The three, who are stil...Published: 27 Apr 2023 at 06:23hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Bogus cement dealers flee country
The two suspected fraudsters who fleeced more than 70 people of US$300 000 in a cement supply scam and splurged their loot on fancy cars are believed to have fled the country, with South Africa the mo...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 06:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zacc quashes 'catch and release' allegations
THE ZIMBABWE Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has quashed speculation that it is engaged in "catch and release" practice in corruption cases.Speaking to Chronicle last week in Bulawayo, Zacc ...Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 07:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Teachers defy ban on extra lessons
GOVERNMENT officials and teachers are engaged in cat-and-mouse games over extra lessons.Government banned extra lessons in 2021, while the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) in the sam...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Corrupt US$400m deal morphs into political fix
The controversial deal to get state-run Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Corporation (ZCDC) to acquire a 33% shareholding in Great Dyke Investment (GDI) for US$400 million has taken a political turn, wit...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 19:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZACC to take anti-corruption lessons into classrooms
ANTI-CORRUPTION education will be mainstreamed into the country's formal school curriculum so that people shun the vice from a young age, Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) Chairperson, Justic...Published: 12 Apr 2023 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
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