No sacred cows in tackling corruption
Zimbabwe’s parliament has brought up a very timely subject- corruption- because it is killing the country. As one legislator said, it is worse than AIDS because it kills the innocent. But parliament got it wrong from the start by exonerating some people. This is not right. There should be no sacred cows. Everyone must be made accountable.
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Belgium wants to cash in on Zimbabwe diamonds
Belgium, which pressed the European Union to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe’s diamonds, is now trying to cash in on the diamonds and is promising better returns than any other market.
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Top stories for March 11-15
Chikwinya in trouble – The Member of Parliament for Mbizo Settlement Chikwinya is in trouble. He could be charged with contempt of Parliament for claiming that Speaker Jacob Mudenda had watered down the motion on good governance which was proposed by Kambuzuma legislator Willias Madzimure, the Speaker said today. Chikwinya seconded the motion. Mudenda said all amendments to Madzimure’s motion were agreed with him. Madzimure actually thanked Mudenda for seeing the motion through saying that the secretariat wanted to block it. Chikwinya was quite harsh on corrupt leaders especially those heading state enterprises. He said that since Zimbabwe had adopted a Look East policy it must follow the example of China and hang corrupt parastatal bosses because they were not only killing the organisations that they worked for the people as a whole. “Since we have now looked East Mr. Speaker, the Chinese, if I can take them into cognisance, have put capital punishment to corruption. If you are found being corrupt and working for a parastatal in China, you face capital punishment because you are not only killing the organisation which you are working for. You are killing the State and the State is the public,” he said.
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Tsvangirai says democracy is not mobocracy
Chikwinya insists Masimirembwa has a case to answer
Mbizo Member of Parliament Settlement Chikwinya insists that former Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation chairman Godwills Masimirembwa who was named by President Robert Mugabe last year as having been involved in a US$6 million diamond scam involving a Ghanaian company still has a case to answer.
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PSMAS saga continues
Chidhakwa threatens to stop diamond mining in Marange
How does Zimbabwe manage US$8 billion imports from US$3 billion exports?
A Member of Parliament has asked how Zimbabwe manages to import goods valued at US$8 billion when its exports are only US$3 billion.
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Zim police are so corrupt you can carry a corpse from Beitbridge to Chirundu without papers
Zimbabwe’s police are so corrupt that you can travel with a dead body from the South African border to Chirundu on the Zambian border without proper papers, a Member of Parliament said this week.
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