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Zimbabwe high-profile graft cases unfold

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has called for public patience as investigations into high-profile corruption cases continue, amid rising concerns that only low-level offenders are being prosecuted while prominent figures evade ju…

Published: 17 May 2025 at 14:21hrs | 357 | by Staff reporter

Ex-Eskom CEO challenges settlement related to his graft case

Former Eskom CEO Matshela Koko has launched a court bid to challenge a settlement deal between the Investigating Directorate ID) and multi-national company ABB relating to bribery at the power utility.The Directorate is part of South Afric…

Published: 19 Sep 2024 at 07:39hrs | 351 | by Staff reporter

Top ministry officials up for graft

Last week, two provincial education officers from Mashonaland Central faced court charges for unlawfully claiming allowances from the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education. Smart Makarutsa, aged 52, and Aaron Gomba, also aged 52…

Published: 22 Oct 2023 at 09:21hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Graft rocks Midlands Mines office

The Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-SA) has published a report that exposes widespread corruption purportedly occurring at the offices of the Midlands provincial mining department (PMD).In this report, dated October 6 and aut…

Published: 10 Oct 2023 at 07:47hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's govt 'legalises' graft in new law

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has come under attack from anti-graft crusaders after signing a new law which critics say could lead to theft of public funds and lack of accountability.Government has gazetted the Public Procurement and Dispos…

Published: 10 May 2023 at 06:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Graft exposÃ© has messed Zanu-PF anti-sanctions campaign?

Opposition People's Unity Party (PUP) leader Herbert Chamuka says damning corruption allegations exposed of individuals closely linked to the ruling elite by news network Al Jazeera has taken away the little that the Zanu-PF led government…

Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 16:55hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Graft scandal rocks govt agency

Zimbabwe's research institute under the Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation Science and Development ministry has been rocked by reports of graft, maladministration and corporate misgovernance costing the parastatal millions.Senior ma…

Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 08:03hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Zacc boss in graft storm

THE Zimbabwe Anti Commission (Zacc) chairperson Justice Loice MatandaMoyo has been caught in the eye of a storm after she allegedly ordered the release of top National Prosecuting Agency (NPA) official, Chris Mutangadura, who had been arre…

Published: 24 May 2021 at 06:53hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's graft buster in trouble

President Emmerson Mnangagwa is allegedly under pressure from Zanu-PF bigwigs to act on his trusted corruption buster Tabani Mpofu whom they accuse of extortion.Mpofu is the head of the Special Anti-Corruption Unit (Sacu), which is housed …

Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 08:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Council bosses graft investigation drags on

A PROBE into alleged corrupt practices at the Bulawayo City Council is still underway, the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) claimed as it tried to dispel talk that the investigations have been abandoned.The probe into the local a…

Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 08:16hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Govt must revisit their anti-graft strategies

HE latest arrest of principal director in the epidemiology and disease control department in the Health and Child Care ministry, Portia Manangazira, brings the effectiveness and seriousness of the whole fight against corruption under scrut…

Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 05:00hrs | 5 | by Nkosilathi Lesley Ngwenya

ZACC recovers stolen test kits

The Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission (ZACC) yesterday recovered about 40 boxes of Covid-19 testing kits worth more than US$12 000 whose origin was traced to Mpilo Hospital in Bulawayo, as the anti graft body intensifies investigations i…

Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 06:31hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

'When you fight corruption, it fights back'

JANUARY is a time of reflection. After the New Year's hangovers have worn off, many will try to take stock of the previous year, to understand what went wrong and how they could have done better.Since 1995, January has also been the month …

Published: 01 Feb 2021 at 05:37hrs | 7 | by Prosper Simbarashe Maguchu

Anti-graft crack team seizes $2 billion assets

A CRACK team made up of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has seized luxury homes and top-end vehicles worth over $2 billion belonging to top and…

Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:53hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Anti-graft crusade: NPA scales up tempo

THE National Prosecution Authority (NPA) is scaling up efforts to seize assets acquired through the proceeds of corruption as part of efforts to fight graft.It will from next week be bringing to court high profile cases involving former ca…

Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 19:05hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Magistrate bemoans delays in graft cases

HARARE magistrate Bianca Makwande yesterday bemoaned continued postponement of corruption cases saying the delays were resulting in a gridlock of pending matters at the courts.She made the remarks after the trial of former NetOne chief exe…

Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:18hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Ex-police commissioner spills the beans on corrupt top cops

A LEAKED police internal correspondence has exposed how top police fat cats are frustrating criminal investigations by allegedly shielding criminal cartels in return for money and gold.The letter, which was left at the Police General Headq…

Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Chitungwiza graft exposed

A call by Chitungwiza North MP Godfrey Sithole for a forensic audit on the council's operations by the auditor-general Mildred Chiri has opened a can of worms with many people reportedly volunteering information about alleged corruption.Co…

Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:58hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

The fight against graft: How far is Mnangagwa willing to go?

Its difficult to decide what to make of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's latest bid to tackle graft: Is it tokenism or the real deal? Is it a case of bolting the door after the horse has bolted or maybe we should just say better late than ne…

Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 21:59hrs | 2 | by NewsDay - Editorial

14 high-profile graft cases stalled

AT least 14 high-profile corruption trials have been stopped for various reasons by the High Court since last year, a development that has sparked public debate on the seriousness by some stakeholders in the criminal justice system in tack…

Published: 06 May 2019 at 08:11hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's anti-graft body in turmoil

Back in the days, we had a teacher we nicknamed "Rubbish". That was a bit unflattering and unfair, of course, but he earned that moniker because, at the drop of the hat, he would always exclaim, "Good riddance of bad rubbish!"He certainly …

Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 22:27hrs | 5 | by Tawanda Majoni

Graft remains Zimbabwe's national sickness

The aftermath of one of Zimbabwe's most remarkable harmonised elections in recent history has been marked by a heightened sense of national anxiety.There is a curious mixture of great hope and sanguine optimism for new beginnings; and an e…

Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 08:01hrs | 3 | by Zifiso Masiye

'State not paying for Mnangagwa anti-graft unit'

GOVERNMENT is not paying the lawyers and prosecutors who form President Emmerson Mnangagwa's controversial crack anti-corruption unit, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said at the weekend.Ziyambi told NewsDay on the sidelines of the burial…

Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:39hrs | 346 | by Staff reporter

Chombo graft trial deferred

Lazini Ncube a Harare magistrate yesterday deferred the trial of former Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo until August 2 to allow the High Court to make a key decision on whether to drop charges against him in his ongoing corruption case.Th…

Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 07:45hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Why Mnangagwa won't prosecute Kasukuwere for graft

A week before the military intervention that toppled ex-president Robert Mugabe in mid-November last year, Saviour Kasukuwere was addressing a Zanu-PF crowd in Harare, and yelled: "Down with Emmerson â€˜Border Jumper' Mnangagwa!" I said to…

Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 19:46hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni

Heat on Mnangagwa over Obert Mpofu

Nearly a month after receiving a dossier on former Mines and Mining Development minister Obert Mpofu's purported corruption, the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is ducking and diving on the issue, bringing into question its comm…

Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 06:17hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Anti-graft blitz targets judicial officers

About 160 public prosecutors seconded from security services to the judiciary will be cut loose, while crack teams are being assembled to fish out corrupt judicial officers.All remaining prosecutors will be rotated and have their remunerat…

Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 08:16hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter

WATCH: 6 people burnt beyond recognition in kombi crash

Several people were burnt beyond recognition near the 25kilometer peg along Mvurwi - Guruve highway this morning when a Harare bound commuter omnibus they were travelling in crashed and caught fire.Sources who spoke to Bulawayo24.com alleg…

Published: 20 Jan 2018 at 09:50hrs | 16 | by Simbarashe Sithole

Exclusive courts to try graft cases

The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) is establishing specialised anti-corruption courts throughout the country so that justice is expeditiously served on perpetrators of graft.The first two such courts are expected to be established in Ha…

Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 07:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

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