From Willowgate to Covidgate: Three Decades of Malfeasance in Zimbabwe
The Robert Mugabe-led government’s response to the Willowgate scandal in Zimbabwe will go down in history as a missed opportunity for setting a precedent of combatting malfeasance. Although there had been earlier corruption scandals, like the Paweni grain supply scandal in the early 1980s, Willowgate is one of the country’s biggest “grand corruption” scandals, with some of its surviving beneficiaries, like Fredrick Shava and Jacob Mudenda, still enjoying the fruits of a culture of clientelism in the form of plum diplomatic assignments and continued service in public offices.
Investigations into ZACC break-in closed
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Jenfan Muswere
ACTING Information minister, Jenfan Muswere, yesterday likened Zimbabwe’s raging and deadlier second wave coronavirus storm as a war amid the country’s soaring deaths and infections.
Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday, the concerned Muswere also described the global pandemic as “one of the worst diseases in the history of the country”.
“During the burial of Dr Ellen Gwaradzimba and Cde Morton Malianga, President Emmerson Mnangagwa indeed highlighted that this is a deadly war facing us as a nation, requiring us to unite against the pandemic.
“To us, this disease is, for sure, like a war, after the First and Second Chimurenga, the 1970s liberation war.
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has confiscated and ordered the forfeiture of vehicles worth US$160 000 owned by convicted former principal director of State residences in the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC), Douglas Tapfuma.
Zacc ordered the forfeiture of the vehicles through the Money Laundering Act (Chapter 24:24), Zim Morning Post can report.
This amended legislation was enacted to ensure a more comprehensive legal framework for asset recovery, combating money laundering and regularisation of lifestyle audits of public officials.
In an interview with the Zim Morning Post, Zacc chairperson Loice Matanda-Moyo said the anti-graft body is on a drive to recover all ill-gotten wealth.