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Sunday, 06 January 2013 13:06
HARARE - Police have nabbed over 100 police officers in Harare alone for corruption, a top commander has said. Addressing hundreds of people gathered for the re-launch of the police service charter in Highfield yesterday, officer commanding Harare province Clemence Munoriyarwa,...Read More
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Thursday, 20 December 2012 12:46
HARARE - Without political will and genuine desire to tackle corruption, Zimbabwe will continue to moan until thy kingdom! So far, President Robert Mugabe has failed to show that demonstrable desire to signal prosecution of political heavyweights accused of amassing wealth...Read More
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Friday, 14 December 2012 09:36
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe was unusually candid with his juniors at the Zanu PF conference in Gweru. He lambasted corruption, so rife in Zanu PF and state institutions that include Zimra and the police. Mugabe is attempting to...Read More
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Saturday, 08 December 2012 13:39
GWERU - President Robert Mugabe yesterday vowed to fight corruption, responding to public pressure to probe graft perpetrated by mostly his Zanu PF allies in government. Casting next year’s election as the clearest and most important choice in a generation, Mugabe...Read More
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Monday, 19 November 2012 13:44
HARARE - Finance minister Tendai Biti has blasted rising border corruption and lamented the incredible losses being incurred by the fiscus through leakages. Presenting a $3,8 billion 2013 national budget in Parliament last week, Biti said border officials were employing delaying...Read More
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Thursday, 08 November 2012 10:01
HARARE - They are tasked with investigating million-dollar corruption cases but more often than not, the peanuts they take home leave Zimbabwe’s graft busters a vulnerable lot. A constitutional body set up in 2010, the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission was hailed as...Read More
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Monday, 05 November 2012 12:15
HARARE - South Africans should stop calling the ANC corrupt because that was simply not true, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday. Zuma was addressing a rally organised by the SA Unemployed Workers Union (Sauwu) in East London, the Weekend Post...Read More
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Thursday, 25 October 2012 11:19
HARARE - Harare Zanu PF youth leader Jim Kunaka yesterday turned a court session into a ‘‘mock political rally’’ when he claimed land officials are corrupt. Kunaka was testifying during trial of two Mashwede Diesel workers accused of trying to bribe...Read More
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Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:53
HARARE - Munyaradzi Kereke, the controversial former advisor to Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono, has made astonishing claims that the country’s security agents looted from the central bank. In an October 08 letter to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC),...Read More
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Tuesday, 09 October 2012 11:53
HARARE - A constitution Select Committee (Copac) finance and administration manager has appeared before a Harare magistrate on corruption charges. Gift Marunda, 46, who is also Copac’s acting national coordinator is accused of depriving the constitution-making body of over $18 000...Read More
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Monday, 08 October 2012 11:05
HARARE - The Zimbabwe anti-corruption commission is embarking on a countrywide awareness campaign to help reduce rampant corruption that is threatening to derail economic growth. Zimbabwe is currently ranked among the worst corrupt nations in the world. According to the...Read More
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Opinion & Analysis »
Wednesday, 03 October 2012 13:20
HARARE - Is Africa a lost cause? Are Africans inherently and incorrigibly corrupt? Is Africa a forsaken continent? These are some of the questions that invariably cross my mind as I frequently ponder and agonise about the scourge of corruption in...Read More
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Tuesday, 02 October 2012 14:29
HARARE - Under normal circumstances, police resort to high speed chases only in hot pursuit of suspects in serious crimes such as murders, bank robberies and cash heists.This is true whether the chase is being staged in real life, in the...Read More
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Monday, 01 October 2012 14:01
CAIRO - The last prime minister to serve under ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was referred to trial on corruption charges by an investigative judge, officials said. The charges against Ahmed Shafik, the runner-up in Egypt's presidential election, arise from allegations...Read More
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Monday, 17 September 2012 13:04
HARARE - As Zimbabweans celebrate four years since the birth of the coalition government, corruption seems to be floating alongside, eroding whatever good the few straight jacketed officials could have achieved. The Government of National Unity (GNU) formed through the Global...Read More
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